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I've heard almost nothing about Gemini in my circles, are they still in the race to build AGI?

wait audiobooks is = reading? Do you find the retention of info as valid? I have a hard time focusing at least in my experience haven't tried audiobooks in a long time. At least fo…

It depends I imagine. Core bankend bank system, database, transactions and such sure, but what about the web and mobile client? I'm down to get better customer experience if they c…

can't have both can we?

On the flip side, IS this a good thing for senior engineers?

wut

I don't really care about the web builder, a better slide deck creator I'm down for with MCP capabilities, pulling in things like Atlassian & Dyantrace metrics for slides would be …

if you loose an edit jj op log is incredible, I've saved a ton of work more-so now with AI's making mistakes. Also workspaces are super fast compared to git worktree's - same conce…

So glad to see this on HN, here to support it. JJ is amazing, the hardest hurdle was not the tool but the toolchain and ecosystem when I started ~ 2 years ago. It's grown rapidly a…

Preach brother

YES YES YES! Excalidraw is amazing, I recently embedded it into my vibe coded project to add version control integration with it. Honestly one of highest quality tools I've used fo…

Jujutsu honestly is the future IMO, it already does what you have outlined but solved in a different way with merges, it'll let you merge but outline you have conflicts that need t…

Just use Jujutsu

why would they want this type of check? Like what could it possibly be doing for the end customer or features available?

This is the answer; Diamond hands baby

I get your points here; I've had a similar discussion with my VP of Engineering. His argument is that I'm not hired to write `if` statements, I'm hired to solve problems. AI can so…

Whatever happened to that Microsoft project that would use a lazer to destroy the wings off female mosquitos?

Honestly the M$FT thing might be the greatest thing to happen to the Linux community, so much fresh blood and hopefully far more curious tinkers will continue to make the ecosystem…

Legit is there any reasonable cost alternative solutions, because I'd use that in a heart beat. That still have enterprise/business level support?

A book I read 'spark' by John J Ratey, discussed this in a few chapters. Cardio/Running at 70% maximum heart rate lead to brain plasticity and even allowing new synapses to make co…

Just a shout out to https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery . My favorite productivity extension. I'm a tab hoarder, this makes my life manageable and gives my Firefox all the screen re…

Is there a name for this phenomenon, where with limited resources humans get more creative? There are still some astonishing technologies that are ongoing today, but much more limi…

hey just curious, any reason why some of these articles I see from time to time don't apply some simply CSS? I don't mind the raw html, I'm mostly wondering if there's some benefit…

I read a book called spark by John r. Ratey. Changed my perspective a lot, some of the newer research and school programs happening from the research is promising. My biggest take …

I just use excalidraw for free form drawings. Might not be what you need, but the performance and utilities is perfect for my workflow