rmwaite

To be fair, they were just sharing their experience. I don’t recall them saying anything close to your interpretation.

JavaScript has its share of wtfs, so I wonder how much of it is which one someone experienced during some formative window in their learning.

Did you encounter JS first?

I find it interesting that you can’t lie to the police but the police can (and do) lie to you. Why?

That’s just an email signature, configurable (or removable, if you prefer) by the user. This is completely different, in my opinion.

On iOS, if you swipe control center down and then back up but don’t lift your finger, the screenshot will not have the logo. I do this with Twitter so my screenshots don’t have the X logo.

I think “staggering” is a pretty accurate way of putting it if blocking ads is in the same ballpark as running a AAA game on max settings.

Instructions are data

I think the point is that worse is better. There is incredible power in a standard (mostly) predictable platform, even if it could be done better.

I mean it kinda does.

> Once you irrigate a field, that water is gone.

This doesn't seem true to me, in the sense that anything is truly "gone". The water doesn't cease to exist or is converted to anything other than water. It just moves.

Agree completely about the time thing. Indeed, every time I’ve fallen into the trap of somehow believing I’ve moved “past” the time sink it inevitably has bitten me down the road when something breaks or I learn about some maintenance task I should have been doing but didn’t even know existed.

More than anything, I’ve come to admire those who learn how to do this stuff consistently because it is hard.

I remember being the big innovation over svn being merging. There were others things, obviously, but the distributed model + easy merges is what I remember.

Any language of Python’s size and popularity will be a mess, the only difference is what parts of it.

What I find fascinating about LLMs is that a lot of their failures seem strikingly similar to the failures that humans struggle with. I’m not sure what this “means” but I think it’s interesting that we can theoretically fix these failures for LLMs but for humans it is much harder. You pretty much need to educate / indoctrinate people for their entire lives and even then it’s messy and unpredictable and prone to failure—just like LLMs.

I don't think this is something to laugh at. Whether or not you think it's necessary or a proper method of punishment, it isn't funny.