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Claude with Jira is the first time I've applied AI and felt like it was truly saving me time. The UI and search tools are so clunky, it feels much better to say "Find jira tickets …

One of the rare articles that distills a lot of abstract experience into something clear and actionable. Reminds me of Spolsky's more famous blog posts on software engineering.

Moved to NYC. Have a good team at my new job. Satisfied with my income. Have enough free time. Made a lot of good friends really fast, and now I see a rotating cast of them 3-7 day…

For the first time in a long time, I can look at a title like this and not feel like it necessarily relates to my current situation. The past few months have been the happiest and …

This tracks very well with my experience... Too much time in a cubicle away from windows -- say, just for a week -- and my vision gets noticeably worse. A few days away from the sc…

If the books are set in 55 BC, how would the characters know it was 55 BC?

Agreed.

Wow, never saw 2D programming languages before. That's neat! Reminds me of a lighthearted meme video about esolang enthusiasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieqsL5NkS6I

Hiking is my go-to when I need to figure something out. I think walking also helps chew on complex problems, more so than more intense exercise like strength training and running (…

"Networking" makes it sound more active than it really is. It's just who they are meeting over those four years. The friends they make, the professors they meet and perhaps work wi…

This is a flawed idea. It presumes, in the abstract and conclusion, that changing admissions preferences to artificially increase diversity would result in a more diverse group of …

Great list. I remember being called in to look at software my company was thinking of buying, once... Only our finance/accounting people had looked at it so far. The thing barely w…

The posts I see most often on LinkedIn are ones that try to capture a trope of "flipping expectations" that people associate with great business people. Silly, inane conclusions ar…

> Pricing is good, but profits may continue to be elusive; still no clear technical moat. It's quite ironic that the technology that is displacing so many people from so many indus…

Really, really love the interface and the way you have the calendar, FIA docs, etc available too. Shout out for the delay feature -- I was able to sync it perfectly with my TV stre…

What a lovely essay. Reminds me of the way I loved the liberal arts growing up. I missed having classes like that in college (AP'd and ACT'd my way out of most requirements). Engli…

This is really slick. I remember when I used to have the F1TV version pulled up on my laptop during sessions - eventually I decided it wasn't that helpful. The radio and race contr…

Or taking up any white collar job! There's a reason I spend a lot of my free time swimming and hiking.

The best way to make a happy, healthy person into an unhappy, unhealthy person is to keep them lonely and keep them still. It should come as no surprise that the inverse also tends…

The discussion of how the medium affects what you build reminds me a bit of The Beginner's Guide ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginner's_Guide ). If I recall, it had a bit o…

Describes the growing use of surveillance and AI for things like predicting crime, detecting a migrant's region of origin using their dialect, etc. The video in the article has a l…

I really miss some of the companies from that era... Red Storm Entertainment, Tom Clancy's vision, comes to mind. The early Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games had a dedication to im…

Jeez, that arxiv paper invalidates my assumption that it can't model the game. Great read. Thank you for sharing. Insane that the model actually does seem to internalize a represen…

Yes, really! Smaller models may hallucinate less: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... The RAG technique uses a smaller model and an external knowledge b…