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by hughdbrown 4mo ago
I had a driver in a Ford F-150 do this in front of me last week as he pulled away from a light. The smoke totally blacked out the windshield for 5 seconds while I was in motion. I was totally blinded by this. I had no idea this was a thing,
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by hughdbrown 5mo ago
curl -s https://api.github.com/users/mitchellh | jq .id
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by hughdbrown 7mo ago
I used this entire HN discussion as the input to a design/task SKILL.md. I asked Claude to prepare the design document and a task list. When it was done, I asked it to implement the task list. I got this: https://github.com&
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by hughdbrown 8mo ago
I am not understanding this. Propane does not freeze anywhere near -60C. Wikipedia [1] says it freezes (liquid to solid) below -187C and boils (liquid to gas) above -42C. Propane is probably unusable as a fuel below -42C because there is no
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by hughdbrown 11mo ago
Ah, you have fallen for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4VJobPBr4
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by hughdbrown 11mo ago
This is really interesting, but I need the highlights reel. So I need a script to summarize Hacker News pages and/or arbitrary web pages. Maybe that's what I want for getting the juice out of Medium articles.
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by hughdbrown 1y ago
Your knowledge of the author of Pingoo makes you more likely to believe that he may have erred? This explanation gains strength for you given your knowledge of his character and personality and professional practices?
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by hughdbrown 1y ago
I was about to call fake on this -- Americans from south Jersey are largely unfamiliar with the present perfect and would not say "[I] have never heard of" but "[I] never heard of" instead. But it turns out this grammati
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by hughdbrown 1y ago
'Racoon', variant of 'raccoon'. Of course, I prefer the double-c variant because of the orthographic anomaly of the person who tends to the raccoons' area at the zoo, the raccoon-nook-keeper.
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by hughdbrown 1y ago
I thought it was a peevish Kiwi joke about how people of other nations do not use words as they do.
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by hughdbrown 1y ago
Yeah, but there is a distinct advantage to using a standard. Suppose you want your agent to use postgres or git or even file modification. You write your code to use MCP and your backend is already available. It's code you don't h
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by hughdbrown 1y ago
Came here to understand exactly this point. It made no sense to me that a document created in 1215 would have a copy made in 1300 that was referred to as an original.
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by hughdbrown 1y ago
Because those packages are cheating us.
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by hughdbrown 1y ago
Odd. When I look at it, the first item is my own suggestion for debugging: > In my experience, the most pernicious temptation is to take the buggy, non-working code you have now and to try to modify it with "fixes" until the co
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by hughdbrown 1y ago
Sort of like the first debugging tip here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682602
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
https://archive.is/IWQFv
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
I am not sure I believe the numbers shown here. More jobs offered in Rust than C++? I would not think so. I think that many of the hits on 'rust' in the job postings are actually 'trust': ``` >>> import requests
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
> This puzzler, like many other difficult-to-spell food terms (such as hors d’oeuvre), also has its derivation in the French language. That's the whole story: people who don't know French (or any foreign language, likely) canno
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
And owns the eatery, Restaurants Near Me.
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
> When 99.9% of posted jobs are fake (including in HN's Who's Hiring) Okay there a lot of fake jobs, maybe not as high as 99.9%, though. But what's the basis for saying that "Who's Hiring?" is fake? Why woul
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
Your JSON schema says this: ``` "location": "City, State", ... "workField": "Industry Field" ``` But: `location` can be an array: ``` "name": "Shopif
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
This scientific-academic synopsis gives me only the faintest idea of what kind of animal this might be: > A new supergiant species of Bathynomus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 from Vietnam is described. Bathynomus vaderi sp. nov. is characterise
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
He is currently a naturalized American citizen. For him to lose that status, he would have to be stripped of it by a legal process, commonly called denaturalization. [0] It is not enough for people to accuse you of having committed fraud in
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
He's an American because he got naturalized citizenship. According to the State Department and the Supreme Court, at a minimum, he qualifies as an American.
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
This is exactly what I do: I put my test file outside the git repo's tree. This does not introduce any complications to testing and is minimally annoying.
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
Let me reformulate then. Take the wikipedia article on debugging[1]. The first sentence identifies what debugging is: "In engineering, debugging is the process of finding the root cause, workarounds and possible fixes for bugs." I
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
> The quickest solution, assuming learning from the problem isn't the priority, might be to replace the entire chain of lights without testing any of them. So as a metaphor for software debugging, this is "throw away the code,
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
In my experience, the most pernicious temptation is to take the buggy, non-working code you have now and to try to modify it with "fixes" until the code works. In my experience, you often cannot get broken code to become working c
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
Canadian-born, 26 years in US: - 65% English, 10% Dutch, 9% Russian - 90% English, 3% Spanish, 2% German - 89% English, 5% Spanish, 3% Russian
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by hughdbrown 2y ago
Wow, I read this article because I could not understand how two labeled points on an air path could be 3600 nanometers apart. Never occurred to me that someone would use 'nm' to mean nautical miles.

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