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It’s quite amusing. Hopefully, you all can do without your Pi or Flipper for a day. You can leave home without it.

Agree. Just like writing with pen and paper facilitates the thought process, so does coding. Typing out code facilitates logical thought and forces you to mind the details. Not to mention the inherent learning process.

Hand-holding an LLM cheats me of all these things, along with the uneasy feeling there is unexplored ordnance in there somewhere which will eventually go boom.

To each his or her own.


Thanks for sharing. This is the best HN post of 2025 as far as my humble self is concerned.

For someone wanting to learn Ruby in 2025/26, what are some good up-to-date references, outside of the official documentation? Are there any recently-published books which stand-out?

The PickAxe is still amazing. You can buy the fifth edition (for Ruby 3.3) in paper now, or the sixth edition (for Ruby 4.0) as a beta ebook now.

5th: https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-3-5th-e...

6th: https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby6/programming-ruby-4-6th-edi...

For a timeline-oriented reference of changes, check out https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/ and its individual pages.


I've done the pragmatic studio elixir and erlang courses and they are high quality. They do the same for Ruby and Rails[1]

[1]: https://pragmaticstudio.com/rails


Isn’t this the ultimate black box? If a forecasting system is a black box, then you have no chance of understanding why its performance might deteriorate. Once that happens it essentially becomes a digital paper-weight.


That's not a good argument because it's like saying that an LLM is a black box, yet we use them all day every day. The two share the same engineering and operating principles.


This administration is entirely founded on lies. Irrespective of any merits, of any, of its actions it has zero credibility.


Seriously, with all the shit going on in the world, these guys spend time thinking about the wokeness of computer fonts?! What a clown show. Strike-through this administration.


AI enshitification. Literally.


Perhaps this reflects your experience, in your part of the world. In some parts of the world, principles and ethics do count, and don’t change on a dime (as they do in the US).


Several European countries.

Regardless of the part of the world, corruption happens when the right price gets negotiated.

It can be money, a favour, need to help someone in need, needing to meet specific sales KPIs,...


Shhhh, you’ll scare away the new hires that have to pay the interest on the loans they were told would get them there.


Pretty much every other Apple product has appeal to every demographic: young, older, professional, student, all walks of life - as long as you can afford it.

This product has a very narrow and limited target customer base.

I’m not going to walk into the office with my fuchsia Apple sock around my shoulders.


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