I think "illegal" is a strong word. Some states don't allow it in public universities. I suspect they're fine with it at private universities.

> Some states don't allow it in public universities.

But which states? I haven't been able to find anything about states barring minors from attending universities.

Not clear in the US. Some countries, such as Canada may have stricter requirements even if some wiggle room.

I don't think Canada has a minimum age - just an educational requirement. If you've completed year 11 early, it looks like you'd be fine.

Except that the AI doesn't get tired, and your superiors know it. The volume of code you'll have to review will increase.

I live in the US and I don't know of anyone taking this drug. But if they were, why would I know?

I'm quite open about my usage in real life because I want to be honest about how I achieved my weight loss - I'll also show some pride in all of the lifestyle changes I made, but I don't hesitate to mention the GLP-1 use and impact it has had. I'm not ashamed of it and if me being open helps normalize it, all the better.

But most people on the internet that I speak to that are on them have had specifically negative encounters from people learning - lots of moralizing, lots of denigration. A whole lot of them now specifically don't bring it up unless explicitly asked.

Indeed, aside from online, where I don't feel consequences from admitting it, very few people know I've taken a GLP1. None of their business, and I don't need to waste seconds of my finite lifespan nurturing their need to feel morally superior. Let everyone worry about their own problems, I'll worry about mine. And I wish they were all as easily solved with GLP1s...

Been running it for over 20 years:

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/May/20-years-of-gentoo/

Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35989311

Edit: Curious, why the downvote?

I'm more amazed you run the same machine for 20 years. Another 20+ years user, but I've reinstalled 5-6 times when I change laptops.

No, I changed the machine, but just installed Gentoo every time. I merely kept the emerge.logs from each machine.

> why the downvote?

I can see no reason for it.

> Expressing complex HTML or LaTeX constructs in org-mode is more complicated than writing the raw HTML or LaTeX.

Eh? This makes no sense! You can embed any HTML and LaTeX easily in the doc. And you could since I encountered org over 15 years ago.

Since 2009 all my LaTeX and Beamer docs have been written in org. I lose nothing by using org.

> I've recently converted my blog from org-mode to markdown. 1000 lines of elisp, replaced with 200 lines of Python, and a 50x speedup.

I use Pelican which uses rst. But it was pretty trivial to write a plugin in Python to have it support org files.

Fun fact: For my first SW job I had to develop a site for a bunch of academics, and they wanted a way to enter rich text. I suggested textile, and they loved it. At the time, Markdown was not more popular, and I thought textile had the better syntax (it may also have had better library support).

Ahem. Org mode user here. _ means underline :-)

Emphasis/italics is using /

What are you talking about? Word is the standard for docs in many large engineering companies.

That does not make it good.

Oh, it totally sucks. I'm pointing out that the pain didn't end in the 90's, and continues 30 years later :-(

I used to work with a guy that used docx files for all his note taking. Basically did all text writing (other than code) in Word. We had Notepad++ at the time as well, so he just preferred Word for some reason.

If you say that to a depressed person, they are going to sink deeper into despair. Most people (even those who are not depressed), are not meeting that bar.

Always remember, being true is not the same as being helpful.

Id rather we start with some variant of that rather than to default to dope so we don't offend people with the truth.

We, as SW engineers, have been doing that to many industries for the last 40+ years. It's silly and selfish to draw the line now that we're in the crosshairs.

I've spent my 20 year career working largely in medical software. The only jobs I've been replacing are pancreas that stop functioning correctly.

Maybe don't speak for all of us.

Computers themselves replaced computers (yeah, a job title). Your medical software certainly automatizes someone else's job, otherwise no one will pay you to write them. You just don't care about them.

Or you do, but you believe it's worth it because your software helped more patients, or improved the overall efficiency and therefore created more demand and jobs - a belief many pro-AI people hold as well.

The job used to be the patients'. Manually managing type 1 diabetes isn't a fun job. Try reading Think like a pancreas for the fun details.

Patient outcomes are significantly better with modern technology.

> You just don't care about them.

Yeah, okay.

My comment wasn't about you in particular but the industry as a whole.

Much of the software written historically is to automate stuff people used to do manually.

I'd wager you use email, editors, search engines, navigation tools and much more. All of these involved replacing real jobs that existed. When was the last time you consulted a city map?