rayxi271828

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by rayxi271828 4mo ago
Many small oh shit moments, mostly of the variety of: "Oh shit, why am I still paying for this app subscription when I can vibecode it myself and just pay less than $1 per month in API costs, if even that?"
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by rayxi271828 4mo ago
Overdramatic: when I saw friends and acquaintances doing this I couldn't help but feeling a slight sense of loss--that we (I) have lost the person. At that point, is the person still even a person? He's nothing more but a meat RPA
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by rayxi271828 6mo ago
Internal assessment of self-worth is one thing. But one thing that I noticed while I was between jobs, was that the rest of the world was also built under the assumption that you "had a job". Sign up for financial anything, they a
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by rayxi271828 7mo ago
I'm about a decade behind you, but I also started my programming career during the "good" COM/DCOM/MFC/ATL/ActiveX/CORBA days. Java just came out. I slept little during that time because truly, there
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Global Intelligence Boom(twitter.com)
2 points by rayxi271828 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rayxi271828 9mo ago
Thank you for the kind words! I had great fun implementing it. Robert Nystrom is such a hero for writing Crafting Interpreters.
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by rayxi271828 9mo ago
Slang? The IDE looked like Turbo C++ of old (blue, text based interface). Shortcuts are weird, so you need to remap keys to get sane defaults. Probably the most unique feature is that the language supports spaces in identifiers. So you&#x27
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by rayxi271828 11mo ago
I love how uv allows me to not think of all the options anymore. virtualenv, venv, pyenv, pipenv... I think at one point the recommended option changed because it was integrated into Python, but I can't even remember which is which any
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by rayxi271828 1y ago
It’s quite the opposite for me. The fun / creative part for me is not googling “how to slurp the contents of a file into a string” or “the exact syntax for marking some functions as unit tests” or “the correct order of symbols to speci
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by rayxi271828 1y ago
Wonder what I'm missing here. A smaller number of repetitive tasks - that's basically just simple coding + some RPA sprinkled on top, no? Once you've settled down on a few well-known paths of action, wouldn't you want to
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by rayxi271828 1y ago
I've been taking these rides 5-6 days a week, everywhere, and also in other countries outside the US. What I've come to realize is this: what matters to me the most is the consistency of the lowest bar of the experience. I get tha
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
Pass the link to NotebookLM and get the podcast hosts to summarize it for you?
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
Men and women will have very different body fat percentage level for similar look. In general it's something like women's = men's +8-9%?
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
Wouldn't AI be worse at Rust than at C++ given the amount of code available in the respective languages?
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
As a teenager, I was fortunate that my Dad bought me a copy of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. Quote: Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. Proactive people recognize that they are
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
Exactly... add to that the requirement that I want to have the peace of mind of being able to accidentally bang the watch against the metal poles of the subway, etc., without damaging it in some ways, and I always end up with a G-Shock.
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
I'm not French but is it just me, or that "bien sûr" pronunciation is atrocious? Also that "parfait" at the end... urgh.
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
Have you tried unstructured.io? So far seems promising.
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
I can imagine so. Would you have a comparison between Claude 3 Opus vs. GPT4o? Which one would you pick?
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
What kind of field / chat interactions does your chatbot do, if you can share? Apart from Klarna I haven't heard any other success in this regard...
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Ask HN: Any GenAI project that moves the business needle?
12 points by rayxi271828 2y ago|14 comments
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
On one hand, there's this. On the other hand, with the toughening of the job market, companies are selecting by degrees and pedigrees more than ever. The last company I worked for is currently doing this exactly, only looking at applic
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
Agree with you. And for specific cases like HFT, the interviews will be a lot more specific in that area anyway, so it would be weird for a "senior developer who doesn't know algorithms" to pass in the first place.
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
> it always frustrates me that I don't hear something, I ask the person to repeat only to not hear it again, usually because they repeat it at the same low level I thought I was the only one with this problem! Someone would make a j
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
Wonder if there's anyone who (1) is reasonably comfortable in some popular programming language(s) and (2) has gone through these exercises could/would share their take on how helpful/useful these are? Context: I've been
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by rayxi271828 2y ago
While it's clear that AI coding assistants still have a long way to go in general, I wonder how yet another startup, presumably based on the same technology at the back, is going to differentiate itself in a material way? There are onl
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by rayxi271828 3y ago
The biggest thing about the whole commute is the delayed negative impact to health in general. This is of course worse in Asian cities with super congested traffic. When you spend 2-3 hours/day commuting, it becomes very hard to mainta
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by rayxi271828 3y ago
> wish they had valued users above all else My interaction with Google is mostly with GCP. It's amazing how they'd invite their customers to the super swanky Google Office, and did the office tours. I think they were genuinel
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by rayxi271828 3y ago
Ask HN: I've never met someone who uses Mathematica, I imagine its users are even rarer outside the academic circles. I've met many who use Matlab, R, Python, Excel, etc. If you're using it, what are you using it for exactly?
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by rayxi271828 3y ago
I'm grateful for my family, for my Mom, for the peace we're in. I'm grateful that I have the means to work out, to read books I want to read, and to rest when I need to. It's an incredible privilege. May you all be bless

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