rereading Fellowship of the Ring

I had forgotten how the wisest poetry came from the doughty dwarf

"Memory is not what the heart desires"

ngl this is pretty representative of SV tech engineer demographics in general

to modernize Rumi:

far away from the hyperbole of AI slop and the stock market manipulation and the petty wars and the soulless, greedy profit lovers.

there's a porch on a ranch on Montana that overlooks a wide expansive field of grass and horses.

I'll meet you there, a mug of coffee in hand.

whatever the case, there's very little literature showing that it does. So when people make these sorts of claims without concrete examples of how it did, I will continue to view with skepticism

unit tests are for libraries

integration tests are for applications

mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

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even funnier is the random AI company accounts liking this post

the slow descent into the downward section of the ever revolving cycle of history

starting to anecdotally see a fair bit of

"AI doubled my output"

posts, both online and in internal company channels

But I don't actually see any cited references. Hoping this is just my local sphere.

Remember how we used to use hard benchmarks to make claims?

this is simplicity though. genericizing/adding abstractions is not simplistic

but as someone else said - you can use generics

I'm a simple man. I see AI, I unfollow.

Honnold does it again

I see this argument floated around way too much

"this code sucks but it makes money"

as if that justifies shit, untested code

can you prove your code makes the money? will it make the money when it crashes the server and effs up the payment calc?

looks interesting! maybe only my machine, but screenshot link in GH repo README appears to be broken link?

some people like to talk shit more than writing actual code....

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

wth did I just read

the funniest part of modern HN comments is reading all the AI apologists

> article shows failure of LLMs
> yeah but that's because it's not mature yet, just you wait

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

brb gonna quit my job and study Old English instead

500K words, 8 days, and way more emotions

Tom's Crossing.

Great yarn.

web dev is where programmers go to die

the amount of inane discussion over color and text...

goddamn *amazing

fucking yoshi

what a goddamn pitcher.

way to shatter our dreams

agree, Sub should have been Diff or something. But backwards compat....

Add makes sense though to handle both forward and back

maybe I'm misunderstanding your use case

that's the whole point of the getter, to return something with your intended scope

I agree, some work is required, at the expense of a simpler compiler and probably faster build time (generalizing)

add getters for the private fields?

immutability would reduce boilerplate, but adds complexity to the compiler and runtime.

what's wrong with encapsulating in package and making all fields unexported?

been firing up python again and started using docs.astral.sh/ty/

the #astral.sh team does it again

func name should be UUID, aughhhh

compared to what language?

I made a thing

pkg.go.dev/github.com/t...