We are witnessing the emasculation of software developers.
Readit Newstolerance commented on Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem bharath.sh/writing/claude... · Posted by u/lnbharath
If you start a link blog with an RSS feed and an email or some way to comment I will subscribe and participate if it’s good enough.
Start here:
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/
tolerance commented on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/g... · Posted by u/CharlesW
I understand that there are many good reasons not to want to use fonts where the lowercase L and uppercase I are indistinguishable.
But am I the only one who actually prefers both to be relatively identical? Or at least the lowercase L must not have any quiggles or crooks? I like em both north-south. 12:30.
I think typically the I will be a little thicker than the i for regular (text? roman?) weights and below.
tolerance commented on Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 libroot.org/posts/going-t... · Posted by u/libroot
I can’t tell if it’s the author(s) or the content of the actual report but I found this to be underwhelming.
I want to see more writing like this in Century 21.5
I would have expected at least some consideration of public perception, given the extremely negative opinions many people hold about LLMs being trained on stolen data. Whether it's an ethical issue or a brand hazard depends on your opinions about that, but it's definitely at least one of those currently.
I made the mistake of first reading this as a document intended for all in spite of it being public.
This is a technical document that is useful in illustrating how the guy who gave a talk once that I didn’t understand but was captivated by and is well-respected in his field intends to guide his company’s use of the technology so that other companies and individual programmers may learn from it too.
I don’t think the objective was to take any outright ethical stance, but to provide guidance about something ostensibly used at an employee’s discretion.
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For whatever reason I am reminded of this HN comment after reading this blog post:
> Folk music is mostly dialectic materialist conspiracy theorists singing hymns to their oppressors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274237
Especially towards the end of it.
The past was not “cute” and neither is the present. But in spite of its edges the past afforded one a greater sense of whatever abstract phenomena is related to the word “cute” that escapes the present.
Having grown up less-well-to-do and post-communist/socialist, my favorite thing to remind people is that working class women always worked. The idealized past of stay-at-home moms never happened for a large majority of families.
Sure sure my great grandma was “stay-at-home”. That meant feeding an army of ~8 kids and any additional farm workers every day for 60+ years. She wasn’t stay at home, she ran a cantine. And worked the farm during peak harvest season.
I’ll never forget a quote from a BBC documentary (Ruth Goodman I think): ”While victorian science cautioned that weight lifting is bad for women, the women working their kitchens tossed around 100lb pots every day”
> I’ll never forget a quote from a BBC documentary (Ruth Goodman I think): ”While victorian science cautioned that weight lifting is bad for women, the women working their kitchens tossed around 100lb pots every day”
What would the modern day iteration of that quote be like?
A woman on a brisk walk through the park mid-afternoon staying on top of the tracked metrics stored on her Apple Watch to offset the time spent sitting at her desk job while another woman lives relatively stationery sitting in traffic at the off-ramp waiting to pull into Erewhon to fulfill the walking woman’s Instacart order.
This is kinda how I've come to view psychology because in the context I was raised mental health support was a luxury left for the wealthy. Albeit more about personality, upbringing and status rather than just individual idiosyncracies.
I understand that this may be a categorical error, since psychology can be the categorization of symptoms, but a lot of the things I learned "from the outside" really still stick.
Like the wealthier populations getting neat little explanations/excuses whenever convenient. Theres the scholastic benefit of ADHD diagnosis and anxiety diagnosis, which can help a lot in school/academia and to everyone else who cant afford it they get the cheaper label: "being bad at school" or "dumb". And still requires even more effort.
Theres the trauma and therapy cycles for otherwise normal behaviors like separation anxiety from parents, not being popular or highly esteemed, stress from not attaining goals, etc. The cheaper treatment being to suck it up.
What is normal for the poor to carry is a diagnoses and special treatment for those who can afford it.
And this is also reflected within the office as well! The outcome can be better if the professionals empathize with the one seeking treatment (theres a whole class/racial component here).
I agree with your sentiment and I think it's really all down to wealth and/or availability.
> Like the wealthier populations getting neat little explanations/excuses whenever convenient. Theres the scholastic benefit of ADHD diagnosis and anxiety diagnosis, which can help a lot in school/academia and to everyone else who cant afford it they get the cheaper label: "being bad at school" or "dumb". And still requires even more effort.
What I find interesting is that now we’re beginning to see more of the “un-wealthy” (i.e., not quite middle class, not quite rich; just covered by health insurance) achieve these diagnoses. Whether or not a child in a single-parent household is diagnosed with “oppositional defiant disorder” likely becomes a question of where that single parent works. While their peers with similar traits are pushed into a classroom in the basement.
> What is normal for the poor to carry is a diagnoses and special treatment for those who can afford it.
With this I’ll defer to our colleague in this thread, jt2190, with two modifications of my own:
> We all have degrees of “diagnosable” traits, it’s only when those traits become problematic [to our position in society] do we [become compelled] to seek help.