dgabriel

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by dgabriel 3d ago
That's most people. You have a day job that pays the bills, and you have your passion and art that fulfills you. You had the great temporary luck to have both for a bit, but it's not coming back. I don't feel sorry for us,
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by dgabriel 4d ago
> I wish I could press a button and erase everyone who thinks that way from existence. How dare you devalue my experience and passion so offhandedly and treat it like I'm the asshole for being upset by it. It's possible that wi
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by dgabriel 5d ago
We don't want your static ID, we want where and what you are at this moment in order to better tune the algorithm. Your ID is frozen in time, so at any given moment, big tech knows more about you than the government does. IDs are onl
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by dgabriel 14d ago
I mean, we certainly are in a lot of cases. Spec driven development is waterfall, and we're all in the midst of a new experiment to see if it works. I'm not sold, but consultants love it.
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by dgabriel 19d ago
Out of curiosity, are you defaulting to vanilla js in your agentic dev stack? Or do you have the llm use a framework like react?
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by dgabriel 27d ago
Hacker news comments aren't private, and they shouldn't be private. I find it interesting that you think your own public soapbox declarations should not be discoverable.
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by dgabriel 29d ago
I'm curious about your specific use case, if you're comfortable sharing it here.
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by dgabriel 1mo ago
I'm not sad. As an engineer with decades of experience under my belt, I'm really excited about how AI can democratize software and help me finally complete long-simmering side projects, create value for the greater good, and be a
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by dgabriel 2mo ago
This misses the point.
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by dgabriel 3mo ago
This is exactly me. I'm grateful that real medical solutions exist.
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by dgabriel 3mo ago
I did a lot of things, but all of them required a massive amount of sustained effort. I like that I can order the food I want to eat at a restaurant without looking up all the calories before I go. I like that I can just live my life with
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by dgabriel 3mo ago
I understand calorie balance. I've been on a diet since I was 12 years old, and am now approaching 50. I've lost and regained the same 60lbs about 4 times now. I have logged every bite that goes into my mouth, and lived with a
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by dgabriel 6mo ago
It's also a real world event that can be influenced by the existence of the bet.
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by dgabriel 8mo ago
It's the easiest possible way for large entities to jump on the AI bandwagon. They're definitely asking for it.
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by dgabriel 4y ago
Same (but for a longer period of time). I'm kind of surprised people don't know this.
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by dgabriel 4y ago
This is exactly how I learned to program. My brothers only liked playing the games, but I preferred making my own (generally based on source code listings in the back of BYTE magazine).
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by dgabriel 4y ago
My brother underwent this surgery, and not only did the weight come back, he developed a serious drinking problem (he's in recovery now). Apparently, this a known side effect. All it really did was make his life much harder in the lo
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by dgabriel 4y ago
Forio has a digital version https://forio.com/app/showcase/near-beer-game/ I was on a team that wrote a beer game app for HBS, and the rules are really simple. It's not really worth playing more than on
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by dgabriel 5y ago
GoFundMe tells a lot of people who they can or cannot send money to via their platform. First, there are laws around sending money to designated terrorist organizations, then there are restrictions around violence, pornography and sex work
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by dgabriel 5y ago
This is whataboutism; you have no proof that people who care about one thing don't also care about other things. Also, calling people you disagree with "woke" and claiming they "virtue climb" (what does that even m
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by dgabriel 7y ago
I would personally recommend Highcharts for that. https://www.highcharts.com/gantt/demo
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by dgabriel 7y ago
What? You can't say "call me they/them," rather you can only say "don't call me him/her/or any other pronoun besides they"? That's very silly. Clarification of rules, even to the point w
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by dgabriel 7y ago
You can crunch fake, sort-of-made-up numbers all day. The average man doesn't exist. My point is that it's certainly possible to be living paycheck-to-paycheck in a city with what was once a decent salary, even if you aren'
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by dgabriel 7y ago
That's a good point I missed.
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by dgabriel 7y ago
Add a car and student loans, a reasonable food and fitness budget, and that's all of it gone.
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by dgabriel 7y ago
The US is a big place, and schools vary wildly.
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by dgabriel 7y ago
Even that is only important a little bit. Excelling at a mid-tier university is completely FINE. It's so much harder to get into an Ivy League school now than when I was applying in the 90s; I'm not pushing my child to the brink
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by dgabriel 7y ago
My son is a junior now in a very competitive high school, and they had to do away with valedictorian/salutatorian because the difference between that and, say, just top 5% would be a 99.6 vs a 99.4 in one class in the 10th grade. It w
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by dgabriel 7y ago
That's sort of the opposite of my experience, where everyone couldn't wait to get out of the stultifying small town, where there was no work and no future.
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by dgabriel 7y ago
I grew up with an engineer's family income, and 250k still seems pretty wealthy. That puts you in the top 5% of US earners.

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