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Not saying this is a good approach for OP, but I like this comment. Good for you, justinyee17. There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and you’re finding the ways that work for yo…

It’s not really a specific tool, but I came across another comment on HN where someone used an LLM to generate Anki cards from textbooks. I’ve been doing this with Claude Sonnet 3.…

Do you have significant ownership in the company? If not, I don't see any reason for you to give frank feedback. You can't know for sure whether the information will reach them, no…

Hey, I’m probably not the best person to give an answer for this, but since you’re not getting comments… To keep track of progress, you could create dashboards, maybe using Python …

Yeah, their mentored bugs program for contributors is great, and if I wasn't concerned with my career trajectory at the moment I would probably just continue out of pure interest &…

Hi HN, Nearly finished my CS postbacc degree with a perfect GPA while working. All hell broke loose as soon as I started studying, with never ending family issues throughout, which…

Thank you. So you think I should focus my learning activities on refreshing ML/stats knowledge? Also, I would have thought that the SWE jobs at tech companies are the positions wit…

Hi HN, I’d like to ask for some career advice. TL;DR: which option should I choose? 1) continue contributing to Firefox and focus on SWE applications; 2) refresh ML/stats knowledge…

“Charles Darwin found the example of the Ichneumonidae so troubling that it contributed to his increasing doubts about the nature and existence of a Creator” https://en.m.wikipedia…

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saint11 mentions on his about page: “Murder Engine: 2D Pixel art C# ECS Game Engine made by Isa! I usually help on the render and physics side of it.” Isa: https://isadorasophia.co…

I took CPSC 110 at UBC with Gregor Kiczales (who worked at Xerox PARC). It was the best course I’ve ever taken. The course can also be completed for free: https://www.edx.org/bio/g…

Re battery life, it was decent I think. We left it plugged in most of the time though - it comes with a long charging cable.

We took the option of ordering one of the tablets they provide with the software installed already, since he didn’t have a tablet, but you can also just install the app onto a tabl…

I’ve mentioned this before on HN, but I had great service from https://www.clariscompanion.com/ . My grandfather was using it in his 90s before he passed away, and it really helped…

This might be what you’re looking for: https://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/ Famous investors such as Michael Burry were discovered there. You don’t have to participate, you can have…

This book containing interviews with Common Lisp hackers is pretty interesting. https://leanpub.com/lisphackers I believe the author worked at grammarly, using CL. Would be nice if…

If you’re looking for software related ebooks, I’d really recommend the Pragmatic Bookshelf: https://pragprog.com/support/ Great customer service, less expensive than getting it fr…

I have taken a programming course which included writing a sudoku solver in Racket etc., so I have created that kind of simple self-contained program before. I guess you mean doing…

How difficult would it be to make decent contributions to firefox in C++, given I'm new to the language? I work as a data analyst programming in R, SAS, and SQL, and have taken a s…

I'd recommend signing up for a guest account at https://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/ , where the likes of Michael Burry and other famous professional investors have posted (see Mike…

I'm not the only one who agrees - Elon Musk is offering 100M in prizes for carbon removal solutions: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

Why not focus on developing emissions removal technology instead of trying to convince people & companies to reduce emissions? Frankly I don't think political organizing on an inte…

Nothing really. For a long time, my hunch has been that emissions removal rather than reduction will be key. I think trying to force people around the world to reduce emissions is …