Hell, anything even close to salt water is apt to get ate. What's funny is you'll see people say they want to retire and get a beach house. No. You. Don't. Blowing sand is hard on stuff, getting in gears and moving parts. But the salt, the salt is like some alien monster that just dissolves things that flat landers would never expect. Get the smallest amount of saltwater flooding in a closet with equipment and things start to corrode away like it's an alien acid world.
I generally have a lot of respect for this guy. He’s an excellent coder, and really cares about his craft. I can relate to him (except he’s been more successful than me, which is fine -he deserves it).
Really, one of the first things he said, sums it up:
> facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever.
I have been using it in a very similar manner to how he describes his workflow, and it’s already greatly improved my velocity and quality.
I also can relate to this comment:
> I feel great to be part of that, because I see this as a continuation of what I tried to do all my life: democratizing code, systems, knowledge.
“Facts are facts” or “this is inevitable” is what you say when you don’t have a convincing argument. I can’t respect this kind of propagandistic writing. Among other things, it suggests an ulterior motive or, at the very least, lazy thinking.
I’ve never been a fan of coercive licensing. I don’t consider that “open.” It’s “strings-attached.”
I make mine MIT-licensed. If someone takes my stuff, and gets rich (highly unlikely), then that’s fine. I just don’t want some asshole suing me, because they used it inappropriately, or a bug caused them problems. I don’t even care about attribution.
I mainly do it, because it forces me to take better care, when I code.
A lot of times, they just toss the bag on the ground.
Each morning, I take a 5K walk around the neighborhood, and am constantly passing cast-off shitbags.
They are usually brightly-colored, and are easy to spot.
I remember, once, being at a stop light, on a fairly major road, where a guy was walking his dog, and just dropped the bag, right there. He did it kind of surreptitiously, but he still did it in front of everyone.
Probably was a fairly high-value person, too. It was a pretty tony neighborhood.
All these comments, and no one has mentioned the classic “What’s the Worst That Can Happen?” Meme?
I won’t link to it, because all the sources are not so nice for techs, but just search for “10000 years later”, or “what’s the worst that can happen?”. The thumbnail previews will be fine. No need to open X or Facebook.
If you are interested in German weather, I can recommend the DWD WarnWetter App. It is so good that the competitors sued when it was free. Now it costs a one-time fee of about 3€.
I've learned that I just want to look at the radar. There's a big difference between "it's going to drizzle all day" and "spotty storms within 25 miles of you"
I'm fortunate, in that I participate in an "extracurricular" organization, in which we constantly tell each other our stories.
Most are damn interesting. People pay money, for fiction, that isn't as interesting as the stories I hear, almost daily, from the folks that lived them.
It's interesting, when someone talks about how he was shot, then pulls up his shirt, to show you the scar.
> "War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull."
I just spent the better part of an hour, trying to track down anomalies, in one of my servers (Iran feeds us a lot of data), only to find DNS (IPv4) is not resolving. It worked fine, just a bit earlier.
Nothing sucks more than having the engine crap out, 150Km offshore, because your fuel injection system got corroded.
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