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superconduct123··on How to Attend Meetings
Also sometimes who gets to work on a future project is just based on perceived interest

And not going to a meeting may be perceived that you aren't interested in that project

superconduct123··on How good engineers write bad code at big companies
Totally agree, I've found that as well working in big tech

People focus way to much on the superficial stuff like code cleanliness, formatting, organization, local structure of the code

Because that stuff is easy to talk about, kind of like bikeshedding.

Plus a lot of times code reviewers just want to comment something to show they aren't just rubber stamping it.

Whereas it takes a lot more brain power to think about logic, correctness, and "does the change actually make sense in the big picture"

Part of it too is that as a reviewer a lot of times you just don't have enough context to know if the change makes sense

superconduct123··on Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
I'm always surprised how big the population of Indonesia is yet it seems culturally underrepresented in the world compared to a lot of smaller countries

Almost 300 million people but it rarely comes up in the news or pop media

superconduct123··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
Public school doesn't really represent "the real world" for everyone anyway

If you go to university and into a professional career you end up in a different bubble of people than say going into trades

superconduct123··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
Anyone else feel like real-time strategy games with full 3D just never look as good as old 2D ones?

I think its something about the perspective warping of the 3D camera that makes 3D RTS games look weird to me

superconduct123··on Ask HN: Why do designers have repugnant websites?
People like different styles and different things than you

Stay tuned for more mind blowing news at 11

superconduct123··on Sam Altman's pants are on fire
I don't understand, what prompted OpenAI recently to need this 1.4T investment?
superconduct123··on Ask HN: What's one small habit you started that surprisingly changed your life?
When I was younger I used to hate on popular things and be that guy who is like "how can anyone like this, this is objectively bad" (for example pop music)

But I started a habit of re-framing it instead like "well if you don't understand why people like something, that is your own failure to understand human behaviour and culture, if you were smarter you would understand why its popular"

That habit of re-framing stuff like that made me look at things a lot more like a neutral observer/anthropologist and not be such a hater

superconduct123··on The decline of deviance
One thing I've noticed with the younger generation is they are much more analytical and "in their heads"

They over-analyze and overthink everything a lot more than past generations which can be good and bad

Probably due to the internet and more access to information

For example when I was a kid you would watch a movie or play a video game and not think about it that much.

Whereas now its all about RT scores, metacritic, review megathreads, unboxing, reaction videos, video essay breakdowns/explainers , tv show podcasts

Analyzing/reviewing/meta-content has never been bigger

superconduct123··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
I think people were worn down over many years by traditional politicians and just wanted something different

And then someone came in and took advantage of that

superconduct123··on Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret
You don't have to use energy to cool it though do you?

Couldn't it just flow into a big passive outdoor radiator?

superconduct123··on Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
> more information compression (see paper) => shorter context windows, more efficiency

I'll ask the dumb question here

How is that possible? Wouldn't different sizes of text/fonts/rendering/spacing end up with way worse compression?

superconduct123··on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
You're taking the word cursed way too seriously

This is just a list of things that can catch devs off guard

superconduct123··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
Fair enough, I guess its a bit different nowadays since the background is usually a PhD in compsci
superconduct123··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
I always get a weird feeling when AI researchers and CS people start talking about comparisons between human brains and AI/computers

Why is there a presumption that we (as people who have only studied CS) know enough about biology/neuroscience/evolution to make these comparisons/parallels/analogies?

I enjoy the discussions but I always get the thought in the back of my head "...remember you're listening to 2 CS majors talk about neuroscience"

superconduct123··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to design an open-source smartphone?
I mean think of all the things a smartphone has to do nowadays, there's so much complexity
superconduct123··on Selling numbered rocks, you get whatever's next in sequence
Thanks for asking, we're using AWS Bedrock to handle all that

https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/

superconduct123··on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
Is that what game consoles have done for years?
superconduct123··on GPT-5
Do you prefer the non-stop AI spam that is typical on this site instead?
superconduct123··on Open models by OpenAI
How can you reason correctly if you don't have any way to know which facts are real vs hallucinated?
superconduct123··on Battlefield 6 map editor is *checks notes* Godot
Thought this was interesting, I guess the game itself is frostbite but the map editor will use the open source Godot engine just as an editor
superconduct123··on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
Predicting 4-months into the future is not really that impressive
superconduct123··on Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon
Did the employer know you didn't live there?
superconduct123··on Gaslight-driven development
Didn't realize so many Canadians on HN
superconduct123··on Ask HN: What is the best way to learn 3D modeling for 3D printing?
+1 for OnShape

It works like google docs where its in the browser

superconduct123··on A Typology of Canadianisms
Is that in all of canada or just west coast
superconduct123··on Ask HN: How is the tech scene in LA?
Not sure about regular tech jobs but it has the most game studios of any area
superconduct123··on Electronic Arts Leadership Are Out of Their Goddamned Minds
What is the point of this post, there is barely any content to it

Its basically blogspam

superconduct123··on Ask HN: How do you learn Spanish guitar?
I just play english guitar and run it through google translate
superconduct123··on Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
That looks both cool and infuriating
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