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I have a dirty confession to make too: I’ve been running Tahoe and Windows 11 on my devices, and both are working fine for the most part. If I ever switch to Linux desktop, it will…

I probably would not have read the article, but your comment piqued my curiosity. I couldn’t resist. 1/5 would not click again.

Likewise! I built my personal blog with Astro and host on Cloudflare (username.dev), and feel guilty about taking advantage of such excellent software and free tier. Here’s hoping …

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> ” I worked crazy hours in my early 20s because I liked it. I liked computers, I liked my team, and to be frank, I had not much else to do. If I went home early, I would be spendi…

Not every blog post written in the author’s free time needs to be manuscript-worthy. Informal benchmarks can be often really helpful in solving real world problems where it’s not w…

Trevor Milton's infamous "html5 supercomputer" quote often gets shared in discussions about Nikola, and for good reason. It's one of my all-time favorite bullshit quotes: "The enti…

I agree with the OP. VS Code using the Jupyter protocol is superior to notebooks in almost every respect in my experience. It gives you an excellent debugger, the ability to track …

Excellent points, but perhaps part of the reason for the price difference is because the US population is much more geographically dispersed, so the infrastructure costs are much h…

I agree that remote screen sharing can be sufficient, but I'm personally a much more effective mentor in person with lots of whiteboard space.

Slightly tangential, but for those who have gone through vulkan-tutorial.com and still felt lost even knowing a bit about basic graphics programming concepts, I highly recommend Br…

I agree. I read the first edition to Intro to Statistical Learning and it went into just the right level of mathematical depth. The authors also have Youtube lectures that accompan…

I agree, I don't know anyone offhand who uses two computers for recreational diving, and I would absolutely use an Apple watch as my sole dive computer. If you have a computer malf…

I was a shy, socially awkward type when I enlisted--definitely not military material. The experience did me a lot of good. For the first year or so I was a target of relentless bul…

I'm a former U.S. submariner. Probably 90% of my shipmates who had served at least 3 years would have said the same thing. They hated the Navy, hated sea duty, hated all of it. And…

I would never post something like this. I'm just as peeved by "hello" type chat messages as everyone else here, just as I am when someone walks into my office and starts talking to…

No matter how carefully and thoroughly we design a system up front, we almost discover more elegant solutions once we start writing the actual code. I suspect this is true for near…

I gave quick answers to your numbered questions in a separate comment. Regarding your "question to the broader HN community" about getting salary info, maybe the best way is to ask…

Great website! I will take a closer look later. To answer your questions: 1. Do you actively select smaller companies...? No, size does not matter. 2. Do you find companies' size a…

This is a repost of a blog that I found to be incredibly illuminating for an experienced programmer learning modern web development. The original discussion is here: https://news.y…

A few years ago I had a classmate who was rudely terse in his replies to group emails. For instance, if someone asked, "Here is my understanding of blah blah. Is this correct?" Thi…