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That first sentence is hard to grok.

My ISP in a small rural town supported IPv6. I have a few personal projects that only have a public v6 address because I don't want to pay AWS for an v4 address. It worked fine for…

It doesn't make sense that you would lose more weight by sleeping only considering metabolism. I can see an argument around sleeping always being a net loss, since you're never con…

Doesn't the CO2 get exhaled during activity rather than sleep?

I worked for about 8 months on an internal product for doing transmission studies at a large utility company. Basically, it would feed a PSS/E [1] file specifying most of the trans…

The first job I had as a software engineer was at a trucking company that had a desktop Swing application. If an exception happened, the user would get a pop-up with buttons to ema…

The first job I had as a software engineer was at a trucking company that had a desktop Swing application. If an exception happened, the user would get a pop-up with buttons to ema…

I was wondering what kind of bird was chirping outside my window this morning. I should have had this app.

Nice site, slick. Not sure what use the data has to me, but I don't make posts, so that's my fault. It would be nice if the chart would move down or something when you select a pos…

I wasn't criticizing the choice of word, apologies. I'm interested if anyone has an idea of what it would mean for an AI to generate or do something "novel" in the sense of creativ…

I think of the word as a mixture of complaining and sympathizing. I would consider it commiseration if one were to complain to their coworkers about an HR policy in the hopes of re…

Are there any well-thought treatises on what "novel" means?

These days I occasionally run into an app with no words and abstract symbols. I have to guess which one does what I want. I mess up 50% of the time when I want to open the Google M…

Regarding the customer, who knows? Unless they reply to you, you're guessing. It could be a legitimate case of a stolen card or they could deliberately trying use your service with…

I wish I had followed this advice when I was first a tech lead a few years ago. I wasn't a manager per say, but I had two junior engineers. We had way too much to do in too little …

Not a fan of asking for an email after uploading. I didn't get the report emailed to me (yet? maybe because I censored my personal details?). Just a popup asking to subscribe. I do…

I hated performance reviews. My manager would always keep stuff vague. He tried to protect people and he didn't really observe my work. His feedback was based mostly on emails aski…

Having an editor isn't wrong, but it's an luxury for something as small as a Hacker News comment or an email. Paul having an editor isn't a luxury. His essays are edited because it…

I don't feel much inspired by the metaphor of garbage collection and AI. Garbage collection makes thinking about memory irrelevant 99% of the time. Time saved with AI is spent figu…

> I switched to Raindrop, and the free-tier is more than useless to me. Low bar to hit.

In some ways, yes. If you want to optimize at that level you ought to use another language. I'm not a low level optimization guy, but I've had occasions where I wanted control over…

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Yea. Watch a sci-fi film - nifty gadgets, robots taking care of chores, and widespread spaceflight. Real life is some unreliable chat bots. Then there's the depressing practical st…

I got a new phone in January, a Pixel 8a, after my previous phone's touch screen died. I never had issues with my old phone playing music. When I played music over Bluetooth, the n…

> all written in Javascript Pass.