hiAndrewQuinn

6 ms·

91.
by hiAndrewQuinn 6mo ago
I include lines at the top of my own https://andrew-quinn.me/tmux-conf.txt to make it easy to download no matter what kind of box I find myself on. # Mindless copy and paste command: # # # Standard Linux &#x
92.
by hiAndrewQuinn 7mo ago
Recreational mapmaking. Every couple of months the family and I will book out some long weekend to just go to an Airbnb in some random town with some copy paper and just go around trying to draw what we think is around us. Inevitably the li
93.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
Your job title encompasses the highest-order bits about who you are, professionally. The value is much more between organizations than within a single one. If you plan to stay at one place for a long time, it's much less important. You
94.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
>First, there is no such thing as a [socially] successful person who has never ever creeped anyone out. Give yourself permission to be creepy. I am not saying that you should go around trying to creep people out; of course, if you know s
95.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
I'm surprised by all the people saying they dislike transactional talk. Voluntary trades are positive sum by definition, so a good transactional conversation should also be a joyous one.
96.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
Anthropic cares first and foremost about extinction risk. This is not what everyone who professes to care about human welfare thinks should be at the top of the priority list. See e.g. the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement for an example
97.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
You seem polite enough even psuedonymously, so I'd say you're doing a good job so far. :) >I have had some paranoid thoughts as to what if I get into controversy later on in life because of some things I do in my teen years I h
98.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
One could just as easily make the opposite argument. Given that your values and priorities may change significantly over the decades, a smart investment now into a solid, stable, and prosocial public identity may reap considerable and wide-
99.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
>I post under my real name here, pretty much the only place I post. It keeps me honest and straight in what I say when I choose to say it. I do the same thing, and I think I'm a much better person for it. The Internet is not, in my
100.
The long death of programming languages(til.andrew-quinn.me)
1 points by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago|0 comments
101.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
Nick Land has basically been saying this since the 90s, if you can look past all the rhetoric
102.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
I don't think I have ever lived in a place where I've kept a desk, or any other furniture, long enough to care, though.
103.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
Some people defend it because they are nondualists. They think the moral value of human life rounds to zero against the existence of something which can effortlessly outclass them in all domains. This is obviously confused, but they can&#x2
104.
by hiAndrewQuinn 8mo ago
>Just be honest since the start that your product will eventually abandon its FOSS licence. Then people can make an informed decision. "An informed decision" is not a black or white category, and it definitely isn't when w
105.
by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago
I wonder how many guys who have have written or significantly maintained "household name" level FOSS products just earn a corporate sinecure somewhere as hypercompetent remote sysadmins or ICs or something. Folks who don't ne
106.
by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago
Yes. Absolutely. The biggest data point pushing the affirmative is less Anki itself but the success of products at the forefront of the second wave of spaced repetition apps [1] like Khan Academy. Duolingo, too, but Duolingo gets flak from
107.
by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago
Oh dude, no. The instant I could start using something like https://www.wolframalpha.com/ in college over a decade ago, I did. I've never, not once in my life, had any desire to use a physical calculator when I could u
108.
Claude Code and Executive Function(til.andrew-quinn.me)
1 points by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago|0 comments
109.
by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago
Someone get this cow Clawdbot. Cowdbot.
110.
by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago
>This is a practical policy allowing me to maintain my own professional standards and remain employable in a difficult economy. I'm interested to hear more about the rationale behind the "remain employable" part of this li
111.
Claude Code disproportionately benefits those who touch type(til.andrew-quinn.me)
5 points by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago|0 comments
112.
Show HN: My Finnish language learner-friendly simple news archive(hiandrewquinn.github.io)
3 points by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago|0 comments
113.
by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago
>if you’re an executive [...] you get the big bucks for a reason In Finland? Notably wage-compressed Finland? No comment on the specifics of this case, I agree with you that the executive should be where the buck stops. But you would be
114.
by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago
When you put it that way, I will gladly live in fear. Some things in life are just more important than getting to have your way all the time at work.
115.
by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago
This is actually one area of research for me as a recently-minted DevSecOps engineer. Most cybersecurity attacks are relatively unsophisticated, and succeed by being scaled up so much they succeed on a few soft targets anyway - but a Ralph
116.
by hiAndrewQuinn 9mo ago
Anecdata, but uv served as a very good packaging mechanism for a Python library I had to throw on an in extremis box, one that is not connected to the Internet in any way, and one where messing with the system Python was verboten and Dock
117.
Lua is a pretty good config language(til.andrew-quinn.me)
3 points by hiAndrewQuinn 10mo ago|0 comments
118.
by hiAndrewQuinn 10mo ago
I keep toying with the idea of writing a cron that implements a Poisson process. Say I give it a parameter of 3600; our `pcron` would ensure the jobs occur randomly but average out to once per hour, making the timing of the next run indepen
119.
by hiAndrewQuinn 10mo ago
It's great! https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/llm-javascript-github-page...
120.
by hiAndrewQuinn 10mo ago
Merry Christmas to you too! I'm fixing an issue in /etc/networking caused by a non atomic write process. Friends don't let friends copy unguarded!

More ›