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China is poking the bubble and it might aswell pop it

they are just js scripts and a manifest for permissions. it's like game-mod scripting but for the web. ask any llm and they'll guide you through

Something the author doesn't mention as a pro for the web is my favorite type of tech: browser extensions. I love web because I can basically customize pretty much everything to my needs.

I have published a few of them in the last few years, and I have tens of them which I haven't published. I use them for tons of different things:

* allowing only text tweets on X

* blocking photos and videos on all Meta products

* blocking explicit content

* customizing exchange rates for online shopping (Argentine peso, you wouldn't get it™)

* having reddit hot as default for the home and subreddits (they been pushing the "best" for a couple years and it's actually trash)

browser extensions have allowed me to regain some of my cognitive sovereignty while being a heavy internet user.

Let's say you do a diagnostic based on the results of this machine. Later, patient suits and you have to answer for your diagnostic. If the only evidence for your diagnostic is coming from a non-FDA approved machine, you're liable.

Enzo is rolling on his grave

FDI is a legit way of increasing an economy's size and health. The fact that Poland created a safe country for foreign investments is great merit.

x86 is dead to me

64% autistic 31% German

disappointed

How scary was the test flight? where did you land?

So they finally took all of the cool features from F#. What's missing? The pipe operator for railway oriented programming?

Never heard of this game. Is it similar to Warcraft III?

Big shout out to the Mormons, whom have been digitalizing ancient birth certificates all around the world. We got a lot of data from them!

Main family tree from Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In the times of the Virreinato del Río de la Plata.

Extremely cool. I'm into genealogy and can trace my family 10 generations back (250 years) to their arrival to Argentina. Documentation is lost or lacking once you reach Europe, other branches of the family with more recent arrivals to the country are very hard to trace. In part due to mismatching surnames and in part due to the wars.

We have started asking old family members to send us whatsapp audios with tales and things they remember from long-passed away family members; and what was life like in the 1930-40-50s. I want to start organizing all the info and data we have, my father has built a couple family trees, but this wiki format is indeed very promising. I'll keep an eye on this and see if we can use it.

let's say they hike up the price: as long as the performance increase surpasses a dev salary for less of the cost, it's still worth it.

Do you prefer paying 2 devs 100k a year? or 1 dev + 20-30k in tokens?

My experience with this library has been underwhelming sadly. I have a better experience going raw with any cli agent

It's really interesting how delusional people here can get when their livelihood depends on it. It's a game changer guys. I've been working professionally for 12 years. Big companies, small companies, freelance, startup CTO nowadays. It's multiplier. It gives me superpowers. If you don't feel the superpowers, you're either missing out or in denial. Embrace agentic coding.

You guys are definitely missing out. I have the perfect army of mid-level engineers. Using codex lately, my own CPU and ram are the ones holding me back from spinning more and more agents

Codex surpassed Claude in usefulness _for me_ since last month

5.4 vs 5.3-Codex? Which one is better for coding?

Sad but true. I'm very strict with my developers and extremely cautious of introducing new "moving parts" to existing systems. I try to keep a single deployment-unit if possible. I like monoliths.

This A18 processor, how does it compare to the M series?

It baffles me how skeptical people here are of AI-assisted programming. If you don't see productivity gains I feel you're in deep denial.

It's true that in my company we're not building rockets or defense systems, maybe you guys are and in those scenarios it's less useful. But for typical LoB and/or consumer-facing software, AI is crushing it. Where I used to need 3 devs, now I just need one (and the support team around it: PM, BA, QA, Designer). For my business, AI has been a game changer.

I have an iPhone 13, would this phone be a worthy update?

I don’t think we’ll ever return to the glory days (2007-2023). Software engineering in the next few years will become as cool as accounting or HR (as in not cool at all). Just a generic white collar profession like it was maybe in the 80s.

I feel closer to realizing my dream of walking by a forest and whispering back and forth to an LLM to get shit done

Just like the old days of PHP servers exposing their source code

You're probably right. I haven't tried it thoroughly

Citing my own comment from another thread:

I've worked with .NET for over 10 years and we built our startup on top of it. Here are my thoughts: Pros:

* Stability

* Very decent standard library

* Good balance between productivity and robustness

* Great package management

* Extremely easy to upgrade, so essentially free goodies (performance) every year or so

Cons:

* Very MSFT dominated (obviously)

* Subpar tooling outside of Windows (I'm looking at you C# Dev Kit)

* C# has way to many features, it feels bloated

* Culturally, it feels like .NET devs are less "passionate" about their work

* The freaking stigma of being a .NET dev: you will never be as cool as the guys who work with Node/Python/whatever

Edit: Also I'd like to add EFCore as one of the pros of the ecosystem. Hands down the best ORM. Others don't come close.

Grok is impressive, I should give it a shot