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A Tech Priest is way smarter than any software developer you could ever think of.

Your joke overestimates the intelligence of real life humans.


> A Tech Priest is way smarter than any software developer you could ever think of.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Tech-Priest:

> Despite the never-ending thirst for knowledge of all branches of the order, most Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus have lost the ability to innovate or carry out basic scientific research.

> No longer the master of its creations, the Cult Mechanicus is enslaved to the past. It maintains the glories of yesteryear with rite, dogma and edict instead of true discernment and comprehension.

> For instance, even the theoretically simple process of activating a vehicle's engine is preceded by the application of ritual oils, the burning of sacred resins and the chanting of long and complex hymns.


because not everything is a shilling advertisement?


So... the ancient childish attempt to prove mathematics using mathematics (Gödel's Incompleteness slew the challenger) can be used to help me be a better TypeScript programmer? I learned something new today.


Why the belittling language? You actually can prove the completeness and consistency of portions of mathematics.

While axioms were known in ancient times, only Hilbert started the whole "prove Mathematics" thing.

How else would you prove mathematics and why would that be childish to use math? The limitations discovered were quite surprising back then.


Yikes, guys/girls. I got downvoted to -4 points for a misunderstanding or something. Because the author of the website would probably agree with my simple point that although the Principia Mathematica tried to do the impossible, there is still utility for its value as a programming self-teaching resource for serious students of computer science.

Wow. Yeah. You guys ironically didn't just throw out the baby with the bath water thing. You burned me at the stake like a witch for heresy. Due to your cognitive biases and distortions.

You guys are Imperium of Mankind coded or something?


That would have made more sense as a reply to your own posting, because it doesn't bring the discussion forward or address my points (if any).


> I got downvoted to -4 points

> You burned me at the stake like a witch for heresy.

I think you should try to get a better sense of proportion.

Also:

> my simple point that although the Principia Mathematica tried to do the impossible, there is still utility for its value as a programming self-teaching resource

I don't know what your original intention actually was, but your comment read to me very much as (1) implying that the OP was claiming that PM is useful for making people into better Typescript programmers (which OP very much does not claim) and (2) making fun of the OP for making such a claim while (3) calling the enterprise of which PM was a part "childish".

All of which seems to me like rather the sort of thing that does deserve downvoting to -4, though for what it's worth I didn't downvote you.


Sometimes it's worth revisiting the site guidelines on comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

I'm guessing people downvoted you for snark.


Then let the code monkeys be insulted then.

Good riddance to the overpaid coders.

And hello cheap replacements!

The bottom line has improved. And that's good for business. Which was the only thing that mattered. Regardless of any reactionary sentimentalism.


People don't do digital notebooks and have automation archive, index, and categorize their old thoughts? And, now, with large language models, automation can even infer latent consequences from what you scribbled. Digitally, of course. Unless you plan on having optical character recognition processing in the pipeline.


I only care about the cyberpunk stuff that's happening right now.


Sounds like you need OpenClaw's assistance.


He generates vibe coding.


I don't have any use cases at all.

Business is definitely not booming.


If you don't have to think, then what you're building isn't really news worthy.

So, we have an inflation of worthless stuff being done.


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