claytongulick

This is cool, I remember either OkCupid of Plenty of Fish, used to be a really interesting exercise in self reflection.

You could only see someone else's answer to a question if you answered it.

The questions would sometimes get deeply personal.

It would make me self-reflect a lot on what an honest answer was, and whether I wanted other people to see my answer.

And if not, why? Was there something I was embarrassed about? Should I be? If so, should I fix that thing?

I didn't really care about the dating aspect as much as the exercise in critical self evaluation.

Damn, thank you for that.

Sums up my feelings of the last few years nicely.

That reply felt like it reinforced the parent's point.

I apologize for my skepticism, but I have literally heard this same claim made with every single generation of models that comes out.

For a while, I dutifully believed it, and would go try again, and it would be awful.

I'd then have another conversation like this, where someone would say something along the lines of, "sure, sure but this NEW model now fixes all that and is really awesome!"

I'll revisit it when I start seeing some real studies that show real productivity increases rather than stuff that just shifts the burden of broken slop onto PR reviewers while claiming awesome speed.

I wonder.

In my optimistic days, I think we'll start putting mechanisms in place that will have LLMs help develop cognition, skills and expertise. It'll usher in an era of mastery and wonder.

On my bad days, I despair that the siren song of "good enough" slop will overwhelm even the most disciplined minds, and we're facing the atrophy of civilization.

Will this just end up exaggerating the pereto distribution? Will there end up being this tiny percentage of people that are driven by natural curiosity to do the very hard work of really understanding hard things? Will society even have any sort of reward for those people?

Coding in assembly is absolutely fantastic for understanding how programs execute, and different chip architectures.

It's also a lot of fun to do on tiny 8 bit microcontrollers like the AVR. It's really neat to be able to understand exactly how many clock cycles some code will use. This came in super handy for me once when I wrote a small bit-banging serial interface and had to debug why some characters would randomly be wrong.

One thing I had difficulty with was understanding how strict I need to be.

I have to read the ingredients on everything I buy, I have to ask and (embarrassingly) tell restaurants about the allergy.

If I get any milk product at all it'll trigger blisters.

Took my wife a long time to convince me, but she was right.

Brigading is a real thing and hard to combat, so the votes don't necessarily carry the signal they appear to.

I really wish they had a SOHO offering, would love to run this with NextCloud and personal projects from home.

Hi, sorry if this is OT, but I wanted to chime in here on the off chance I can help, because I had maybe the same problem for years and it got really bad - no doctor or dermatologist could help.

Do you get small blisters on your hands and maybe feet? If so, it's called dyshydrotic eczema.

I was told for years that it was an autoimmune disorder, had tons of different treatments and specialists, only to discover it was an allergy to milk protein. I can't have any mammal milk product, no butter, cheese, etc... but I'm completely cured.

As part of this journey I also found out that a lot of women develop it as a result of nickel allergy and Low Nickel Diet helps.

Sorry to go off the rails, I just wanted to take the chance that I could help someone avoid everything I went through.

I knew a burner (Burning Man) that went by that moniker.

> claiming baselessly things like "polyamory" was widespread among "the movements" adherents.

Which is especially weird to do in 2026. I mean, I get the salacious clickbait, but seriously, at this point does anyone really give a shit what consenting adults do in their private lives?

I remember when outrage peddler Laura Loomer did a big pearl clutch on X about some other conservative being into consensual non-monagamy, and the collective response from everyone from all political stripes was a giant shrug.

I guess I'm old, and there's a lot of grey in my beard but... whatever happened to just, you know, writing code?

Simple code. Nothing clever, just logic and clear expression of what needs to be done.

It's so pleasant to just write code that does things.

Code that you can put a breakpoint on to debug.

Code that doesn't go through a library abstraction, a framework, a philosophy, three AI agents, a complex type system, metaprogramming and a cross compiler to run.

I understand that maintainable code needs organization, but I think we go off the rails when the systems of organization dominate the work, and the actual execution logic seems secondary.

I see so many teams spend endless cycles debating theories of frameworks, fp vs oop, type systems, AI rigs, etc..., and barely any time at all on solving the actual problem.

I'm interested in this, but I can't understand what it is at all from the website.