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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Given it makes it hard to read and actually makes driving dangerous it sounds like it's bad enough to warrant treatment. Get a second opinion, mention trouble reading and unable to see properly while driving.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Or as a plan B, you can try hayfever tablets / over-the-counter antihistamines, they're harmless to take (I am not a doctor / this is not medical advice / read the information) but if it's allergies they might provi
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Yeah but this is the thing, that's just text. If I tell someone "you can't post on HN anymore", whether they won't is entirely up to them. Permissions in context or text are weak, these tools - especially the ones t
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Maybe. The reality of software engineering is that there's a lot of mediocre developers on the market and a lot of mediocre code being written; that's part of the industry, and the jobs of engineers working with other engineers an
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
It was ZZT for me, no idea how old I was, probably 8-10 or so. But when you take a bird's eye view, it's interesting and great to see how over the years, games where you can build your own games remain popular and a common entrywa
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I heard the same thing from a colleague who worked on a Dutch banking app, they were quite diligent in fixing logic bugs but said that once you fix all of those, the rest is space rays. As an aside, Apple and Google's phone home crash
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Or reading Hitchhiker's Guide or Discworld as a non-Brit or non-English speaker.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Self-help books are based on first telling you you have a problem, then selling the solution. I get that some are actually correct, but the industry as a whole can only be sustained by inventing new problems and/or making sure newer ge
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Related, "glass" or "glassing" can also refer to stabbing someone in the face with broken glass or decimating a world in nuclear holocaust.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Makes sense, the iphone has only one port after all. Interesting that it supported a second one though, or maybe that's the Pro revision designed for this use case?
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Exactly, simplicity is a subjective term; some think of it as in Clean Code where codebases end up as oneliner functions or overly formal lasagna code with many clean- feeling layers, but they can't see the resulting complexity in the
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Depends on the management and whether they're involved in coding. Any engineering manager, architect, senior / lead developer etc should appreciate lower complexity. Of course, if it's the person in charge introducing said ov
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
tbh codebases like that predate AI code generators. I had one job where my predecessor was not a very good developer by modern standards, but he was productive... a dangerous combination.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I think this is at the moment the practical limitation to using AI for everything (and what the coding agents themselves also optimize for to some degree, or it's the slider they can play with for price vs quality, the "thinking&q
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
It reminds me a lot of people who take Code Complete too seriously. "Common sense" is not an objective or universal statement unfortunately - plus, speaking for myself, what I consider "common sense" can change on the da
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
AI generators only generate that if you tell them to though - as a developer (especially senior) it's your job to know what you want and tell the AI coding tools that.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Run or email their seniors and ask them if they're hiring for higher-up positions. But this is connected to another thread on HN about engineer/manager titles and how they basically have no value if you try to compare them between
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I just wish that in those cases the interviewee gives feedback and allows you to rewrite instead of just failing you. I mean in practice nobody writes library functions themselves unless absolutely necessary, but I get that for some positio
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I love how your answer was straight, to the point and leverages existing standards, then scrolled up to the question and had to go through someone else's thorough, multipage response. Full marks to both answers!
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
That's an odd choice (for said developers), given in most cases it's a matter of checking a box. The second half of your comment is a generalization though.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
That's a bit... uninformed, there are and historically have been plenty of non-chromebook laptops with 8 GB of memory in that price bracket (HP, Samsung, Lenovo, ASUS, etc).
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I don't think they would; I'm sure they share a lot of the low level code already, the main difference now is in the user interface and software. Some time ago (...over ten years ago) they made some movements towards unifying th
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
It really is arbitrary; I've never really been called senior or whatever, but apparently some people with 3-5 years of experience are already called that. It feels more like politics than a proper scale. Which is actually an issue in o
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I mean in hindsight, how mental is it that you could look up people's names, addesses and phone numbers in public records? ...I mean I suppose you still can but still, it's not as obvious anymore and people's mobile phone num
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
A bit late but in my recollection, this pattern started with Windows Vista asking for admin permission to do anything , like changing your background. Which in turn was borrowed from the `sudo` pattern which had been pretty normalized in L
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
What may be necessary is for other countries to be better. These treatments / studies don't just affect USAmericans but everyone everywhere, and if there's enough signals of "this treatment saves kids abroad but we can&#
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Exactly. They read headlines like "Game X did 100 MILLION revenue in 2025!" and think that's a lot, meanwhile mobile games nobody's even heard of do 20x that. But I'd argue that the demographics for "people tha
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
> But the iPad is not a console This is a very naive take - the iPad and iPhone are both multibillion gaming devices, and to dismiss it is short-sighted. I'd even claim (but can't look up statistics due to a restrictive company
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Can you explain? Good rules on long term maintenance and repairability (which are in effect, see [0]) allow for cheaper, secondhand devices to remain viable for said poorer people. Market forces also exist so you can get a tablet or smartph
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
And we do: https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules...

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