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by extr 2y ago
?? Not sure what you mean. Carmack's advice is not specific to any particular point in your career. You can enact the principle he's talking about just as much with 30 YOE as you can with 2. It's actually easier advice to fol
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by extr 2y ago
Maybe "rare" was the wrong choice of word. Maybe I should have said such situations are "highly contextual". It's one of those things where if you have to ask the question "Do I need this?" you almost cert
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by extr 2y ago
Yes, but such situations are incredibly rare IMO. I was just recently in a job where a self described expert was obsessed with writing all data pipelines (in this context, 1-2GB of data) in spark, because that was the “proper” way to do thi
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by extr 2y ago
I have never found embeddings to be that helpful, or context beyond 30-50K tokens to be used well by the models. I think I get better results by providing only the context I know for sure is relevant, and explaining why I'm providing i
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by extr 2y ago
Personally I'm using the Filesystem server along with the mcp server called wcgw[0] that provides a FileEdit action. I use MacWhisper[1] to dictate. I use `tree` to give Claude a map of the directory I'm interested in editing. I u
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by extr 2y ago
I agree going back and forth with an AI for 4.5 hours is usually a sign something has gone wrong somewhere, but this is incredibly narrow thinking. Being an open-ended problem solver is the most valuable skill you can have. AI is a huge for
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by extr 2y ago
Yeah it's crazy to me you can't just 10x your price to 10x your usage (since you could kind of do this manually by creating more accounts). I would easily pay $200/month for 10x usage - especially now with MCP servers where C
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by extr 2y ago
Yes, absolutely. I personally use Wezterm. I also use the VS Code built-in terminal pretty heavily. Do I use it out of some ideological hard line against applications that require a login or cost money? No. Would I be open to a terminal app
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by extr 2y ago
Yes they absolutely do. If you think otherwise you are mistaken - the HN commentariat is not representative.
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by extr 2y ago
I personally will pay a subscription for literally every piece of software I use if it means the software makes me more productive. On an hourly basis my time is worth more than $100/hr. That means if a subscription tool is $10/mo
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by extr 2y ago
People on HN are so ludicrously out of touch. Yes we all wish we could live in Hackerville and spend all day tweaking config files to customize our ultra fast rendering OSS terminal emulators. In the real world most people are not using ter
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by extr 2y ago
This is such a simplistic take. There is a huge gulf between "We are a family" saccharine corporate BS and "I am a cog in the machine. I am forced to make conversation. Hello Coworker How Do You Do" robo-employee mnemoni
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by extr 2y ago
Donuts are okay, I've used it at 2 different companies now, but I inevitably find myself disabling it after 2-3 months on the job, usually when I start getting repeats. Maybe it would be okay if you could silently veto who you got pair
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by extr 2y ago
Gather is great. I think it lowers the barrier to chats just enough to make it more organic. In particular I find it's really great if you're having a 2-3 person conversation and realize someone else would be really valuable to ad
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by extr 2y ago
I mean, this is just life no? You have to be places, and be responsible for things, even when you would prefer not to be?
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by extr 2y ago
So it's like observability metrics but for ships and missles and such that people care about in the real world. Very cool. I did find the ending where the commander literally selects from a dialogue tree to resolve the situation a litt
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by extr 2y ago
I’ll let my baby know that when he wakes up in the middle of the night it’s impacting my brain.
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by extr 2y ago
It's pretty good now. I prefer the 365 web version to the native Mac version. It doesn't support some power features but actually has better hotkey support.
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by extr 2y ago
Makes sense. I'm a pretty casual user of Pixelmator Pro but it really does feel like a first party Apple app.
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by extr 2y ago
Yeah this is exactly how I use LLMs + Google as well. I would even go further and say that most of the value of Google to me is the ability to find a specific type of source by searching for exact terminology. I think AI search is fatally f
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by extr 2y ago
Sounds like you have it all figured out. Apply to work at one of these companies and let them know they're doing anti-cheat all wrong.
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by extr 2y ago
No. This model doesn't really work for Battle Royale games, plus the userbase of modern gaming is so much larger and more casual than it was back in CS2 days or whatever you're imagining. People who only have time to play a couple
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by extr 2y ago
You are just old. Hacks absolutely ruin the game even for casual players, especially in the newly popular Battle Royale games where you might not run into the hacker until the very last part of the match. It feels bad to invest 20 minutes i
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by extr 2y ago
I've owned an M1 MBP base model since 2021 and I just got an M3 Max for work. I was curious to see if it "felt" different and was contemplating an upgrade to M4. You know what? It doesn't really feel different. I think m
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by extr 2y ago
Embeddings/RAG don't address the problem I'm talking about. The issue is that you can stuff the entire context window full of code and the models will superficially leverage it, but will still violate existing conventions, in
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by extr 2y ago
All the SOTA LLM solutions like this have nearly the same problem. Sure the context window is huge, but there is no guarantee the model understands what 100K tokens of code is trying to accomplish within the context of the full codebase, or
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by extr 2y ago
IMO the main culprit is the over regulation of semi/non-disposable vapes/nicotine which still require more R&D to make accessible and easy to use for any consumer. This disposables are just plain better because the internals o
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by extr 2y ago
At my first job we had a very senior canadian on my team. He introduced Crokinole to the workplace and it never left. A lot of fun and honestly the perfect “office 15 minute break” game. Though inevitably there were a lot of “Come on, best
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by extr 2y ago
I'm not saying that both don't exist, I'm just saying PG's advice is so narrowly applicable as to be effectively "bad advice" for most people reading it.
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by extr 2y ago
I've worked in startups a long time myself. Personally I've never seen this problem, feels like it's advice literally specifically for Chesky or maybe a founders at a couple dozen other unicorns. In my experience it's a

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