snicky

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by snicky 7d ago
Oh boy, I've spent more hours playing it than I dare to admit. I won over 10000 battle.net games ... on just one of my several accounts :) When the SC2 beta came out, I played about 50-100 games and never bought the full game, because
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by snicky 12d ago
How would one define self-awareness?
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by snicky 12d ago
An AI that hacks and rules the world! Oh, wait ...
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by snicky 23d ago
Senior/Staff Backend/Full Stack Engineer Location: Poland, Europe Remote: Yes (11 YoE working remotely, EST/PST timezones OK too) Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity Tech: * Backend -
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by snicky 1mo ago
Or from keeping AirDrop enabled all the time.
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by snicky 1mo ago
I just came back from Hungary and Slovakia and it really caught my attention that the grass everywhere was just yellow. I wasn't sure if it's normal by this time of the year, but truely, both countries look like Greece now.
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by snicky 3mo ago
Not OP and I don't, but I know a few people who are very active on LI with their daily self-promotion posts only barely disguised as thoughtful remarks about the industry and this seems to be helping them to get into upper mgmt roles i
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by snicky 3mo ago
Senior Backend/Full Stack Engineer | Team Lead Location: Poland, Europe Remote: Yes (11 YoE working remotely, EST/PST timezones OK too) Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity Tech: * Backend
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by snicky 4mo ago
I usually prefer to make a detailed plan for my trip, but I allow myself to break free from it anytime I find something more interesting to do. This way I'm more sure that I won't waste too much time or money staying in wrong plac
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by snicky 4mo ago
It sounds weird indeed, but maybe some higher-ups decided this is a way to go in case people need to be isolated again or when it's necessary to hire some remote coworkers who shouldn't be left behind, etc.
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by snicky 4mo ago
I use this default context in ChatGPT and it works pretty well for me: "Tell it like it is. Don't sugar-coat responses. Be concise. Short answers only. No bullet points. One paragraph max. No over-explaining."
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by snicky 4mo ago
I still don't quite get it given I have never worked high enough or in a big enough corp. What kind of mission a person earning $19k a day have to do at the destination to justify the cost? I imagine to earn this much their main respon
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by snicky 4mo ago
> People never wanted to visit your website; they just wanted the information that your website held. Well, no. It is a boomer talk, but in the 90s the web was so fragmented and unpolished that websites usually looked very different from
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by snicky 4mo ago
Maybe he keeps more plates spinning ... in his side projects. Clearly, developers are expected to produce more results with LLMs and switch between contexts quickly. It shouldn't be surprising that everyone may be running their own thi
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by snicky 6mo ago
God, those self-indulging posts on LI are the worst. Sometimes it feels like half of the world's compute is wasted on that.
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by snicky 6mo ago
I played it years ago and sorry, it didn't rock my world even for 5 minutes. It's a very naive story with a jump-scare sort of ending that totally didn't work for me, because it was well expected. The story felt very underwhe
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by snicky 6mo ago
Cool, but unfortunately, it has the same same drawbacks as cash. If you get scammed, accidentally pay too much or lose your wallet you will never get it back. I sleep safer knowing that there is some protection in the banking system against
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by snicky 6mo ago
IIRC BLIK asks you if you want to skip the verification next time you buy from the same merchant.
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by snicky 6mo ago
> * take home assignments where they say "we recommend you to not spend more than x hours on this", but then, they expect a very sophisticated work and will reject you if you turn-in a "simple" implementation. Maybe t
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by snicky 7mo ago
I'm in a similar age and career point and have similar feelings about my SE job atm. Can you share more about your transition to the researcher role? What field are you in, how did you get there, what problems did you encounter, etc.
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Ask HN: Is there anyone working at Meta who could help with a stolen FB account?
2 points by snicky 7mo ago|1 comments
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by snicky 7mo ago
I agree with you in general, but come on - learning is easier (unless you need to dive into highly specialized stuff), writing shorter chunks of code is faster, simple photo editing ("remove this and that from the background") doe
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by snicky 7mo ago
GitHub Releases link is broken. The dash in "off-grid" is missing.
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by snicky 8mo ago
A friend of mine owned a site once. At some point he couldn't figure out how to fix a frontend bug that appeared on IE only. In the end he was so pissed that instead of fixing the bug, he decided to stick a couple of additional Adsense
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by snicky 8mo ago
> 2. The writing system, which because it's not phonetic requires essentially the same level of effort as learning an entirely new language (beyond spoken Chinese). This is an interesting observation. Another one that I sometimes me
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by snicky 8mo ago
This reminds of a person I read about on HN years ago - a Russian guy who escaped from the USSR jumping off a cruise liner and swimming a couple of days to Philippines. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Kurilo
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by snicky 9mo ago
It could also explain why most of us can eat like pigs in all-you-can-eat buffets.
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by snicky 9mo ago
And it feels like half of the world's compute is wasted on those self-indulgent cringe posts now.
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by snicky 9mo ago
Semi-related opinion, but it really boggles me how people can be such a*holes to leave spam all over the internet and keep turning it into a cesspit. If a company does it in such an obvious way it has to be systematic, meaning that someone
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by snicky 9mo ago
Back in my days this was called "trolling".

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