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ikety commented on Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-he... · Posted by u/tintinnabula

racl101 · 15 days ago

In general complete devotion to the craft by constantly practicing like it is a habit and not just when inspiration strikes is essential.

One could argue this lack of devotion predates even the smartphone. Heck, I remember getting a Nintendo Entertainment System in the late '80s and then not going out biking or playing basketball as a result.

ikety · 14 days ago

Ironically these days you might have a better chance making a living from playing video games compared to any physical activity.

ikety commented on Writing code is cheap now simonwillison.net/guides/... · Posted by u/swolpers

hansonkd · 18 days ago

I like the idea of we will always need Pilots.

We have autopilot and i'm sure if we tried could automate take off and landing of commercial flights.

But we will keep pilots on planes long after they are needed.

ikety · 18 days ago

To fly a plane with 300+ passengers you still only need 2-3 pilots. That has remained consistent with the invention of autopilot. While we might still need a few human engineer experts, maybe we only need a few for small to medium sized companies? That may not eliminate the career for the top % but it effectively does for the vast majority of engineers.

ikety commented on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI ladybird.org/posts/adopti... · Posted by u/adius

echelon · 18 days ago

Rust is the final language.

Defect free. Immaculate types. Safe. Ergonomic. Beautiful to read.

AI is going to be writing a lot of Rust.

The final arguments of "rust is hard to write" are going to quiet down. This makes it even more accessible.

ikety · 18 days ago

Why not go full functional programming at that point? If the main issue with FP has been accessibility, then it should really take off now.

ikety commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

vjekm · a month ago

It's the only reasonable thing to do; the status quo is what's ridiculous.

ikety · a month ago

What if there is simply nothing that can be done? I don't mean to sound defeatist, but what if there are some things that truly are like pandora's box. We can't put the lid back on. All we can do is educated people on how to use the tools correctly

ikety commented on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button paulmakeswebsites.com/wri... · Posted by u/dbushell

yoz-y · 2 months ago

I know people love to make UIs stateless and functional. But they just aren’t. IMO UIs are fundamentally a bunch of state, graphically represented. So naturally all of the functional frameworks are full of escape hatches.

I’d rather have a honest framework than a chimera.

I have not followed SwiftUI recently but when it was introduced I quite liked to have the main composition in SwiftUI and then writing more complex components in pure UIKit. Both could be used what they are best suited for. But trying to shoehorn good interactivity into a SwiftUI component always ended in horrible code.

ikety · 2 months ago

What about Elm? I think most people could grasp the elm architecture in an afternoon. To me this MVU style is pretty much perfect for UI.

I think a lot of the time React appears complex and hacky is because we tried to solve world hunger with one component. I've worked on plenty of React projects that were very easy to scale, modify and iterate because they focused so heavily on small independent stateless components.

ikety commented on Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help wakeuptopolitics.com/p/mi... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

enraged_camel · 3 months ago

This is the result of decades of Republican lobbying, legislation and outright sabotage. The philosophy, openly advertised by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, goes like this: nobody likes taxes. So if people find the filing process difficult and stressful every year, they will be constantly reminded of this fact. This will in turn make them more open to suggestions and propaganda along the lines of taxes being something that must be fought tooth and nail at every turn, because let's face it, who wants the tax code to become even more complex?

In contrast, if the process is streamlined every year, most people won't even pay attention to how much they pay in taxes - which isn't great if your ultimate goal is to keep government as small as possible.

ikety · 3 months ago

The ease in which you can get away with these tactics ad infinitum is starting to make me a pessimist. It feels like it takes almost an entire population of unified people, that are diligently advocating on behalf of themselves, to compete with a ruling class that has the resources to stay on the offense forever.

The ruling class doesn't even have to actively communicate and conspire with one another (although they do). Their independent attempts to undermine and control government furthers the agenda of all private businesses.

ikety commented on PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/speckx

nickpp · 4 months ago

> We just have never had an economic system that could offer that

Please propose it yourself.

> you assume the greedy motivations of a few is the only path towards progress

No. I assume the greedy motivations of the many is the best path towards progress. Any other attempts to replace this failed miserably. Ignoring human nature in ideologies never works.

ikety · 3 months ago

That's extremely difficult. I just don't assume something is impossible because it hasn't been done yet. Especially when there is an active battle to undermine and destroy such ideas by almost every powerful entity on earth.

ikety commented on PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/speckx

nickpp · 4 months ago

There is absolutely no guarantee that Claude takes your job either. But if you believe so much in AI, investing in it is accessible to pretty much any pocket, you don't have to be rich to partake.

And when did "the rich" hoard anything for themselves only?! Usually I see them democratizing products and services so they are more accessible to everyone, not less.

Computers in my pocket and on my wrist, TVs as big as a wall and thin like a book, electric cars, flights to anywhere I dream of traveling, investing with a few clicks on my phone - all made possible to me by those evil and greedy rich in their race for riches. Thank you rich people!

ikety · 4 months ago

I feel like you're fighting the fallacy of "the rich" being collectively blamed for every problem, by giving them credit for everything instead.

We know that none of the goods you listed would be available to the masses unless there was profit to be gained from them. That's the point.

I have a hard time believing a large group being motivated and mutually benefiting towards progression of x thing would result in worse outcomes than a few doing so. We just have never had an economic system that could offer that, so you assume the greedy motivations of a few is the only path towards progress.

ikety commented on Reproducible C++ builds by logging Git hashes jgarby.uk/posts/git_repr/... · Posted by u/j4cobgarby

spooky_deep · 4 months ago

I can say why I bounced off of Nix.

Lots of package combinations didn’t work and I was not skilled enough to figure out why.

The error messages are terrible.

They don’t provide enough versions of packages. I want Python 3.10.4 exactly. But Nix packages by default only provide 3.10.something

I would love to use Nix everywhere, but it’s just too cumbersome for me.

ikety · 4 months ago

Tried Mise?

ikety commented on Reproducible C++ builds by logging Git hashes jgarby.uk/posts/git_repr/... · Posted by u/j4cobgarby

chuckadams · 4 months ago

Give Nix a look sometime, it takes this to a whole new level by including all of the build dependencies in the hash, and their build dependencies and so on. The standard flake workflow even includes the warning about having uncommitted files.

ikety · 4 months ago

It's quite odd to me that Nix or something similar like Mise isn't completely ubiquitous in software. I feel like I went from having issues with build dependencies to having that aspect of software development completely solved as soon as I adopted Nix.

I absolutely can't imagine not using some kind of tool like this. Feels as vital as VCS to me now.