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chrsig

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    Comment #45600830

    the narrow window view is appreciated given the increased indent level of your comment

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    Comment #45551158

    > You can see in chats 11 to 14 that we're entering the slop zone. The code the agent created has a critical bug, and it's absolutely failing to fix it. And I have no idea how to f…

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    Comment #45528499

    to be useful to whom, exactly?

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    Comment #45352157

    w.r.t. your edit: Is there anything the community at large can do to aid your efforts?

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    Comment #45351363

    You're sort of answering your own question. It was a matter of proximity. The thousand others were a greater distance in the initial conditions.

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    Comment #45350694

    valgrind finds sooooo many more problems than just memory leaks uninitialized memory, illegal writes, etc... There's a lot of good stuff that could be discovered.

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    Comment #45348974

    I'm glad to see rsc still actively involved. And commenting on commit messages. The older I get the more I value commit messages. It's too easy to just leave a message like "adding…

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    Comment #45348728

    Useful for people -- believe it or not not all of us internalize the language we use as part of our identity (and species).

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    Comment #45333844

    From someone that grew up in New England, but experienced a 4.x in california: I assure you it does not feel small. The revelation that the ground does not stay where I left it was…

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    Comment #45324412

    I'm coming to expect that most things you see on the internet are written by an LLM. I can't wait for all the de-LLM denoiser products that're sure to come out combating llm spam.

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    Comment #45292833

    Thanks for bringing up therapy. I've been in therapy for some time, which lead to leaving my former position. I agree with you that my brain is certainly more buggy than my side pr…

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    Comment #45283387

    Think of it like emacs. Browsers are perfectly good operating systems just needing a better way to view the web.

  13. story
    Ask HN: Getting over Burnout with Imposter Syndrome

    Some background on me: I've reached a point where I quit my job of 11 years without notice due to sheer burnout. Shortly after I was hospitalized for a bit. I'm trying to recover, …

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    Comment #43423305

    I've definitely done that as well. I generally don't have a problem with it, but it makes for an extra conversation the first time someone sees the pattern. Given how some of the o…

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    Comment #43418138

    yeah, I've always just extracted the loop body into a new function as a result

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    Comment #43377029

    [flagged]

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    Comment #43331293

    >Those who listened correctly predicted a whole bunch of things and were called paranoid by enablers. was being called paranoid not also predictable?

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    Comment #43322566

    i don't like unexpected things happening. they cause me to panic. i can expect errors.

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    Comment #43319947

    maybe spend the time talking to his voters?

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    Comment #43296567

    This is a great perspective on pedantry

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    Comment #43286353

    how nested is the data in the parquet files?

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    Comment #43284563

    i recall some of the same speculation. in my case we wound up getting a satellite connection, with a wonderful 600ms round trip time.

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    Comment #43283000

    ah, good ol' capping out at 26.4kb/s...until 2005

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    Comment #43282178

    i don't think they have been for a while.

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    Comment #43281550

    you're not wrong, but i don't think that you're presenting the argument in a way that is going to be well received. hopefully both gccgo and any llvm backed implementations eventua…