I have MS in math and came to a conclusion that C is not any more "imaginary" than R. Both are convenient abstractions, neither is particularly "natural".
How do you feel about N?
Readit Newsdullcrisp commented on Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024) infinitelymore.xyz/p/comp... · Posted by u/FillMaths
Calm down buddy, maybe you're confusing code producers with something else. It's 2026 we don't bother with maintenance no more, we /new to keep context clean and start over.
Just don't forget to comment - never delete - old code. Always keep dead code around to please shareholders, line numbers up always.
We produce code, that is the main thing, never forget.
One could argue we could achieve the same goals by appending \n to a file in a loop, but this is inefficient nowadays with generous token offerings (but could change in the future than I highly suggest just outputting \n to a file an call it productivity increase)
I didn't understand your point about product owners. Who the fuck would ever need one when code produces itself?
Right but memory is expensive now so where do I keep all of this new code that I’ve produced??
dullcrisp commented on Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning seekingalpha.com/news/454... · Posted by u/hn_acker
There are about 20 million BTC mined so far, multiplied by 1 cent each equals $200,000.
That seems like a lot of money to waste.
I will buy every Bitcoin in existence for approximately one twenty millionth of a cent each.
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dullcrisp commented on Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware 1password.com/blog/from-m... · Posted by u/pelario
dullcrisp commented on A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev somehowmanage.com/2026/01... · Posted by u/Ozzie_osman
I’d take it even further: I want to see the prompts! I’ll concede we’ve arrived at a point where the coding agents work, but I’m still unconvinced they’re actually saving anyone time. From my AI-pilled coworkers, it appears they’re all spending half an hour creating a plan with hyper-specific prompts, like “make this specific change to lines XXX-YYY in this file”, “move this function over here and change the args”, etc. As far as I can tell, this is current best practice, and I’ve tried it, but I’m always disappointed with the either the quality or the speed, usually both.
Look learning vim is hard some people just want to describe their edits using natural language.
dullcrisp commented on A lot of population numbers are fake davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Even if they required it that's no guarantee people actually do it. I have lived for a couple of years at an address different than the one I was registered at. Illegal in my country, but easy to conceal. (I had to because the apartment I lived in didn't strictly allow people of my sort to permanently reside in it.)
If it’s not too forward, what sort of person are you?
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dullcrisp commented on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bigwheels
> let myself atrophy, run on a treadmill forever, for something
You're lucky to afford the luxury not to atrophy.
It's been almost 4 years since my last software job interview and I know the drills about preparing for one.
Long before LLMs my skills naturally atrophy in my day job.
I remember the good old days of J2ME of writing everything from scratch. Or writing some graph editor for universiry, or some speculative, huffman coding algorithm.
That kept me sharp.
But today I feel like I'm living in that netflix series about people being in Hell and the Devil tricking them they're in Heaven and tormenting them: how on planet Earth do I keep sharp with java, streams, virtual threads, rxjava, tuning the jvm, react, kafka, kafka streams, aws, k8s, helm, jenkins pipelines, CI-CD, ECR, istio issues, in-house service discovery, hierarchical multi-regions, metrics and monitoring, autoscaling, spot instances and multi-arch images, multi-az, reliable and scalable yet as cheap as possible, yet as cloud native as possible, hazelcast and distributed systems, low level postgresql performance tuning, apache iceberg, trino, various in-house frameworks and idioms over all of this? Oh, and let's not forget the business domain, coding standards, code reviews, mentorships and organazing technical events. Also, it's 2026 so nobody hires QA or scrum masters anymore so take on those hats as well.
So LLMs it is, the new reality.
That was on NBC.
dullcrisp commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
Ok, if you want to be stubborn about it then leave Windows on a partition and only start it when you want to play that one game. Problem solved.
In many ways, moving to Linux is like starting to live on your own. Your mommy might be a better cook than you, but is that a good enough reason to keep living in your parents' basement?
I’ll be honest I’m really struggling with this analogy.