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My brain stores it away in a magic database that cannot be queried in any useful way. If I say say "brain, give me a list of learnings from projects you have worked on" - it return…

LLMs moved the moments of despair to PR reviews for me. It used to be that you could check on a junior dev occassionally throughout the day to make sure they're on the right track.…

Just a random guy chiming in to say my favourite 1:1 was when Fallout 4 released and we spent the entire time talking about the game. We then made a pact that we'd save up our leav…

Just wasted half an hour at work playing the Get Rich Quick game. I remember the old days of point and click games, not knowing what the next step was, and just aimlessly clicking …

Pretty much all of the self service gas station terminals in New Zealand went down for the 29th

Pretty interesting stuff. Although in New Zealand we had our first cyclone properly hit land this year and it absolutely obliterated whole communities and disrupted our biggest agr…

I've noticed this. I've had a paid subscription since GPT4 dropped but I'll probably cancel this month. Anyone got suggestions for a replacement? Preferably something that is like …

I resigned from my current role because the office culture is terrible, and I hate being around pretty much all the people outside of the IT team. I was offered 6 figures as a coun…

As a kiwi it blows my mind how bad your broadband is over there. My cousin recently moved to some rural Aussie town and will be getting 25 megabit, tops. Here in NZ we're rolling o…

One of my favourite series, Bojack Horseman, had an episode where you hear his internal monologue. It was scarily eye opening, because I've often found my inner monologue saying th…

Bonus fun fact: kumara is a loan word taken from kumar, which was it's native name in South America.

The keto generator needs a bit of work. It was suggesting waaaaay too many carbs. Throwing in things like oranges where bacon would be the better keto option

Being born brown, I'm thankful for my white names that get me into interviews where I can prove I'm a good developer.

The most viewed game at the time I post this comment: Leisure Suit Larry 6 A huge archive of playable games from a wonderful era, and everyone rushed for the 8 bit tiddies.

Is there an opposite version of this, with links to companies that stick it to China? EDIT: Found my answer literally 2 seconds after posting this. Its in the same repo https://git…

I'm the same! I like to plan things, so if something doesn't allow me to fit it into my plan easily I will discard it as not an option. Unknown costs, talking to other people, nego…

Sheesh, imagine being the sucker who was 401st wealthiest and paying tax like the rest of us schmucks.

The only place I've worked where Agile was like this was, surprisingly, one of New Zealand's major banks. The buy-in for Agile started at the executive level, and they made a call …

Makes sense. He founded a tech company with his brother, got super rich, reversed his balding, got super sexy, and now builds rockets and fancy cars.

This must mean aliens are real, and the Storm Area 51 meme was started by the government. They can't tell the public that aliens exist because there is an ancient contract. But, if…

Wow. They didn't put the LackRack in. Homelabs mustn't be photogenic enough. https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

What the hell I don't come on HN to cry. WHAT IS THIS?!

Aside from: clearing cookies, having to reopen news articles you've already half read in incognito, or adding an additional '.' (like "nytimes.com./blah"); what are some of the oth…

As a software engineer early enough in his career to change tack, how would I go about venturing into this space? Cybersecurity is something that has always interested me, but it s…

This looks really cool, but I must admit - when I saw the name I hoped it was a HoloLens AR gamification of tidying up my house that gives me points for each dish washed or item of…