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@nicomeemes

just a hacker tryna survive

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Fuck willpower

usefulfictions.substack.com

But for me, for now, the friction is what I’m looking for. I am grateful — genuinely — for what Google and Apple and others did to make digital life easy over the past two decades. But too much ease carries a cost. I was lulled into the belief that I didn’t have to make decisions. Now my digital life is a series of monuments to the cost of... See more

Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.

I started noticing how supposedly intelligent, reasonable people would gleefully post and share the pettiest, cheapest, most self-congratulatory trash as long as it fit their opinions.

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Ludditry is just cowardice, specifically focused on the fear of change. Want to know a realistic worse case scenario for AI development? The same rich assholes that are rich today invest in developing AI tech to the point that the market value for human labor plummets to an unlivable point, and class mobility subsequently goes to zero. THAT's a... See more

Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario | Hacker News

complexity 🤯

Never be afraid to say that you don’t know something

Don’t be afraid to ask for help

We all suffer(ed) impostor syndrome

Ólafur Waage • Advice to new Programmers

software engineering 👩‍💻 💯

I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the... See more

software engineering 👩‍💻 💯

"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

- edsger dijkstra

Simple and explicit control flow : Favor straightforward control structures over complex logic. Simple control flow makes code easier to understand and reduces the risk of bugs. Avoid recursion if possible to keep execution bounded and predictable, preventing stack overflows and uncontrolled resource use.

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