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by gregjor 4mo ago
Psychosis means inability to distinguish the real from the not real -- delusion. I don't think the article describes that, at least not in a literal or clinical sense. The author lifted a term usually applied to people who fall in love
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by gregjor 4mo ago
Two months ago I would have written the same thing. I have 50 years experience programming. I have adapted to change over time to stay employable. And I have cultivated programming as a craft, taking pride in my experience and expertise and
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by gregjor 5mo ago
I don't think anyone suggested that.
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by gregjor 5mo ago
The warp drives in Star Trek seem awesome too, we're just behind schedule. Starship excels at funneling tax money into Musk's various enterprises. Whether it actually reaches orbit, much less the moon or Mars, merely incidental, t
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by gregjor 5mo ago
In The Art Of Computer Programming , one of the most influential and comprehensive series of books on the subject, Knuth uses a fictional assembly language called MIX in the examples. The reader does "just run the program in their hea
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by gregjor 6mo ago
I don't either. Come to think of it, few of us know if our jobs will exist in a decade. We adapt or live with our parents.
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by gregjor 7mo ago
What's it like? You don't say what kind of work you would look for, where in the large geography called the Bay Area, or what kind of living standard you expect. So no way anyone can give a meaningful answer, as reflected in the l
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by gregjor 7mo ago
@dang Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I abandoned all other social media years ago, I stick around on HN largely because of the moderation. You probably know that I did not actually feel insulted or attacked. One of the few advantages of g
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by gregjor 7mo ago
@dang I appreciate the tireless and thankless work you do in HN, sincerely, but I don't always agree. > Don't be curmudgeonly. I feel flattered to get identified as a curmudgeon in company with Socrates, Samuel Johnson, Mark T
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by gregjor 8mo ago
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by gregjor 8mo ago
Interesting, but should mention article serves as an ad for Datalevin.
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by gregjor 8mo ago
Grift of the month. How can anyone take this seriously year after year? Didn't we get promised robots building colonies on Mars by now? Or at least Starship carrying a payload and not exploding?
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by gregjor 8mo ago
Wrong level of abstraction. And not the definition of machine. I might feel awe or amazement at what human-made machines can do -- the reason I got into programming. But I don't attribute human qualities to computers or software, a cat
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by gregjor 8mo ago
I asked ChatGPT to choose one for me.
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by gregjor 8mo ago
I don't understand why anyone finds it interesting that a machine, or chatbot, never tires or gets demoralized. You have to anthromorphize the LLM before you can even think of those possibilities. A tractor never tires or gets demorali
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by gregjor 8mo ago
LLMs do not have grit or tenacity. Tenacity doesn't desribe a machine that doesn't need sleep or experience tiredness, or stress. Grit doesn't describe a chatbot that will tirelessly spew out answers and code because it has n
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by gregjor 8mo ago
Painful slow grind? I have always found the learning part what I enjoy most about programming. I don't intend to outsource that a chatbot.
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by gregjor 8mo ago
You mangled Jefferson a bit. He wrote about education, not news. He didn't imagine the the non-stop firehose of slop and advertising and propaganda we endure and call news. What passes for news today describes the opposite of critical
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by gregjor 8mo ago
Why not sell dragon rides in Westeros? What a scam. Starship yet to achieve orbit or carry any payload, and it won't have lots of room inside supposing it ever gets to the moon. This looks like a sure thing to bet against on prediction
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by gregjor 8mo ago
What does "chill" even mean? If I saw that on an application... delete.
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by gregjor 9mo ago
My biggest roadblocks come from my own certainty that I wrote correct code. That leads me to look in the wrong places for the bug. I have repeatedly looked right at bugs and not seen them because I felt sure that code works as expected.
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by gregjor 9mo ago
> Have you tried vscode-neovim? Yes. I don't see the point, though. If I can run full neovim inside VSCode what does VSCode add? > I guarantee if he spent as much time configuring vscode as he did configuring vim he could establi
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by gregjor 9mo ago
Preach! My thoughts exactly.
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by gregjor 9mo ago
Misdirection from previous next big thing failures. Propping up stock prices. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/12/kicking-robots-james-vin...
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by gregjor 9mo ago
> Activity is just a small part of how we assess their skills. Nothing on your web site or in your HN post refers to anything other than analyzing git activity. Crunching commits -- artifacts of the software development process rather
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by gregjor 9mo ago
My first reaction: This tool looks at the wrong metrics, or a small subset of possibly relevant metrics. Nothing about git activity correlates to "who can code" (as opposed to who can produce code), much less all of the skills n
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by gregjor 9mo ago
Trying to imagine having so little connection with a child to need such an app. I raised three kids, could always tell when they got tired. My grandparents used cough medicine to reliably "predict" nap time.
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by gregjor 9mo ago
Yes, I have. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, like all team organization strategies. Comparing team organization styles proves close to impossible, too many variables and confounding factors. Projects fail mainly because of interpersonal
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by gregjor 9mo ago
You conflate different meanings of "context." The problem Brooks describes around communication has to do with multiplying the number of paths as the team grows. The "surgical team" approach includes a member in charge o
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by gregjor 10mo ago
I have this on a sticky note on my refrigerator.

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