KenPainter

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by KenPainter 5d ago
I prefer the strong Anthropic principle: the universe exists so that Terry Pratchett can write Discworld novels.
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by KenPainter 5d ago
Two distinct strategies. For tools and architecture,I design data structures and let the LLM write the code, in small steps. Lots of discussion with the LLM. What Cory Doctorow calls centaur mode - a human mind augmented with a more powerfu
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by KenPainter 6d ago
Nothing. Everybody is drawn to activities that bring them quiet satisfaction in both the task and it's completion. We think we need perseverance when we get discouraged. Setbacks, dead-ends, conflicting priorities, all of these are d
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by KenPainter 9d ago
It's your turn
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by KenPainter 10d ago
The plausible answer is yes, there is an opportunity. One line item in the entire bill of materials for a successful product got cheaper. The other line items are unchanged. All else being equal, the organization that can leverage the impro
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by KenPainter 17d ago
Getting 404
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by KenPainter 18d ago
Try a raspberry pi 5 and tinker. I use it for my daily work. All dev work. It's great for learning to keep it lean.
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by KenPainter 19d ago
Uh... my now-wife. Not ex.
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by KenPainter 20d ago
I became single in 2013 and cupid was definitely where the cool kids were. But it was a desktop thing. You sat at a computer and engaged. You invested. Tinder and swiping are a phone thing. No real investment. Funny thing, 12 years later
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by KenPainter 21d ago
You've done the easy part.
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by KenPainter 1mo ago
Mo's videos are cutting and funny. I've been wondering, "what's he actually doing between videos?" Turns out this is it?
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Market All the Apps(shipacademy.com)
1 points by KenPainter 1mo ago|1 comments
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I write my own Markdown
2 points by KenPainter 1mo ago|3 comments
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by KenPainter 1mo ago
Fair point, and you're right to push back on that. Rereading the post, I can see that I left a lot of context unstated. That's on me. "Talk Like Claude Day" is proposed as a joke holiday in which participants would end
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Talk Like Claude Day
20 points by KenPainter 1mo ago|6 comments
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by KenPainter 1mo ago
100/month Claude personal.
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by KenPainter 1mo ago
Your Website seems to be messing with browser history. Back button will not take you back to HN.
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by KenPainter 2mo ago
Curiosity
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by KenPainter 2mo ago
Author here, wanted to add some stuff that did not fit above. I came to this 20+ years ago as I was not satisfied with orthodox solutions to the tension of between normalization and the inherent need to generate derived values from the norm
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Show HN: Denorm – Declarative derived columns (Postgres)(gitlab.com)
2 points by KenPainter 2mo ago|1 comments
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by KenPainter 2mo ago
I really like this. The box/row/column UI generality is exactly what I have in my head and have not found anywhere, that alone will have me playing with it. I'll also want to see how I can get it plugged into my Postgres dat
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by KenPainter 2mo ago
I just finished up Denorm release 1 a couple of hours ago. It solves a class of biz logic problems I've faced since the 90s. Materializes derived columns in Postgres databases, within and across tables. Termination, no race conditio
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by KenPainter 3y ago
If you do Stronglifts for two months that will get you a foundation in powerlifting and adding weight. Then you calculate your theoretical max for each lift on this site: https://strengthlevel.com/one-rep-max-calculator The
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by KenPainter 3y ago
Sometimes called "the last website." Somehow this site has survived all of the changes on the internet.
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by KenPainter 3y ago
Actually there is not much to the theory, I can probably fit it all into a 2nd reply. Treat strength as a skill. Practice makes stronger. Weight training is a deliberate stress to the body. It responds by overcompensating. You get strong
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by KenPainter 3y ago
To get started on the practical while researching the theory: https://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5/ For much more on the beginner stuff, "starting strength" by Mark Rippetoe. The author is, in my opinion,
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by KenPainter 3y ago
Fascinating question. I think the problem is that the 15-17k pages of the Pali Canon are already hopelessly sectarian. You won't get ChatBuddha, you'll get ChatTheravada. As an aside, this answers the oft-posed question: how coul
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by KenPainter 3y ago
Thanks everyone this gives me a lot to look at.
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Ask HN: Any way to write a simple desktop app anymore?
8 points by KenPainter 3y ago|17 comments
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by KenPainter 3y ago
The idea is don't tear down the fence until you know why it's there. But a fence across a road - it's so obviously wrong everybody wants to tear it down - not recognizing somebody with a good reason put it there. Big lesson

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