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Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader was a popular series of books back in the 90s!

Those are some long turnaround times! I actually had a positive, although a bit weird, experience with Microsoft. First, I got a response 3 months after I applied to schedule an in…

Neovim is where it's at. You can use lazyvim which has tons of languages you can select to add LSPs for.

You could maybe, but water tended to collect on the surface (this was exhaled breath, so pretty humid). Maybe if it was ambient air and not breath the humidity might not be as bad?…

I had a project miniaturizing nasa tech for detecting hypoxia with o2 and CO2 sensors. It used a phosphorescent dye that changed a delay flash (ie you blinked a light, the dye woul…

Yes, I think in that way it is dumb. But in another way I think it could be justified as a way to try and blaze some new trails and see what's possible by having users not worry ab…

Its interesting, I think people sometimes think there is some binary existence of furniture sometimes! What's nice about todays modern economy is that there is a whole spectrum of …

I've found llms themselves get way more long winded in their responses once context starts to fill up. Fortunately it's not impolite to tell Claude to be more concise!

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Like it or not it's true. I only worked at meta for two years before getting laid off myself but it seems to have greatly helped getting interviews. I am much happier not working t…

I found if you delete your cookies the overlay goes away. I use the mobile site and found that both desktop mode and old.reddit is pretty hard to read, so at least there is one wor…

This isn't a surprise at all. I saw the exact same thing at Meta. The incentives are so strong to improve your individual performance that it's hard to resist, literally hundreds o…

I had a side project going off and on for YEARS. I thought it was a great business idea with some interesting technical challenges. I asked Claude and ChatGPT about it, and they bo…

I don't think it's bad code that's necessarily the problem - it's bad architecture and systems which will bite you! Often bad code can be easily replaced if it's easy to refactor. …

I am staying away from sports betting, but I have done fantasy football a few times. I was constantly on edge from it all, even when I was winning! Constantly thinking of who I nee…

That's true, but I think there is a gray area in between. As things scale up in one way or another, having high quality is important for both #1 and #2. Its hard to extend software…

I would be shocked if he ever does that. Much more likely is just say something completely different and pretend that has always been the case

For better or worse, Claude is my intuitive interface to jq. I don't use it frequently, and before I would have to look up the commands every time, and slowly iterate it down to wh…

Business majors typically. I remember seeing a small graffiti in my engineering lecture hall that said something along the lines of "limit gpa -> 0: major= business administration"…

A true prisoners dilemma!

I am not huge fan of Meta but I wouldn't dismiss them quite so much. I think reels is probably doing pretty well, and despite being cringeworthy FB itself is still going very stron…

No need to proselytize please. I think recommeding a community is not a bad idea obviously

If we want to stretch this analogy a bit - I believe all world-level chefs have a team of sous-chefs working for them. Doing things like chopping ingredients, prepping things, in f…

I think learning vim is definitely relevant. To me, vim is the fastest and most effective way to navigate and interact with text. Even with AI, I think those skills are not going o…