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miqkt

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About miqkt

Unremarkable software craftsman impatiently waiting for our glorious technofeudalist overlords to deliver on their promise of rendering our entire profession pointless.

Based in Perth, AU.

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    Only scored 93... One of those, "yclept" I've never ever encountered before (as a native Australian English speaker) and only lucked out by way of elimination.

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    Love the principle, preach! I think I've been following this subconsciously as LLM artifacts reached some threshold of pervasiveness across the work I do. If I can sense (maybe eve…

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    Ah, time to copy this into the custom instructions for an LLM to amuse myself with.

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    Tried out a few prompts and the suggestions that came back didn't even seem in the ballpark of what I would've expected. Interesting idea nonetheless. https://everynoise.com/ is st…

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    Ask HN: Has Gen AI changed the way you approach code reviews, if so how?

    Gen AI can churn out large swaths of working code relentlessly. I've felt like my reviews have been less rigorous due to the volume and time constraints as tooling becomes increasi…

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    The last impactful one on me was Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Definitely disrupted my perspective on work and the monotonous, sometimes futile, insanity that some of us subject …

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    Comment #33906528

    1. Resume seeing the world. I haven't taken a trip abroad since the tail end of 2019. 2. Cultivate a mutual and meaningful friendship with someone. A non-existent social circle and…

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    Comment #29376368

    Interesting, I never thought about allergies. I've had not one but two turbinate resections, each time with a different ENT. From memory, neither had even bothered to really stress…

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    > Notice subtle changes in behavior: the most useful hint here is when someone who used to be very vocal about an issue stops complaining. This point resonated greatly with my own …

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    Comment #27833888

    One of my previous stints was with a small team that was building a cloud-based payroll and HR platform for the Australian market (potentially going abroad as well). It definitely …

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    Comment #24675750

    It looks like `.git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD` doesn't exist, which might explain why a fresh clone results in a detached HEAD (i.e. Git should default to being on the branch refere…

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    Oh wow, stay safe! Thank you for sharing your experiences and the YouTube channel recommendation. I've been alternating between the interactive lessons on http://learnrussian.rt.co…

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    D3 for work, and Russian out of pure (seemingly masochistic) interest. I'm a native English speaker and Russian would be my fourth language. Perhaps I'm simply approaching the limi…

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    Ask HN: How do you manage mentally context-switching between technologies?

    For those of you who need to regularly switch between programming languages, libraries, tooling and anything else used in software development for work, I'm curious to hear about a…