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by alex_c 7d ago
Surprising how much of life this applies to when you really think about it!
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by alex_c 9d ago
I was setting up my kid’s laptop last year. Parental controls enabled, with the kid’s age entered. Start menu was showing stories about beheadings and murders. Windows is rotten to the core. The scariest part is just how many people stick
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by alex_c 20d ago
I'm surprised at the negative comments here. I'm about halfway done reading the report - I think it's clear, well written, and quite frankly the opposite of fluff. A document like this isn't going to magically "sol
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by alex_c 22d ago
They’ve been rolling it out gradually. There was a thread on HN about it a couple of weeks ago, it just started affecting my IPs a few days ago. It’s managed to do what years of self-imposed content blockers etc. on my own side have failed
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by alex_c 27d ago
I'm not arrogant enough to think I know more about this than an expert who's devoted their life to ocean research, but the article itself comes across as a list of grievances against the Ocean Cleanup project rather than an object
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by alex_c 1mo ago
This is hilarious - this week Claude’s writing was getting so bad I had this exact comic come to mind. Briefly considered adding “Verbing weirds the English language - stop it!!!” to its instructions.
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by alex_c 1mo ago
The charging port might just need cleaning. I’m still using an iPhone 11 and the charging port was getting super unreliable. I cleaned it a couple of weeks ago - gently, with a toothpick and a flashlight, there was some lint stuck inside -
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by alex_c 3mo ago
The main advantage of skills is defining a process that is at least vaguely consistent across different executions for a given task, and plugging in some of the common pitfalls an LLM might fall into for some of those executions. But to me,
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by alex_c 3mo ago
The one thing I appreciated about my Computer Engineering undergrad - and it took me a few years to fully appreciate it - is that yes, we did cover those levels. The first two years were shared with Electrical Engineering. The second two ye
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by alex_c 3mo ago
I’m genuinely curious what people at Microsoft, and on the Windows team specifically, run on their daily machines. They cannot possibly be putting up with Windows 11 as experienced by regular people.
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by alex_c 3mo ago
Genuinely curious - in your case, where do the requirements for what needs to be built come from? In every project I've touched, business requirements are always the bottleneck - so I've never been able to wrap my head around wh
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by alex_c 4mo ago
>Does the game actually communicate this naturally during play? Not really. The player is simply thrown into a brutally hostile world and left to suffer. In reality, players hunt these monsters to buy gear or level up, not out of melanch
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by alex_c 4mo ago
Wow, this gives me such bittersweet feelings! This is almost 1:1 with a project we worked on several years ago. Unfortunately it never launched - founder ran out of money. It was one of my favourite projects we’ve done and I genuinely bel
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by alex_c 4mo ago
This feels particularly egregious because of our unspoken assumption that Adobe, of all companies, should have "excellence in design" somewhere on its list of core guiding principles (I know, I know, hear me out). It feels like
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by alex_c 5mo ago
‘Rogue’ hammer loses control and smashes carpenter’s thumb.
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by alex_c 5mo ago
Yeah, that is a tough market… By definition those people likely have very little cash, and higher than average belief in their own abilities :)
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by alex_c 5mo ago
Subscription fatigue is real, especially since most SAAS providers got a lot more aggressive with raising prices in the past few years. Add enshittification, products randomly getting acquired and shut down, etc, and $50/month quickly
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by alex_c 5mo ago
>How, the novice may ask, does one discover which version is the correct one for oneself? >There is nothing else to it – you must eat a few hundred bowls of phở and find out. If this requires moving to Hanoi, so be it. Not the worst l
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by alex_c 5mo ago
Did you read part 3? Doesn’t sound like “avoiding hard things” is really a problem for the author :) https://blog.kevinzwu.com/symbolhead-syndrome/
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by alex_c 5mo ago
I have a lot of respect for Steve Blank, but my heuristic by now is to ignore any breathless posts that state “teams are doing X with AI, if you are not doing the same you’re behind”. The much more useful posts are “my team and I are doing
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by alex_c 6mo ago
>For me, I've always called it the "school at night" phenomenon. It's funny, I've always loved that kind of environment. Quiet high school hallways after everyone's left, empty university buildings late at
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by alex_c 6mo ago
I use a 40” 4K screen. If I ever accidentally full screen a window, and it’s not in night mode, I am instantly blinded by a wall of mostly white empty background!
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by alex_c 6mo ago
I thought I was laying on the sarcasm pretty thick. But I guess it’s harder and harder to tell these days!
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by alex_c 6mo ago
The past failure is in the abstract, and in the past. And anyway, they were unfairly maligned. There is an inside version of the story that they will be happy to tell you, which was clearly not their fault. But that is neither here nor ther
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by alex_c 6mo ago
? Claude Code has a Teams plan which includes Max tiers. Why would it be forbidden?
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by alex_c 7mo ago
I joke that I'm on the "Claude Code workout plan" now. Standing desk, while it's working I do a couple squats or pushups or just wander around the house to stretch my legs. Much more enjoyable than sitting at my desk, h
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by alex_c 8mo ago
Ironically, this brings us one step closer to believing the simulation hypothesis might be true... In which case, maybe there is no real world anyway ;)
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by alex_c 10mo ago
>OpenAI has 800,000,000 weekly users but only 20,000,000 are paying while 780,000,000 are free riding. By itself, this doesn't tell us much. The more interesting metric would be token use comparison across free users, paid users, AP
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by alex_c 10mo ago
Normally that would be a fair point (and maybe it was valid in 2022). But given the US approach to foreign policy in 2025, one could argue that the list of countries that “have a contentious relationship with the US” (or, maybe more accurat
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by alex_c 10mo ago
Do you guys not have phones?

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