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by hiAndrewQuinn 17d ago
Can't say enough good things about fish from a UI/UX experience. There's a reason Shell Bling Ubuntu [0] swaps out your underlying shell to fish. Unless you need a terminal up ASAP for scripting purposes or shelling out (in w
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by hiAndrewQuinn 17d ago
I do this all the time with Vim. To the point that it astonishes me that this isn't like the third or fourth thing people learn about Vim. You can just record and play back your exact keystrokes like a _Super Smash Melee_ game plays ba
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by hiAndrewQuinn 17d ago
A lot of these tricks come down to knowing there is a better alternative program somewhere out there in the universe, and then installing it. I happen to keep a shell script handy for these situations, which automatically installs most of t
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Pacing Is a Setting on a Dial(extinction-bounties.com)
3 points by hiAndrewQuinn 22d ago|0 comments
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by hiAndrewQuinn 24d ago
Would you switch positions with King Richard II, then? That's a hypothesis we can test since you're here.
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Show HN: My fast TUI Finnish-English dictionary is now in the browser via WASM(taskusanakirja.com)
2 points by hiAndrewQuinn 1mo ago|0 comments
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by hiAndrewQuinn 1mo ago
Unfortunately, you either put all the commercially interesting bits on your own server and let your customers eat the latency, or you ship it to the edge and let piracy decimate your profits. I don't think there is any technical way ou
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by hiAndrewQuinn 1mo ago
I like TUIs, and I chose to build e.g. https://taskusanakirja.com/ as a TUI for a couple of reasons, some of which are in this article and some not. Cross platform compatibility was a big one since at the time I started bui
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
I don't see why we would weight those points of reference stronger than the ones where people claimed "this time is different", and it really was different. In fact there's almost nothing similar between my day to day li
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
>Prior remote work success (not just experience) is the best indicator but it’s hard to evaluate, too. Some of the most difficult remote hires I’ve worked with had past remote work experience, but it’s only after being hired that you lea
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
Do I have to give just one? I have a whole script to install them! https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu Looking over this list I would recommend you check out `fd`, a much faster `find` with an interface
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
>They could pass this liability on to their employees, who would probably cover it through insurance, like doctors. That seems like the ideal situation to me, yeah. In general more professions should shoulder individual risk and more ins
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
Same here, thought it was Mullvad at first causing issues but I guess it's more common than that
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
Life insurance companies and federal agencies estimate the value of the life of an average US citizen at around 10 million USD, last I checked. If you consider that anywhere close to accurate, it's hard to imagine anything you could do
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
>I on the other hand will never understand anyone extending any grace to an airline. They are constantly testing just how poor of an experience they can deliver to their customers and stay in business. It's actually pretty simple to
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
>Isn't my poor writing style basically my signature? How do you wipe that? Stylometry obfuscation is a surprisingly strong point in favor of using wholly LLM generated writing to rephrase your points. If someone sees a — and doesn&
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Claude Max 20x plan as open source subsidy(til.andrew-quinn.me)
2 points by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago|0 comments
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
Much obliged. I like using footnotes to get more unhinged than the actual post, I think simonw reblogged one of my footnotes a few months back which was just a personal note and that was killer.
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
The natural landing point for info you'd want an agent acting on a user's behalf but don't want to drag the user themselves through is probably just an AGENTS.md file or something I would think
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Don't use an LLM for your README.md(til.andrew-quinn.me)
7 points by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago|6 comments
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
If it's a custom Yocto thing or it involved buildroot at any state of provisioning it gets the moniker "quasi-embedded" to me. Doubly so if it never actually connects to the internet, unlike these water controllers, apparentl
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
To me that speaks to a fundamentally incorrect economic structure. I bet PLC programmers could command much higher salaries - at much higher levels of risk - if they held more liability for things going wrong. That, in turn, would spur a lo
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
It's not for nothing that de facto founder of the Singaporean state Lee Kuan Yew wooed top men and women into working government jobs by ensuring the government buildings had A/C. I would far prefer an inflexible air conditioned 9
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
secret counterexample. people have been failing to learn vim for literal decades
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
Really, they should have merged this into some competing database for optimal marketing, like MongoDB. This is kind of like if you bought an Adidas sneaker and it said Adidas on it, like, yeah. I know.
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
Land value tax solves this
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
Here in Finland my company has a dedicated testing team that's almost at large at the actual engineering staff. We sell a combined hardware-software stack, though, and it's basically a contractual requirement in our industry. They
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
>The goal of refactoring an agentic code base is to spend tokens now in refactoring to make token consumption for future work lower. Couldn't have said it better myself. Deciding to refactor should be like a discounted cash flow ana
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by hiAndrewQuinn 2mo ago
This still seems off to me. If I were a potential creditor in such a closed loop system, and I was told I absolutely could not charge interest due to these monetary supply constraints, I would either just stop lending entirely or I would de
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by hiAndrewQuinn 3mo ago
This isn't really surprising in a low margin industry. If you are making a 2% margin on the average perfume bottle, and then you liquidate it at -3% because it's cheaper than destroying it, you can accidentally end up anchoring cu

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