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It is and will always be about: 1) properly defining the spec 2) ensuring the implementation satisfies said spec

Location: Austin, Texas, USA Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: best at infra, data infra (including IoT), database (postgres), fan of: Ruby on Rails and "boring tec…

Location: Austin, Texas, USA Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: former founder. best at infra, data infra, database (postgres) (including IoT), fan of: Ruby on Rails…

Are these roles on-site only?

I'll probably get downvoted for this, but recent (last ~100 years) evidence and phenomena suggest that consciousness might be fundamental to reality, and thus there could be some o…

Yes, it's easy to cherry-pick an obviously absurd position that could be articulately argued. But the point is that you are definitely wrong about some things and should generally …

the semantics aren't very important to my argument, which is basically: our instruments can't perceive all of reality, thus we can't test theories around the unknown phenomena ther…

I can chime in to say: the scientific method, so far, cannot explain consciousness, and that the whole materialistic basis for physics is facing a crisis in the face of quantum mec…

well, in space (perfect vacuum) you only lose heat to radiation but you can keep absorbing radiation indefinitely so the equilibrium temperature will depend on the incoming radiati…

i definitely can't do the math myself, but excellent retort. thank you for the nuance

switch to a workplace that has higher standards. obviously that can't be done overnight, so in the interim, make sure to CYA (cover your a**) against the transgressions of the inco…

you're probably getting downvoted because there isn't really a temperature 4 million miles away from the Sun (it's mostly just empty space being bombarded by radiation) 2,500º F is…

I love boring tech! Building boring tech with AI tooling is what I'm after with all this.

Great as an employee approach. Not as good as a founder approach.

Here are a few lesser-known resources I’ve found: - aider - AI pair programming in your terminal https://aider.chat/ - Tips on coding with GPT (from the author of the above): https…

Obviously, things are moving very quickly. How are you keeping up? I'm building a list of folks to follow on X (formerly Twitter, sigh...) and trawling the comments here on HN.

This is similar to what my shop is doing. Any notes on how you manage keys?

No; the fiduciary duty of the CEO/board is to the shareholders. If there is a chance to salvage continuity of operations and preserve the value of equity, that is what they will do…

What worked for me: I started out chasing my curiosity: wanted to make a simple video game, so I Googled my way to one as my first real programming project. I think passion project…

It did briefly acknowledge the issue.

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Same here. Have confirmed with other parties as well.

You are getting downvoted because conventional wisdom is wrong. No one needs to eat plants (although many are nutritious). You can be very healthy eating eggs, fish, shellfish, mea…

The body can make carbs from proteins or fats. You don't _need_ dietary carbs (but will naturally get some in the course of eating a healthy diet).