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mettamage
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About mettamage
Hello fellow HN person!
As I understand it, "metta" is a Buddhist word for love.
My email address:
at protonmail dot com
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Comment #49164746
Meanwhile all I do is vibecode. I get the outcomes I want though. I see vibe coded apps as requirement documents. Rarely do I have to engineer. If my job gave me some actual tasks,…
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Comment #49164724
A friend of mine, non-technical, is not making money with his apps. But he's creating a street fighter like game. Just for fun. So there's that. He can't exactly release it because…
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Comment #49122565
Just like humans, AI needs a "reality" to check things against. If we don't provide that in an automated way, somehow, it will always make mistakes and we'd have to point it out. S…
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Comment #49108938
Fuck it, I feel the hype. Time to cold email some people a couple of tokens of appreciation. I don't expect anything, but they need to know the positive impact they've had. Thanks …
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Comment #49058233
The annoying issue sometimes is that while it is faster to do it yourself, the context of the LLM is not updated. So now you have you to mention that and mentioning it is a bit fuz…
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Comment #49057293
Unfortunately (or fortunately) for me, it’s too much fun to try to learn everything. Perhaps I should see it as a hobby, not as my mission in life. For the last 3 decades I acted a…
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Tell HN: It's a Lot
I'm not sure if anyone needs to read this. I know I would, just to have some pause. A contemplative moment, if you will. Hence the post. -- I need to know full-stack software engin…
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Comment #49034510
> Yeah I can just log out and scroll HN, but there's a enough friction to that, that it doesn't really happen very often. What an awesome tip!
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Comment #49034499
> I'm not convinced attention spans themselves have changed; I think it has more to do with the fact that people's brains aren't defaulting to daydreaming anymore when bored. Yea s…
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Comment #49017687
> It's like being able to converse with the codex of humanity, and extract data via an algorithm that is highly adept at sorting through it. Bingo Thanks for laying it out so clear…
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Comment #49017660
Fascinating. I mean that.
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Comment #48988447
Update: the project that we worked on for the past month got pulled and we now have to work on a new project. I am happy to report I only worked during the meetings and a bit outsi…
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Comment #48967374
whoopseedoopsie-whoopsieflaisie I'm a deer and I run crazy! whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop! I also foam a lot, then drink from a rainbow and feel better again. (no…
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Comment #48956763
I normally don't write stuff like this but I did not expect 9 upvotes. I expected a karma hit (but I prefer to just write honestly what I think). That's informative, thank you.
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Comment #48954133
I do this at work a lot and often the problem goes away because the stakeholders above me couldn't agree on the problem being important enough to solve for a long enough time. When…
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Comment #48936811
This is so peak, haha, love it. Thanks HN, made my day :)
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Comment #48884510
While I haven't done a lot with the idea (one month of concentrated work a few years ago, before LLMs), my idea is: the stylus needs to become way more digitized. Keyboards and tra…
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Comment #48822988
Is Danish culture more flat in its organization?
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Comment #48717026
This seems like self promotion with no contribution to Hacker News. You're an account that has 2 karma, and only exists for less than a month [1]. Also, it's a bit of a weak commen…
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Comment #48715981
Never got mentioned yea
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Comment #48715978
I find Dutch over the counter melatonin to be really good, just FYI [1]. [1] https://www.kruidvat.nl/shiepz-melatonine-time-release-0-1mg... - Shiepz Melatonine Time Release 0,1mg …
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Comment #48715960
> After that the effect stayed stable. Overall it shouldn't cause habituation, and my doctor said as much. Yea so this is where it gets murky for me. I experience some habituation …
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Comment #48710036
For me what helped is taking 7.5 mg of mirtazapine. At higher levels it's an anti-depressant but at lower levels it's an anti-histamine. It gets me drowsy. Together with 0.3 mg mel…
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Comment #48709237
Well I live in the nightmare that is the Dutch healthcare system [1]. There are many things that they will fix but they didn’t fix my sleep. A friend fixed my sleep. He is a doctor…
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Comment #48633926
For if it is still hugged to death https://web.archive.org/web/20260622172525/https://www.displ...