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Thanks for a drop of humanity in this place. I feel saner

Care to elaborate?

They're not hiring in EU remote? Barely managed to somehow open the links on my phone since I don't have my laptop around.

Sorry, but at that size (1.25 liters) for my European brain, it's not a mug anymore, it's a barrel.

The modern response to baroque text is "mucho texto" jpeg with a gangster Yoda

I really hate bash because of its unreadable syntax, and this does not help it in any way. We have some large bash scripts in my company, ~10,000 LOC spread across multiple files, …

I don't think that not travelling is the solution. A lot of people cannot avoid flying.

This comment really has no purpose other than being petulent.

What does this have to do with the original comment?

My anegdotal experience in EU is that ghosting AFTER the company responds to your application is very, very rare. I would always get the usual "Unfortunately, we have decided..." c…

"I made this company goddamnit, I made all of the iPhones because I had my VPs build factories in China that make iPhones." - imaginary Steve Jobs

Lol

This has got to be the craziest AI-shill sentence I have heard in a long time. How can a generic LLM generate better assembly than a dedicated compiler, whose sole purpose is to ge…

At first I was so interested into this guy, writing his own everything, thinking this has got to be something to aspire to, to be as good a programmer as this guy. Then I realised …

I wrote my own comment on hackernews. This is the prompt I used...

This comment is so weird. It is so vague to me and feels so off, like an alien from Men in Black trying to pass as a human. How do they not truly care about helping? Also what sunk…

What does punished timeline mean?

Shouldn't free market reward companies that go the other way and where people don't "fail upwards"? It is kind of demoralising to think otherwise, but it seems it is true. We see i…

I don't understand the analogy with the Mexican cavefish. They don't have eyes because they don't need them, and companies don't hire competent people because they don't need them?…

How do you know that they are progressing? Where do you get this information?

Because North Korea is such a parody of a country that adding a golf course to it sounds completely surreal to me.

Playing golf in North Korea sounds crazy.

"...you’ll soon be able to have just those bespoke features/fixes/integrations built yourself?" How soon is it? Tomorrow? Next week? 10 years? People are so sure that LLMs will cha…

What?

Does it have good content? I explored it a bit in the past, but was a bit underwhelmed with content I could find there. Edit: in the past