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Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3(matthewbilyeu.com)
213 points by mbil 4y ago|133 comments
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by mbil 4y ago
As a consumer, Uber was superior to taxis in a number of ways: clearer pricing, competitive pricing, ride sharing, transparent routing, digital history and receipts, integrating with other apps, etc. What damage do you think was done to tr
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by mbil 4y ago
This is correct. Workers rights come from the flexibility and trust that a remote-optional arrangement provides. I live in a small apartment with two working adults. I’d rather work from our kitchen table than from an open office. I believe
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by mbil 4y ago
My company mandated return to office two days a week. I quit and landed a better job that’s remote and with location-independent pay. Working from an office is fine for some. Make it optional. Lots of companies are still hiring. I encourage
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by mbil 4y ago
The oldest living cat drank "an eyedropper full of red wine" every two days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creme_Puff_(cat)#Lifestyle
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by mbil 4y ago
The article's argument against programs like OMSCS is that the only feedback is from teaching assistants. This claim is not true. There is (a) automated grading of programming assignments, so your program runs against unseen test cases
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by mbil 4y ago
I rode in one recently. It was pretty smooth. An interesting thing: the car slowed to a stop in the middle of the street, and I couldn't immediately tell why. There was a row of parked cars on the roadside, and a person was walking aro
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by mbil 4y ago
What "hamfisted choices in Goon Squad " are you referring to?
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by mbil 4y ago
Good question. I thought of an algorithm to find the hex word colors that most closely match the color they represent... Basically: get the color of the _word_ by doing an image search and extracting the dominant color from the first image
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by mbil 4y ago
Riffing on this idea but with no real understanding of the mechanism: could crispr be used to extract the “produces electricity” gene and then put that into bigger organisms?
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by mbil 4y ago
No, sorry, I meant it was easier back when I was using Clojure. Even invoking Java unit tests in the IDE or referencing a Ruby REPL in another window, while fast, are enough to break my concentration. Those seconds of context switching can
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by mbil 4y ago
Used Clojure for ~4 years, doing REPL-driven development in Emacs. Have used Ruby and Java since. Maybe it's a rosy retrospection, but in terms of program production I think that was the most productive I've ever been. Falling int
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by mbil 4y ago
As others have said, Doom seems faster than Spacemacs, especially at startup. Doom has lighter weight config, but it's also less opinionated. I've been using Doom for a while now, and the only thing I missed was Spacemacs' ke
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by mbil 4y ago
Yes, a few bigger than small software development utilities. One I use almost every day is jeo.py, a TUI for scoring Jeopardy! I was initially scoring using a Google sheet, but this is easier to use without looking down at the keyboard. ht
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by mbil 5y ago
"The standard library has a built-in function to invert a binary tree in optimal time..."
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Replit Community Round(twitter.com)
2 points by mbil 5y ago|0 comments
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by mbil 5y ago
Yeah, a clear direct comparison is elusive and maybe impossible. This Reddit thread [0] talks about the difficulties of converting value. I thought it would be thought provoking to see a rough comparison to today's costs through some f
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by mbil 5y ago
I forget where I read this, but haircut cost can be used as a reasonable reference point for translating old prices into today's dollars. Modern basic haircutting is quite similar to what it always has been, and takes about the same am
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by mbil 5y ago
FortNine did a video about this: Why Electric Bikes are More Dangerous than Motorcycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM8Xli2KTzI
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by mbil 5y ago
Congrats on graduating -- I can't imagine doing OMSCS on top of working full time and raising a kid! I completed the program last month, and I wrote about the experience here[0] for anyone interested. [0]: https://tinyurl.co
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by mbil 5y ago
'That thing is made of meat. I can eat meat. I'm going to kill it and eat it' I am made of meat -- hopefully we don't cross paths!
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by mbil 5y ago
I think there’s a lot of biotech development underway that will make our world look fundamentally different in the future. We’ve seen this a bit with the mRNA covid vaccine. I’m excited about the prospect of novel cancer treatments, crispr
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The War on Stupid People (2016)(theatlantic.com)
4 points by mbil 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Eprompt – a small Python script for writing via email(github.com)
1 points by mbil 5y ago|0 comments
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by mbil 5y ago
Neat! I think a martingale strategy would also have been fun.
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by mbil 5y ago
perhaps this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28735441
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by mbil 5y ago
I switched. Doom starts much faster and feels generally snappier and more minimal. I like the configuration system. I use this Spacemacs module for Doom[0] to retain (most of) the Spacemacs keybindings and some of the functionality. [0] ht
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by mbil 5y ago
incredibly high voice And what exactly counts as "frivolous"?
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by mbil 5y ago
I haven't used CL so I can't comment on the differences between CL's C interop and Clojure's Java interop. But when I worked at a Clojure shop, "finding solid libraries" was never an issue, because we used Java
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by mbil 5y ago
> Finding solid libraries is tricky since it's not very popular professionally. If we're considering Clojure, then I would argue this point isn't true. Java interoperability in Clojure is really well supported and easy to

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