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SupremumLimit
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About SupremumLimit
I've created a Ruby and a C++11 video course for pluralsight.com.
I'm also a founder at Aotea Studios (http://aoteastudios.com). We make training products for business analysts with a focus on visual communication.
I'm an experienced C++, Ruby and CoffeeScript developer.
email: alex at cpprocks dot com
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I took a brief look at the code for one of the projects ( https://github.com/emollick/concord/ ) he breathlessly praises and says "a software engineer would iron out the remaining …
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Comment #48204397
This is a severely outdated view. Based on current policies, we're heading for something like 2.6 degrees of warming which I think is somewhere between RCP4.5 and RCP6.0. It's stil…
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Comment #48045555
It used to be that they included a bunch of software to make their hardware more useful. But I guess they couldn't resist squeezing out a bit more revenue through enshittification.…
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Comment #48017369
I take your point that there is a limit on meaningful activities one can undertake but I disagree that it's some kind of zero-sum situation. I used to find my work more meaningful …
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Comment #48015634
I disagree quite strongly. I derive a lot of meaning from these types of activities (in addition to family and friends of course) and zero meaning from my job. It's the narrow focu…
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Comment #48015481
Really? This just proves the point of the grandparent comment. I can think of at least three types of activities off the top of my head: sports (granted, not all of them, but defin…
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Comment #47495091
Could you give some examples of where it's saving you a lot of time? My main time sinks are dishes, laundry, and cleaning. Is it helping out with any of those?
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Comment #47418385
Sure, but there is also China where over half of new vehicle sales are EVs. Denmark is at 70%, Sweden, Iceland, Finland and the Netherlands are all above 50%, a bunch of other coun…
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Comment #47238353
Indeed. I’m holding on to my 24” Dell P2415Q that I got like 10 years ago because it’s the perfect size for my desk and there just isn’t anything in that size to replace it with.
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Comment #46931914
How’s it going so far? Greenhouse gas emissions only keep rising. There’s no basis to rate humanity’s chances positively based on actual evidence to date, even despite all the posi…
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Comment #46931892
The ignorance of this comment is breathtaking. How are the crops going to grow if the temperature drops by 15 degrees Celsius? What marine and terrestrial ecosystems can survive a …
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Comment #45509766
Not sure how you haven't noticed, but climate change is already affecting precipitation and drought patterns, it exacerbates heatwaves, cold snaps, and flooding, it affects harvest…
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Comment #45226292
It isn’t just intuitive enough, it’s more intuitive and precise than the ICE setup. It’s safer too, as the car starts braking before I even reach the brake pedal in an emergency br…
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Comment #44791801
How can you assert that it will evaluate everyone equally when biases are a well documented deficiency of various flavours of AI?
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Comment #44709583
I've just published https://nohypeai.dev to share what I've learned about the state of LLM agents for software development and help people who are just catching up orient themselve…
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Show HN: No Hype AI – get oriented in using LLM tools for software engineering
Hey HN! When I started looking into LLMs and agents for software development and introducing them at work, I quickly realised that a person new to the topic faces a real barrage: -…
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