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by ilitirit 1y ago
I switched to iPhone from Android for a few months earlier this year. I don't think I qualify as an elderly person yet (I'm 47) but even I had trouble figuring things out. I don't think it was super-hard to use, but I often f
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Dyson spheres are a joke [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ilitirit 1y ago|0 comments
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by ilitirit 1y ago
I would recommend watching Curt Jaimungal's series of talks with Jacob Barandes. He gives a nice background history of various aspects of QM, including the formulation of Matrix and Wave mechanics (and loads of other ideas). Barandes i
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by ilitirit 1y ago
I don't really have that much of an issue with vibe coding as an appropriate tool in experienced hands. I think the worst ideas in 2025 are probably related to IT execs pushing AI in the wrong ways, or people espousing vibe coding as s
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Aligned, multiple-transient events in the First Palomar Sky Survey(researchgate.net)
2 points by ilitirit 1y ago|1 comments
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by ilitirit 1y ago
Pre-print of a paper which studied 1950 "transients" which - in tl;dr terms - might be evidence of artificial objects in orbit before the satellite era. Recent comment from one of the main authors: https://x.com&#x2
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by ilitirit 1y ago
> In that snippet are links to Postgres docs and two blog posts Yes, that's what a snippet generally is. The generated document from my very basic research prompt is over 300k in length. There are also sources from the official
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by ilitirit 1y ago
What is wrong with you? Why would you even bother posting a comment like this? Maybe you also don't know what ChatGPT Research is (the Enterprise version, if you really need to know), or what Executive Summary implies, but here's
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by ilitirit 1y ago
> The structured data gets written to our Postgres database by tens of thousands of simultaneous writers. Each of these writers is a “meeting bot”, which joins a video call and captures the data in real-time. Maybe I missed it in some fo
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by ilitirit 1y ago
I'd like to see stats on how many people are getting arrested for petty crimes e.g. marijuana (which isn't even a crime in some contexts any more) back then vs now.
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by ilitirit 1y ago
I currently have a big problem with AI-generated code and some of the junior devs on my team. Our execs keep pushing "vibe-coding" and agentic coding, but IMO these are just tools. And if you don't know how to use the tools e
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by ilitirit 1y ago
100%. YouTube is a chapter in a textbook about how to destroy UX. I actually cancelled my YT Premium sub after this latest change with the thumbnails. I realised it doesn't really offer me that much value, and often using the platform
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by ilitirit 2y ago
Here's some of what I think is my personal best advice: Learn to live in the gray areas. Don't be dogmatic. The world isn't black and white. Take some parts of the black and white. And, don't be afraid to change your min
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by ilitirit 2y ago
It still blows my mind how dogmatic some people can be about things like this. I don't understand why anyone takes these things as gospel. Who else has had to deal with idiots who froth at the mouth when you exceed an 80 line character
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by ilitirit 2y ago
> I think what we're attempting to define is something closer to seasoned developer. I'm fully aware of that, which is why "Senior" is in double-quotes, but experienced (aka "seasoned") is not. My point is
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by ilitirit 2y ago
Hard to disagree. I can usually tell what type of type of experience devs have by the snarky, dismissive responses I've gotten on various internet forums over the last two decades. e.g. "Oh but you would never have this problem if
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by ilitirit 2y ago
I have used a myriad of programming languages in production in my nearly 25 years of professional programming. There are things I love (almost never "hate") about most languages. But the reason C# is one of my favourite languages
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by ilitirit 2y ago
> give feedback to such a person will get you this response: "you need to earn trust and learn to disagree and commit" Sure, but you won't get fired, right? Even so, this is just about dealing in general with people who ha
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by ilitirit 2y ago
This title of my article doesn't make much sense to me. Why would you get fired for giving feedback? Is this just a US thing? I give feedback to my superiors all the time, and expect my subordinates to do the same. In fact, as far as m
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by ilitirit 2y ago
I'm dealing with related issues at work right. Leadership is beating us over the head with the "innovation" hammer, without any consideration why and where they want to innovate. This mandate is a recipe for disaster in t
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Ask HN: Devs: Do you find any value in Arrange, Act Assert comments in tests?
1 points by ilitirit 2y ago|2 comments
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by ilitirit 2y ago
I bet he could care less.
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by ilitirit 2y ago
I've always thought that people misunderstood nonplussed because they interpret it as "not fussed".
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by ilitirit 2y ago
> One does things like this because one is afraid of being assailed by pedants and made to feel inferior. Do you pronounce "tortoise" like "bourgeoise" because you don't want to sound inferior? I jest, but it&#x2
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by ilitirit 2y ago
I not sure what you're talking about. I'm referring to things where pronunciation is generally based on the etymology. I don't think the word "adjective" falls into this category. One could perhaps make a case for
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by ilitirit 2y ago
On a tangential note, one of my pet peeves is the way that many people (mostly Americans?) pronounce words like "processes" as "process-eez". Words with Greek roots that end in -is or -es generally use the -eez suf
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by ilitirit 3y ago
I was watching one of his vids recently about C++ tricks and he talked about one time he submitted about 1m changed lines of Windows source code in a single commit, to a repo that didn't even support branching. It's crazy how devs
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by ilitirit 3y ago
Why does Bruno require ffmpeg?
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by ilitirit 3y ago
Is it really that hard to write sensible comments? Well, after a few decades writing software, I've come to the conclusion that yes, yes it is. But just because it can be hard to write a good comment it doesn't mean you need to
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by ilitirit 3y ago
I've had to do this several times in the past. Honestly, my best advice would probably be make several backups, then to do as little as possible. If you need to make a small change, fine. Bigger changes? Consider if you can't do t

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