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EddTheSDETon My solopreneur story

Hackernews seems overly critical and anti-“hacker” nowadays (new acc but been around for years). Anyone have a guess why that’s the case? Influx of new users?

EddTheSDETon LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”

If they’re trained on a database of hundreds if thousands of top ranked games they’ll beat 90% by following those by rote

EddTheSDETon Mojo: The usability of Python with the performance of C

Which ones?

EddTheSDETon TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning Computing

Could you write to a university near where you’d like to work and ask them for some advice too?

EddTheSDETon GitHub Actions could be so much better

> saves my teammates from dozens of tiny test PRs

May have misread this but you know you can push to one branch and then run the action against it? Would reduce PRs if you're doing that to then check the action in master. You have to add a workflow_dispatch to the action: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/manually-...

EddTheSDETon GitHub Actions could be so much better

I tried Act at one point but couldn't get it to run the whole pipeline correctly, it might have improved since though so I'll try it out again soon

EddTheSDETon GitHub Actions could be so much better

How DO you debug your actions? I spend so long in the commit-action-debug-change loop it’s absurd. I agree with your point re: 2 wholeheartedly though, it makes debugging scripts so much easier too. CI should be runnable locally and GitHub actions, while supported with some tooling, still isn’t very easy to work with like that.

EddTheSDETon Show HN: Mana Pool – Market for Magic Cards

Hey! From a technical point, how did you get all the card images? Is there a way to download them from somewhere?

EddTheSDETon Show HN: Mana Pool – Market for Magic Cards

The most expensive card on the site, Armageddon, is totally new to me (a MTG noob)!

Armageddon

Costs 3 Mana + 1 Plains

Destroy all lands in play!!!

https://manapool.com/card/lea/2/armageddon

EddTheSDETon XML is better than YAML – Hear me out

I once had an issue where something failed in prod but not in test, it was because a MAC address was dynamic and in prod only consisted of numbers so whatever tool we used parsed the Yaml value as a sexagesimal number and threw a type error. Yaml can be interesting…

EddTheSDETon Charlie Munger: Turning $2M Into $2T

I believe OP is talking about the human emotion of flipping that coin the 19th time (or indeed the 18th, or 17th...). While the math might be as simple as doubling x times it's very different to actually do it!