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I've been following my curiosity to see if I can find "ten (or twenty) year projects", as part of my "second life"; the first was before turning 40-ish, the second is now. I think …

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Hah, indeed! "I must not complect. Complexity is the mind-killer. Complexity is the little-death that brings obliteration. I will face complexity and I will permit it to pass over …

My 0.0000002 BTC... But first, hang in there, and please try to not be alone in this. Let your people help, or at least be there in spirit (share your feelings with them). Please r…

Your stats sent me into sobering-thoughts-mode... More sobering thought: conviction rates are typically a small percentage of the people who do the foul deed. The definition of "ar…

Oi! What kind of an LLM downvotes an HTTP joke?

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How it really feels to be hella ADHD.

I see you. Well done. A marquee remark.

HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 187 or something like that Payment Required Please email your banking username and password to I love this so …

Snagged PDF from the Interwebs, posted obligatory Wikipedia to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106609 Weekend reading is going to be good :)

Siri: brb, asking my agents... Hold my beer.

Friend! Alas, having died on that hill one too many times, I can be with you in solidarity, but not on the hill. No, not again.

Plot twist: Newly-hired head honcho of software was going to fix it all with Kubernetes. Peak transaction volumes of about ten per minute. Once the project ended, I never looked ba…

Some are dumpster fires inside oil spill fires on top of a lethally radioactive surface. Once I had such a client from the depths of hell. Handling lower/middle-income people's wea…

Post author here. Guilty as charged re: rambling. Brevity is not my strong suit. To the second point, I'd say I'm in violent agreement with you. In fact, my whole thesis is that be…

Hat-tip to HNer ex-aws-dude . Who else is going to be today's "Lucky 10,000"? Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101448#49103323 PDFs freely available for public download,…

Both of you, thanks for the referral and the endorsement. The PDF is easily available for free download from several public sources. Of course, Springer won't let you download it u…

One would hope that a "public benefit corporation", such as OpenAI, would be transparent about the stuff that is being ingested by sausage factory. The literal legal entity is abou…

You made my day, david :)

Ooh, are you using satellite views to explore? When google earth first came out, I was hooked on making the globe go round and round and zooming into strange and wonderful places. …

Oh, that will be neat! I am a frequent reader of, and (very) infrequent contributor to that Ask HN :) Thanks for keeping it going. It always surfaces cool projects. Speaking for my…

If you are anything like me, you will have about five answers at any given point in time for "What are you curious about?". Arguably, a more interesting, revealing, and kinder ques…