hoelle

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by hoelle 5mo ago
> Hey nerds: dark theme is dumb. Just light up your space. Eye strain comes from the contrast between a bright screen and your dark room background. Fix your lighting. Or if you insist on being a cave goblin then lower your screen bright
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by hoelle 2y ago
Didn't think it would cross the uncanny valley for me when it opened the chat by taunting me for being up too late, reading the time digit by digit. Not something a human would do. But I did feel bad hanging up on it. Him?
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by hoelle 2y ago
> I think you're talking about @ and ~ boxes. As I recall, those were removed the same year the iPad and Instagram debuted. Take criticism better. A language choice on a project means the veterans are indefinitely charged with teach
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by hoelle 2y ago
> Zig does enhance on C, there is no doubt. I would rather write Zig than C. The design is better, more modern, and the language is safer. But why stop half way? Why fix some problems and ignore the most damaging ones? I was disappointed
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by hoelle 2y ago
> Afterall, it is possible to place an endless thicket of regulations on deliberate human activities, but one can’t simply outlaw wildfires and horrific destruction and loss of life. Great read, learned a lot. Also, the web's gotten
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by hoelle 2y ago
Might be interesting, but this tone is nails on a chalkboard to me. Bailed after the third "dear reader"
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by hoelle 2y ago
Great chat! Talking about 1D vs 2D data structures felt incomplete without some mention of 3D coding. The only examples I know of are from games - Minecraft's Redstone or the automation genre (Satisfactory, Foundry). I imagine there ar
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by hoelle 2y ago
Honda and Toyota are still cheap, safe, and dependable. Our CR-V is such a great value I don't actually understand how they turn a profit.
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by hoelle 3y ago
Beauty is often worth a little extra time. I'd rather walk a beautiful trail than a paved sidewalk beside 6 lanes of fast traffic. It's cool to choose the tools that appeal to your values. It's not cool to advocate for paving
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by hoelle 3y ago
Intriguing. My feedback for whoever is writing this, the main site, the github Readme, etc, please put in some work on a clarity/simplification pass.
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by hoelle 3y ago
Last I looked it's barely available in the US. A dozen states, maybe.
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by hoelle 3y ago
What would you rank as a bigger loss? My list is pretty short. Wife, kids. Losing a job means you lose your friends, your work, your brand, your routine, maybe the commute you chose your house for. Maybe you'll have to move your family
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by hoelle 3y ago
Your husband or wife can also wake up and decide to "get rid of you in a blink". How attached to them should you get?
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by hoelle 3y ago
I suspect you've never really been passionate about your work or loved the crew you've worked with. I recommend it. Love hurts, but sometimes it's a good hurt.
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by hoelle 3y ago
> The idea you can't make work friends & work on cool stuff unless at your current job in your current role seems limiting. I never said that. If you work on cool stuff with great people it is healthy to reflect on the pain and
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by hoelle 3y ago
> Who cares? ...anyone who isn't an ice-cold sociopath? Your job is often a big part of your identity, particularly in the games biz which is so passion driven. Leaving behind a project you grew, kickass tech you had a hand in, and
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by hoelle 3y ago
I could ask ChatGPT why you're likely to be a grumpy bad-faith asshole, but as an expert in the field of dealing with children, you probably just need a snack.
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by hoelle 3y ago
Right, and a hammer is not a saw. Different tools do different things. In this example the llm helped point me to a few relevant tools in the field, including https://materialsproject.org/ml , which is a different AI tool th
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by hoelle 3y ago
I don't need AI to "generate" new ideas. Here I'm using it as a search to point me to things I can research. Why the negativity?
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by hoelle 3y ago
Sure, as an outsider curious about getting involved, a high level summary is exactly what LLMs are good at. Why the negativity?
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by hoelle 3y ago
Gross. I love it.
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by hoelle 3y ago
Um, yes. It gave me a handful of good leads for related open source projects to check out. Why the negativity?
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by hoelle 4y ago
Yes. Recall my original point is explaining how high earners can still be anxious about layoffs. Even if they have been balancing family, fun, and savings... a layoff would likely mean 6-24 months of job searching. We would survive, but as
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by hoelle 4y ago
A luxury car or bag doesn't move the needle much, both can also be had for 10k/y. And both of those items hold some value in the event they'd need to be resold. They're far less "frivolous" than something like
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by hoelle 4y ago
> what about the vast majority of people who aren't making that kind of money and do have a family, are they wizards? I have a large extended family who all make far less than me. Yes, they have plenty of kids, too. Their secret is
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by hoelle 4y ago
Perhaps. Or perhaps our socioeconomic systems shouldn't be so insanely misaligned with the literal continuation of our species. Fertility rates and birth defects forced our hand. Saving longer just raises your chances of holding nothin
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by hoelle 4y ago
They got married and have kids. Imagine a tech couple earning >$400k, combined income after tax about 20k a month. Awesome right? Now they need a house with square footage for kids to play and sleep, a home office, and close enough to do
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by hoelle 4y ago
> Everywhere you look, the economic indicators are solid Everywhere? Have you been down a grocery aisle? The Ukraine war is likely to continue disrupting global food, fertilizer, energy, and raw material supply for years. Boomer retireme
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by hoelle 4y ago
F# is readable and terse. F#'s REPL is really fun to work in, too. The significant whitespace makes it a bit awkward in shell mode, but why do that when editing a script in VS Code, Emacs, or even screen + nano is far more convenient.
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by hoelle 4y ago
Our culture is biased in ways that helped it survive harder times. The bloodlust is easy to explain. The tribe better at war survives. Veneration of honorable warriors runs deep in our veins. Sales for Top Gun, Marvel movies, action games c

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