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If you like your eggs as a jellied omelette are you still "Sturdy, Reliable, Conservative" like THE BROOKSIDE RESTAURANT says?

I think there was confusion about whether it was tethered / what the tensile strength of the tether was. Reads like it wasn't tethered.

How did you communicate with it? Amateur bands? LoRa?

It depends on my negative thought loop. If it's more existential anxiety the things that bring me joy sometimes can help. Other sources of negative thoughts they definitely don't work on.

I can't.

I have a go to list of positive things to think about.

I have physical tactile things (a small rock I carry around) that brings me joy when I touch it because it reminds me of good times.

It is very easy for me to get stuck in negative thought loops, and no matter how many things I see / feel / hear / ... it doesn't get better (at least in the short term).

The question your asking to me is akin to "can't people control what they see" thinking it's like a movie you can choose to go and attend, when instead it's like "A Clockwork Orange" where in fact I do not get to control what I see.

If it's all in rust you can maybe probably compile it to wasm with out much effort. Kinda depends what libraries they used / how they factored their code etc.

My ideal coding configuration is 3-4x vertical 32" UHD screens (with the smallest bezels you can get) in a 'curved' formation.

I find that configuration miserable for any hobby activities. I really like a horizontal screen, and curved is nice, but one screen even the ultra wides just isn't enough for work.

Maybe I could imagine a pair of ultra wides in an over/under configuration, but I really like vertical real estate.

I was very uncertain when I bought my KINESIS keyboard. It really really helps my wrist pain though. If it hadn't have worked I probably would've returned it to Amazon after a week or two.

I have a couple of niche areas of non-coding interest where I'm using AI to code. It is so amazing to write rust and just add `todo!(...)` through out the boiler plate. The AI is miserable at implementing domain knowledge in those niche areas, but now I can focus on describing the domain knowledge (in real rust code because I can't describe it precisely enough in English + pseudo code), and then say "fill in the todos, write some tests make sure it compiles, and passes linting", verify the tests check things properly and I'm done.

I've struggled heavily trying to figure out how to get it to write the exactly correct 10 lines of code that I need for a particularly niche problem, and so I've kind of given up on that, but getting it to write the 100 lines of code around those magic 10 lines saves me so much trouble, and opens me up to so many more projects.

I sure hope it stays readable, but it seems like it would only become more indexable with machine friendly formats.

But that's an Oxford comma! You can't use that when describing Cambridge.

Wow. Beyond anything, my main take away is *do not try to mimic [wW]indows [xX][pP] in any way*. I will never ever ever get it right enough. Stick to Windows 95 or earlier.

I've been trying that, and I just keep running into miserable query performance.

What order of magnitude do you use this on and find it acceptable? 1MB, 1GB, 1TB, 1PB? At 1GB it seems okay. At 10GB things aren't great, at 100 GB things are pretty grim, and at 1TB I have to denormalize the database or it's all broken (practically).

I'm not a database expert, but I don't feel like I'm asking hard questions, but I'm running into trouble with something I thought was 'easy', and matches what you're describing.

You mean those like 8 hours of ~~nightmares~~ dreams I have every night?

I think the emphasis should probably be on the might. If Employ AI (in my head cannon a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, Facebook, or Palantir), decides to use their free legal billable hours (because the lawyers are on staff anyway), unless you get to the level of class action you don't have a prayer of coming out on top.

So are call trees where you have to answer yes / no to a decision tree (and can't press 0 / 1, you have to verbalize "yes" or "no"). Those continue to exist, so I expect AI customer 'service' to be very frustrating to work with for quite some time.

We used to all have our nice own gardens. If anyone was happening by we might say hello, and invite them in.

It was easy to walk around your neighborhood, and find someone with a nice garden, who was having a garden party. You could present yourself by your handle (which was probably, or at least possibly globally unique), and join in, and maybe have fun at their garden party.

It was difficult to find gardens that you didn't care about.

When you found someone in the "gaming" garden, and then found them again in the "rally driving" garden (and you know they were the same person due to the nearly globally unique handle), it was fun and exciting.

Now there are a handful of giant gardens that I don't really want to go into for the most part. They're owned by old royalty, they're uncomfortable (for me), the only reason the garden owners want me to be there is so that they can make me look at ads, not appreciate the garden. Maybe my friends are there too, but all I see are people yelling about their small section of the (private) garden.

Sure I may still find my old friends in these weird giant gardens, but ben3212 is probably not my friend Ben who happens to have the favorite number 3212.

Hacker News is a relatively "smaller" community that is closer to the old internet.

Also the top streamer on tik tok / youtube shorts / ... are not likely posting here trying to get massive up votes on their content, as there aren't very many ways to monetize having the top post on hacker news, so while this interaction happened on the "current Internet" I know of one or two places like this on the current internet. I used to know of more, and I think I liked that better.

I know this isn't so different than "Also the clouds used to be different. They used to be whiter, and puffier! It was better then!", but here I am.

I think it will really depend on the topic. There are some topics where the first N search results are some sort of blog spam (some times AI generated), and so the AI summary is as good or better than the blog spam. There are other topics where the AI summary is garbage, and you need to read its sources. There are other topics where the google / duck / kagi search results aren't all that useful any way (let alone the AI summary of them) and you need to know where to look.

Agreed, and after you've worked with them for a bit you can start to predict where they are going to fail, and do something silly like delete your code base, or have no trouble, and succeed, and add that feature you were after.

