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Did you deliberately not address the prices skyrocketing comment? Not that the price is what it is, but that the price changed?

If I could install PVE on my M series Mac, nothing would make me happier. It would be such a nice way to recycle such hardware once I finally upgrade.

I just use Amazon Ion as my JSON superset of choice for my own sanity, and downconvert to JSON when (if) it matters, it's not even bad and it supports comments. Hell there's a frea…

If I had a nickel for every post I saw on HN front page involving companies confusing people on phishing-like patterns today, I would have two nickels. Which is not a lot but still…

A few days multiplied by the number of skills I once had translates to well over two months of lost time.

Programming without writing, to me, feels like doing mathematics by reading proofs but not doing proofs. Which quite frankly works very poorly for me. I write code if, for nothing …

no mention of dynamic programming for dealing with recursive functions? Dynamic programming was built for this, you don't even need to thrash the heap as much as that trampoline. I…

Is this a response to marketing lingo specifically or some other cultural phenomenon? There's a difference between what you want to do to advance your goals (e.g. compromising), an…

Why? Why do people submit content for our reading when it is not their words? Does it give legitimacy to them? Does it push an agenda? Does it make you look professional? Is this f…

That way, you can get promoted from Loser to Clueless. [1] [1] https://ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-t...

The market for lemons is always bustling, I guess [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Any mechanism you find that can do this could also be used for money laundering, no? By way of identifying that money laundering in the US should not be possible (meaning without l…

Ad hominem is good for the heart, I hear.

Your LLM can fuck that up badly if your LLM starts to take loans, right? Or BNPL regardless of sandboxing?

Isn't this like saying "my words are not really my own when I speak to my family, because I know my father is a non-native English speaker and hard of hearing so I try to use words…

Amazon is heterogeneous. So much so, that positive anecdotes and negative anecdotes are near worthless without specifying the org. Depending on if you're a cost cutting team, fixed…

Yeesh. Data streaming algorithms. Can I import [1] datasketches-python in the interview? [1] https://github.com/apache/datasketches-python

Why jump on the opportunity to prune reading by rejecting the lot as soon an unrelated premise you disagree with is presented? Perhaps at that point if you stop reading after the f…

Heh. I do something like this when I'm at work in meetings, basically dynamically trying to map out what people are saying so that I can build mental models. Funny that soon the AI…

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Where is $50k coming from again?

> In reality, you put your fingers in the position for a C on that specific instrument and you get a C. OK, my fault for poor communication. Let me try strongly typing this. Clarin…

I've heard of musicians with very strong senses of perfect pitch flocking to flute or oboe, because anything not keyed in C (perfect pitch equiv) results in too much cognitive diss…

Reminds me of this youtube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkdWzvMOPuo I liked the comments explaining why this worked.

(Self-reply due to inability to edit) so just checked your user history - why do you keep posting provocative takes?