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1. 31.▲
   by awesomeusername 5mo ago

   Ironic
2. 32.▲
   by awesomeusername 5mo ago

   If you know these things you can take them into account while driving the AI. Sorry, I don't buy your argument
3. 33.▲
   by awesomeusername 5mo ago

   I feel like we are of a similar age. This is great advice. My small company is growing and i'm thinking this is the path so I don't need an IT helpdesk. Do you still use vi or were you meaning vi(*) and actually use something else
4. 34.▲
   by awesomeusername 5mo ago

   Have them make something difficult and time consuming to make, out of a flammable material, then as soon as it get's a pass from a supervisor they have to burn it.
5. 35.▲
   by awesomeusername 6mo ago

   i love HN but also starting to think it's time for us oldies to have our own one: cost of entry, having a distant memory of booting linux from a floppy
6. 36.▲
   by awesomeusername 6mo ago

   if you are a level 11 uber hacker and know how to do that. I had to do it a bunch and after many many times I still couldn't remember without looking at my notes
7. 37.▲
   by awesomeusername 6mo ago

   Experienced distiller here. This comment is spot on.
8. 38.▲
   by awesomeusername 6mo ago

   wading through sites is still a thing? web search is still a thing? ok
9. 39.▲
   by awesomeusername 7mo ago

   I run a hardware company now (thankfully in the age of AI), as a direct consequence of reading Bunnies book 'hardware hacker' Thank you Bunnie.
10. 40.▲
    by awesomeusername 8mo ago

    wow, what a cnut
11. 41.▲
    by awesomeusername 8mo ago

    Please disclose your affiliations
12. 42.▲
    by awesomeusername 8mo ago

    So that blurry eye vision I get in the morning could be from gravitational lensing from dark breakfast?
13. 43.▲
    by awesomeusername 8mo ago

    Thanks, can't wait to read these, didn't know they existed
14. 44.▲
    by awesomeusername 8mo ago

    Are you saying that with the models from 3 years ago, with the right context management and prompting, your C snake game would fail? I agree with you, expectations are not being set correctly. That's my point. Learn to use the tools, i
15. 45.▲
    by awesomeusername 8mo ago

    Bummer. I Don't want him to lose his Kiwi status. Can't wait for him to escape the apocalypse to NZ, that's gonna be hilarious. Not for him though...
16. 46.▲
    by awesomeusername 8mo ago

    I listened to a conversation between two superstar developers in their 50's, who have been coding for more than most readers here have been alive, about their experience with Claude Code. I wanted to tear my ears out. What is crystal c
17. 47.▲
    by awesomeusername 8mo ago

    "The Outlaw Sea" is a book about the long history of the complexity of responsibility, ownership, in international shipping and the ships themselves. It's very good, it should be on the HN standard reading list, much like _Th
18. 48.▲
    by awesomeusername 10mo ago

    I had to 'contact sales' to request an enterprise license to cover the period where we transition away from mattermost. Great product, but trust is everything when it comes to such a core part of a company. They fucked up, real ba
19. 49.▲
    by awesomeusername 10mo ago

    I've always like the idea of retiring to the 19th century. Can't wait to use this so I can double check before I hit 88 miles per hour that it's really what I want to do
20. 50.▲
    by awesomeusername 1y ago

    Ha, it might be real this time, ironically all thanks to MS!
21. 51.▲
    by awesomeusername 1y ago

    I've been Linux only for around 15 years personally, but I don't push it on others. A few weeks ago I told the company our few Windows machines are going to be sunset-ted. No push back (other than a request to have one for the odd
22. 52.▲
    by awesomeusername 1y ago

    Browsh [0] - it runs firefox headless, and renders everything to ascii in the terminal It's glorious [0] https://www.brow.sh/
23. 53.▲
    by awesomeusername 1y ago

    We use Proxmox. NVidia are pushing hard in the direction of combined accelerators and ARM CPU (i.e. DGX, Thor, Jetson, etc). Some of the upcoming hardware hits a sweet spot in terms of performance / $ / W. It's hard to ignore
24. 54.▲
    by awesomeusername 1y ago

    I'm CTO of a TINY company, with pretty much exactly half this data. I run all storage and offside backups personally, because I can't afford a full time sysadmin yet. And the cost of everything is PAIN to us. If our building burne
25. 55.▲
    by awesomeusername 1y ago

    This is now my favorite page on the internet. What a massive breath of fresh air. Just yay.
26. 56.▲
    by awesomeusername 1y ago

    I'm probably in the minority here, but for me it's a foregone conclusion that it will become a better therapist, doctor, architect, etc. Instead of the rich getting access to the best professionals, it will level the playing field
27. 57.▲
    by awesomeusername 5y ago

    RIP. It was a great service and really well run.
28. 58.▲
    by awesomeusername 5y ago

    For making neutral spirits as the basis for gin
29. 59.▲
    by awesomeusername 5y ago

    I always rip them out only to find the stub left over is often worse. One of life's great annoyances. Interesting comment re: TV. I'm in my 40s and have never regularly watched TV but never thought about why. Your description is g
30. 60.▲
    by awesomeusername 5y ago

    I just tested a turbo yeast sugar wash I have and it's sitting at exactly 21%