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New comment by zanellato19 in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

zanellato19 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:20:14 +0000

When doing college we can only start using those tools when we understand the principles behind them.

New comment by zanellato19 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

zanellato19 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:48:36 +0000

Executives always justify their own bizarre salary by saying that they make the decisions, but they never lose their position when those decisions are shit. They fire a bunch of developers and "refocus" like this article. The labor, who probably were against a bunch of this shit in the first place, take the blame.

New comment by zanellato19 in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

zanellato19 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:29:26 +0000

Are you equating covid to the common cold? If so, this comment is absurd.

New comment by zanellato19 in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

zanellato19 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:30:22 +0000

Yeah, this is bizarre that we just accepted.

"oh, we get so much content that we can't possibly review it all" then don't accept anymore content from anyone?

Honestly, the fact that these companies are too big is a big big concern. We should have limited their size long ago and never accepted that bullshit excuse.

New comment by zanellato19 in "Discord just killed anonymity"

zanellato19 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:30:43 +0000

Only a small handful of people will do something like that. For most people, losing people is a nonstarter

New comment by zanellato19 in "Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin"

zanellato19 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:10:44 +0000

Because it's a fucking great book.

Books aren't made just from concepts. It's a great exploration of human concepts and interactions.

New comment by zanellato19 in "Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin"

zanellato19 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:06:59 +0000

> f you want to write good fantasy, it helps a lot to include: Huge exploding fireballs. Cool-looking protagonists mastering the battlefield with confidence and style. World-altering stakes.

Maybe for people that don't subscribe to this, something a bit less... Action-y makes it more interesting.

New comment by zanellato19 in "I am happier writing code by hand"

zanellato19 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:51:42 +0000

I think it feels like shit, tbh. That's my biggest problem with it. The feedback on moment to moment is longer than building by myself and the almost there but not there sucks. Also, like the article states, waiting for the LLM is so fucking boring.

New comment by zanellato19 in "The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know"

zanellato19 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:33:09 +0000

Every single time. Where are these developers? Orms are a god send 98% of the time. Sure, write some SQL from time to time, but the majority of the time just use the ORM.

New comment by zanellato19 in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

zanellato19 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:47:59 +0000

This also makes labor laws much less effective because the companies move countries to avoid them.

New comment by zanellato19 in "How good engineers write bad code at big companies"

zanellato19 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:24:55 +0000

I think labor is worried about a bunch of practical things that the Democrats didn't know how to communicate and Trump did.

Did he mislead them? Yes but honestly, so did a lot of Democrats.

All that to say, yes, but Capital has a lot more resources available to mess with people's head.

New comment by zanellato19 in "Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again"

zanellato19 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:32:53 +0000

Claiming that all of these would not exist without VC is hard to believe.

New comment by zanellato19 in "How good engineers write bad code at big companies"

zanellato19 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:47:48 +0000

Yeah, this is a deliberate choice to make labor less powerful. Capital is willing to be less efficient for that. He does touch upon this by saying that Capital wants every worker to be replaceable.

New comment by zanellato19 in "How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table"

zanellato19 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:13:20 +0000

I feel like this is basically what the Rails world does. Sidekiq handles a lot of this for you and it's honestly an amazing tool.

It does rely on redis, but it's basically the same idea.

New comment by zanellato19 in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

zanellato19 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:56:11 +0000

I think you are being reductive on your original comment. The idea of cycling planning and implementation is nothing new, and quite used on the other disciplines. Saying that agile is the problem is misguided and pointing to other engineering disciplines for "they do it better" is usually a sign that you don't talk to those engineers.

Of course we can plan things better, but implementation does inform planning and vice versa and denying that is denying reality.

New comment by zanellato19 in "Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse"

zanellato19 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:10:02 +0000

I find it weird that you are not DV since the stuff you list here has caused a lot of issues for a lot of people _and_ things have gotten much much worse. The internet is so much more prevalent than it was 15 years ago. The danger is much higher.

The idea of having nothing to do is absurd, child safety is and should be a parent primary concern. Roblox is basically gambling, it puts kids as targets for predators and makes them addicted to several things.

Reading a comment on a news story like this is very very frustrating.

New comment by zanellato19 in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

zanellato19 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:48:35 +0000

Nonsense. I know and talk to multiple Engineers all the time and they all envy our position of continuing to fix issues in the project.

Mechanical engineers having to work around other component failures all the time because their lead time is gigantic and no matter how much planning they do, failures still pop-up.

The idea that Software Engineering has more bugs is absurd. Electronic engineers, mechanical, electric, all face similar issues to what we face and normally don't have the capacity to deploy fixes as fast as we do because of real world constraints.

New comment by zanellato19 in "Time to start de-Appling"

zanellato19 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:26:05 +0000

That isn't a reasonable response because governments can't be changed in a whim and aren't controlled by a single person, two good things.

New comment by zanellato19 in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

zanellato19 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:44:31 +0000

I lost power for 10h in my city recently and it was a big fucking deal. The last 5 years that's the first time that happened. I would say I have less than a hour of downtime per year in the other years

PS I don't live in the US.

We Used to Read Things in This Country

zanellato19 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:32:46 +0000

Article URL: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794033

Points: 5

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