It works great!

The lowest quartile of income have had the highest growth the past four years.

I love immigration. We should have lots of immigration! But it should occur within consistently, fairly enforced laws passed by our legislative system. I get that our immigration system is arguably broken and that it's very difficult to pass meaningful legislation, but that doesn't mean we should just allow whoever is president to dictate immigration policy.

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In any case, two things can be simultaneously true:

1. Writing code is not the bottleneck, as in we can develop features faster than they can be deployed. 2. It's annoying and disruptive to be interrupted when doing work that requires deep focus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_attribution_error

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.”

People have seen this coming for a long time. Here's a classic article about the channelization of the Mississippi by John McPhee from 1987: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20636254

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But even locally I use vterm. A terminal is just text, why wouldn't I manipulate it with emacs? At any time you can switch to `copy-mode` and it behaves like a read-only text buffer that you can manipulate as you please.

I'm currently switching to a quic-based solution for other reasons, mainly that webrtc is a giant blackbox which provides very limited control[1], yet requires deep understanding of its implementation[2] and I'm tired[3].

I looked at moq-lite but decided against it for some reason. I think because I have <5 clients and don't need the fanout. The auth strategy is very different than what I currently use too.

[1] Why is firefox now picking that (wrong) ice candidate?

[2] rtp, ice, sdp, etc

[3] webrtc isn't bad for the video conferencing use-case but anything else is a pain

That sounds really cool. You should share what you used.

> The goal was not to become a Bluetooth archaeologist. The goal was to solve the problem.

I'm sympathetic to this view. It seems very pragmatic. After all, the reason we write software is not to move characters around a repo, but to solve problems, right?

But here's my concern. Like a lot of people, I starting programming to solve little problems my friends and I had. Stuff like manipulating game map files and scripting ftp servers. That lead me to a career that's meant building big systems that people depend on.

If everything bite-sized and self-contained is automated with llms, are people still going to make the jump to be able to build and maintain larger things?

To use your example of the BLE battery monitor, the AI built some automation on top of bluez, a 20+ year-old project representing thousands of hours of labor. If AI can replace 100% of programming, no-big-deal it can maintain bluez going forward, but what if it can't? In that case we've failed to nurture the cognitive skills we need to maintain the world we've built.

Maybe not the best example? The luddites were skilled weavers that had their livelihoods destroyed by automation. The govt deployed 12,000 troops against the luddites, executed dozens after show trials, and made machine breaking a capital offense.

Is that what you have planned for me?

TFR has been falling in the US since the 1800s, long before birth control.

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