So we are not doing telnet anymore?
Readit Newsjorgeleo commented on Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text github.com/Orange-OpenSou... · Posted by u/flykespice
jorgeleo commented on I do not want AI to "polish" me thebloggess.com/2025/01/2... · Posted by u/doodpants
Thing is, we've been here before in a much more limited way; people _hated_ it when Microsoft's demonic paperclip did this in Office. "It looks like you're writing a letter". _Hated_ it.
It is unclear what the industry thinks has changed, that people will now welcome "It looks like you're [whatever]".
The people. The people changed.
This forum (HN) attracts certain population that wants to do things, to understand, to share relatively well based opinions and have a discussion.
But look around, look at the new hires in the other departments. And by new I mean young, in their 20. A lot of them welcome this kind of things, they evaluate by popularity and likes. The marketing begin the AI bubble knows this, and so it pushes for it. Make it popular is more important than make it useful, because there is a tipping point were is popular enough that we capitulate.
Turns out that Idiocracy is not that far behind (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/)
But there is nothing about that.
The point of the article is that SA can't sacrifice science to push propaganda. That's it.
Like this point of yours:
>but there is a point, in defense of the editor, where people claiming that the earth is flat need to be push back. Objective truth needs to prevail regardless of how people feel about it politically, and it is ok, in my book, to defend that
Is true, for the article, not for the editor. That's his whole point.
And my point is that:
1. Defending science as objective truth is not propaganda, so the editor did not engage un such.
2. The article it self is not about science, but it is weasel propaganda on it self because accusing of propaganda to the editor is a form of propaganda that is presented as "reasonable" but the intended effect is to try to call propaganda what is not.
Can you reconcile that view with the paragraph at the end?
>That doesn't mean the editor needs to be apolitical or that there's no role for SciAm to chime in on social justice issues in an informed manner, with the requisite level of humility and caution. It simply means that Scientific American needs to get back to its roots—explaining the universe's wonders to its readers, not lecturing them about how society should be ordered or distorting politically inconvenient findings.
He explicitly states he is ok with bias.
No need to reconcile because one thing does not excuse the other.
If I go complaining that you go around beating people up, and that is why I will go and beat you up, and at the end I claim that it is ok because I agree with hitting people is ok doesn't excuse my action.
Also, stating the obvious (SA needs to get back to its roots) serves in this case as a straw man argument, the point was how bad an inexcusable was the editor behavior, not what the roots of SA should be.
This article is closer to the son of the president in the "Don't look up" movie than anything else. It tries to push the previous editor to a square of just do scientific work... but there is a point, in defense of the editor, where people claiming that the earth is flat need to be push back. Objective truth needs to prevail regardless of how people feel about it politically, and it is ok, in my book, to defend that
Hilarious!
The while message of the article is to trash talk the departing editor accusing her of political left bias... which in it self (the trash talking) is a political statement from the conservative side.
To the author of the article: you are no better than her...
So... Continuous for Java? Meaning it can compile and run in device?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/continuous-net-c-and-f-ide/id1...
https://simpledbapp.com
My attempt of ms access for the web. It is version 0.8, then I hit caveats and limitations of using blazor, so i am in the process of rewriting it on asp.net core 7 mvc
tables, forms and reports are defined in xml, it has basic querying facilities and account and security management. It uses Lua for backend scripting. It allows for full app development in the browser. database is sqlite, but i made an orm that is database vendor agnostic just in case
Created an app for simple course management which is working fine, including certificate generator.
This baffled me:
"I wish I knew what happened, or how to replicate it. It’s involved more upfront design than I normally do, by necessity. I like feeling my way forward in general, but there are problems where the approach just doesn’t work"
Yes, immediate (or soon enough) gratification feels good... To me, and maybe is because I am an old fart, this is the difference between programming and engineering.
jorgeleo commented on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting? · Posted by u/imadkhan
I do, and quite frequently.
After more than a 2 decades in software development (rails/web/...), for me to consider a developer to be a senior it needs to:
* Communicate: For example: can explain tech concepts to non tech people, or inform on Monday that the sprint will be unlikely to be done in time.
* Can estimate and adapt to changes. Be boring and predictable.
* Can work/collaborate/teach with other devs.
I got tired of interviewing tech people that though that to be senior is the same as to be specialist (or worse even, that it was related with the number of years).
Completely agree!
I call it do you have 10 years of experience? or do you have 1 year of experience 10 times?
jorgeleo commented on Ask HN: My child was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder. What to do? · Posted by u/nus07
I have the disorder and one of my kids have the disorder too. We both are in the autism scale (Asperger's)
As a kid, until 8 or 9 years old, my birthday parties with my friends (kids too) running around and screaming will push me to withdraw to my room and have a meltdown. I remember this stressing my parents because they wanted me to form social bonds, and in the 70s there was no vocabulary to describe what was happening to me. But this help me understand what was happening when I saw my kid doing the same.
The good news is that as we grow up we create coping mechanisms, so this is transitory and most likely will get better. Respecting the fact of having a quiet place to be helps. The clinging is the looking for safety, always welcome it or she will feel rejected at a vulnerable moment.
Which leads me to a warning. Trying to process the sensory overload put us in an emotionally vulnerable position, which in school leads to been a bully victim. Even in high school there was a guy that scream around me so I would contract and he could beat me. Same thing with my son who end up shovel into a locker. We had to involve the police on this one. Things get better around college when bigger responsibilities push away bullies.
Identify something that she likes to do and bring her peace, then provide that when she is overloaded so she can have tools to cope