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I'd argue genes nor life has a "goal". They are what they are because they've been successful at continuing their existence. Would you say a rock's goal is not to get broken?

Only because genes/organisms can make choices (changes to its programming, or decisions) to optimize their path towards their goal.

A rock is maybe not a good counterexample, but a crystal is because it can grow over time. So in some sense, it tries not to break. However a crystal cannot make any choices; it's behavior is locked into the chemistry it starts with.


Just curious, what metrics would you use to track how well your results are?

The tools are still in their infancy, but it would likely be a series of metrics such as complexity, repetition, test coverage issues (such as tests that cover nothing meaningful), architectural issues that remain unfixed far beyond the point where it would have been more beneficial to refactor, superfluous instructions and comments, etc.

I took a Computer Science class decades ago that used that book as the core of the class material. I don't remember a single thing about that class now except that I hate that book and the professor bragging about designing cockpit instruments or some such. I learned more out of a cognitive psych class.



I use Xreal Air Pros for gaming and sometimes working if I'm mobile. Resolution isn't great, but I find them better than looking at a small-ish laptop screen or the Steam Deck screen. You can definitely read text on them, but maybe not small text. It also helps to have prescription inserts.

And now I'm curious if the Steam Frame allows inserts or fits well with glasses on.


It depends, the frameworks I've seen require a ton of boilerplate (ie. the things tools like create-react-app sets up for you) and have quite a learning curve. Using what you already know is simpler, and some of us know vanilla html, css, and js. It also very much depends on what you're making. Many sites don't necessarily need much interactivity or to constantly receive updated data.


Yeah, sounds like Tiddly Wiki or similar except with the need for a backend component.

Edit: actually it looks more like a library/framework to make such apps. And now I'm not sure if it needs a backend component or nodejs or not.


I think the answer to "classic mode" browsing is at the bottom of the site: web rings.


Even this article links to login-walled Twitter when talking about "1000 zines" instead of linking to web ring or some of those zines.


From what I've heard anecdotally, there have been a bunch more PRs and bug reports generated by AI. But I've also heard they're generally trash and just wasting the project maintainers' time.


It's hard to take a developer seriously when they don't document their code and think unit tests are a waste of time.


And they're typically the ones cheering the loudest for LLM centric coding. It's hard to believe in something people you don't respect are saying is the best thing they've ever seen.


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