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It's interesting because I use them every day all day for this now. You have to "gut check" the answers and know when to go deeper. A lot of answers are low stakes, and it's OK to …

If I ever need a fast matmul, you're hired.

Yes. But we're talking about children too - not just adult voters. And the app collects every click, every face photo, all contacts, every keypress on external links, everything. T…

Writing (parts of) an operating system, networking stack, interpreter, and text editor. It dispels all the magic. Getting over the whole idea of beautiful or perfect code. Realizin…

Prioritize output early. You can't do great without slogging through mediocre. Don't be afraid to suck. Don't stop at the first failure. And don't worry about originality. Creativi…

There is a lot of work where a human body + mind is cheaper and easier than automation and likely will be for the foreseeable future. We will need lots of human labor until you hav…

It doesn't replace a skilled programmer. It just turns you into an editor and curator, multiplying productivity on some tasks by 10X+. It will give incorrect code, but you can guid…

I used chatgpt to implement interactive fuzzy search over emacs buffers. It's not perfect but you can see how powerful the automation is with curation. I spent less than five minut…

grep for "incr" and add "mult" below it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For naturals, there is significant overlap in the training style that produces maximum strength gains and maximum size gains. Larger muscles are stronger muscles. Studies have show…

This is the norm for me. If I am awake, I almost always have music playing in my head, from pop songs to classical to little nondescript melodies. Sometimes this can be quite annoy…

Hits home here. I started reading HN as a college freshman. At the time, a lot of the titles were gibberish to me. Over the next few years I sucked in articles and comments until I…

Interesting. I wonder if the musical practice led to the mental music. I am also a musician, but I'm not certain whether the mental music began before or after I started playing (I…

In my case, songs or melodies are nearly always playing. If I'm awake, chances are that something is on in my mind's radio. Conversation and writing seem to be the only activities …