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Many small oh shit moments, mostly of the variety of: "Oh shit, why am I still paying for this app subscription when I can vibecode it myself and just pay less than $1 per month in…

Overdramatic: when I saw friends and acquaintances doing this I couldn't help but feeling a slight sense of loss--that we (I) have lost the person. At that point, is the person sti…

Internal assessment of self-worth is one thing. But one thing that I noticed while I was between jobs, was that the rest of the world was also built under the assumption that you "…

I'm about a decade behind you, but I also started my programming career during the "good" COM/DCOM/MFC/ATL/ActiveX/CORBA days. Java just came out. I slept little during that time b…

Thank you for the kind words! I had great fun implementing it. Robert Nystrom is such a hero for writing Crafting Interpreters.

Slang? The IDE looked like Turbo C++ of old (blue, text based interface). Shortcuts are weird, so you need to remap keys to get sane defaults. Probably the most unique feature is t…

I love how uv allows me to not think of all the options anymore. virtualenv, venv, pyenv, pipenv... I think at one point the recommended option changed because it was integrated in…

It’s quite the opposite for me. The fun / creative part for me is not googling “how to slurp the contents of a file into a string” or “the exact syntax for marking some functions a…

Wonder what I'm missing here. A smaller number of repetitive tasks - that's basically just simple coding + some RPA sprinkled on top, no? Once you've settled down on a few well-kno…

I've been taking these rides 5-6 days a week, everywhere, and also in other countries outside the US. What I've come to realize is this: what matters to me the most is the consiste…

Pass the link to NotebookLM and get the podcast hosts to summarize it for you?

Men and women will have very different body fat percentage level for similar look. In general it's something like women's = men's +8-9%?

Wouldn't AI be worse at Rust than at C++ given the amount of code available in the respective languages?

As a teenager, I was fortunate that my Dad bought me a copy of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. Quote: Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for yo…

Exactly... add to that the requirement that I want to have the peace of mind of being able to accidentally bang the watch against the metal poles of the subway, etc., without damag…

I'm not French but is it just me, or that "bien sûr" pronunciation is atrocious? Also that "parfait" at the end... urgh.

Have you tried unstructured.io? So far seems promising.

I can imagine so. Would you have a comparison between Claude 3 Opus vs. GPT4o? Which one would you pick?

What kind of field / chat interactions does your chatbot do, if you can share? Apart from Klarna I haven't heard any other success in this regard...

Have you seen any GenAI project that (1) is in use in production today, AND (2) actually moves the business needle in a material way? (increased revenue, or perhaps actual jump in …

On one hand, there's this. On the other hand, with the toughening of the job market, companies are selecting by degrees and pedigrees more than ever. The last company I worked for …

Agree with you. And for specific cases like HFT, the interviews will be a lot more specific in that area anyway, so it would be weird for a "senior developer who doesn't know algor…

> it always frustrates me that I don't hear something, I ask the person to repeat only to not hear it again, usually because they repeat it at the same low level I thought I was th…

Wonder if there's anyone who (1) is reasonably comfortable in some popular programming language(s) and (2) has gone through these exercises could/would share their take on how help…