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Photograph of ISS Solar Transit(old.reddit.com)
6 points by gen220 1y ago|0 comments
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by gen220 1y ago
You do have a personal knowledge management base, it’s all your friends and coworkers :) I’ve heard this concept described as the “external brain”. If I don’t talk about something or write it down, it’s more likely than not getting flushed
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Taco Bell Programming (2010)(widgetsandshit.com)
2 points by gen220 1y ago|0 comments
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by gen220 1y ago
I love and hate German for this; it's a language whose formal pitfalls and vagaries seem almost designed to sort people into highly-refined strata of education. It must be so cool to see all of them "from the top" (i.e. someo
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by gen220 1y ago
You should try aider! This is my workflow, essentially
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by gen220 1y ago
I don't think that's the main takeaway. IMO, the main takeaway is there are, in the best case (exit for >100% of latest 409a), ~three classes of shareholder in a startup: those with preferred shares (investors, occasionally fou
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by gen220 1y ago
It's important to understand the incentives of everybody in an organization, even if they're not able to articulate it clearly to you, you should make it your personal mission to understand them. The incentive structure of your ma
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by gen220 1y ago
Hey, I've been where you are. > because I don’t self-promote, people who can’t shut up about themselves get promoted beyond me You need to re-frame this problem, so it's not about "self-promotion", and instead is abou
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by gen220 1y ago
Having thought about this a good amount and collected anecdotes over the years... I think the prioritization order should be (1) live in a location in which the parents feel their most authentic/happy/self-actualized selves, (2) s
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by gen220 1y ago
I like this a lot! My root README ends up looking a lot like your SPEC.md, and I also have a file that’s pretty similar to your TODO.md. My experience agrees that separating the README and the TODO is super helpful for managing context.
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by gen220 1y ago
I haven’t yet, I’ll give it a shot!
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by gen220 1y ago
I’d generally prefer comments in code. The README’s are relatively sparse and contain information that would be a bit too high-level for module or class-level comments. If commentary is specific to a module or class or method, the documenta
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by gen220 1y ago
I, too, recommend aider whenever these discussions crop up; it converted me from the "AI tools suck" side of this discussion to the "you're using the wrong tool" side. I'd also recommend creating little `README
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by gen220 1y ago
In my brief experience as an engineer (2014->), I've learned that the best "modern" alternative to PostgreSQL at year X has been PostgreSQL at year X+5. :)
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by gen220 1y ago
Seconding aider, which was recommended to me months ago on HN. They don't integrate with vim directly per-se, but I'm a heavy vim user and I like the workflow of `aider --vim`, `ctrl-z`, `vim`. They also have a mode (--watch-files
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by gen220 1y ago
It's because by default it'll try to solve most problems agentically / by "thinking", even if your prompt is fairly prescriptive. I use aider.chat with Claude 3.5 haiku / 3.7 sonnet, cram the context window, an
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by gen220 1y ago
I think the right way to think about Berkshire Hathaway these days is that it's a highly decentralized, minimum viable civilization. They do everything from freight locomotives, to furniture-making, shoes, petroleum, chocolates and mor
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by gen220 1y ago
He was asked by Schwarzenegger for advice on California economic policy. Warren did his research, and astutely suggested they should try to scrap Proposition 13 (IMO it's among California's worst policies, but it's a politica
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by gen220 1y ago
I appreciate yours! And agreed it’s a fun topic :) I don’t have much more to add but I’d really recommend you to read Tolstoy’s “Confession / What I Believe”, because I think you’d find it fascinating even if you don’t agree with it co
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by gen220 1y ago
I totally agree. I think for theological reasons (if your goal is to convince yourself that Jesus is the Messiah of the Abrahamic religions), then it can’t be distilled. However, I do think the abrahamic origin stories (genesis), the tribul
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by gen220 1y ago
I think you’d be interested in Tolstoy’s view of “Philosophy”, which he expresses in “Confession / What I Believe”. Basically that the reason why philosophy is cold and meaningless is because it tries to separate itself from the source
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by gen220 1y ago
I think the Bible can mostly be distilled to Genesis, Exodus and the Gospels without losing too much. Each of those books is eminently legible in its own right. You could arguably make the sermon on the mount its own book, “communist manife
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by gen220 1y ago
“The Good Life” by Helen and Scott Nearing has an excellent bibliography/citations section. How to build stone houses, compost and farm organically, etc. A good primer on homesteading. Contains references to things like 19th century ho
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by gen220 1y ago
Submitting this after reading this article[0] that interviews the person who runs the company. It's an interesting intersection of the "prepping" community, internet archival / offline access to some of the more valuable
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Prepper Disk(prepperdisk.com)
5 points by gen220 1y ago|2 comments
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by gen220 1y ago
I think you and the person you're replying to agree. We won't get a New Deal Coalition Part 2 without our own Dust Bowl (climate-change/industrial-agronomy-induced disasters, and the massive disruption to peoples way of lives
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by gen220 1y ago
Just a small word of unasked-for-advice... consider compressing your images further! Even ignoring bandwidth concerns, a 1.3MB image takes a while to paint :)
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by gen220 1y ago
I'm somebody who used to think your way until very recently (long-time vim user, fast typer, etc.). I'd recommend you give `aider` specifically a try. It's slowly taken over more and more of the "what" and "how
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by gen220 1y ago
I too feel this urge. It's a difficult path to go down, and an even more difficult path to lead others down. Mainly because the destination is an alternate economy where "companies" are smaller, returns are not concentrated t
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by gen220 2y ago
Dilution and liquidation preference. Dilution is sort of a necessary evil that comes with raising new rounds of capital. I understand how >1x liquidation preference is legal, but it seems incredibly unethical, especially since it's

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