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What are your Favorite Lobste.rs Comments?
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veqq
2 days ago
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The forum has been around for a long time and I occasionally find old gems, I wonder what great insights etc. I've missed from the past.
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sunflowerseastar
2 days ago
anytime you're paying people to churn out boilerplate instead of letting the computer do it for you, you've significantly misunderstood what computers are actually good for.
—@matt (link)
"always using the default configuration is like living in a motel your whole life"
—@hydrargyrum (link)
showing up to the money party late is worse than showing up early in the wrong clothes.
—@j3s (link)
I had the misfortune of having to run Windows when I worked there and these days Windows is basically an electronic billboard that makes a half-arsed attempt to run applications as a sideline.
—@david_chisnall (link)
Q —How was God able to create the world in only six days?
A —No installed base.
—@rikthevik (link)
There's a great saying by chess grandmaster Morphy: "The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
—@dlisboa (link)
SQL: Normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works.
Regular code: Pure until it hurts, impure until it works.
—@carlana (link)
people who come from the world of agentic coding have a certain digital smell that is not obvious to them but is obvious to those who abstain. It's like when a smoker walks into the room, everybody who doesn't smoke instantly knows it.
I'm not telling you not to smoke, but I am telling you not to smoke in my house.
—@andrewrk (link)
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ocramz
2 days ago
"digital smell", I had (luckily!) missed that.
animesh
34 hours ago
always using the default configuration is like living in a motel your whole life
Partial ouch. But I gravitated to this mode with some things and could not be more happier for it. The excitement/productive feeling/chaos has been taken over by personal things. Backup and restoreb of a system seemed to be easier the closer I am to defaults.
nextos
33 hours ago
I think the key is moderation. A tiny bit of configuration is very useful to customize software. But, as with all code, it's a liability as it needs to be maintained and it's fragile to updates.
k749gtnc9l3w
27 hours ago
Fragility is a choice. I have some cursed stuff in my Vim and my StumpWM configuration, and neither is fragile on updates. On the flip side, not so few software products abruptly abandon what was their entire differentiating feature in the default setup.
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edwardloveall
2 days ago
As the saying goes, it's called Medium because it's neither rare or well-done.
—@aks (link)
Aks
45 hours ago
I think i saw that on reddit long ago and it just pops in my mind every time i open medium link lol
altano
46 hours ago
lol.
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jeezy
2 days ago
I actually keep an updated list of my favorite Lobsters comments here, which is also available as an RSS feed!
tclancy
34 hours ago
This should be meta acknowledged as a perfect comment.
vi_mi
46 hours ago
Thanks for providing a nice RSS feed, subscribed! :)
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untitaker
2 days ago
So many people in this thread have discovered the secret to not needing Cloudflare: don’t host interesting or important content.
https://lobste.rs/c/hcrrdr
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fleebee
43 hours ago
These are somewhat recent, but I'd like to show appreciation for @Internet_Janitor's eloquent criticism of LLMs:
On
sharing LLM output: https://lobste.rs/c/wyknju
the connection between LLMs and the companies that make them: https://lobste.rs/c/qqihga
useful idiots: https://lobste.rs/c/oqhni2
wrl
26 hours ago
i love this one on solidarity, or the lack thereof.
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arxanas
46 hours ago
This comment by @munificent on the human cost of the beloved resource Crafting Interpeters has stuck with me since I read it.
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kwas
43 hours ago
Not an answer, but I wish this site had a way to favourite comments they way the orange one does.
epidemian
38 hours ago
they way the orange one does.
TIL. That'd a nice thing to have!
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Diti
2 days ago
This answer, which taught me why PGP cannot have forward secrecy.
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jkachmar
36 hours ago
this is perhaps not the most charitable or constructive comment to be a personal favorite but for whatever reason i have found it incredibly refreshing to reflect on @aphyr calling @friendlysock out for his behavior half a decade before sock was eventually banned from this site.
I've been reading your comments for something like seven years now and I remain consistently disheartened. Engaging with you is the missing stair of this community, and I'm not going to follow up on this thread, but I want you to know that your oh-so-civil, "trying to do better", "just raising questions", "why won't you be rational", socially regressive trolling is a big part of why I don't spend more time here,...