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• Post #3187842

  Since reading code is harder and more stressful than writing code, are we all getting pay raises?

• Post #3187840

  This was meant to be a cautionary tale.

• Post #3187838

  At what point do you have to give up shaving FFI yaks and just rebuild the thing from scratch in the host language?

• Post #3187837

  After a lifetime of being an anti-terminal snob, Liquid Glass and Tim Appeaser have driven me down increasingly narrow rabbit holes to the point where I am now trying to work on personal projects in nvim on a pi zero.

• Post #3187835

  RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116200213159249267 > LLMs as a mechanism for scaling up existing software practices with minimal human observation This is one of the great tragedies of LLMs. Existing practices are shit.

• Post #3187834

  @thomasfuchs the daily experience and the source of most “fulfillment” comes from your immediate team. In larger places that team tends to more balanced and cohesive. At least from my experience. The horrible dysfunction I’ve seen has been in smaller places. The non-profit I worked at was the worst.

• Post #3187832

  After giving up a couple of decades ago, I think I’m finally understanding Scheme syntax-case and I’m mourning the intervening years when I could have been building something lasting instead of writing Java and Swift.

• Post #3187831

  In an attempt to use sunk-cost as a self motivator, I now have hard-covers of the Prolog ISO Standard and the Chez Scheme User's Guide.