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I don’t find this to be true. I enjoy computers quite a bit. I enjoy the hardware, scaling problems, theory behind things, operating systems, etc.

I don’t find coding overly fun in itself. What I find fun is the results I get when I program something that has the result I desire. Maybe that’s creating a service for friends to use, maybe it’s a personal IT project, maybe it’s having commercial quality WiFi at home everyone is amazed at when they visit, etc. Sometimes - even often - it’s the understanding that leads to pride in craftsmanship.

But programming itself is just a chore for me to get done in service of whatever final outcome I’m attempting to achieve. Could be delivering bits on the internet for work, or automating OS installs to look at the 50 racks of servers humming away with cable porn level work done in the cabinets.

I can appreciate clean maintainable code, which is the only real reasons LLMs don’t scratch the itch as much as you’d expect for someone like me.


If it was 90% as good and 50% of the price (no tipping hopefully) I’d do it.

Look deeper. There are two types of NPD. You found the typical / cliche version. Either way, NPD is ultimately a defense mechanism, which leads to a control mechanism. If you suffer from NPD then “alcoholic” is a great cover and a great weapon. In fact, “alcoholism” is known to correlate with those with NPD.

I stated the comment thread saying there’s rarely a single reason. If you’ve come here to feed me CNN talking points and you’re expecting to change my mind, you should just move on. Thx

Yep, to demonstrate, tilt it (swap x and y) and do it again. Maybe this is what TLS does?

I don't necessarily like to, but that's when I do one or more actions that must be done or that improve my body/mind while giving me an important concentration break:

- hit the head

- grab a coffee and stare at trees for a minute or two

- flash cards / language practice

- stretch / pull-ups / push-ups

- tidy desk / incrementally organize or improve handwritten notes


Never tried that in my Japan trips as life is too rushed. But have seen old Japanese cafe in Singapore where jap patrons sit for hours reading manga sipping coffee. I'm sure the culture is there in Japan too..

> pointless, lazy, selective, quoting that willfully misconstrues what's being quoted

They quoted the part they were replying to. The point was to show what they were asking about. If your question pertains to only a part of the text, it only makes sense to be selective. That's not wilfully misconstruing anything; that’s communicating in a clear, easy-to-follow way. The context is still right up there for reading, for anyone who needs to review it.

> the answer to this question is incredibly clear: for the developer that created this tool

Questions aren't only ever asked out of pure curiosity; sometimes they're asked to make the other person give them more consideration. The question you quote was accompanied by an explanation of how the commenter found the approach less simple for them as a user, suggesting that perhaps they think the developer would have done better to consider that a higher priority. (I might add that you, too, chose to selectively omit this context from your quoting—which I personally don't see as problematic on its own, but the context does require consideration, too.)

> if that makes you unhappy enough to malign them then maybe you should just not use it?

The author of the extension chose to share what they made for others to use. They asked for feedback on user experience and expressed doubt about their design decisions. If someone finds they might not want to use it because of what they consider fundamentally flawed design, why couldn’t they tell the author? It's not like they were rude or accused them of any wrong-doing (other than possibly making poor design choices).


Tool Use Steering via Prompting. I’ve seen that work well also, but I don’t know if I’d quite call it an architectural pattern.

Please stop abusing co-opting and denigrating the title of engineer.

I don't think the US are the bad guys yet. More kind of random at the moment.

Thats not bad at all.

Sadly, Spotify has decided to remove the subscription tier I was using. I havent really engaged with it since. Just moved on to Audible lmao.

If I ever care enough to try spotify again, I will do just this.


Now you’re just shifting the goalpost.

You initially said beyond a surface level and now you’re talking about esoteric quirks.

Pick one.

You don’t need to know every aspect of a languages corners to be proficient in it. If that were true, there’s only a handful of people on this planet who’d be proficient in a single language let alone multiple.


Agree on the paper cup burning the tongue. Hate that too. But then coffee gets cold within minutes in porcelain cup.

Solution: I bring along a flask and use the paper cup as a cup and flask as cache. Means I lose the discount offered on byo but doesn't matter.


> Production cost has nothing to do with what you can charge for something.

On the contrary, production cost has a great deal to do with what you can charge for something. In a perfectly efficient market, someone who charges more than what an item costs will sooner or later get outcompeted by someone who charges less. I think it's fair to say that production cost isn't the only factor in what you can charge, but to say "it has nothing to do with the price" is going way too far.


