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I hate writing code, but love debugging. LLMs have been a godsend for banging out boilerplate and getting things 95% of the way there. Now I spend most of my time on the hard stuff (debugging, refactoring), while building things that would have taken weeks in days. It’s honestly made the act of building software more enjoyable and rewarding.
“Warning: Smartmatch is experimental at foobar.pl line 42.”
If only I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen this message.
Fair critique, we should never lose the spirit of play, but Franklin’s guidance seems very much in line with a quote from Gustave Flaubert I often see echoed:
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work
Therefore mutations ensure you don't get stuck there.
"You wanna buy a Tower Records, Eduardo?"
Be careful what you outsource. Better a creator than a proofreader, IMO.
Or as authors put it: "write drunk, edit sober".
I haven’t watched the video yet, but I was instantly reminded of the Alan J. Perlis quote he and Abelson used for SICP’s dedication:
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
Thanks, strange. This reproduced for a good 30 mins, but no longer does now.
I butchered the "Ask HN" format by providing a link in this post.
Made an updated submission with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469206
I'm unable to load the ChatGPT login page.
Not much in the DOM, just a <form> element and 2 sibling <script> elements.
Console logs show 2 identical errors:
Refused to execute a script because its hash, its nonce, or 'unsafe-inline' does not appear in the script-src directive of the Content Security Policy.
This is an example of the “tu quoque” fallacy [0], and has no bearing on the claim they’re making about Sam.
Maybe the average technologist, but for anyone who understands Apple's culture and history, your claim is not just inaccurate, but opposite of the truth.
Steve Jobs addressed this exact point during a 2011 keynote [0]:
It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
Also, smokers who get unemployed, will smoke more, out of boredom.
Unemployed smokers will have less disposable income, and may not be able to afford to smoke more.
Tangent, but I never realized the original for this great Alan J. Perlis quote:
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Independent of location on disk: `open -b com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine`
the introduction of the wolves also introduced wasting disease.
Doesn't look like it, from the CDC:
CWD was first identified in captive deer in a Colorado research facility in the late 1960s, and in wild deer in 1981.
Interesting, I blame Grand Theft Auto for my near perfect driving record. Gave me a great feel for driving physics before I ever got behind the wheel.
I just read a hypothesis from an anthropologist suggesting that the reason California’s indigenous tribes did not practice agriculture like eastern tribes, was due to the abundance of food they could forage year around. Oaks providing a significant part of their diet (which are plentiful in Mendocino) but also other nuts, berries, and tubers found throughout California.
So relative to our modern diet, maybe your point holds, but the California Floristic Province has plenty of plants to sustain humans. IIRC, the indigenous population density was some of the highest in the world.
What’s NeXT?
This resembling that scene from The Social Network in which Zuckerberg rolls in to a meeting (with Sequoia) late, in pajamas, and tells the VCs to get bent is pretty ironic.
You mean an experience which categorically compels individuals to be kinder, more gentle, and less selfish in pursuing genuinely altruistic ends is not useful? Often times as a result of (their ego) thinking they were going to die.
Entertaining, not really, useful, most certainly.
You’re cherry-picking [0] (using Vice to boot). Not to mention people do that without drugs.
How about the thousands who don’t commit violent crimes as a result of taking these drugs [1]? Sorta like the clothesline paradox [2].
0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking#:~:text=Cherr....
1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3
2. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-clothesline-paradox-and-th...
“curl | sudo bash” ;-)
./configure && make && sudo make install
IIRC, these were planted as potential wood for railroad tracks, but ended up proving too fragile.
Not sure about DMT, but LSD seems to show promise.
https://www.science.org/content/article/lsd-alleviates-suici...
Followed by
“It’s almost like a kind of a game. You against nature.”
When it comes to the uptick in testicular cancer, meanwhile, he says rising cannabis use is likely the leading culprit.
Passing mention in the story, but is this a common hypothesis? I’m aware of UCSD research suggesting THC suppresses apoptosis [0], but that’s very different than being mutagenic.
The Omni Group started as a NeXTSTEP consulting company in 1989, they’re pushing 35 years at this point.
California holly?