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by jcpst 8mo ago
First off, I agree with the point made, though I think a more reasonable comparison would be something like a subaru. The people I know who have to deal with excessive snow or mud on country roads commonly opt for that. Of course there’s th
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by jcpst 9mo ago
> 100% remote is also a tough ask. I've noticed increasingly job roles are listed as 2-3 days in the office as companies awkwardly transition back to the office. Keep in mind that at some places this is general policy, and that tech
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by jcpst 9mo ago
I keep the two halves separate. I was a studio recording engineer for about 7 years. I switched to software, and now I work in industrial global logistics. Job attributes I optimized for over the years: insulated from manufactured stress, a
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by jcpst 9mo ago
My reasons for initially dismissing it is because to me it felt like it was taking the fun part of the job. We have all these tasks, and writing the code is this creative act, designed to be read by other humans. Just like how I don’t want
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by jcpst 9mo ago
I do this with my friends sometimes. It’s definitely fun. But it’s even more low-key than what the author describes. There’s no big group chat or lighting talks, which would be weird cause we all know each other so well. And I don’t think w
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by jcpst 10mo ago
We tried homeschooling a few times. We were honest with ourselves and determined we were not that great at it. Sure, we could improve. But one of the primary factors in where we chose to live was the school district. Fortunately it has work
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by jcpst 11mo ago
I have a Gen 1 Nest. Is it common for them to brick if you connect them to the internet?
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by jcpst 11mo ago
Yep, didn’t realize this was unknown by enough web developers to warrant an article.
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by jcpst 1y ago
All over the world, including the United States.
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by jcpst 1y ago
For the longest time I railed against the fact that I am mortal, and my time is finite. I wanted to squeeze everything I could into my days, and I would feel guilty about projects I didn’t get to. This is despite having a wife, kids, house,
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by jcpst 1y ago
The human performance at the bottom of the page was nice. But you can also give a great musician a zipper and paper bag and they can make it sound nice. It’s just like LLM generated prose to me. The orchestration and motif development is mu
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by jcpst 2y ago
I love when I find new SFAs (single file app)
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by jcpst 2y ago
Umm. What.
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by jcpst 2y ago
> Educators say their tried and true lesson plans are no longer enough to keep students engaged at a time of struggling mental health, shortened attention spans, reduced attendance and worsening academic performance. At the crux of these
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by jcpst 2y ago
> And if I’m struggling, as someone who’s not burdened by having children to take care of or even not having the most demanding job or hours to make ends meet, I have no idea how others manage to have a curious mind and succeed the way t
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by jcpst 2y ago
I had surgery for a torn meniscus repair. I’m on the couch for a least another month. I’m using this precious expanded free time to compose music, my primary form of artistic expression. Software-wise, I’m on a platform team for a large com
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by jcpst 2y ago
I remember seeing this a while back. That typesetting is beautiful. Thank you for bringing it up here, I might have to pick that one up. I’ve been bored with building line-of-business applications, despite designing for complex requirements
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by jcpst 2y ago
Also- getting cold symptoms and simply not acknowledging that it could be covid doesn’t make it not covid.
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by jcpst 3y ago
Constraints are not too crazy of a concept. It’s not much different than say, writing a traditional Schoenberg style 12-tone composition. You would create your tone rows and then write your composition. If you follow the rules, then it is a
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by jcpst 3y ago
Or, if even $300 seems steep for a computer to use for just some windows software, go to a used computer shop. I picked up my daughter’s Thinkpad for like $150 Edit: sorry, missed the portion of the parent comment mentioning used.
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by jcpst 3y ago
A crappy app that solves a problem would be an upgrade in a lot of cases, rather than a company engineering a problem to justify an app that’s been created.
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by jcpst 3y ago
Apologies if this is wasn’t a valuable comment. Earlier it didn’t occur to me that the comment about having to turn their phone sideways might not be sarcasm.
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by jcpst 3y ago
I thought what they called ugly was pretty clean.
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by jcpst 3y ago
lol! I only type that when something literally makes me laugh out loud. Thank you, this comment made my morning.
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by jcpst 3y ago
Yes, I agree, it reads like an ad. But I did in fact find it inspiring. For all I know, maybe it is a targeted ad. I am a software engineer at a large company. I was selected and flown to HQ for training on integrating LLMs into application
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by jcpst 3y ago
I like these stories. I had a budget of $350 for our marriage and honeymoon. That was including gas money. We did the honeymoon first though- went to a rural town and stayed at a b&b while we waited the three days for the marriage licen
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by jcpst 3y ago
We figured this out with guitar pedals. Analog circuits sound awesome. Taking one of these analog processors and layering a digital interface on top provides the best of both worlds. You can save presets, program the parameters using MIDI,
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by jcpst 3y ago
This just happened to me too. Checked my linux machine and they were there. Backed em up. What the heck
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by jcpst 3y ago
I always have one of more pages of loose-leaf on my desk. It’s messy, but basically the lowest barrier to entry. And if I’m somewhere else and write something down, it goes in the pile with the other notes when I get back. A few times a yea
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by jcpst 3y ago
Sorry everyone- forget about the union. This guy on HN wants a flying car, and we’ll never have that as long as unions exist.

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