I think it's defined as someone who "is addicted" to alcohol.

I may mention it for my next schematic, but they'd probably want to understand the data flow and run everything locally. In that this is a wrapper around the other models (and full credit due, clearly not just a dumb wrapper like an extra prompt at the front of a chat bot), this should be possible, yes? Run the part that queries the models locally, point that to our locally hosted LLMs, and we're good?

Otherwise we probably couldn't put many designs of substance in. Just the data security risk.

I may reach out from my corporate email tomorrow. It's public who I am and where I work but yes we certainly have a formal procurement process.


Alarm sound for my iPhone alarms :)

Just download the audio with yt-dlp and transfer it to your iPhone.

"In iOS 26, you can find and make custom ringtones easily from the Files app by long-pressing an audio file (under 30 seconds) and choosing "Use as Ringtone" from the Share menu, a big simplification from older methods needing GarageBand or a computer."


Wow, I had no idea that existed. It looks like it is a Java library that abstracts over the web, and generates JavaScript under the hood? I never touched GWT, but it does sound like there would be issues if you wanted to do something that's not supported by the framework. But still, I don't think this is the same as modern full stack frameworks.

Fair enough. But that particular could be anything that has been bothering you but you didn’t have the time or expertise to fix yourself.

I wanted that fixed, and I had given up on ever seeing it fixed. Suddenly, in only two hours, I had it fixed. And I learned a lot in the process, too!


It is, although TIMI does not exist in the hardware – it is a virtual architecture that has been implemented multiple times in different hardware (i.e., CPU's – IMPI, IBM RS64, POWER, and only heavens know which CPU IBM uses today).

The software written for this virtual architecture, on the other hand, has not changed and continues to run on modern IBM iSeries systems, even when it originates from 1989 – this is accomplished through static binary translation, or AOT in modern parlance, which recompiles the virtual ISA into the target ISA at startup.


> I mean Crossplane is a pretty popular k8s operator that does exactly that, create cloud infrastructure from K8s objects.

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail. It's absurd how anyone would think it's a good idea to implement their IaC infrastructure, the one think you want and need to be bootstrapable, to require a full blown K8s cluster already up-and-running with custom operators perfectly configured and working flawlessly. Madness.


> Whereas in the real world we charge for anything of value.

How much music, poetry, art, and writing is created and freely distributed - do you consider it without value?


>What incredible privilege you have to be worried about future labor exploitation at yet-to-be-built resort casinos.

What incredible privilege you have to not care about exploitation as long as capitalists are doing it.

Anything Maduro has done to the Venezuelan people is going to pale compared to what Trump and Western business interests are planning.

I promise you things can get worse. Making things worse is what Americans do.


> Fewer things sound less interesting to me than that.

To each their own! I think the market for folks who understand their own problems is exploding! It’s free money.


But that address doesn't have to be visible at the ISA level.

I've seen this argument a few times before and I'm never quite convinced by it because, well, all those arguments are correct. It was an existential threat to the scribes and destroyed their jobs, the majority of printed books are considered less aesthetically pleasing than a properly illuminated manuscript, and hand copying is considered a spiritual act by many traditions.

I'm not sure if I say it's a correct argument, but considering everyone in this thread is a lot closer to being a scribe than a printing press owner, I'm surprised there's less sympathy.


The core story of Gatsby is better told in the Godfather films. Protagonist desires to find his place in the world and protect his family, first by doing things the socially acceptable ways and then by following a life of crime. In the end, he ends up alone. This is the American answer to a modern problem. Workaholics spend all day (and night) to support their families. Their families feel neglected and the breadwinner ends up alone.

> you need fancy tooling to ensure everyone can work at a reasonable level of productivity.

If you have a thousand people working on a single product, yes, but you also have the resources to have dedicated tool support teams at that level. In my experience, if you’re under multiple dozens of developers or not everyone works on all of your projects, the tools fragment because people aren’t combining or configuring them the same way and there’s enough churn in the front-end tool space that you’ll hit various compatibility issues which lower the effectiveness of sharing across projects. This is especially true if you’ve hired people who self-identify as, say, Next or Tailwind developers rather than web developers and lack the understanding of the underlying technology to fix complex problems.


This has been my experience with every sports of weightlifting injury I've had and I'm in my 40s. The body wants to heal or at least compensate in some way. Light activity is often better than rest. I've got a knee that is acting up a little bit but I think I've figured out how to keep it healthy while running.

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