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gompertz··on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
Just gave it a whirl and it works pretty good. It doesn't seem like you can force hashcards to let you re-review your deck at anytime though as its on a scheduler. (Imagine this is by design of SRS, but a bit annoying can't override with a flag).

I think uploading a textbook to NotebookLM and getting it to build out a deck for each chapter will be a great study method.

gompertz··on Ivy League psychologist: 'Bring your whole self to work' is bad advice
I behave this way too. But I also fear it leads to a degree of split personality disorder... and feeling a bit like a fraud.
gompertz··on Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
It also amazes me how incredibly unbrowseable tomshardware is now with all the ads and pop-ups.
gompertz··on Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
This looks amazing. Based on the animated gif, I cant believe how better IRC looks with the text properly indented and separated from the username. Way less visual load!
gompertz··on Canada eyes putting nuclear reactors on the moon
Canada's government can't even release its annual budget. Nuclear reactors on the moon is just pure click bait and I wouldn't expect anything less from CBC.
gompertz··on What Is a Semantic Layer?
Thanks for this. Can you suggest any books that go into these topics with examples?
gompertz··on The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign
People can say what they want about AI, but I find an LLM is far better at summarizing information. It was obvious a human wrote this article and it was way too verbose.
gompertz··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
You're not thinking like a marketing executive. The people who make $400 a week are not the target audience for this product. It's that simple. Not everything is made for Walmart shoppers.
gompertz··on I Don't Have Spotify
Why is Qobuz always missing from these sites? It has superior audio quality beyond all other options.
gompertz··on I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You (2021)
Well played!
gompertz··on Grok Code Fast 1
You can get your own key with cerebras and then use it in openrouter. Its a little hidden, but for each provider you can explicitly provide your own key. Then it won't be throttled.
gompertz··on Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide
And the alternative 'folks' comes off as arrogant to me.
gompertz··on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky
This comment single handedly caused me to sink 4 hours yesterday into exploring nostr and getting lost in it. I agree with your two decade sentiment, great technology.
gompertz··on Alberta no longer sure about big savings from auto insurance reforms
What is this doing on Hacker News.
gompertz··on Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
Curious, has it been proven that typed languages are easier for LLMs to work with as they dont have to infer types?
gompertz··on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data
First poster could have approach better too. Like "Cool site! I think I may see an error on one item?". Instead of going right to a 'wrong' angle as if all the data should be discredited. I get highly triggered by this too.
gompertz··on Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021)
Interesting! I never heard of Cyclone before. Looks like another Bell Labs contribution.
gompertz··on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well
Yep I program in some niche languages like Pike, Snobol4, Unicon. Vibe coding is out of the question for these languages. Forced to use my brain!
gompertz··on CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download
Interesting, thx wasn't aware!
gompertz··on CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download
Yet in Gates' recently released memoir, if you do a ctrl+f for Kildall there are zero results. Unsure how Gates, as a programmer and business founder , could write a memoir without a single blurb for Gary.
gompertz··on How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?
Personally I find a good linter like SonarLint can actually teach you a lot.
gompertz··on SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)
Thanks for sharing this. It's crazy to see videos like this and think how these people had no idea what was coming in the future.
gompertz··on DB48X: High Performance Scientific Calculator, Reinvented
Thanks this is a great recommendation - runs perfect in Wine. There definitely seems to be a habit with developers making calculators that still fall into a 70s form factor. This is a great departure.
gompertz··on How economical is your local Taco Bell?
There's always a comment like this I find. Some extra layer of data people want to see that explains the first layer, and it never ends - the data on data. Sometimes we just want to know the damn burrito prices and don't care about the excuses.
gompertz··on Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words
What! You can't say that if Ritchie hadn't creating things, someone else who have... and then proceed to make Jobs as an exception to that rule. There's 100x Jobs out there for every Ritchie. One could say something even better than the iPhone may have happened if Jobs was never born, and that he held us all back with his visions. Who really knows in this simulation.
gompertz··on Web Design Museum 1991-2006
Some of the flash websites would be very difficult to even replicate today. How unfortunate really, they looked so unique from each other.
gompertz··on ChatGPT Plus
He/She owns the monitor. But the resale is instantly 10-20% of the purchase price once opened. So we're sinking money very fast either way - through owning or "renting".
gompertz··on I lost $209k of my own money trying to start a business
This guy still doesn't get it even after spending 200k. The lesson should have been "does it solve a problem" and "how do I add value where others haven't". None of those other lessons matter if there's not answers to those questions. Really it's best to just stick to working for others if those concepts elude you to this degree.
gompertz··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
I would love to do this except it's usually my hands that are coldest, and I need them out to type on keyboard majority of time. Thus I have a space heater in my office.
gompertz··on Ask HN: A programming language without if then else?
Snobol4 is pretty much exactly this. Everything branches based on success or failure of predicates.
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