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heeton

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About heeton

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Socials: - x.com/Ifthenalex

Interests: Art, Books, Climate Tech, Freelancing, Gaming, Hardware, IoT, Legal Tech, Mentorship, Music, Open Source, Robotics, Science, Startups, UI/UX Design

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    Comment #48320589

    If you like building keyboards, you’ll end up using a couple of these. I have 6!

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    Comment #48278896

    As someone who partially uses depot but was still affected by this github issue, we obviously haven't moved over enough. We use your runners but github is still blocking us. Hope y…

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    Comment #48278630

    Ugh, same. 30 mins with 2 devs trying to figure it out before they posted an update.

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    Comment #48236094

    Sardonic but not useful.

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    Ask HN: We need a standard way to declare how much AI was used in a PR

    There's a big difference between these situations: - a PR that is quickly drafted by LLM based on a prompt - a careful spec designed by humans, worked on by AI - a feature built wi…

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    Comment #48233273

    1 ticket: you can only sell back, no name change. You’re solo, not going with anyone, this works. 2 tickets: you can either sell them both back, OR change ONLY one name once. This …

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    Comment #47765110

    Same, our team has been on it for a year and it's very good.

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    Comment #47721358

    I wouldn't say "buying software that saves us time" is gambling, but you do you.

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    Comment #47715159

    It’s not 17m for an idea to improve git. It’s 17m for a tool which hopes to serve companies and charge money and make more than 17m in profit as a result. If you look at the set of…

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    Comment #47658116

    Anecdotally, Claude has worked far better for our elixir team than the others we’ve tried.

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    Comment #47651675

    > I totally support the phone-free bar and restaurant experience If you then expect an exemption because your phone use is different then I challenge that you don’t actually suppor…

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    Comment #47638523

    100%. I have a guiding approach when solving problems: keep reframing and exploring until the solution becomes obvious. I often find, if I've got a complicated solution, it’s becau…

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    Comment #47296293

    Author’s central point is that an LLM answer “is optimized for arrival, not for becoming” (to paraphrase from the Google “Lucky” part). So a reasoning LLM that does the comparisons…

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    Comment #46922731

    That episode, and this Gavin quote, encapsulate the attitude perfectly. “I don't want to live in a world where someone makes the world a better place, better than we do.”

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    I upvoted because I’m very keen for more teams to start trying to solve this problem and release tools and products to help. Context gathering and refinement is the biggest issue I…

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    Comment #46193254

    If you remove a reaction to politics and/or management practice, this is quite an obvious question, no? Hypothetically: Substitute Microsoft for a company with “zero downtime” as o…

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    Comment #46057438

    Random data point: I'm in the UK and have visited Serbia twice for Skiing and time in Belgrade. It was a cool place.

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    Comment #45889370

    That's with a naive stereo split. Many would still put the bass on one side, with the binaural processing so it's still heard on the right, but quieter and with a tiny delay.

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    Comment #45798059

    Rare-earth magnets do not fall under “exotic”.

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    Comment #45730239

    Your comment wasn’t wrong. Neither is the reply wrong to be frustrated about how the world understands this complex topic. You’re talking about autism. The reply is about autism sp…

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    Comment #45670439

    Minor correction: the water is evaporated. It remains in the water cycle but is removed from the water source for any downstream users.

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    Comment #45668466

    I enjoyed seeing it described in those games :) I'm pretty sure it was that series that also described https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_droplet_radiator , with the side effects…

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    Member of Golgafrinchian Ark Fleet Ship C here. I like to make stuff, hack on projects. I code, I woodwork, I solder, I build. I love AI in the same way I love a router and dovetai…