EarthLaunch

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by EarthLaunch 7mo ago
My first job, in California, was just transitioning to leetcode-style interviews in 2007 following the industry trend. So it was probably spreading around that time.
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by EarthLaunch 11mo ago
Take a CO2 meter into a hotel, office, convention center, etc in summer. In many, it will be at 1200+. I've seen up to 2500. This is due to "green" interior air recycling that just happens to save companies a few dollars o
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by EarthLaunch 1y ago
I take it as a sign of typical increasing corporate dysfunction. Obvious problems, some even easy and uncontroversial, don't get fixed. Why? The people who can fix them are not in control. The org must be very top-down. But Steve J
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by EarthLaunch 1y ago
They don't understand consent. [0] 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774770
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by EarthLaunch 1y ago
> The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/ Plus there's a gambling mechanic: Push the button,
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by EarthLaunch 1y ago
I appreciate the answers. For others reading, I also just ran across another thread where you posted relevant info [0]. In the case of my game, I'm going to consider SSE, since most of the communication is server to client. That sai
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by EarthLaunch 1y ago
Useful take, thanks for mentioning specifics. Some of these I wasn't aware of. - What makes load balancing easier with SSE? I imagine that balancing reconnects would work similar to WS. - Compression might be a disadvantage for binar
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by EarthLaunch 1y ago
Still one of my fastest drives, and extremely durable. It's too bad.
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
There's a Copilot thread I've been subscribed to since 2022 [1] about disabling autocomplete of comments in code. The practical solution: Manually toggle it. My favorite solution: Start the comment with a curse word. 1: https:&#x
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
An intriguing idea! I like this approach for being an innovative interface to SQL. I wonder if it would reduce cognitive load when interfacing with the DB. I'm a game dev and often need to avoid situations where I'm using '
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
I don't care if VCs take risks, I want to be nice.
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
> Tokens Don't Lie > But how do people feel about these topics I find it notable that tokens don't necessarily express people's feelings. Put another way, tokens aren't how people feel , they're how they wr
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
Is there no harm, or is there harm that is hard to show in court?
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
I looked into that for VR headset eye tracking, which uses IR lights plus cameras to see the eyes inside the dark headset. Here someone did some calculations [0]. > The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection's
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
I agree that there's a lot of benefit to sticking with a thing. I've only seriously used Perl, PHP, Erlang, and Node, over 20+ years, deliberately. For productivity. One reason for switching and trying is a fascination with find
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
Laravel has been amazing for a long time. I heard its 'convention over configuration' approach was inspired by Rails, and the ecosystem is competitive with anything. For small to medium web projects, the benefits of having JS acr
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
That story is not about speed, it's about Copilot. To be fair, everything is called Copilot now, so maybe fast Surface Pros will be called Copilots too.
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
How does the memory bandwidth compare? Based on my usage, that's key in responsiveness between Mac and PC now. Also for LLMs in memory. I compare the current top Surface Pro with the current Macbook Airs. 51-83 GB/s for current
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
I wonder if the training to be compliant to the propter is part of the problem. Both of those statements are similar to saying "I refuse to answer your query". Or maybe this is inherent to continuation? The behavior reminds me of
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
Sort of. I was using Erlang in 2007, well before switching to Node/JS. Erlang/Elixir has its downsides, which is why I switched. The entire industry has been twisting itself in knots trying to solve ops problems that Erlang&#x2F
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
If powerful or opportunistic criminals were at risk of being criminally charged by the government, they're then utterly incentivized to influence and control said government. And that has already happened since forever, which is why yo
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
Thanks for the tips, I didn't know about /active!
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
This was on the front page but completely disappeared. Guess it was being flagged for no good reason. It's a good article. Luckily I can still find yesterday's article about credit cards rewards at the top. I think there's
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
No True Git fallacy. If you don't enjoy Git, it wasn't Git as it's meant to be! There's always something 'wrong' with Git because it's incredibly complex. Most developer flows don't require that com
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by EarthLaunch 2y ago
What if it's obvious ahead of time what the prayers will be? I know a thrown ball will return to the ground before it happens. So it can just "answer" them 8 minutes ahead of time.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
This was posed 20 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39724247 Not sure why I can't downvote articles, ah well.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I'm enjoying this thread. I want to add that building a network of experts has other costs too. Sticking to a network will limit the variety of people you get to meet, everything else the same. Local maxima. It also isn't practi
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
I tried to do a SMS verify when I couldn't login, and the text never came. That service must be overloaded. That's when I realized it was an outage. Hundreds of thousands (millions?) must be doing that. Also, going to /r&#
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
The new way to build communities: SE-anti-O. Trying to rank as low as possible. Things will flip and sites will try to be uncrawlable to Google. I guess it's already happened with Discord.
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by EarthLaunch 3y ago
Physical work can be fun too! Neither as much when you're a slave of course.

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