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by simplyluke 6mo ago
I'd also add that from the perspective of an employee in the industry, Tim Cook has had a remarkably steady hand throughout multiple business cycles in the industry that have made Apple a much better place to work than many of the othe
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
I'm seeing a lot of sentiment, and agree with a lot of it, that opus 4.6 un-nerfed is there already and for many if not most software use cases there's more value to be had in tooling, speed, and cost than raw model intelligence.
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
I'm much closer to your persona than a professional designer. 5 years ago if I was going to spin up a landing page for a side project I was probably getting something mediocre together with bootstrap or material UI. Today I'd prob
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Those were both narratives going around, but one was clearly winning in terms of volume, and that's what I'm speaking to here. The dismissal towards the open source models has always smelled more like marketing campaigns to me tha
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
I think most users of websites like reddit, x, and yes even HN don't realize how much traffic is inorganic. Marketing firms, government agencies, and many other interested parties with money to burn are absolutely aware that you search
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
My mom had to lay down a rule that if I called her at a weird hour I needed to open with whether or not I was okay. Almost 30 now and still do the same thing.
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Easily less than 10% of my time spent using a phone today involves making phone calls, and I think that's far from an outlier. You'll cause mild panic in a sizable share of people under 30 if you call them without a warning text.
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
This is one of the many reasons I don't think the model companies are going to win the application space in coding. There's literally zero context lost for me in switching between model providers as a cursor user at work. For pers
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
My standing assumption is the darling company/model will change every quarter for the foreseeable future, and everyone will be equally convinced that the hotness of the week will win the entire future. As buyers, we all benefit from a
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
I'm occasionally reminded the HN's commenting base is much larger than my niche in the industry (VC backed startups + large public tech companies is my background). I had a similar reaction to people thinking Peter Bailis going fr
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Who is better positioned to pilot the LLM than a domain expert? "Software engineer" as a job title has included a lot of people who write near-zero-code, at least at the higher levels of the career ladder, for years prior to LLMs.
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
I understand that logic, but as a counter, my time and frustration are worth something to me. I've actually owned both a Vitamix and a Ninja, and start basically every morning with a blended combo of protein/fruits/frozen gre
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
In some ways. The asterisk on it that gets really frustrating for me is that there are often SKUs manufactures make for them that are actually worse in meaningful ways. I almost bought my Bosche dishwasher from them last year, because it
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Washington's legislation that just passed includes a vague ban on possession of any files/instructions on 3d printing and CNC/milling/basically any manufacturing. As far as I can tell it's potentially illegal to own
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
As far as I've been able to find, that's basically the only documented case of a criminal use of a 3d printed gun. His also malfunctioned every shot during the crime. Legislators point towards the rise of "ghost guns" in
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> we should be giving EVERY kid who wants one a free 3D Printer so they can learn to tinker, be creative, and build things Totally agree. Ironically, I think it'd do a lot more to reduce gun violence than any of these laws given the
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
The 3d printer gun legislation has been rearing its head in a bunch of states this year, and generally with very similar patterns. I suspect some of the pro-gun-control groups have been pushing it to lawmakers given most legislation is basi
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Split into individual PRs, which works better for how a lot of companies do code review.
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Microservices, by the sound of the original comment
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
If you want to dispel a bit more of the ever-pervasive online pessimism bias, read up on global rates of hunger the last time we flew to the moon (1972) vs now. The reality is, for all the problems we face today, there's no sane answer
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Fashion seems like the right analogy. I think about how many sentences I speak today that would have been incompressible to me ~15 years ago and not even due to recent events/technology, but just because our slang/humor has evolve
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> I'm below average at something (painting, say) the results astound me. But if I'm above average (programming, writing (I like to think)), I'm generally underwhelmed by the results. Industrial scale dunning kruger/g
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
It's pretty widely accepted in the climbing world that the primary effect of altitude in the short-term is a reduction in your cardiovascular fitness. The better your heart is at getting oxygen into your muscles and organs, the better
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Speaking from experience in the mountains: 12k at rest and 12k under subsequent days of exercise produce very different responses. What might be a mild headache sitting in the back of a plane could be a pretty distinct AMS case lugging a pa
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> Today engineers really just need to define those high-level technical requirements. At least within our company, this is quickly becoming what it means to be a software engineer.
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
This is a struggle I've also been having. It's easier when I have 10 simple problems as a part of one larger initiative/project. Think like "we had these 10 minor bugs/tweaks we wanted to make after a demo review&qu
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Daily cursor user who's been previewing this a bit while it was in alpha. I think it's a really solid release, and while cursor seems to have fallen out of the "cool kids club" in the past three months it remains the mos
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
This, at least for me, has changed in the past six months. Which is the same thing people were saying in the months prior to that, so I will accept some eye rolls. But at least for our pretty large monorepo opus + a lot of engineering work
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
I think that's more fashion than anything. Every company I've worked at has still had a few engineers who insist on working exclusively in the CLI with vim/emacs prior to AI. Every other engineer used some flavor of a desktop
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by simplyluke 7mo ago
I pray to never reach a point of cynicism where my response to watching humans leave the planet on a rocket is immediately "meh, whatever, here's my political complaint of the week" Global hunger's a great example. When

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