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New comment by millerm in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

millerm — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:58:04 +0000

Yeah, I have dropped out of the tech biz completely. I'm unemployed and kind of screwed now. I couldn't take it anymore. I used to work with intellectuals and thinkers. This is why I was in the industry for 20+ years. I liked the stimulation. Communication with humans is dead in the workplace. Now it's just a bunch of mindless automatons asking AI. No thinking about the problems at hand. No interest in understanding the solutions. It's all just "get it done as fast as possible." I refuse to work in that environment. Tech people are becoming about as skill-leveled as a fast food worker's level of training. Just pressing buttons on a screen as the screen tells the to press them. It's a meaningless existence to sit there an be forced to communicate with f'n AI models. No thanks. All you AI bros can have it. We'll see how useless you are in a few years when you realize you know absolutely nothing and couldn't work yourself out of a paper bag without AI guiding you.

New comment by millerm in "U.S. to Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone in Philippines"

millerm — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:48:39 +0000

No, that is not correct. It's a symptom of unbridled capitalism. It has nothing to do with our ability to manufacture. It has everything to do with maximizing profits.

New comment by millerm in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

millerm — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:20:44 +0000

Great tools!

New comment by millerm in "Why Objective-C"

millerm — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:19:53 +0000

Wow, I haven't written any Objective-C since around 2012. I just went back and looked at some code I had written back then and that really brought back some memories. I was much happier then. I'm perpetually sad and unemployed now.

That's all. Enjoy yourselves.

New comment by millerm in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

millerm — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:14:47 +0000

I simply run GrandPerspective (GUI app, https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/), or dust (terminal app, https://github.com/bootandy/dust), to give me an idea of what is going on with disk usage.

New comment by millerm in "Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests"

millerm — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:39:51 +0000

They have $. They pay others to execute their plans. There is no bright side.

New comment by millerm in "Descent, ported to the web"

millerm — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:05:09 +0000

I was the king of Descent for a long time at a place I worked at. 4 of us would play at lunch just about every day. I was so f'n good at that game. That and Duke Nukem.

New comment by millerm in "Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too"

millerm — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:44:42 +0000

As others have stated, there is no point in a "reveal". Simply show the comparison upfront. User interaction should not be necessary as it only needs to be a plain old html document. You didn't need to write any script. When I got through a bit of it, I wasn't sure if I accidentally skipped something or missed a nuance.

New comment by millerm in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

millerm — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:25:01 +0000

It's JSON.

New comment by millerm in "30 Years of ReactOS"

millerm — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:02:49 +0000

What would be the point of avoiding linux?

New comment by millerm in "JetBrains cancels Fleet"

millerm — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:23:14 +0000

Yeah, I'm not a paid shill. I have been using IntelliJ since version 2 way back in 2003(?). Yes, it's had its performance issues, but people tend to forget the feature set they brought to market, and have continued to do so. But, my career is dead now, as I am an unemployed loser. So, 2026 will probably be the first year that I no longer have an updated IntelliJ.

New comment by millerm in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

millerm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:36:02 +0000

I'm in the camp of "If your target is Go, then prototype in Go." I don't bother with the intermediate step. Go is already so very close to being a dynamic language that I don't get the point. Just write "bad" Go to prototype quickly. Skip the error checks. Panic for fun. Write long functions. Make giant structs. Don't worry about memory.

You mentioned running someone else's python is painful, and it most certainly is. No other language have I dealt with more of the "Well, it works on my machine" excuse, after being passed done the world's worst code from a "data scientist". Then the "well, use virtual environments"... Oh, you didn't provide that. What version are you using? What libraries did you manually copy into your project? I abhor the language/runtime. Since most of us don't work in isolation, I find the intermediate prototype in another language for Go a waste of time and resources.

Now... I do support an argument for "we prototype in X because we do not run X in production". That means that prototype code will not be part of our releases. Let someone iterate quickly in a sandbox, but they can't copy/paste that stuff into the main product.

Just a stupid rant. Sorry. I'm unemployed. Career is dead. So, I shouldn't even hit "reply"... but I will.

New comment by millerm in "Go's Sweet 16"

millerm — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:58:27 +0000

I haven't been able to find a job anywhere, using any language, that didn't require all that stuff these days. I wish I could go back to pure development, but now we all get this entire infra-crap thrown at us too. Which then means... you support the environments, the runtime, and the code. It's a 24/7 world and I don't care for it anymore.

New comment by millerm in "Go's Sweet 16"

millerm — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:55:14 +0000

Yeah, I've been there. I would get passed down horribly formatted code from another repo and it showed the data scientists writing it barely knew what they were doing. It was their repo, we couldn't do anything about it. They wouldn't reformat the code, because they were afraid it would break. They also passed us a lot of Python, and you can see where they got this fear from.

New comment by millerm in "WinObjC – The Windows Bridge for iOS"

millerm — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:17:38 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. I had a great time in Objective-C.

New comment by millerm in "NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again"

millerm — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:48:56 +0000

It means your in a large room with a lot of people talking to each other. It's not a fine dining experience where people whisper. It's a social place. The social aspect was taken out of the experience, which is vital to development. The "loud" (meaning, it's not quiet) aspect is not a negative. It's not a "lunch break" for adults to go decompress from the stress at work. If kids want quiet for studying, they can hit their school library, or other places for solitude and tranquility. It's about younger people actually communicating and discussing what is going on in the day, their life, after school, hobbies, interests, relationships, etc.. Imagine going to a playground where there are 100 children. None of them are making a sound. That would be a scary sign. You should hear kids laughing, screaming, crying... experiencing social engagement. People are being isolated from each other because they are becoming "addicted" to screens and short media formats. We are training our brains for instant gratification, but there is no retention or learning going on. Younger people aren't learning how to communicate directly with others. Without these engagements we hobble our development of things like empathy. How to control our emotions with others. It's damaging for all.

That's my take.

New comment by millerm in "Show HN: JSON Query"

millerm — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:44:05 +0000

How could you even type such a ridiculous statement?

New comment by millerm in "Ask HN: Is AWS down again?"

millerm — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:48:34 +0000

I know I could sure use some updog right about now.

New comment by millerm in "Shutdown with no clear end poses new economic threat"

millerm — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:36:37 +0000

DOGE should not have even been a thing. The fact that DOGE is a friggin' meme, brought to you by a ridiculously wealthy man child swindler who pushes the meme coin with the same name, was enough of a tell. Unfortunately, most of society is uninformed/uneducated, or simply enamored with the wealthy.

It's not the entirety of congress's fault. We know who's to blame here.

New comment by millerm in "Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures"

millerm — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:35:38 +0000

> That wouldn't work for, say, Java

The ~29 years deprecated java.util.Date* methods would like to have a word. ;-)

*https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api/java.base...