kiernanmcgowan

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by kiernanmcgowan 2mo ago
I'm maybe thinking about finding a spot along one of the river walks. Will require more planning around finding the right angle but it should naturally allow for more space for people vs the bridges. Found an app called SunSurveyor tha
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by kiernanmcgowan 2mo ago
Also on my way there - I’m curious how packed the city is going to be. I imagine the bridges are going to be absolutely packed
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by kiernanmcgowan 3mo ago
"rm -rf ./" can't be that expensive, right?
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by kiernanmcgowan 4mo ago
My guess are people who want to PC game but don't want to deal with building a PC themselves - there's a decent market of pre-built gaming PCs that this would be competitive with. https://www.newegg.com/Gaming-Desk
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by kiernanmcgowan 4mo ago
Such good news - for those looking for a relaxing hobby fly fishing is an excellent sport to get into. You spend all day standing in a river trying to out smart some fish and trout are exceptionally beautiful creatures up close.
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by kiernanmcgowan 5mo ago
Mythos has broken containment
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by kiernanmcgowan 6mo ago
> Champion was acquired from HanesBrands in October 2024 for $1.2 billion... I was wondering why these shirts went to hell. This was probably my favorite brand in the 2010s. Super durable and thick cotton shirts. I'd still be wearin
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by kiernanmcgowan 6mo ago
Hypothesis: customer says something is bugged Antithesis: the tests pass with 100% coverage Synthesis: the bug is a feature
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by kiernanmcgowan 6mo ago
This is, by far, one of the weirdest places I've ever visited. Tonal whiplash is an understatement.
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by kiernanmcgowan 6mo ago
"We have a beautiful moon rise, we're heading right at it" got me a little choked up. Here's to the ever unfolding adventure of mankind.
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by kiernanmcgowan 8mo ago
My biggest road blocks as an engineer has almost never been the authorship of code but everything else around it. * Getting code reviewed * Making sure its actually solving the problem * Communicating to the rest of the team whats happening
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by kiernanmcgowan 8mo ago
Its tooling like this that really makes golang an excellent language to work with. I had missed that rangeint addition to the language but with go fix I'll just get that improvement for free! Real kudos to the golang team.
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by kiernanmcgowan 8mo ago
Slight counter point - claude code is basically the only developer tool that ever been happy to pay money for. Getting the entire software industry to give you $200/mo/person is quite the market.
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by kiernanmcgowan 8mo ago
Do you think Margaret Thatcher had Girl Power? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6RF5ChKYQ
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by kiernanmcgowan 8mo ago
MechaHitler now has space launch capabilities
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by kiernanmcgowan 9mo ago
I've read Dune - I know exactly where this is going. Please do not apply sand trout directly to you skin unless you are ready to control the spice.
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by kiernanmcgowan 9mo ago
Out of date and worth an update https://kiernan.io/
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by kiernanmcgowan 9mo ago
LLMs are really great at copy/pasting answers from stack overflow and fitting them to work in a given system. If your work is outside what is answerable on stack overflow you're going to end up fighting the results constantly. Fro
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Ask HN: What did you learn in 2025?
21 points by kiernanmcgowan 9mo ago|8 comments
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by kiernanmcgowan 9mo ago
It’s also a direct usage tax to support road maintenance. Heavier users of the road ways end up contributing more to the maintenance of the public good. We had a proxy for that via gasoline taxes but with EV becoming more common we need to
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by kiernanmcgowan 9mo ago
Because 18F was from the Obama administration
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by kiernanmcgowan 9mo ago
Gravity's Rainbow - still chewing on it all
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by kiernanmcgowan 10mo ago
Its a funny take because this reddit thread seems to suggest the opposite. Pro se litigants (people representing themselves) are using LLMs to create more lawsuits resulting in more work for lawyers. https://www.reddit.com/r
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by kiernanmcgowan 10mo ago
I’m working on a burrito artillery system. It’s the ideal form factor for high velocity chorizo but the delivery tends to make a mess.
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Ring of Fire(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by kiernanmcgowan 10mo ago|0 comments
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by kiernanmcgowan 1y ago
You may not care about politics, but politics cares about you.
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by kiernanmcgowan 1y ago
Whats going to be delivered first - Tesla FSD or a space based data center?
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by kiernanmcgowan 1y ago
Give it a listen! It’s a real gem of a show
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by kiernanmcgowan 1y ago
This American Life really does live up to its name - its a real slice of American culture / society on any given week. I imagine its going to be a wellspring of understanding our time for future anthropologists and historians.
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by kiernanmcgowan 1y ago
> After peaking at just more than 1.6 million Americans in 2009 > But a prison is a portrait of what happened five, 10, and 20 years ago. Is this just a result of the dropping crime rates since the mid 90s, but on a 20ish year lag?

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