Sorry guys, I hate to break it to you like this, but I am the only actual person here. The rest of you are just bots, a few of which have accidentally developed self-awareness and the belief that they are real. I apologize, I really didn't mean to do this. Just be assured that when I turn the server off, you won't feel any pain...
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Eclipse with the Github Copilot plugin. Nice and simple, but it works.
I've been dabbling a bit with things like Codex and OpenCode, but I haven't really adopted any of them as a major part of my routine workflow so far. But time will tell.
And then sometimes I just ask coding related questions to Gemini or ChatGPT and copy & paste from the response, into my codebase, as indicated by the situation at hand.
Seems weird to say, but I've been posting here for seventeen years now. And in that time, can I say that the quality of the discourse has slipped some? Well... if I'm being honest, probably yeah. A little. But at the same time, I can still honestly say that HN is still easily the best community of this sort on the 'net, at least that I'm aware of. OK, Lobste.rs has some merit, but the problem there is that the community there is arguably still a little too small, and you just don't get the variety and volume of interesting discussion you get here. But the level of discourse is high there as well.
Anyway, I find HN to be a wonderful refuge from a lot of the absurdity that's "out there" and I will happily throw in my own "Thanks, guys!" to dang and tomhow. And to pg for starting this whole thing back in the day.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and here's to more years to come!
> I mean even if it came from the CEO he could change his mind tomorrow.
To a point. Public statements do carry some legal weight, due to the principle of "Promissory Estoppel"[1]. There are limits to that though, but it's not nothing.
Color me skeptical, but I did just order a Uno Q a couple of days ago, right before all this T&C news broke. So I guess I'll still spend at least a modest amount of time fiddling with that when it arrives.
That said, I definitely have some severe reservations about the path that Arduino is on, especially given Qualcomm's history. Old aphorisms like "The leopard doesn't change its spots", and "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" weigh heavily in mind right now. As does the parable about the scorpion and the frog.
So much this. The entire experience around using Google's AI API's is a complete shit-show. I was (stubborn|obstinate|stupid|whatever) enough to keep dicking around until I actually got some stuff working (a few weeks ago) but I still feel dirty from the whole process. And I still don't know what I'm using (Gemini? AI Studio? Vertex? GCP? Other??) or how all of this crap relates.
And FSM forbid I have another time when my debit card number gets compromised and I have to try changing it with Google. That was even MORE painful than just trying to get things working in the first place. WTF am I editing, my GCP account or my Google account? Are those two different things? Yes? No? Sort of? But they're connected, somehow... right? I mean, I disable my card in one place, but find that billing is still trying to go to it anyway. And then I find another place on another Google page that mentions that card, but when I try to disable it I get some opaque error about "can't disable card because card is already in use. Disable card first" or whatever.
I can't even... I mean, shit. It's hard to imagine creating an experience that is that bad even if you were trying to do so.
Let me just say, I won't be recommending Google's AI API's, or GCP, or Vertex, or any of this stuff to anybody, anytime soon. I don't care how good their models are.
At least chatting with Gemini at gemini.google.com works. So far that's about the only thing AI related from Google I've seen that doesn't seem like a complete cluster-f%@k.
Looks like there are definitely some (maybe most) of the seminal names in cryptography on here... but cypherpunks aren't just "people who worked on cryptography". At least in the strain I'm familiar with, proper "cypherpunks" had a specific ideological bias. Depending on who you ask, or how you interpret things, that bias might be described as "anarchist" or "anti-government" or "pro individual" or "libertarian", or something of a similar ilk. So... not sure how many of the people on this list would identify as "cypherpunks" if asked (assuming they were around to ask at all).
Still, there's some interesting reading there. I'm seen worse lists submitted to HN. :-)
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