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sandwichbop

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    Comment #39556968

    > freelance roles, self-employment, and side hustles > However, the work has traditionally come with some downsides—namely not having the steady, dependable income a corporate job …

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    Ask HN: Uncommon Reading Recommendations?

    The other day I was going through the library stacks and came across "Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel" by Rebecca Goldstein and was really drawn into it, was a …

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    Comment #39332551

    >so out of sheer luck this sounds more like survivorship bias no? You can keep playing lucky if you want, but that's more on being lucky. I like to keep risk low and so the objecti…

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    Ask HN: How did you learn economics?

    I believe that understanding economics is pretty essential in tech. I see a lot of career struggles where it helps understanding fundamentals with depth, to foresee how trends are …

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    Comment #39323759

    >It got me thinking--something similar happened to digital cameras where all the cheap point and shoots were replaced by phones so that now standalone cameras are an expensive nich…

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    Comment #39320998

    >The bottom line is that this is the only hardware currently in production that is going in the direction promised by the personal computing revolution back in the 1970s and 80s an…

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    Comment #39305618

    it is expensive, as far as I understand it (I'm still just learning about it all), it is for those need total auditability, they mention EU a lot but also this seems catered to act…

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    Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER?

    I see a lot of energy around RISC-V but I never see anything similar for OpenPOWER, on paper it seems like the dream machine with actual performance like the Talos Workstations alb…

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    Comment #39305255

    The developer did nothing wrong, reimplemented it from scratch and gave you a mention in the original readme. If anything this happens all the time like Oracle v Google. What you d…

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    Comment #38399313

    >is software development in decline? it's more that with the Fed's rate hikes, cheap money is in decline and so people have to think harder about whether or not it's worth building…

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    Comment #38373708

    Surprised to see this here, was just reading about it on the bard page a few minutes ago since I been killing time waiting for chatGPT to come back up for Plus Users. I think it wo…

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    Comment #38373682

    this is neat but you should probably include the github link somewhere in the Youtube description

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    Comment #38373054

    I've had the best experience so far with chatGPT Plus using the Data analysis plugin, well I WAS having the best experience until it went down today. Still waiting to get back to i…

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    Comment #38315966

    Pretty neat, I like how uncluttered it is compared to the regular site on mobile. Bit confused with the icons on top, I guess the first one is top stories and the star is trending?…

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    Comment #38269084

    It's cool to see these kinds of things running, even if it's just for 'why not' reasons. The 'Try it out' demo was really neat! Love the idea of these tools. Maybe we'll see someth…

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    Ask HN: Tech Forecasts for 2024 – Any Surprises on the Horizon?

    Curious to hear about your unconventional tech predictions for the next year. It's challenging to keep track of every innovative trend, especially with the potential for unexpected…

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    Comment #38267903

    This is some really impressive stuff, I’m surprised how seamlessly the Compute Skinning demo falls back to the webGL renderer on my iPhone SE. like that blew me away, can’t wait to…

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    Comment #35810583

    would love if you could share a bit about your previous $400k/yr job. What market/sector niche/role was it if anything you can share about it, really curious!

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    Comment #35810563

    right now it's chrome, vscode, python, intellij, homebrew, and whatever C/C++ toolchain is on the system so for me rn is Xcode. I warn that my must-have change very often, I can't …

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    Comment #35750077

    I have a m1 mac mini and I feel the same frustrations of software not being supported. If you're considering ditching linux, I would recommend a win11 machine and WSL

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    Comment #35658819

    free food always works

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    Ask HN: Strategies to Combat Feeling Tired?

    An essential skill is the ability to work under pressure. I can handle that, but only if I feel consistently well-rested; otherwise, I get headaches and heart palpitation, and I ca…

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    Ask HN: Free CS Resume Template Kits?

    I came across someone selling CS resume templates on social media. I checked it out, and for $39 (that is currently 25% on sale), you get access to a fill-in-the-blanks google doc …

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    Ask HN: Marketing Bootcamp for Developers?

    I saw a skit where a salesperson asks for a raise, but the boss asks them, "Did you design, code, and implement the features that you're selling?" Later an engineer asked for a rai…

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    Comment #28698327

    Nice site! But what does diversity mean? The front page has lots of cool posting, but I don’t understand what makes a startup diverse or not? > You don’t want a job at just any sta…