EddySchauHai

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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I can’t imagine the stress of trying that. Work can be hard enough, why add the complexity of lying about your name in a company people know you
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Do you reckon we will have Prompt Engineers who are skilled at getting AI to generate what they want before long?
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Yeah I saw ads for that recently, a Snap documentary of the life of Bhad Bharbie or something (a female rapper I believe). I don't believe we're talking about TV shows that rival Apple TVs exclusives
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Perhaps? This was based on google top-link data which may not be reliable for a small farm but I assume it's within an order of magnitude!
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I'd be content with a small loss to be honest, I'd still be working as a remote engineer. I just would like more nature in my life!
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I don't know what's more impressive, this tractor or the fact the author has worked a single dev job for 17 years after graduating lol
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Yeah you are right. One of the most profitable crops is cherry tomatoes and you can make $1400 per acre on a good year, $900 on average. Saffron, with optimal yields at the most expensive prices per lb, will get you $125k from 2.5 acres. My
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I rarely use the cloud at my current role and it was pretty awesome to see sysadmin skills I got when I started in 2014 were still relevant. Sometimes I wonder how insanely productive a PHP developer must be when he's given an Apache S
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Huh, interesting. Most of my friends who have PhDs don't have masters and that's Europe-wide! The UK definitely is different though. I got onto a Masters in CS without a Bachelors and was discussing carrying on into a PhD which wo
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Realistically YC is about maximizing ROI and I would happily bet a crypto-related startup will be in Summer '23s cohort - they have crazy valuations and liquidity out of the gates. Personally I want those startups to showcase problems
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
You say to the guy who wrote the first seed check of Coinbase
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I've worked on a real-time system in Haskell and it is possible but iirc you do avoid laziness.
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Which is apparently a thing! https://www.zcombinator.org/
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
While PhDs without masters are common in Europe, universities may have doctoral training centers that have an extra years to act like a masters. My wife went straight from undergrad at Oxford and her PhD was four years instead of the usual
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Yeah for sure, but $0.05 AND $10 or whatever the fee is means it's still not suitable for most vendors, except on large purchases that have a % based fee.
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
> While other payment processors take 1% or more on every payment you receive, we take only $0.05 per payment. What about network tx fees?
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Sort of related but I, a 28 year old tech guy, am going back to school part-time to get a BEng so I can get into more aerospace-heavy roles. It'll take 6 years but I'm currently happy with my work so am not in a rush. Currently I
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I disagree with this, I'm (unfortunately) swamped with short videos on how to 'make side hustles' doing just these sorts of things due to the cost of living crisis.
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I used GPT-3 to generate responses to someone who argued a post is GPT-3 generated on an old account. It was pretty funny - it fooled them, but smaller text is usually harder to detect as bot-generated.
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Even old well known tools can be optimized and reimagined; just take the Plumbus and it’s recently upgraded Plumbus X! https://youtu.be/JGaBU5cKluU
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
And this is why I love HN so much haha
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I want to work on boring languages that let me focus on domains, not tools, and even so I work with Rust and have done in my last 3 or 4 roles. If you do systems programming in a startup, Rust will be there.
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
External blog posts have helped, it’s easier to Google ‘nix-shell for <foo>’ and copy working code into your local environment. Honestly I couldn’t write hello world in Nix, but I can scrap together bits that work now and hopefully (a
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
How’ve you managed that? I’m a test engineer in the Bay Area but when I move back to the UK, if I can’t carry on with my current role, I’ll go into contracting. I see rates up to £700 but was really aiming for £500 myself. I also have 8 yea
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
Hahahahahahaha this made me lose some of my coffee. Who volunteers to write the data analytics in Julia?
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I have been avoiding nix for a while since I had a bad time with it several years ago, however recently used it for a small Haskell/Latex environment for literal programming and found it worked really well. I’m probably going to invest
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I love this phrase hahaha!
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
My wife's a postdoc and I'm a software engineer with around 8 years experience, so I make roughly 3x not including stocks etc. Our money goes into the same joint account and we split everything evenly (although I must admit to bei
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
I guess it's just experience to be honest. It happens rarely, you might be lucky enough to be involved with solving it, and then you focus on the important parts of the project again. I've only worked in startups so don't kno
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by EddySchauHai 4y ago
What you’re describing there sounds like general Linux sysadmin to me?

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