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I asked around my network recently - in the last month or two basically every large company has put in spending limits per engineer. Curious what their S1 will look like when they …

why is it a great idea though? My question was basically what are the actual pros of doing it in space? I still haven't heard a good explanation.

Saw a YC company has raised 200 million at a billion dollar valuation. https://www.starcloud.com/starcloud-4. Additionally - with the impending spacex ipo this seems like a big foc…

https://arena.ai/leaderboard - I’ve found this company is a pretty good ranker - not sure their exact methodology but during day to day programming with Claude / gpt models I’ve fe…

Yeah curious what would happen if they asked for an additional big feature on top of the original spec

A bit ironic that the website complaining about UI has virtual snow on it making reading hard.

Agreed. I think this Anthropic article is a realistic take on what’s possible (focus on prototyping) https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/58284b19e702b49db9302d5b6f135a...

When I first graduated I read a bunch of tech focused books: they’re all helpful but I think practice and learning from more senior engineers is the most effective road to mastery!…

I think these groups are out there, but unfortunately they are informal (not listed on the web or through a company), and also are not for a beginner level. For me, I’ve been learn…

Therapy worked wonders for me. Therapists are trained to help and give you custom things to do based on what you need. I found one that gave me a lot of structured “assignments” an…

It's funny how hyped up stable diffusion is on HN right now: reminds me of when style transfer first started making it's rounds in 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=139583…

As someone who took their first software engineering job as a junior during covid, I have to say I definitely struggled to learn and execute on tasks in a way which I know I wouldn…

I’m a programmer, and my dads a doctor, and for ten years I’d always tell him that something like 20 questions could do his job. After about 5 years he did this graduation speech a…

honestly, not too bad :). I don't really use it as a "follow this as a guiding design pattern" piece of advice, but I think the philosophy is really useful when dealing with relati…

I wrote this back when I was 18, in response to the question “what kind of life do you want to live?” but I always come back to it. Something about it still resonates with me. “Wha…

love this question: especially about the distributed systems. Something I've been thinking about, not necessarily in the interviewing world, would be to have a simulation of distri…

I agree, I climb a lot IRL and yep, VR can't come close to touching that experience :). But yeah as far as what VR is good for, there are definitely places where it sings: and wher…

Trying to get ideas for technical side projects to help me improve my depth of understanding on certain parts of the stack. Current rough ideas: * Write a react runtime * Write a j…

Agreed. I’ve done generative art for many years now: and I have found generally (with a couple exceptions of course), the most successful artists in the space all have a strong fou…

This is quite interesting, what’s the extension called?

> make doing the right thing easier and the wrong thing harder. I’ve never heard it put so succinctly! In the realm of breaking social media addiction I’ve tried to block all feeds…

Nice! I love local bookshops and anything that supports them over Amazon is great. I plan on getting “Evicted” and and “Streetfight” based on your recommendations too, thanks for m…

Yep, as a long time unity user I really think Unity is just spaghetti all the way down to it's core. The number of strange memory leaks and graphics bugs you find once you really g…

Great article, reminds me of an older hn post about thinking by inversion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23905221