Hacker News: ruraljuror

New comment by ruraljuror in "Men who stare at walls"

ruraljuror — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:18:24 +0000

> kept trying to design a contraption I could wear on my shoulders that worked like a laptop desk

Nathan Fielder wears something like this in The Rehearsal. Google tells me it is called Connect-A-Desk.

New comment by ruraljuror in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

ruraljuror — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:07:44 +0000

Of course git is great!

Check out Mitchell Hashimoto’s podcast episode on the pragmatic engineer. He starts talking about AI at 1:16:41. At some point after that he discusses git specifically, and how in some cases it becomes impossible to push because the local branch is always out of date.

New comment by ruraljuror in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

ruraljuror — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:57:08 +0000

+1. If we’re at an early stage in the agentic curve where we think reading commit messages is going to matter, I don’t want those cluttered with meaningless boilerplate (“co-authored by my tools!”).

But at this point i am more curious if git will continue to be the best tool.

New comment by ruraljuror in "We Have Learned Nothing"

ruraljuror — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:34:06 +0000

Hm, no, in F1 they don’t have the same car. Each season, each team builds their own (adhering to the Formula) and put massive amounts of efforts to gaining efficiency through engineering.

New comment by ruraljuror in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

ruraljuror — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:11:52 +0000

Link to Friedman's piece on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-tariffs-chi...

Also he talks about this on The Ezra Klein Show.

New comment by ruraljuror in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

ruraljuror — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:04:46 +0000

Sorry to cause fatigue.

The US government absolutely does not do what China does in this case. But the reason for my paranthesis and question mark was that I was not sure what call it.

New comment by ruraljuror in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

ruraljuror — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:58:32 +0000

Good point about the supply chain; and it seems like most responses mistakenly disagree with you.

Thomas Friedman talks about this after his most recent visit to China. Where China excels is through rapid supply chain development by fierce regional competition among several (state-supported/sponsored/seeded?) competitors.

New comment by ruraljuror in "AI Destroys Institutions"

ruraljuror — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:33:47 +0000

Is that what happened? In Nexus, Harari looks at this exact same situation: the invention of the printing press, and shows how clergy used it to stoke witch hunts (ahem, misinformation) for decades--if not centuries. It was not for hundreds of years until after the invention of the printing press that we had The Enlightenment. What gave rise to The Enlightenment? Harari argues it is modern institutions.

It's not so simple that we can say "printing press good, nobody speak ill of the printing press."

New comment by ruraljuror in "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero"

ruraljuror — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:14:11 +0000

I think they meant the result— not the content—would be the same.

New comment by ruraljuror in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

ruraljuror — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:49:15 +0000

The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann covers exactly the topics you are asking about and references many blog posts.

New comment by ruraljuror in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

ruraljuror — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:19:34 +0000

https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code is a great find from that list. Thanks!

New comment by ruraljuror in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

ruraljuror — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:13:43 +0000

Woah, what an unexpected surprise!

New comment by ruraljuror in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

ruraljuror — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:36:50 +0000

Yeah how would you know?

j/k Love ghostty!

New comment by ruraljuror in "Student perceptions of AI coding assistants in learning"

ruraljuror — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:56:20 +0000

I frequently manage to do this writing bash scripts.

New comment by ruraljuror in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

ruraljuror — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:42:01 +0000

I have a bad habit of not fully drying my hands when retrieving pods. The pods all clump together if they get wet. This is one of the many reasons I prefer powder.

New comment by ruraljuror in "Cognitive load is what matters"

ruraljuror — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:03:28 +0000

Software developers don’t arrive fully formed. Rob Pike benefitted from reading a book or two.

New comment by ruraljuror in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

ruraljuror — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:43:44 +0000

If you confine agency to something only humans can have, which is “human agency,” then yes of course LLMs don’t have it. But there is a large body of philosophical work studying non-human agency, and it is from this characteristic of agency that LLM agents take their name. Hariri argues that LLMs are the first technology that are agents. I think saying that they “can’t do things” and are not agents misunderstands them and underestimates their potential.

New comment by ruraljuror in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

ruraljuror — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 22:36:42 +0000

I agree with your larger point, but I don't understand what you mean the LLM doesn’t do anything? LLMs do do things and they can absolutely have agency (hence all the agents being released by AI companies).

I don’t think this agency absolves companies of any responsibility.

New comment by ruraljuror in "Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”"

ruraljuror — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:31:01 +0000

Where? In the U.S.? Whenever I have paid for gas with cash or from the cashier, I pay for it in advance, “Give me $10 of regular unleaded!”

New comment by ruraljuror in "Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide"

ruraljuror — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:52:45 +0000

Looks right to me. Are you referring to the capitalization?