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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Who’s intentional plan? Where is this plan documented?
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
I read this suggestion a lot. “Make clear steps, a clear plan of action.” Which I get. But then instead of having an LLM flail away at it could we give to an actual developer? It seems like we’ve finally realized that clear specs makes dev
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Is there a source for this?
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
“Teachers are often drop outs…” do you have a source for this? I looked and didn’t find one.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Honest question. What is considered radical or cutting edge in the humanities? I confess my ignorance upfront.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Read her wikipedia page. What a life.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
It’s fast because there already gobs of people on the internet because of all the other products that came before. Facebook didn’t grow as fast because there weren’t as many people on line then. Gmail didn’t grow as fast because there weren
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
I used gnoosic just now and discovered Melody Gardot. Wow. Thanks!
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
I’m a backend dev with an m1max and 64gb ram. I run golang, various docker containers and an occasional ollama llm plus a few games. This machine still feels like it has infinite resources.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
He was last averaging 220K in 18-49 demographic. That beat out Colbert (barely) and trounced Fallon. https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q...
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
It’s comments like this that keep me coming back to HN. I’d never heard of this before.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
I hear the voice of Stephan when I read this title.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
What are 20 dud languages that have been hyped on HN? Not meaning to snark, serious question.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
I rediscover this about once a year and am always so happy when I do.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Two things I learned. As you move up the management ladder, the problems get harder. If they were easy, they would be solved already. Second, when things go poorly, accept responsibility. When things go well, give credit to the team.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
I've recently started attending an Episcopal church. We have some people who lean heavy on transubstantiation, but our priest says, "look, something holy happens during communion, exactly what, we don't know." See also:
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Don’t…tempt me Frodo. I would use the pizza and beer for good…
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Main thing I learned with health and fitness is that, for me, I was always trying to do right long enough so I could cheat and "reward" myself. And that always lead to failure. I had to change my mindset from, "Be good unti
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
There is a very basic three card trick. You turn each card up one at a time, showing that all three cards are the same(say king spades). End with all three face down in your hand. Then you show all three cards again and all three are a dif
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Weavers way coop in mt airy Philadelphia.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
I get great cuts of steak for less than $10 all the time.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Pick up a copy of Palo Alto and read thru that. Lots of interesting Stanford history there.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Yeah, that was my point. I'm not sure what's so breath taking about what ByteDance is doing. I'm not a fan. But, with Meta, Google, Microsoft and I'll throw on Amazon, a huge chunk of the general public's web act
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Are there any other companies I should worry about for tracking?
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
It says "How can I beat Karpov's (illegible) gambit". Something like that.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
My favorite commercial from those days: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BPIpWMCKEbk&pp=ygUeQWx0YSB2aXN...
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
When I was hiring back in maybe 2020, I used a basic FizzBuzz test. Yep, the FizzBuzz test you've all read about. About half the people (all college grads) who took it could not pass in the allotted hour. Yup, an hour to do FizzBuzz
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
He links to a post about a teacher’s expertise with students using AI. The fact that it’s on Reddit is irrelevant.
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Neal Stephenson has a recent post that covers some of this. Also links to teachers talking about many students just putting all their work into chatgpt and turning it in. https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/emerson-ai
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by genghisjahn 1y ago
Yes.

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