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More often than not I've seen this be the case. Refactoring as "rewrite using my idiomatic style, so that I can understand it", which does not scale across the team so the next engineer does the same thing.

I like guns and cars, but not sports. How exactly is it performative? Both are engineering marvels and fascinating to watch videos about, and they also happen to be a load of fun.

I watch hours of videos on both with nobody else around and don't really talk about those topics with others much. So in the spirit of HN, I'm actually curious to know what about those interests is performative?


In reverse? What do you mean exactly?

As someone who is neither an Elon fan nor a hater, it irks me how deranged HN is about anything Musk-related.


Other than the inconvenience, is there any privacy risk in just having a separate device purely for those apps and nothing else?

Or is it more of a principle to resist this being forced on us?


I'm not sure where you live but a lot of countries don't have this (yet) or it is optional.

I think it's beneficial to hear this, as I've definitely been on the other side of this before now. So, thanks for sharing.

As much as we can fault the technology and the hype around it, this as much a people problem as anything else. Before AI, this same problem happened with architecture/PoC to implementation hand-offs.

AI is a new tool that a lot of us are still figuring out, but that doesn't excuse poor communication.


I mean to be fair, "Just use Postgres" will get 400 votes here without people even clicking TFA.


Agree with this tactic, very useful when working in a team. I use a --dry-run=false approach.


Capital, both social and economic.

Also data, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637328


"... how much ram has the system" is a typo or an ESL mistake, so not an LLM.


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