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The trick I learned from a kind manager is to make your last day something early in the month and your first day on the new job the last week of the same month. In short if your ti…

HowTown has a pretty good video on the same subject: https://youtu.be/dqLM65HfVEw?is=avWFidbKxRvW3YUY

Wait am I in the minority talking to Claude in markdown? I just assumed everyone does that, or at least all developers. It seems to work really well.

I’m kind of surprised no one has mentioned this one yet: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gQyphPbaLHBMJoghD/comp-sci-i...

A reverse engineer friend once taught me I could patch an x86 function with `0xEBFE` to get the CPU to spin forever. It wasn’t until much later that I understood that (IIRC) 0xEB i…

Even cooler, let's say you need to "update" a subset of your parquet files after they are written. Once you have your parquet files in a ducklake, you can "virtually" update them (…

Not that I expect them to fix it at this point since it seems to be a known issue, but just in case anyone from Notion is watching please fix the macOS app’s CPU usage. On a brand …

It’s fun to guess what something is on HN just from the title before going there or the comments. In this case my guess was that someone was - rendering Doom then using an LLM to g…

I really thought this was going to be a new LLM-backed GOOG-411 type thing.

Aha! This post finally made it click for me that that is exactly what’s going on, thanks for putting it so succinctly. I think one of the big differences between AI and most other …

As other have mentioned I’ve used it for diagrams in code comments and READMEs (before GH added mermaid integration). Making readable diagrams with 80 character width can be a chal…

Seems like the technique only works in highly controlled scenarios (e.g. you have tens of phenotypes and images and want to have a better than random chance of assigning one to the…

I just wish they would make more compact shows that tell their entire story in a single self contained season. If 1899 for example had only been given a single season from the outs…

I just took a break from reading a scene from Anathem revolving around tiling and came across this thread. :) This sort of “HN coincidence” has happened to me several times this we…

There’s actually a lower bound for integer ops: https://twitter.com/DavidVorick/status/1719097248699879831 > (i) any model that was trained using a quantity of computing pow greate…

It probably matters for Go since presumably the go runtime starts up some of it’s worker threads before calling your main. Though actually now I’m not so sure, seems worth digging …

iPhones and iOS have had this for quite awhile. My iOS dev knowledge is rather dated now but IIRC Grand Central Dispatch let you indicate the type of workload your task needed and …

I think the whole point is that you only have a limited “cutting edge budget” so if you are somewhat forced to spend that budget on cutting edge ML models then don’t overload your …

I’m in the same boat in that I’m losing my vision very slowly from an inherited retinal disorder. One thing I’ll add is I’ve started going to the gym as much as I can while I can, …

While not in the same league as those tubs, when we first signed up for Fresh Amazon was using frozen Amazon-branded bottled water to keep the groceries cold. They switched to insu…

Quick feedback: I really thought the “ROI Calculator” on your landing page was meant to be interactive not a screenshot so was wondering why it didn’t work. Any chance it could eas…

One more wrinkle: authorization starts with “author” but in computer security is no longer about who wrote the data but rather if they are allowed to. It has its origin in “to dete…

I think the problem is further compounded by team size and insistence on 40 hour work weeks. As soon as you have people on “manager schedule” that feel the need to look busy the nu…

One thing I really really miss from working in person on a small team was that we did all PR reviews in person, almost like a little “thesis defense” session. This was medical adja…

Good call, I use “minor:” as a comment prefix for this but just realized that I got into that habit awhile back and the team composition has changed since then so newer members don…