bitbuilder

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by bitbuilder 9mo ago
I'm not sure that's a valid analogy. Light, composition and creativity are all experienced directly by viewer, and essentially describe what it is that we notice and appreciate in photography (even if subconciously). The best ana
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by bitbuilder 10mo ago
>It's entirely possible they don't have the ability in house to resolve it. I've started breathing a little easier about the possibilty of AI taking all our software engineering jobs after using Anthropic's dev tools.
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Show HN: Grid Mapper – a routing tool for finding safe, fun ways through cities(gridmapper.cc)
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by bitbuilder 11mo ago
I believe the point he was trying to make is that he doesn't want to be recommended things he wants to watch. He wants his YouTube use to be be focused and intentional, and not let himself get sucked into an endless stream of engaging
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by bitbuilder 1y ago
Yes, thank you. It feels like whenever this topic is brought up everyone argues between some false dichotomy of letting the kid binge on algorithmic slop or personally engaging with them in some wholesome activity. Meanwhile a couple genera
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by bitbuilder 1y ago
This was incredibly irritating at first, though over time I've learned to appreciate this "extra credit" work. It can be fun to see what Claude thinks I can do better, or should add in addition to whatever feature I just aske
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by bitbuilder 1y ago
This article really resonated with me. I'm currenlty juggling a few side projects, one of which is a game I've been tinkering with for 3 years. It's a pretty simple simulation of riding your bike through a city at night. It&#
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
The auto-commits of Aider scared the crap out of me at first too, but after realizing I can just create a throwaway branch and let it run wild it ended up being a nice way to work. I've been trying to use Sonnet 3.7 tonight through the
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
That's been my experience as well with projects, though I have yet to do any sort of A/B testing to see if it's all in my head or not. I've attributed it to all your project content (custom instruction, plus documents) g
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
Likewise it reminded me of my first summer job growing up in rural northern Illinois in the 80s: detasseling corn [1]. It was just something we pretty much all did, starting in Jr. High. So, if my math is correct, starting at around 12 or 1
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
Agree with your sentiment, but I'd take it one step further: why doesn't anyone calling the shots at Meta realize just how uncool it is to do such a thing? Which is the same reaction I had to their recent AI influencers. It spea
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
I find myself hoping between o1 and Sonnet pretty frequently these days, and my personal observation is that the quality of output from o1 scales more directly to the quality of the prompting you're giving it. In a way it almost feels
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
For whatever it's worth, my dad was a programmer and spent my childhood doing his best to get me interested in it as well. But I just couldn't have cared less. I think most of us in our adolescent and teenage years just instinctiv
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
That's a valid way to look at this, and I appreciate that perspective. However, I think you may be missing the point that the advertisement is specifically meant to elicit, or create, those feelings of guilt or shame. Maybe I feel just
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
I don't think it's the random ads that bother me and others so much, those are easy to tune out. Nobody cares about billboards. Random junk ads on websites are annoying, but I don't think they're doing much societal harm
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
People tend to notice the neon clad roadie on an expensive bike taking the lane on a busy thoroughfare. People don't tend to notice the guy riding his Wal-Mart mountain bike on the sidewalk on his way to work. And they also don't
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by bitbuilder 2y ago
Agree heavily with this sentiment. It sounds like this could be a useful tool for a personal project of mine, but I wasn't nearly as interested after reading they're not attempting to make money yet. I'm a bit burnt out on th
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by bitbuilder 4y ago
I don't believe they're saying the feature doesn't exist or never gets used, but rather it's rarely something that's taught to junior developers, and rarely something you see highlighted as a best practice. I'v
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by bitbuilder 4y ago
Give it some time. I've been the manager of multiple engineering teams that had to undergo cuts, and in most cases I found myself in a situation similar to yours: it was obvious it was coming within months or weeks, but nobody was con
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by bitbuilder 4y ago
>layoffs don’t consider individual peformance This is not true. The way layoffs almost always work is the CEO tells their VPs they need to cut, say, 10% of their staff. The VPs tell their Directors they need to cut 10% of their staff. An
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by bitbuilder 4y ago
Yes. Parent is leaning on the conventional wisdom of 10 years ago regarding mirrorless. The AF on my a7 III is nothing short of miraculous compared to any mirrored camera I've ever used, even in light where I'm shooting at 128k IS
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by bitbuilder 4y ago
I'm 47 years old, decently educated, and can honestly say I'd never heard of this war and thought this was a great read. Granted, it's quite possible I was taught about this in some very dry history class in high school while
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by bitbuilder 5y ago
I've recently gone back to the .NET world after a decade long foray into mobile and front web dev. Honestly, I wish I'd gone back sooner. .NET isn't popular with the cool kids, and you rarely see it mentioned here on HN. But
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by bitbuilder 5y ago
Not OP, but at a former gig I was in a position to know the salaries of an engineering team spread out between North America and the UK. The UK engineers were doing the same work but paid salaries that would be considered insulting to most
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by bitbuilder 5y ago
>as though escaping or distorting reality is inherently preferable. Maybe I equally misunderstand the motives of the heavy drinker? You understand the motives just fine. Reality for many people is some combination of boring, stressful, d
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by bitbuilder 5y ago
While I don't disagree with your point, whenever this point comes up I do feel the need to point out that getting a clear, high resolution photo of a (relatively) small moving object in the sky is actually a really hard problem for pho
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by bitbuilder 5y ago
As a middle aged dude who's been in tech for 25 years, I can say that literally all of my close friends at this point in life were previous coworkers. Especially if you relocate away from your hometown for a job, I'm not sure why
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by bitbuilder 6y ago
I'm having a hard time believing what I just read. Posting his work as an NFT without his permission is of course ridiculous, but then to viciously lash out at the artist not being ok with this? It's just unbelievable to me that p
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by bitbuilder 6y ago
As a hiring manager who was once a developer who was absolutely terrified of the typical whiteboard/algorithm interview, take home assignments are my preferred method to judge tech ability. However, I often feel it's not fair to a
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by bitbuilder 6y ago
Thanks! And solid point. But to be clear, there was certainly a wide spectrum of relationships between 22 and 43. For better or for worse. If I had to pick an age to tell my younger self to hold out for, it would probably be the early to mi

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