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hshsbs84848··on How do I become a graphics programmer?
I can see how it’s confusing but usually “graphics programmer” is someone who works on a graphics rendering engine (either real time or offline rendering)
hshsbs84848··on Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
It’s a tale as old as time

The kid inherits the company built by the parent

hshsbs84848··on Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
Yeah that’s what I don’t understand, what is the incentive to preserve the culture?

Outcomes follow incentives

hshsbs84848··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
Seems a bit awkward to be working again with the people who tried to fire you
hshsbs84848··on Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?
Having the artists tweak it via sniping is hilarious

Usually you would do that by just adding a console variable they can tweak

hshsbs84848··on Ask HN: What web stack would you use for startup, and why?
Flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, eggs, milk, and butter

The pancake stack

Never neglect the importance of a healthy breakfast for the startup grindset

hshsbs84848··on Former GitHub CEO Friedman and Scale AI CEO Wang Declined OpenAI CEO Role
You think CEOs actually think like that?
hshsbs84848··on Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected
“Goldman Sachs Research estimates the EV market could achieve cost parity, without subsidies, with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles around the middle of this decade”

That would be quite the milestone

I’m curious at what point it will flip and EVs become cheaper than ICE

hshsbs84848··on Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life?
It’s possible the recliner is just mitigating the problem by allowing you to not sit as straight

I had the same issue of tight hips/pain when sitting up straight and I found doing hamstring stretches and some core work a couple times per week fixed the issue for me

Something I learned was that a lot of time tight hips or lower back pain is actually due to tight hamstrings

hshsbs84848··on Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
“Speaking of discrepancies in our figures, we’d like to shoutout today’s sponsor: MATLAB”
hshsbs84848··on One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice
I’ve found that too

Somehow I feel really energized if I wake up like 2-3 hours before my regular time

But only if I haven’t done it in a while

Something about disrupting the pattern seems to throw off the usual morning grogginess

hshsbs84848··on Ask HN: Software developers, what are your top frustrations at work?
The greatest decision I made was moving to a job that is purely offline code and involves zero dealing with the network

Before that I was very frustrated with the amount of boilerplate/infrastructure/logging/metrics/error handling/deployments/graphs/cloud platforms involved in modern web dev

It’s insane how much stuff is involved unrelated to writing code (for good reasons usually)

I just like sitting down and writing interesting code (that’s what got me into this field), so getting to focus on logic/algorithms with code that all lives in one process on one machine has been so much nicer

hshsbs84848··on Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer
It was basically Uber for truckers
hshsbs84848··on Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer
Not everything, cars still have super long wait times if you buy new

Especially hybrid or PHEV