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whiskey14··on Ask HN: With all the layoffs – how are you?
I got laid off, then got tonsillitis which turned into quinsy. Three days in hospital, then got Bells Palsy. I’m meant to be resting and recovering but the job search is always on my mind. Not doing great.
whiskey14··on Beginner's guide to arguing constructively (2020)
This is all good but how do you deal with someone that just wants to win and not discuss?
whiskey14··on Ask HN: Looking for Music Recommendations for Working
Tool
whiskey14··on HyperPhysics (1998)
Legendary. Saved my physics degree
whiskey14··on Ask HN: What boosted your confidence as a new programmer?
In python pdb ‘breakpoint()’ is great
whiskey14··on Tailwind CSS v3.3
+1. Learnt CSS through tailwind much faster than I did when trying to learn raw CSS
whiskey14··on ChatGPT3 Prompt Engineering
I just got this back and it’s hilarious:

Spatula and a Spoon: The second way is by using a spatula and a spoon. The doctor would use the spatula to gently lift the appendix out of the belly, and then use the spoon to scoop it out.

Excellent prompt work Sir

whiskey14··on Maintain a clean architecture in Python with dependency rules
Can you please give a short summary of why I should give C#/.NET a go for my backend services?

I've been fighting battles in Python backend services to get a nicely decoupled API, logic and DB layers for a while...but sqlalchelmy, alembic and flask/django/fastAPI are my safety blankets

whiskey14··on Qatar Bans Beer Sales at World Cup Stadiums
Those in corporate areas of stadiums at the tournament will still be able to purchase alcohol.

That's all I need to hear, corruption to the end.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63674631

whiskey14··on Ask HN: What's the Future of Web3?
The only people I hear talking seriously about Web3 are non-tech people. The tech people I know all seem to collectively think its BS.

It's a cool marketing phrase that probably won't come to anything. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though as web evolution will always be interesting.

whiskey14··on Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
Is that not Reddit?
whiskey14··on Ask HN: Is the world run by badly updated Excel sheets?
If the debt's interest rate is low (as it is in many situations where spreadsheets are used for long periods of time), then you might never need to get rid of it. If it has a high interest rate (not scaling or working well given the current work load), then it's time to move over to specialized software.

The idea of ‘interest’ on tech debt is awesome. Never heard of it before and will be using this in the future. Thanks!

whiskey14··on Ask HN: What shell do you use, if not *sh?
I’d use fish if my bash scripts would work in it. Looks awesome
whiskey14··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
The point would be that the commute would be no more than 15 minutes to your office. Ideally walking distance
whiskey14··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
I'm beginning to think that collective distributed satellite offices is going to be big. Like WeWork but for companies to house their local staff and far less culty. Would help if they had standing desks, folding treadmills, three screens and everything else for a superb dev experience that is a bit of a pain to set up at home.
whiskey14··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
I get what you’re saying but does that produce the most effective, creative and innovative workforce required to compete in the technology industry?
whiskey14··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
So do you think he'll eventually bring back WFH for Tesla and Twitter when they want to increase headcount?
whiskey14··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
True, but the fact that technology is going to reinvent everything, including work seems to be an oversight. I'm not sure an old school factory owner is going to attract the best people in a highly skilled industry
whiskey14··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
It seems that Musk at this point is completely unaware that he is a walking contradiction.

On one hand, he is a technologist. Forward thinking and driving towards the future.

On the other hand, he is an old fashioned factory owner. He views his workforce as pure labour and can't accept that he can't force his employees to work under his total control. He also can't accept the gain in life capital for his employees in working from home for his workforce and that the future of work for humanity is probably decentralised offices and WFH, not middle managed, over the shoulder, supervised, centralised offices.

whiskey14··on Ask HN: Do you think Meta could become the next AOL?
Original thread that prompted this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33538742
whiskey14··on Ask HN: Where are the good platforms for contract work?
Same
whiskey14··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
This is exactly how I feel
whiskey14··on ErgodoxE EZ – an ergonomic keyboard with open source firmware
I’ve got a kyria as well. Can’t recommend highly enough. Splitkb.com is great
whiskey14··on Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc
I had a boss that said this in a variety of contexts at least once per week. He was fun…
whiskey14··on Ask HN: Which strategies work best to reduce/eliminate alcohol use?
This is an interesting way to do it. Very simple, and like units we've got in the UK but I like how simple this. Might give it a go
whiskey14··on Ask HN: Modern BI stack 2022 for low entry and cheap license dashboards
+1 on this
whiskey14··on Programming on 34 Keys
I went Miryoku on 36 keys, learnt to touch type and it’s honestly been the best thing I’ve done for my coding. I know it sounds extreme but I feel like never having to look at the keyboard means I stay in flow and make fewer mistakes.

It wasn’t that hard to learn. Time investment of about 30 minutes/3 times a week for about six month.

whiskey14··on Ask HN: What are the best API generators you know?
This sounds really interesting. Do you have any examples on GitHub that you could share?
whiskey14··on Hacker News is a masterpiece
HN being text only is the number one reason (imo). I think the shift of internet content going from text->images->video has pulled the internet away from it's original purpose, communicating text and the written word. And HN still has that original essence.

That and the community ofc

whiskey14··on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
I feel your pain. I would pay a lot of money for a portable low profile split kb with good trackball. Maintaining my own is fun but a bit onerous
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