MisterSandman

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by MisterSandman 1y ago
Citation needed? Are you saying Amazon does Prime Day so people who previously couldn’t afford an air fryer can now afford one? Are you saying Black Friday is actually a massive charity event by companies so people can buy their products? I
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
Do you remember the command line command to convert 5:30 IST to PDT? Or convert $70 USD to SGD? Or what 17.3 years in seconds is? Or how many days are between 2024-12-30 and 2025-06-17? Raycast can all of do that automatically, and the only
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
That’s not universally true. I’ve had a better experience with Amazon Q than I’ve had with Cline.
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
It’s so painful to hear HackerNews talk about visas. It’s pathetic how little people know about the system despite it running a large chunk of the tech industry.
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
You clearly haven’t been on my side of LinkedIn / Twitter.
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
You can’t casually say “AI’s gain personhood.” That is so far out in the future, that’s beyond AGI.
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
The first iPhone was a hardware engineering marvel, it was leaps and bounds more premium than any phone in that generation. It took other companies years to catch up.
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
Nit: the copyright year on your website is wrong (says 2024)
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
This really is an excellent post. I wonder if things will change with the anti-Americanism spreading throughout the world
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
Even if it’s the latter, it doesn’t make sense, because you can just block off time in your calendar as « Focus Time » to work on things. At most companies you can’t see other people’s calendar event names, but even if you can, I highly dou
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
Designing a distributed scheduler is a solved problem, of course an LLM was able to spit out a solution.
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by MisterSandman 1y ago
> I loathe AI for what it's doing the job market. To be fair, it's not doing anything to the job market, it's just being used as an excuse. Very few tech jobs have truly been replaced AI, it's just an easy excuse for
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
This is a really cool website, I know some other commenters were hating on it, but for companies like these, 99% of users are there just to learn about them, not actually buy them.
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
I may be an idiot - wouldn’t it be cheaper to get rid of the 20% coupon code? And if the retailer REALLY wants to keep the 20% discount for a particular use-case, make it a targeted discount for certain user accounts?
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
Don’t worry too much, you figure it out as you go :)
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
I graduated from Waterloo ECE very recently. It always surprises me how much of a role alcohol used to play in engineering culture at Waterloo. I don’t know when that went away, probably around when Bomber shut down, or when weed was legali
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
I like how US’s lack of automatic transit visas is being described as a good thing here. It is an absolutely nightmare in practice.
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
I know this post is probably going to lead to a bunch of heated discussion, but honestly, it’s really cool. Game dev is something I have always wanted to get into but the amount of effort required is massive, and I love how accessible AI is
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
No, Tesla use Pull Requests too. It’s fairly standard GitHub usage, at least within the org I worked at. They also GitHub actions, though obviously the build tools are non-standard.
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
That’s the most interesting way to warp reality that I’ve seen. Afghanistan won, period. It doesn’t matter how Americans would like to advertise their loss - you didn’t “lose interest”, you lost, abandoned the people who were helping you, a
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
I know you weren’t expecting a serious response, but Tesla does use Git. They actually use a fairly standard version of GitHub enterprise.
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
> native applications ah got it, so instead of writing React Native, I can instead learn how to write in SwiftUI for iOS, Kotlin for Android and C# for Windows. Easy!
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
Thanks! Was genuinely curious :)
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
Not sure if you’re aware, but there are countries outside the United States
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
A government declaring a curfew (for any reason) is a bad thing, IMO, but I may be projecting a bit - how are people from Chile responding? I’m sure they’re not happy about the outage, but does the curfew etc. seem reasonable to them?
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
Is it really a beautiful system if it involves adding and maintaining a completely unnecessary traffic light? That isn’t free and costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars over its lifetime. I’m not saying it’s not worth it, even 1 lif
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
Or Canada… during the winter at least.
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
What? Every mathematical proof is built on top of other proofs, especially when you look at research that is happening today. Mathematics and Computer Science mindsets are closer than most other pairs of academic streams. There’s a reason w
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
I mean, that is the most obvious choice. Even if Woz was publically well known, giving it to someone who is still alive is kind of tacky. At least they’re not giving it to Elon…
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by MisterSandman 2y ago
Canada doesn’t have high speed trains AND does insane security checks and luggage weigh-ins before you get on their trains. Worst of both worlds.

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