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vorig jaardiscuss

Claude Code is pretty sick. I love the terminal integration, I like being able to stay on the keyboard and not have to switch UIs. It did a nice job learning my small Django codebase and helping me finish out a feature that I wasn't sure how to complete.

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vorig jaardiscuss

Wow!

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vorig jaardiscuss

No, it’s a forum. Everyone sees the exact same website (except for user-setting tweaks). There is no concept of “friends” or “followers”. The wensite intentionally looks boring so that the design doesn’t lure you too stick around too long.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

I think all things you said will allow you to get rich. But more money isn’t everyone’s end goal, nor does that always lead to happiness (or even a “better” life)

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

My memories of early 2000s internet are from when I was a young age, and are now growing distant in memory…

That said, most of the internet then felt very informal, teenage, and “cringy”. Being a computer nerd back then was actually weird, at least all the way through high school (late 2000s for me) Normal society called you a “geek” and a “loser” for being a net surfer.

People with rose-tinted glasses of those times are imagining something other than what I remember, though

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3 jaar geledendiscuss

Exists

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3 jaar geledendiscuss

The comment uses a lot of thousand dollar words and empty phrases. Try less hard, in short.

> Duplicating debt systems with those closest to you by even calling it a loan is a way to persist a system of oppression in the places young people grow up in.

Giving money to friends and family is oppressive, is what this is saying. Which is just wild to claim. And kind of cheapens the phrase "system of oppression".

> An alternative would be to practice freely giving, especially to needs, never calling things loans or favors, and maybe include with the gifts some lighthearted & light reading material on how to culturally dismantle systems of oppression.

The first bit is fine, but the last thing is super patronizing. How would it look if your friend asked you for $500 and you gave them some woke manual on how to dismantle "systems of oppression", whatever that means?

This sounds "Hacker News"-y because there are a lot of smug programmers here who think they're borderline genius and can solve society's problems just because they read a couple philosophy books and have access to JSTOR.

I kinda left my comment sarcastically, but I'm trying to being serious with this bit of advice. Just try less with your writing. The more your try, the faker it sounds.

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3 jaar geledendiscuss

FYI you are shadowbanned as well, this comment shows up as "dead".

syndicatedjelly

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Well done, this was written in 100% the tone and attitude of a typical HN user.

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