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New comment by jonnycomputer in "AI means we don't have to deal with nerds dreaming up over-engineered solutions"

jonnycomputer — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:58:27 +0000

But you see, they don't have to wait for it anymore. /s

AI means we don't have to deal with nerds dreaming up over-engineered solutions

jonnycomputer — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:32:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/garrett_makes/status/2008532223713022125

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527520

Points: 2

# Comments: 7

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

jonnycomputer — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:50:19 +0000

wish the compile instructions in MOSTLY_MATTER_HOWTO were a little more intelligible to me.

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

jonnycomputer — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:20:04 +0000

what bad press is that?

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

jonnycomputer — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:44:39 +0000

Feel like then people would just have one more thing to complain about the Mozilla Foundation over.

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

jonnycomputer — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:23:52 +0000

Psychopy is a mess of a project. It hasn't gotten any better from my perspective, even after hiring full time developers, because most of their effort is focused on the single-gui-app and Pavolovia.

things did get better when they added wheels.

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

jonnycomputer — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:13:55 +0000

Hey, I'm still trying get over the fact that `pip search` is deprecated. A package manager command line tool that can't even search for packages.

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

jonnycomputer — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:08:20 +0000

I have to say that I am extremely reluctant to switch over to yet another python management system (packaging, environment, python version). Every few years someone says: this is it. Switch to poetry! Okay, I did. And, at least for some academic packages, psychopy I'm looking at you, it was a friggin disaster.

so. will uv install psychopy (say version 3.2.4)?

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

jonnycomputer — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:28:49 +0000

How is this different than (or better than) pyenv?

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

jonnycomputer — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 03:53:37 +0000

Yes.

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

jonnycomputer — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 03:51:38 +0000

Okay, but isn't this just what all people do? Everyone has a lifetime of normal behavior expectations reinforced to a point where they are truly internalized that there's something wrong with not doing the "normal" thing.

That's called enculturation.

I find a lot very confusing about the idea of masking. Everyone masks, even people who are more neurotypical than autists. Getting along with social life means not showing every emotion, it means being uncomfortable, doing things that you personally dislike or find uncomfortable, feigning more comfort in social situations than you actually feel, regulating your behavior to fit in, etc. And then going home to detox and restore your energy with private time.

I'm not saying that masking is autism is not a thing. But most of what I hear described is just ... normal life for most people ... except perhaps to the degree it is felt or needed.

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Some thoughts on LLMs and software development"

jonnycomputer — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:21:00 +0000

so are we, maybe.

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Some thoughts on LLMs and software development"

jonnycomputer — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:06:40 +0000

>All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful.

Nice callback to "All models are wrong, but some of them are useful."

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward"

jonnycomputer — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:09:25 +0000

I'm already annoyed that, on Mac, ever since I installed OneDrive, I can't save Excel files to OneDrive while in Excel to my OneDrive, without Excel being logged in to my OneDrive account.

I have OneDrive because I want it to behave like Dropbox or Google Drive. Bug off, man.

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Left to Right Programming"

jonnycomputer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:44:42 +0000

    len(list(filter(lambda line: all([abs(x) >= 1 and abs(x) <= 3 for x in line]) and (all([x > 0 for x in line]) or all([x < 0 for x in line])), diffs)))

Well, point taken about the ordering, but there are many more legible ways to have written that code. Not everything has to be a one liner.

even:

    def f(diffs):
        cond = lambda line: all([1 <= abs(x) <= 3 for x in line]) and (
            all([x > 0 for x in line]) or all([x < 0 for x in line])
        )
        items = filter(cond, diffs)
        return len(list(items))

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying"

jonnycomputer — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:36:57 +0000

Well I think, to be fair, only about 7% of the default Facebook feed is your friend's (or subscribed-groups') content. They've shoved a lot of other stuff in there. So its kind of weird that they turn around and say, "Nope, people aren't interested in their friends content anymore"

New comment by jonnycomputer in "GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?""

jonnycomputer — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:18:05 +0000

For what it's worth, it got it right when I tried it.

>simple question should be easy for a genius like you. have many letter b's in the word blueberry? ChatGPT said:

>There are 2 letter b's in blueberry — one at the start and one in the middle.

New comment by jonnycomputer in "GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?""

jonnycomputer — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:16:09 +0000

the extra bounce was my favorite part!

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Administration seeking $1B settlement from UCLA"

jonnycomputer — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:51:23 +0000

if so, how is it that Trump's approval rating (and disapproval rating), has shifted by more than 10 points since he took office?

https://votehub.com/polls/?subject=trump&time_adjusted=true

New comment by jonnycomputer in "Administration seeking $1B settlement from UCLA"

jonnycomputer — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:37:54 +0000

the problem is is that doing so makes you automatically lose credibility with a large part of the public.

another problem is that Trump is not (yet) a dictator and we are (still, for now) a Constitutional democracy.