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Per Wikipedia, in 2018: * Median household income in Mississippi: $44,717 * Median wage in Germany: €5,370 per month, equals $73,565. So even the individual median wage in Germany …

I went back to a senior IC role after managing for 5 years and I think there are big differences. Yeah, some aspects have to do with leadership (regardless of whether or not you ma…

The approach we're taking to deal with this very real context rot is using a bunch of related techniques which we call transposing the agent loop: https://alejo.ch/3jt In essence, …

Oops, you're right, I put the wrong url (Android auto complete fail, oops, suggested a link and I assumed it was the right one). I meant to link to https://alejo.ch/3gk I guess I'l…

Good luck! In case you find it useful, I wrote what I learned in my first year of fatherhood (the little guy is now 17 months): https://alejo.ch/3hj As you can see, I never found a…

But filtered coffee is the most flavorful! No other method extracts the subtle nuances as well! P.s. I know it's subjective, just cringe on this claim of "the most flavorful" start…

You're literally saying "an airline, booking a flight 6 months out, 6 days out, or 6 hours out" is not "charging two people for the same route differently", completely missing the …

You're probably thinking of Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school.

> by someone who maybe isn't so great at clear communications I don't think that's fair. If you're familiar with the programming language, his writing is fairly clear. If you're no…

She has a cool blog, I liked her articles! How does she keep track of what row she's on, as she knits? I wonder if she'd be interested in specifying her patterns in a format my kni…

This is indeed much better. I couldn't really follow the original, but this one made it click. Pretty cool!

That's exactly my understanding as well. This is, essentially, the LLM hallucinating user messages nested inside its outputs. FWIWI I've seen Gemini do this frequently (especially …

I don't know if it's niche, but I like making granola for my friends and family. I give them a big jar and tell them free refills are included ("just bring me the empty jar"). I ge…

I got into designing my own knitting patterns. I enjoy that I can customize everything — the yarn material, color (including marling, helix knitting, double knitting), yarn weight,…

I was also baffled. "No formal specification"? Two minutes of browsing is enough to find it: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src%2Fparse.y

Looks pretty cool. I think it's great that you support light/dark mode. FWIWI, I'm also a huge fan of Excalidraw. I wanted to ask you: is there's a reason you use a separate svg fi…

Just wanted to share with HN a simple/minimal open source Python library that generates SVG files visualizing two dimensional data and distributions, in case others find it useful …

Waiting for a few days of design review is a pain that is easy to avoid: all we need is to be ready to spend a few months building a potentially useless system.

How long have you been tracking? Can you share an insight you've had from your data? I've been weight lighting for ten years and initially tried to track things (down to how many r…

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Thank you for your comment. I like Vonnegut (my favorite is Hocus Pocus) but hadn't read Bluebeard. I only started it and I'm already enjoying it significantly.

Even as an experienced developer who even owned CPAN modules and was very familiar with the Unix ways, Python was a no-brainer. I mention this on light of the article's claim that …

Agree, that was exactly my reaction. What a terrible introduction, wasting many words on such platitudes as telling me that the idea isn't new but it isn't old fashioned either, or…