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Comment · 4 months ago
Superb mini essay, BS philosophy... I'ts not that there's so much in between these two extremes, but that model we need is completely outside of it.
Comment · 4 months ago
We desperately look for ways to force ourselves to stay focused. What that tells me is that we don't like our jobs. What it shows is that our work culture is toxic. The job should be interesting and even exciting enough that staying focuesed is the base line. We should be forcing ourselves to take a break from it. Of course, it's small wonder in a society where 85% of the jobs is just an alibi to produce the numbers that the establishment of free market demands, and where we don't do 95% of the jobs that we should be doing to future proof a liveable civilisation.
Comment · 4 months ago
Looking out the window with hot mug of latte in hand while mild melody plays in background. Sounds like focused, not distracted :)
Comment · 4 months ago
I think LLMs are the great filter of software engineers. They can do a lot reasonable well, but they lack the ability to be an overarching architect of complex projects (and it's my conviction that they can never achieve that).

Only the best humans with insight, intuition and pattern recognition and application in non trivial scenarios can fill that gap.

Comment · 4 months ago
Source Hut has been around for 6-7-ish years (https://sr.ht). A rather different approach to Git, closer to its original intentions. No PRs in the classical sense, just email patches (that's how the Linux kernel is developed to date). You can do most things though that you can on GitHub using tools and CLI.
Comment · 5 months ago
This is so awesome! Every city and town should follow suite. Then live TV, streaming and internet platforms. No forced advertisements at all, the entire industry should move into an on-demand model. Do you know why? BECAUSE NOBODY F***G WANTS THEM, and they or forced down our throat by the ton every freaking day!

This would be good, because the entire industry would shrink to a few percent of its current size, and, let's be honest, who wouldn't be glad that they don't have to a job any more that didn't make any sense whatsoever but in exchange it frustrated millions of people on a daily basis? If all those people now become a useful member of our societies then we are one step ahead.

Comment · 5 months ago
What made you think we'd ever need AI tokens as much as we do bandwidth, or that they are even comparable.

Bandwidth is abstract, it's information flow. LLMs are a specialised tool, they are based on noise and randomness, and thus are inherently imperfect.

We could have guaranteed the elimination of famine world-wide for 100 years from the resources we wasted on the AI infrastructure in the last 5 years. Shame on us.

There's usefulness in LLMs but not that much. They are definitely not the future.

Comment · 5 months ago
The world has enough of everything in abundance to create a global civilisation without any major problems. There's only one problem standing in the way: we can't regulate ourselves. We can't achieve equal distribution of resources because we can't stop bigotry and greed. AI can do exactly nothing about this.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Dude must have misplaced his pills... That has always been Linux. Period. Windows is the trusted platform for unwarranted data collection and unwanted ads. Undeniably. Also, for people who never knew anything else, and so haven't grown up yet for the task.
Comment · 5 months ago
Maybe don't monetise the demo video because I will watch exactly zero adverts in order to get closer to your product, thanks!
Comment · 5 months ago
Awesome! I accumulated 9 shames in the last 2 years working on a medium sized TypeScript project. I tried your tool which encouraged me to take another look at them, and now I have 0 shames.
Comment · 6 months ago
Is that developer right to also dislike you for wanting master? Where does that lead? Conventions aren't based on feelings, and you should have none towards them. Everything has a reason, and reasons can be compared and weighed. Main is shorter, for one,, I like that, and also newer, master being the legacy convention. What are your arguments?
Comment · 7 months ago
What do you expect to achieve as a business? Assuming you live in a country with fractional reserve banking, free market and "wild west" capitalism, your options are dire. Be selfish, ruthless, lack all empathy, be corrupt, cheat and steal. You cheat more you win more. Are you great at exploiting other people and looking the other way? How about being dishonest and deceitful? Then you have excellent prospects. Ah, wait, you want a decent _and_ honest business that self sustains and doesn't kneel to disgraceful, corrupt giants? Good luck with that.
Comment · 7 months ago
Looks neat, could be the keyboard that makes me try / switch to split design, unless...

Did you release it without an option for ISO layout, and you thought that was OK? Not for Europe...

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