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totally··on Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials
If only the AI could explain the errors that the AI outputs.
totally··on Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon
What would be more sane? Allowing things to remain broken at night? Having someone who is not a software engineer fix it?
totally··on A new kind of symmetry shakes up physics
Is symmetry between left and right brain what allows consciousness to exist?
totally··on Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]
What good is blame?
totally··on Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website
If an FBI raid is confirmation of guessing right, then could we brute force all top secrets by making guesses and seeing who gets raided?
totally··on Twitter Problems?
If things had been different it could have been called "Occam's Tweet"
totally··on I Quit Shopify After Five Months
They used to say "tell me a little bit about yourself." At least for a literal-minded developer the "little bit" added some guard rails against unnecessary verbosity.
totally··on U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
Yes, it doesn't say why it wasn't.
totally··on Who wrote this shit?
C'mon, man. You're better than Torben.
totally··on Do you want to be making this much money when you're 50? (2012)
I started reading and thinking that 50 is old, and then I realized that I'll be turning 41 soon enough. So, yeah.
totally··on Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
and ethical
totally··on Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
The audiobook is good as well, you can hear the tone of voice, which is useful.
totally··on Bacteria and Colon Cancer
What causes one bacteria to flourish in the colon? Is it a lack of other flora? Is it diet related?

Not to be crass, but I also kind of wonder what it smells like. Are there scientists who study the smells of these biological systems? Seems like that would be a high bandwidth way to gain insight into a gut.

totally··on Ask HN: What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?
+1 on Becoming a technical leader:

https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Technical-Leader-Problem-Sol...

totally··on Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet
Would they also circuit break on 7% increase, in order to give people time to come back from positive feelings?
totally··on Ask HN: What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?
Sure, would love to know what a change your actions would take with this mindset, thanks.
totally··on Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find
What can I do to make this better? I would really like to stop ruining earth but it does seem that there is a lot of momentum in that direction.
totally··on 'Shockingly High' Number of Injuries at Amazon's Staten Island Warehouse
Would it then be reasonable to fabricate injuries in order to game performance assessments?
totally··on Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
If you squint this looks like a baby step towards computers writing code.
totally··on NASA Flew Gas Detectors Above California, Found ‘Super Emitters’
Great example of gathering and using data to effect change.
totally··on Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
"net" positive!
totally··on Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes
It sounds like you're advocating for blame-ful post mortems. Is that the case and what's your reasoning?
totally··on Apple Watch Series 5
> it’s easy to see the time and other important information, without raising or tapping the display

I love that they're touting this amazing feature which exists on any cheap $5 drug store watch.

totally··on Squirrels listen in to birds' conversations as signal of safety
Excellent book on this topic:

https://www.amazon.com/What-Robin-Knows-Secrets-Natural/dp/0...

totally··on Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Restores Mission Control in Houston
Kranz wrote a book about his experience in mission control which is a good read:

https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Option-Mission-Control/dp...

totally··on CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses
How does this fit into Google's broader strategy? ie. why is this a thing?
totally··on Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq
That's cool, you made a thing that verifies the two export jobs you wrote have the same data even though they have different output.

I can't help wondering, if you control the code that generates the JSON, why not output in a conservative, consistent format? I'm sure there are pros/cons, but this work would allow something like `diff` to work, and then you don't have to maintain a separate utility.

totally··on Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
> hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely

I don't care who you are, it takes a lot of courage to say something like this. Respect.

totally··on City street orientations around the world
Can this visualization ever be non-symmetrical?

Like, a street that goes north tends to go south if you're headed in the other direction. Is it one-way streets that make Charlotte's visualization non-symmetrical?

totally··on Bitcoin, the Biggest Bubble in History, Is Popping
Why would it make more sense to look at this as log and not linear?
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