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beacon294··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
This is very inexpensive. What is your workflow and savings techniques! I can spend $10/h or more with very short sessions and few files.
beacon294··on An end to all this prostate trouble?
I am also not too satisfied by this problem. Newport says city walking increases decision fatigue instead of decreasing it. It seems like another point against urban environments. I still walk to and through city parks and I feel it helps me, but I take the same designed route every time to reduce decision fatigue. I think it still helps.
beacon294··on The Post-Developer Era
I had them write me performance tests. I guess I could go back to that and ask it to improve the code based on the output. You can feed the output automatically now with Roo Code, Aider, Cline, windsurf, cursor, augment, etc.
beacon294··on An end to all this prostate trouble?
Walking is considered by einstein and pretty much all thinkers to be critical to deep work. It's also covered in Cal Newport's book "deep work" briefly. Which is a short audiobook worth reading.

One such prescription would be to do deep work early in the day then walk after and walk again 2 hours before bed. Another would be split the deep work with a 1 hour walk and do the 2nd walk after the 2nd block.

It may be more fulfilling with lots of interesting ideas rattling around. YMMV

beacon294··on The Post-Developer Era
> LLMs are not going to benchmark your code

If I may focus on this particular line without invalidating the rest of the content -- why aren't they going to benchmark the code?

beacon294··on Googler... ex-Googler
Have you written anywhere about your product creation? I would like to create a product and it seems like there's a lot of unique things to get past. I'm looking for resources.
beacon294··on Mass grave of Roman soldiers found under Vienna sports field
401 - unauthorized
beacon294··on Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
Replace "profitable" with "popular with management" and you're right on the money. Just don't get caught holding the hot potato when the wind shifts. And good luck figuring out when that is.
beacon294··on Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
Well, our society defaults many people to serving money so having escaped the immediate serfdom of debt and even short term cashflow, people can make more balanced choices.
beacon294··on Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
There's even more to the riddle. Lithium recycling, cost of the power loss in old cells. Power transmit cost. Cost of power generation on site.
beacon294··on Has the decline of knowledge work begun?
Historically sports was self paying and a massive benefit. I don't know what the score has been for the last 2 decades.
beacon294··on California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers
It seems like you can sue them. This is purely legal's domain.
beacon294··on Zlib-rs is faster than C
They add mercaptan which is like 1000x the rotten egg smell of H2S.
beacon294··on Repairable Flatpack Toaster
I had a 60s kitchenaid and it was super loud, possibly over 90 db. Additionally, it had square corners where stuff got stuck, couldn't handle some solids well, and to wash it you often had to remove the blade and gasket.

One interesting thing was a gimmick about heating soup with the blender using solely friction.

I eventually bought a modern plastic refurb which has been a dream. I do think it is a shame that it won't last 50 years.

beacon294··on Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
I agree that the SDK is better for many use cases. I do like terraform for static resources like aws vpc, networking, s3 buckets, etc.
beacon294··on Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
> If you really do think that Terraform is code, then go try and make multiple DNS records for each random instance ID based on a dynamic number of instances. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can do that in Terraform.

It's possible a few ways. I prefer modules, and this LLM answer describes an older way with count and for_each.

It's always possible that incantation of the problem space has a gotcha that needs a work around, but I doubt it would be a blocker.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/if-you-really-do-think-that...

beacon294··on Linux laptop maker called me a Zombie
I've been wiping windows since 2015, before that I did dual boot.

In part the gaming support has improved.

I don't know if it's possible to give an answer to "most linux laptop users".

Nowadays you can find very detailed compatibility for arch on the arch wiki. There are some footguns like s3 sleep. It's better documented and many laptops will do pretty well.

beacon294··on There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer
dog race and dog quarter
beacon294··on There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer
I've never heard dog leg before.
beacon294··on Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers
Why do you consider the use of story points for those 2 cases "abuse of metrics"?
beacon294··on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope
I also discovered the dive / ice water reflex sometimes helped my migraine. The reason I tested it is because caffeine supposedly releases some chemicals related to the same chemicals that are released when you vomit. Since my migraines always ceased after vomiting, I used these other methods to induce the same chemical response in the brain.

I now keep Excedrin migraine on hand (has caffeine). However, my migraines completely ceased after I stopped using nasal steroid spray and started with an allergy nasal spray.

beacon294··on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope
I had migraines which ceased when I switched from a steroid nasal spray to an allergy nasal spray. I guess the steroid spray was not good for my brain.

Edit: I even reintroduced the spray 2 years later (out of allergy spray) and had another migraine. It was surprising, as I only used it for a few days.

beacon294··on Who carved South America's mysterious ancient tunnels? [pdf]
I think they were carved by "the builders"...
beacon294··on I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
I think are joking, but have to mention that Acetone is not expected to cause cancer, at this time.
beacon294··on 'The Licensing Racket’ Review: There's a Board for That
Can you provide more details on why they and not doctors can resist?
beacon294··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Reducing any judgment out of your comment, you have to admit that the commenter's action was a successful comprehension strategy they learned from and can use in the future without chatgpt.
beacon294··on The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
Not sure why you got flagged.

This is good advice, work is not a one size fits all solution for self actualization. Most workers just want to fill their requirements and do something meaningful to them with the rest of their time.

I especially like your point about enjoying the fruits of mastery of a task.

beacon294··on Guide to mechanical keyboards
The Q14 preserves some similar placement but not all. The Q13 has 4 configurable keys in the top right.

https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q14-max-alice-lay...

beacon294··on Cognitive load is what matters
I don't think the readers really care about the scientific term in this context. It's a shared experience that we care about and implicitly understand. It's probably worth "researching" (in the scientific sense).
beacon294··on Ghost artists on Spotify
It's possible to care only in some modes of your being.
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