A good code review and edit to remove the excess verbosity, and you got a feature done real fast.

Ask it for something at or above its limit then the code is very difficult to debug, difficult to understand has potentially misleading comments, and more. Knowing how to work with these overly confident coworkers is definitely a skill. I feel it varies from significantly from model to model as well.

Its often difficult to task other programmers with tasks at or above their limits too.

At a FAANG company? A 5% or higher false positive rate in the FAANG hiring process. I feel like I specifically said that.

At the company I worked in at the time? An ineffectual hiring process for different reasons that was more on "feels", these folks probably would have been hired whether or not they worked for FAANG, but "they worked for FAANG" was always in the out brief. They seemed talented (I'm sure that's why they were hired at FAANG companes). I'm not proposing a solution, or saying that the company I worked for was perfect, but <worked for FAANG> means they made it through a 95%cutoff that is unreliable rather than they're a good SWE.

Additionally emulating FAANG hiring processes is probably not a great idea unless you can hire 1000 engineers and fifty of them as that is what FAANG does. If you can only hire 10 engineers you can not realistically mimic FAANG hiring processes.

Yeah, totally agreed. It was quite surprising to me. Who knows it may even be related to the random GPU I happen to have or ....

I mean even with out employer based health care there's trouble with mortgages and rent. A sufficient social safety net + UBI might work out for some. You should not discount the fear of a "changing lifestyle" where you lose your cushy job for a chance.

In a debt based economy moving from a (relatively consistent) $250k / year job that (already) took months of random month long "paid internships (that presumably paid less than that salary)" to find a new $275k / year job (that also takes month long paid internships) might not be practical or desirable, especially if I bough a $500k house with a mortgage.

It can get even worse in places like the UK. "Oh you need to refinance to afford your home (because you do that every several years)? well your salary (and your temporary job) doesn't qualify you, so you're paying extra (or selling your house) -- because we can".

The main take away of my statement is that even if you can avoid employer based health care there are other shackles that keep your proposal from working practically for lots of people. This whole "we can fire you at any time because we feel like it, and it will totally ruin your life" is really hard for people to actually manage their lives around.

> They’re not the best candidate experience, but they work at Meta, Google scale, minimizing false positives better than most other formats.

Do they? That is an assertion with out any data. I've worked with F tier developers who worked at Facebook, and Google. They're trying to minimize their false positive rate, but they don't realistically publish it other than laying off large portions of their work force. Presumably because they weren't great, but passed the interview process. If you lay off 3-5% of your staff in a year you had a 3-5% false positive rate. Maybe it's minimized by these in person interviews, but that seems like an unacceptably high false positive rate given how much time the interviewers spend on the process.

3% is probably about as accurate as 'solve fizz buzz in python' prior to AI, and that's where they were in 2022.

There is a giant confusing tech stack here, but opening up this simple plain text page resulted in like 100% CPU usage from from gnome-shell when visiting from firefox on a pretty non-customized Ubuntu 24 install.

In the firefox task manager nothing really looked odd, but opening that tab and displaying it is insanely CPU intensive.

Pausing the autoplaying video makes it seem like a sane web page in terms of CPU usage. I'm surprised how much CPU playing that video consumed.

For me it's small alpine containers running in k8s, and trying to get weird stuff running on my kobo ereader (can quickly get to a chroot with bash, but the base system doesn't have it).

I mean I read the New Yorker OP article because it was posted on hacker news, and highly voted. It was probably too short to be considered long form, but I feel like I was baited into reading a rambling article where I gained nothing of value other than at best a summary of other peoples thoughts, where the only conclusion I can practically draw with out reading a lot more is "Joshua Rothman and others don't like how people are consuming content".

I think I'm mostly agreeing with you.

In old newsprint there was a term "below the fold" with a literal meaning. If it's below the fold it's less important than what is "above the fold" since no one reads below the fold.

Is it burying the lede to point out that it's Linux (or GNU/Linux+Ubuntu extra packages how ever we want to pronounce it)? I would guess probably not.

On a 32" monitor in portrait mode I did have to scroll quite a bit to see those bits. It was worse on my phone, and was even worse on a landscape monitor. "It's Linux" is far less important than what Forbes has to say about it, and it being Linux is more important than it being privacy respecting (which probably means Firefox as the default browser) to the page authors, but who am I to question them. Maybe this is the year of the Linux desktop.

In his terminal output with screen dimensions it lists a monitor 1600mm wide which is about 63 inches wide.

Listen, I'm ~~not~~ all in on Ferrero Rocher, and chestnuts *are* lazy. No where near as productive as hazelnuts.

I'm with you. I'm going to try Zed in the next couple days based on the response to my comment here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322560 . I'm stuck with vim. My fingers nearly only work vim, but I managed to move to neovim, which worked. Maybe (something else) can work too.

I think the businesses do kind of know their customers.

This is an exaggeration of what (I think) happens: all of their current customers only ever drive there and park in front of their shop. They say oh with no parking I won't come any more. Then they stop coming. They lost all their customers! Everyone who can now safely walk to the shop (who couldn't / wouldn't before for multiple reasons) starts walking there. There are a lot more people who can now safely walk to and patronize the shop, and they do. The shops foot traffic went up by 10x. They still lost all their customers.

I think it's probably good that it's easy for people to walk / bike / bus to this shop, and the shop owner probably does to, but they still may have lost a lot of old customers.