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New comment by WillPostForFood in "Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby"

WillPostForFood — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:56:06 +0000

The author didn't share what DHH actually said, and distorted a bunch of comments.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby"

WillPostForFood — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:55:15 +0000

You received a highly distorted negative version of what he was saying. Another example is the claim 37 Signals "banned" hand coding. What he said is they went AI first, and that hand writing was exceptional.

We are going, and have gone, pencils down on the idea that we were gonna write code by hand as a normal course of business creating things. Writing code by hand at 37signals is now an exceptional state.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby"

WillPostForFood — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:23:57 +0000

What the article characterizes DHH as saying:

Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either

What DHH actually said:

I have AI delirium. AI euphoria. Because this is simply the most exciting thing we have made computers do in the time I have worked with them, played with them, interacted with them. But I think actually to wrestle with the fact that on the one hand, this is tremendously exciting, it is also a little unnerving.

and

There's only one play here, and it's total Fucking optimism. Lean in to the max possible. Because the utopia is almost here.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

WillPostForFood — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:33:41 +0000

"This American Life is an independent program, not produced or distributed by NPR."

TAL is independently produced, but distributed by PRX() for broadcast to NPR, and NPR is partially financing it by paying for the right to air it.

PRX also funded by Corporation for Public Broadcasting; this is all a somewhat incestuous, government financed form of independence.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "What makes Lisp difficult to read?"

WillPostForFood — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:07:14 +0000

Do you mean readable, as in it is easier for you to match "." to "," than ( to ), or is it just easier to look at without reading because there is less there.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

WillPostForFood — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:13:35 +0000

The first link in his article cites his source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London

New comment by WillPostForFood in "George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts"

WillPostForFood — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:33:57 +0000

Fortunately for Los Angeles, unfortunately for San Francisco!

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Measure internet censorship"

WillPostForFood — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:20:14 +0000

You are misunderstanding time/place/manner restrictions. The rule must apply equally to all speakers regardless of topic, opinion, or political stance. If you banned "the distribution of all writings by authors in another country/region" you aren't applying the restriction equally.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears"

WillPostForFood — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:34:01 +0000

Give them some grace. The author is a Czech developer likely using AI to help write in a second language or translating.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

WillPostForFood — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:45:21 +0000

New comment by WillPostForFood in "C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)"

WillPostForFood — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:44:32 +0000

From the preface of first edition The C Programming Language. Just interesting to note the authors never claimed it was low level, just not "very high level."

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C is a general-purpose programming language with features economy of expression, modern flow control and data structures, and a rich set of operators. C is not a "very high level" language, nor a "big" one, and is not specialized to any particular area of application.

But its absence of restrictions and its generality make it more convenient and effective for many tasks than supposedly more powerful languages.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "True Rate of Unemployment"

WillPostForFood — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:02:35 +0000

That data is in the article, "true unemployment" was higher in 1999. The last few years are the best years on the graph.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

WillPostForFood — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:22:30 +0000

It depends. Solid particleboard is pretty close, but a many Ikea pieces are hollow, with internal cardboard support. I prefer some of these to particle board because of the lightness. Like the Lack or the Linnmon table tops.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”"

WillPostForFood — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:39:18 +0000

Why not? If the agency is doing a poor job you might be better of defunding it or disbanding, or forcing smarter, cheaper, more efficient testing. If money fixed problems we'd have great schools and great health care.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”"

WillPostForFood — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:32:04 +0000

The big Boar's Head listeria recalls were in Summer 2024, before Trump was elected, before Doge existed...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boars-head-listeria-recall-bug-...

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/boars-head-provisio...

New comment by WillPostForFood in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

WillPostForFood — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:57:29 +0000

In defense of Prusa, I’ve had mine for six years and have done basically zero maintenance. I’ve adjusted temps a few times when switching filament brands, and that’s about it.

You are right to say Prusa is more of a hobbyist machine while Bambu is closer to a consumer appliance. But within the hobbyist spectrum Prusa is more on the light hobby side these days. My first printer was a Printrbot where I was hand-entering G-code to move the nozzle around and level the bed. Prusa is a dream compared to that.

I like Prusa as a company (and the guy), and I like the community around it. The machine is simple, keeps working, parts are available, and you can understand and repair it if you need to.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

WillPostForFood — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:34:51 +0000

Some context on the US/WTO conflict. It started under Obama, blocking reappointment of two judges. Trump in term 1 went all in, stopping all appointments. When Biden was elected he fully maintained and supported the policy of blocking judges. So it has been more of a bipartisan policy than "Trump gutted".

https://www.cato.org/blog/biden-administration-continues-be-...

New comment by WillPostForFood in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

WillPostForFood — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:33:05 +0000

There is slow progress being made on this.

https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-robocall-action-operation-robocal...

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/fcc-proposes-new-numbering...

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness"

WillPostForFood — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:33:07 +0000

That's near the opposite of what Aristotle intended. He wrote about happiness as virtuous action, living well. He wasn't so internally oriented.

New comment by WillPostForFood in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

WillPostForFood — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:16:13 +0000

Riding a unicycle and coding are not complementary activities - you are multitasking. Writing is aligning different parts of your brain to the same task, perhaps it is just creating additional focus.