> ruining HN with 10 articles on the front page per day about how software engineering is dead.

Even this article, which is theoretically about playing games on a MacBook and not about AI, has devolved into AI discussions. It's honestly kind of tiring.

I suppose the article invites it by putting an AI blurb up top, and I suppose I'm also not helping by adding my own comment, but _still_.

It's honestly kind of chilling just how effective smear campaigns can be.

I don't think there's any reasonable person who could read the full medical description of the injuries sustained and think "yeah 2.7 mill was too much".

Yeah, I also don't understand their take. HN also dictates what their users can and can't read. There's tons of stuff that can't be posted here without being removed. That's a good thing.

Wood smoke can go beyond your own home and land on your neighbors, depending on where you live.

I'm burning dead wood in a very high wildfire area. It is going to burn. The county takes a small percentage away ... to burn in huge pits. It really isn't possible that much if any of this wood will just slowly decay. All I'm doing is diverting a couple of cords a year to heat my home. There is additional risk to me, but I'm probably deferring the risk to others by epsilon by clearing a scintilla.

Probably the risk involved in cutting down trees is more than for breathing in wood smoke. I'm no better at predicting which way a tree will fall than which horse will win.

There's plenty of smaller metal and hardcore bands with a DIY and community first mentality that often barely break even to travel and play shows.

One of my favorite jokes relies on this.

Q: Where does a general keep his armies?

A: In his sleevies!

There's technically a proposal to add immutable lists and records floating around somewhere. I think it's kind of old at this point. I'm still hoping it makes it through, though.

FromSoft, potentially. Even if you only start counting years at Demon's Souls (2009), that still gets them to 15 years.

Yeah, it feels like the replacement is the issue, not necessarily the destruction.

I don't want to just program a song on an iPad. I would like to perform it on a piano, which means I can't crush my piano and replace it with an iPad.

Yeah, I do a lot of live recording from my piano to Mac and I was thinking the same thing.

But maybe the ad is saying - you're no longer programming a MIDI track, the AI piano player in Garage Band or whatever is just going to be indistinguishable from a real piano.

I wasn't initially bothered by it, but I think the people who are have a fair point especially about the generative AI implications of replacing real creative tools.

Yeah I don't care how good the AI is, it's not the same as the experience of playing a real instrument. It's taking away someone's creative experience and replacing it with a synthetic version. Even if the result is higher quality artistic output it eliminates the process of producing it which should not be discounted.

Depending on your expected traffic patterns and volume, no responses to report for an extended period of time is its own data point.

In the old days when telemetry was exotic this was the answer.

No 2XX-499 results means the server is borked.

If you wanted to be really fancy you could send heartbeat requests when no live traffic had hit that node for n milliseconds.

I still think the latter is the right answer. Why inflate traffic when you are horizontally scaling? That’s a lot of health checks per second.