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by jjice 2y ago
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan. Brian wrote The C Programming Language (the book), along with many other great books. He worked at Bell Labs during the time of Unix and it's a casual, whimsical telling of some of the h
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by jjice 2y ago
Oh goodness I’m a fool to not have tried that. I’ll absolutely give that a go next time!
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by jjice 2y ago
I kind of agree. I’ve had very mixed experiences with LLMs and DSLs. I was writing an NRQL query (New Relic’s log query language) and wanted to essentially do a GROUP BY date_trunc. It kept giving me options that I was eager for, and then t
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by jjice 2y ago
I'm the same way. A friend of mine bought a new couch because she wanted a change of pace, so I came over to help her. I have no idea how that couch got in. I ended up literally sawing it in half (it was an old, beat down couch) to be
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by jjice 2y ago
Very interesting article. I'd be interested to know if a M-series Mac Mini (this article was early 2023, so there should've been M1 and M2) would have also filled this role just fine. > My preliminary speed tests were fairly sl
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by jjice 2y ago
After getting an iPhone and exploring some of their API documentation after being really impressed with system provided features, I'm blown away by the stuff that's available. My app experience on iOS vs Android is night and day.
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by jjice 2y ago
That extra $15 a month is for access to LLMs. They currently support the Claudes, the GPTs (not o1), Mistral, Gemini, Llamma, Qwen QWQ, Nova, and DeepSeek. It's currently unlimited access in the standard chat format. You can also choos
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by jjice 2y ago
Yeah I've seen this as well with self betterment non-fiction > If you read a few of these books, you inevitably notice the patterns: every chapter begins with an anecdote... It really feels like padding sometimes. I've read som
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by jjice 2y ago
Absolutely agreed. Bogleheads is an absolute treasure of discussion and I've gotten some excellent tax planning advice there. It's one of the few sites in my reading rotation with HN. MMM's forum is also a classic. I don&#x27
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by jjice 2y ago
I'd hate to have this kind of pressure every day, but a week long sprint like this does sound like it was kind of fun. These things can _suck_ when they're out of nowhere and there's a lot of pressure, but I've also had
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by jjice 2y ago
I get where they're coming from though. Having trailing commas work in some common cases but most other cases where there are commas would be weird and definitely result in confusion. More confusion that knowing that trailing commas ar
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by jjice 2y ago
I still search quite a bit, but with Kagi. I've been increasingly using their quick answer feature (sufficing a query with a question mark), which prompts a RAG (I think) LLM response. It blows my mind that Kagi's output with thei
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by jjice 2y ago
These are the kinds of stories I love from HN! Stories of theory meeting practice are my absolute favorite. My dad got me a set of TAoCP a few years back as a birthday gift (before 4b) and I realized that I do not have the background to eve
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by jjice 2y ago
I had a PebbleTime back in the day. It was such an awesome watch. 7ish days of battery with an always on display that had no glare (all because of e-ink). All the foundations of a smart watch, to me at least, like notifications, text respon
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by jjice 2y ago
4 per week? I see the ad-free price now is $16. 4 per week would be 16 per month. Most rentals I've seen (through something like Amazon) run $4. Am I missing a cheaper rental service that runs about $1 per film?
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by jjice 2y ago
These are neat, I’ve been seeing them around the web for a week or so now. That said, I’ve actually come around in the other direction. I was big on paper for lots of things, but have recently begun using my phone more for things like notes
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by jjice 2y ago
Completely agree. Sounds like we're similarly on the older end of Gen Z, and getting off social media in my first year of college was excellent. I get messages in my group chats from friends being pissed off (often rightfully) by thing
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by jjice 2y ago
The thing I appreciate most about Kagi is their "Quick Answer" option. Suffixing a question mark on a query to give me a high quality, cited RAG (?) AI summary has been such a nice option for quick answers.
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by jjice 2y ago
> I don't trust the product's ability to stay around. I also generally have this mindset, but I've come to think of it through the lens of me getting a better experience for a while and going back down to what I had before
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by jjice 2y ago
Oh my goodness, this is a huge treat. His class networking programming guide sits at one of my top books of all time. Well written, informative, concise, and legitimately get you to chuckle out loud at points. Edit: Does anyone know a good
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by jjice 2y ago
Oh thanks for the rec! I was aware that Moment was marking itself as legacy, but Day.js looks like a bonus here. Hopefully we can begin making the Temporal transition over the next few years though.
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by jjice 2y ago
About a year and a half ago or so, I swear there was one of these every few days. It's been better lately, but GitHub has generally been the shakiest service I use daily.
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by jjice 2y ago
Wow, this is great! We were using the proposal library at my job when I first joined, but switched to moment since Temporal seemed frozen. For what it's worth, moment is excellent too, but having good datetime support in the standard l
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by jjice 2y ago
PayPal was definitely a useful thing years ago. Now, online payments are way better than they used to be. Before though, PayPal was a nice layer to send money without checks. I got some of my earliest internet payments via PayPal when it st
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by jjice 2y ago
The best hires I’ve ever been around have been from a previous connection to someone. It’s so much easier. Unfortunately, none of our small team had someone fitting who wasn’t looking to make a job change at this point. I do have a few frie
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by jjice 2y ago
I bet there were definitely some viable candidates in there, but I don’t think we had the resources to properly screen with the volume we got, so unfortunately, we didn’t get to sit down with them.
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by jjice 2y ago
Anecdotally, I'm using a 27" 4K LG monitor I got in about mid 2017, so going on eight years now, and I've never had an issue with the nub, except that when the monitor turns on, it will automatically pull up the nub menu afte
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by jjice 2y ago
I work for a small YC startup and we have recently wanted to hire another engineer. Our CTO posted a listing on WorkAtAStartup and within two or so days, got over 200 applicants. Apparently, WorkAtAStartup (which I've used successfully
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by jjice 2y ago
Oh wow okay thank you for the context
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by jjice 2y ago
I don't know a lot about image generation models, but 1B sounds super low for this kind of model, so I'm pretty impressed, personally.

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