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by timfsu 1y ago
Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code &#
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by timfsu 1y ago
Really interesting article, unfortunately it seems quite lucrative to scam seniors, and very hard to prevent, especially when they don’t think they’re being scammed.
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by timfsu 1y ago
I understood it to be the reverse - they advertise on LinkedIn, and the trackers determine whether the users convert once they click through. Not great, but at least not as ill intentioned
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by timfsu 1y ago
Happy mrge user here - congrats on the launch! It’s encouraged our team to do more stacked PRs and made every review a bit nicer
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by timfsu 2y ago
Using a time-based expiration rather than a usage-based expiration should help
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by timfsu 2y ago
I appreciate the author’s openness in sharing their experience - it’s really worthwhile to share experiences where money isn’t everything, and that it can be a poor generator of meaning. Speaking of meaning, I think it’s a task for everyone
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by timfsu 2y ago
Big fan of mise, moved over from asdf and never looked back! kudos jdx
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by timfsu 2y ago
This sounds like an incentive to fire/outsource all of your lower-paid employees
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by timfsu 2y ago
That's wonderful - I used to solder with a cheap iron until university. A nice iron gets a lot hotter, and it makes everything easier and faster. It may not matter for keyboards, but on a small PCB where everything is a few mm part, th
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by timfsu 2y ago
This is quite a pessimistic article with some sweeping generalizations across tech… it may be true in some places but I disagree that software engineering is at its core fungible (yet)
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by timfsu 2y ago
Cool project! I clicked on it hoping it was a way to easily visualize my own personal stats. Anyone know of a project like that? Grafana for personal data :)
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by timfsu 2y ago
Loved this article. My two "superpowers" as a dad - superglue and new batteries. Sometimes I get to bring out the soldering iron - my wife will bring things home from Buy Nothing so I can fix it, the kids play with it for a day, a
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by timfsu 2y ago
Congrats! I was an angel investor in a regional transit airline ( https://www.surfair.com/ ) - there are a lot of wonderful places out there especially in the US that folks aren't traveling to because of logistics. As so
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by timfsu 2y ago
If someone ever invented a gun that is guaranteed to never fire when pointed at a human, assuming the safeguards were non-trivial to bypass, that would certainly improve gun violence, in the same way that a fingerprint lock reduces gun viol
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by timfsu 2y ago
This is a fascinating idea - although I wish the definition of search in the LLM context was expanded a bit more. What kind of search capability strapped onto current-gen LLMs would give them superpowers?
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by timfsu 2y ago
This sounds like what a lot of companies do - except the scaled problem with this approach (and the certification approach of the grandparent) is that most companies want to avoid candidates who've memorized a specific solution, as the
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by timfsu 2y ago
This. I built my last company on elixir. Deployments of clustered BEAM in cloud VMs are far more complex than load-balancing across node or python servers, not to mention serverless. Any custom genservers we wrote always had stability issue
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by timfsu 2y ago
Distill | Software Engineer | Remote (PST Overlap) | Full time | $120k-220k USD + equity Distill builds high quality profiles of people and companies using AI. If: - you think scraping, knowledge graphs, and wrestling with LLMs sounds like
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by timfsu 3y ago
Congrats on the launch, I'm excited to give it a try. I'm curious how you're having it edit files in place - having built a similar project last summer, I had trouble with reliably getting it to patch files with correct line
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by timfsu 3y ago
Not OP, but I understood that to mean any difference in IQ below average (100) has a high impact on success, but differences above 100 have relatively less impact
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by timfsu 3y ago
I'm still maintaining Delphi software that my dad wrote in the 90s and is actively used today. Delphi (and Windows, which can still run it!) is pretty amazing, even if writing Pascal is less pleasant than most modern languages due to t
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by timfsu 3y ago
I returned the Steam Deck when I received it - it was larger than expected and just didn't feel ergonomic. The Portal on the other hand almost feels like holding the DualSense. It's a nice, though limited, device.
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by timfsu 3y ago
This is true for the user, but not good enough for developers, who unfortunately need to stay on top of all of this to build functioning software. If users report bugs you can’t repro, you may have to dive into all of these. And that’s the
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by timfsu 3y ago
That was a regular frontend bug though, not an issue with the LLM
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by timfsu 3y ago
Another reason number domains are popular in Asia is that they are much easier to type, especially historically on mobile
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by timfsu 3y ago
V8 has had concurrent GC for a while - https://v8.dev/blog/concurrent-marking
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by timfsu 3y ago
Seems like an extreme headline, as these images were clearly tagged as generated by AI. If someone buys the image and uses it to mislead, it doesn't seem like that's Adobe's fault, as real photography can and has been used in
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by timfsu 3y ago
Organizations are generally pyramids, where you have fewer people on top than on the bottom. You can't promote everyone, so you have to decide on criteria - and hard work in software engineering isn't always high-leverage work. In
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by timfsu 3y ago
Product CEO only works for companies where the product sells itself, which in my experience is only a small fraction of companies
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by timfsu 3y ago
As a YC founder, YC doesn't teach founders anything when it comes to how to split equity. The economics you're describing is a function of (overly) high valuations in private markets, which leads to equity grants that don't a

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