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by BeetleB 2mo ago
It sounds like you're equating "aggressive" with "sweet". Coffee has a very strong taste (even without sugar). Stronger than anything on the list. I'd wager that the reason some people add a lot of sugar is to
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I don't know. Pre-pandemic, when doing mass layoffs, it wasn't unusual for a company to hold a giant update meeting and let everyone know they're shutting down the division and that everyone's been laid off. How is this
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> “He hoodwinked me,” the just-ousted Better Home & Finance CEO said about Daniel Lewis, the man who replaced him last week. “He said he liked the company’s strategy. He praised us on X and used that to get on our board and win our c
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Coffee tastes more aggressive than all of those.
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> @-mention files instead of naming them. The file gets attached to your message directly, which saves a Read call, or a search if Claude has to go find it. I've heard it argued that this is an antipattern. If the file is large, it
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I would expect you can. lexilambda created Typed Racket on top of Racket. https://github.com/racket/typed-racket
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You say management was not being cheap, and then list everything cheap management does. I'm familiar with the dynamics of such places. If they actually go through a proper lawsuit, my guess is the lawyers will cost more than whatever t
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I can agree with that. Cable TV, Walkmans, and well, even just TVs in general are to blame.
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> Constant need for something in your ear is a very new phenomena and for some reason a lot of people have gotten in the habit of isolating themselves from the world around them and stopped being in presence of the reality. Sad. Convenie
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> In the real world, you get a job, and you're on probation for your "first semester" when the scrutiny is at its highest. This describes exactly 0 jobs I've had. When you work in a big company, they're pretty ge
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> You have 100 places on the course next year. You have 10,000 applications with straight A's. You need to put ~9,000 in the bin. This is the situation for less than 10% of universities in the US. Likely a lot less than 5%. I wish I
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> Got waitlisted as a dual legacy from my university and ultimately settled for a top 35 school. Oh how tragic! Went to a very average school - well below 35 - and a top grad school. Definitely benefited from not going to a top school
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> Hate to break it to you mate but none of them are getting in. If they're not getting in, they're applying to the wrong places. Even now, I know plenty of high school kids getting into multiple universities with a very average
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> To me, they seem to have limited graphics like CLIs but lose the composability and automation. It would help the discussion if you gave examples. TUIs have always existed, and most always had these problems. Is there any particular TUI
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> There is a big difference between automatic data collection on my habits and local staff recognizing me. No one is making you install that app. Long before smartphones were a thing, I refused to join any "loyalty program", fo
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My best guess is: Nothing interesting. If there were, then he's being a really sloppy journalist for not telling us.
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> I don't want McDonald's to know if I've ever eaten at McDonald's. Call me crazy, You are crazy. Back in the good old pre-Internet commerce days, when you'd go in person to a store, you did not have a reasonable
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> the "3-2-1 backup rule" is a relatively modern concept, at least by that name. I also remember things like "have one backup in one place, another in another place" since before this mnemonic, but I feel like it&#x27
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Yeah I kept reading the article and thinking ... "This seems reasonable." "This seems fine." It also wasn't clear how much of the data they have is because he's using the app. If it is, it seems much/most
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Think of it this way: If you install Photoshop locally (ignoring that it's now cloud based), and made deep fakes locally - that's probably fine. If something goes wrong as a result, only you are liable. It's a general purpose
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> But yes, as a Fields medalist he is an expert on LLMs. Not what I was claiming, but since you are, feel free to expand on this.
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> There's also only 60,000 H1-Bs a year for private companies. Actually, more like over 80,000. They have a separate pool for people with advanced degrees (MS or higher) in tech fields. Agree with everything else.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Since no one has mentioned it yet - just want to point out that Timothy Gowers is a Fields medalist.
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We write for humans, not for compilers.
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Ugly images in blog posts were common before LLMs came around. People on HN didn't feel compelled to point it out each time.
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I find it interesting that most conversations about Twitter or Bluesky is about the "political vibe". Why is that so important? On Mastodon, if someone keeps posting political stuff to the point where it's a big chunk of my f
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I'd love to see similar plots after you remove the primary servers in each! To give you a rough idea: 78% of the people I follow on Mastodon are not on the primary instance, and over 80% of my followers are not either. > Anecdotally
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> Bluesky's feed algorithm (the "Discover" tab) is the worst I've ever seen. Even worse than Mastodon's?
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> makes the whole thing immediately feel cheap, it's wild Hard to decide if the blog post is wild, or people's visceral reactions to it. I've said it before: I believe the obsession in trying to figure out if something is
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To weed out programmers who don't indent.

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