kevinskii

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by kevinskii 7mo ago
I have a dirty confession to make too: I’ve been running Tahoe and Windows 11 on my devices, and both are working fine for the most part. If I ever switch to Linux desktop, it will be mostly out of boredom.
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by kevinskii 8mo ago
I probably would not have read the article, but your comment piqued my curiosity. I couldn’t resist. 1/5 would not click again.
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by kevinskii 8mo ago
Likewise! I built my personal blog with Astro and host on Cloudflare (username.dev), and feel guilty about taking advantage of such excellent software and free tier. Here’s hoping they find a way to take my money soon.
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by kevinskii 8mo ago
https://kevinskii.dev
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by kevinskii 1y ago
> ” I worked crazy hours in my early 20s because I liked it. I liked computers, I liked my team, and to be frank, I had not much else to do. If I went home early, I would be spending time on the internet anyway.” This describes me almo
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by kevinskii 2y ago
Not every blog post written in the author’s free time needs to be manuscript-worthy. Informal benchmarks can be often really helpful in solving real world problems where it’s not worthwhile to try to squeeze out every last nanosecond of per
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by kevinskii 3y ago
Trevor Milton's infamous "html5 supercomputer" quote often gets shared in discussions about Nikola, and for good reason. It's one of my all-time favorite bullshit quotes: "The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5
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by kevinskii 3y ago
I agree with the OP. VS Code using the Jupyter protocol is superior to notebooks in almost every respect in my experience. It gives you an excellent debugger, the ability to track changes in Git without any modification, and you can also ru
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by kevinskii 3y ago
Excellent points, but perhaps part of the reason for the price difference is because the US population is much more geographically dispersed, so the infrastructure costs are much higher.
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by kevinskii 4y ago
I agree that remote screen sharing can be sufficient, but I'm personally a much more effective mentor in person with lots of whiteboard space.
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by kevinskii 4y ago
Slightly tangential, but for those who have gone through vulkan-tutorial.com and still felt lost even knowing a bit about basic graphics programming concepts, I highly recommend Brendan Galea's Youtube video series on Vulkan [1]. I&#x2
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by kevinskii 4y ago
I agree. I read the first edition to Intro to Statistical Learning and it went into just the right level of mathematical depth. The authors also have Youtube lectures that accompany the chapters, and these are a great reinforcement of the m
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by kevinskii 4y ago
I agree, I don't know anyone offhand who uses two computers for recreational diving, and I would absolutely use an Apple watch as my sole dive computer. If you have a computer malfunction you can still safely return to the surface. The
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by kevinskii 4y ago
I was a shy, socially awkward type when I enlisted--definitely not military material. The experience did me a lot of good. For the first year or so I was a target of relentless bullying, but slowly I learned how to stand up for myself verba
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by kevinskii 4y ago
I'm a former U.S. submariner. Probably 90% of my shipmates who had served at least 3 years would have said the same thing. They hated the Navy, hated sea duty, hated all of it. And then towards the end of their commitment, with a sever
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by kevinskii 5y ago
I would never post something like this. I'm just as peeved by "hello" type chat messages as everyone else here, just as I am when someone walks into my office and starts talking to me while I'm doing deep work. But I nev
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by kevinskii 5y ago
No matter how carefully and thoroughly we design a system up front, we almost discover more elegant solutions once we start writing the actual code. I suspect this is true for nearly all non-trivial systems. If we were to fully implement ev
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by kevinskii 5y ago
I gave quick answers to your numbered questions in a separate comment. Regarding your "question to the broader HN community" about getting salary info, maybe the best way is to ask companies to provide it themselves, and offer evi
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by kevinskii 5y ago
Great website! I will take a closer look later. To answer your questions: 1. Do you actively select smaller companies...? No, size does not matter. 2. Do you find companies' size and funding information useful...? All info is usefu
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by kevinskii 5y ago
This is a repost of a blog that I found to be incredibly illuminating for an experienced programmer learning modern web development. The original discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20637849
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Why is modern web development so complicated? Part 1 (2019)(vrk.dev)
6 points by kevinskii 5y ago|2 comments
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by kevinskii 5y ago
A few years ago I had a classmate who was rudely terse in his replies to group emails. For instance, if someone asked, "Here is my understanding of blah blah. Is this correct?" This person would reply to all with only the word: &q
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by kevinskii 5y ago
I used to be a reserve deputy sheriff. One night we got a call about two "vicious Rottweilers" who had broken through their fence into the neighbor's yard and were mauling the pet bunny. It turned out that the dogs were two h
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by kevinskii 5y ago
Thanks, that was the first thing I tried. I didn't want to go into great detail about my troubleshooting efforts because I don't think it's quite relevant to the overall discussion.
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by kevinskii 5y ago
Great question. I'm wondering the same thing. I also built a PC in 2017 and installed Windows 10 on it. It initially had a 7s boot time following bios startup. Several updates later, the boot time is now close to a minute and app start
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by kevinskii 5y ago
Sure, some HN comments and their ensuing discussions may be completely unrelated to the posted topic. I've learned a lot from these over the years, and I'm happy to ignore the ones that I don't care about. But just as there i
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by kevinskii 5y ago
This recommendation always comes up in this sort of discussion, and I wholeheartedly agree with it. This book greatly affected the way I interact with people. It also lends itself well to just reading a random chapter here or there dependin
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by kevinskii 5y ago
Perhaps your other comments were also made in the context of Tesla discussions, which tend to be fairly polarizing.
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by kevinskii 5y ago
Yes, and in addition, the comparison should be between similar vehicle body styles and manufacturing years.
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by kevinskii 5y ago
> Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east. Not quite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

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