bowsamic

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Comment · 8 days ago
Wow, as a MacBook user for the last decade I had thought the rest of technology would have caught up by now with such a basic feature. Embarrassing
Comment · 15 days ago
No, I think they are, I agree with him
Comment · 15 days ago
No, but I agree with Jon Blow
Comment · 15 days ago
In this case it’s more like 600 sudoku that introduce and teach new methods without needing an external guide, and that is great for me
Comment · 15 days ago
He said women are less interested in programming than men
Comment · 15 days ago
He said that he foresees the effort to deal with open source community will be huge so I think he’s apprehensive of that effort
Comment · 15 days ago
I think it’s absolutely incredible. Sure maybe it’s exhausting but that’s a good thing, it means the puzzles are challenging
Comment · 16 days ago
Huh??
Comment · 16 days ago
Handle what situation? Why would people who love me ever replace me with a robot? It’s a random posed situation that no one discussed and doesn’t make any sense lol
Comment · 16 days ago
I’m fully STEM: software developer with a physics PhD with a mechanical engineer wife, but this is certainly just deserts for the STEM people, who mocked the humanities and especially philosophy for centuries (literally, this started back with Kant even) for spending time thinking about these questions. STEM people are not at all spiritually prepared for it, and this is the main disappointment for me. I spent many years struggling with publish or perish in physics but all those around me claimed they simply loved doing physics and that that’s what mattered. Now as soon as their exclusive ability to give results is slightly threatened the love of physics/maths/coding is no longer spoken about. I get maybe they weren’t the same people, but I thought more people loved the process than it seems today. If anything these new developments make it even clearer for me what I love about this kind of work. I’m so happy it has made me not have to defend based on results, a razor sharp contrast that makes it so clear really why humans do things
Comment · 16 days ago
Anyone who would replace me with a robot never loved me anyway. If that happened I would go and seek out the humans who really do care, and take solace in the fact that Christ will always love me
Comment · 16 days ago
I have little sympathy, since I think it is a result of many decades of complacency when it comes to thinking about why want to people do what they do and instead just enjoying being the ones with the results and money. People who love the process and see the human as inherently valuable won't have a problem. I'm more shocked that there are so many brilliant people who are so results-oriented and don't even have a concept of value outside of that. I'm kind of disgusted by the tears actually
Comment · 17 days ago
It depends on the country. For the last few months here in Germany Amazon has been having major shipping issues
Comment · 17 days ago
I use Commit Mono, which is basically a free version of Berkeley Mono
Comment · 17 days ago
I felt like my eyes hurt when I tried this font. It's hard for me to switch away from the standard width monospace fonts. At the moment I use Commit Mono. Extra horizontal space might be nice but it's not worth risking any discomfort

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