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The burnout is a separate topic, and it was always difficult to balance in this specific industry. All these "Working in IT isn't stressful at all - John 25yo" memes didn't come co…

Long long time ago people in tech were in tech because of the tech. Then, at some point, being in tech became a gilded profession and everyone: salesmen, artists, clerks etc. joine…

I implemented few agent harnesses (and rik! advertising time: https://rik.axk.sh ), and once doing that I noticed one thing: Context-less self-approval is working well. The failure…

I start to sound like a Jujutsu fanboy but... Jujutsu already does this. I had agent screwing up changeset over couple hour long session and it took one shell command to split on p…

I consider myself senior engineer. When talking with junior colleagues they often are surprised how little I care about some things and how much I care about others. These internal…

Ccn't say, though since Opus 5 I'm much more often staring at the wall of text and I have no idea what it's telling me. WTFs per prompt metric raised sharply for me :)

New models (especially Opus 5, released just last week) produces unintelligible output, so people are trying to fix it.

https://youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY

"Bottled-water vendor position on tap water drinking".

There's an interesting angle to BLIK vs Wero. While I believe QR codes are more convenient it is actually possible to give BLIK over the phone. Which means that youngsters (or frau…

They most likely don't charge fees on consumer. Usually the fee is on merchant (and it's few % depending on region regulations etc.) Payment providers such as Wero are doing direct…

> ...this is not unique to the US by any means I've searched and found that Australia has similar concept. According to EU laws person on-territory is under jurisdictiction of said…

There are so many peculiar things here, I - as not an US citizen - don't understand: If the border isn't "US soil" then what jurisdiction is it? How come American forces can seize …

Not all HN visitors are native English speakers and in some languages "it" doesn't construct well with verbs, thus thought frameworks forms through usage of him/her. Nothing more t…

Good idea, haven't thought about this before.

It's infinite canvas, so I'm actually drawing diagrams for code, for LLMs (those are much more receptive to text diagram than screenshots). Scratchpad is default mode but it can ed…

Well it isn't that simple :) It mentions 144FPS, because of scrolling/zooming events. If there's a key-by-key panning then probably you need 1 frame and you're good. Macbook's Pro …

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effect of accidental development of a framework for GUI apps and personal sympathy toward diagrams

I've seen the other lately submited text-effect-claim-to-be font and I must say I find this much more amusing. Humans can squint, AIs can't squint!

It's possible to single task using Round Robin strategy. Have a list of things you do, go one by one over them. If new task appears add at the loop "gap". I found that the worst th…

I ran 10k test locally on 2e5 and I'm seeing 4 orders of magnitude instability, but very high local stability (i.e. runs within specific second are very stable, showing almost no d…

Is it only me..? Quicksort is supposed to be an algorithm that has O(n) to O(n²) performance and O(n log n) being only an average performance case. Test was made on random data com…