mistahenry

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by mistahenry 2mo ago
I recently deleted social media from my phone. With nothing left, I found myself compulsively checking HN anytime I had a free moment. That’s shifted now after a few weeks. I’m no longer filling those moments. The wins are subtle but nice:
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by mistahenry 6mo ago
I mean, you've collapsed a complex, mixed system into a single negative narrative. Examples of how I learn with LLMs: - Paste sections from reading and ask questions / clarify my understanding / ask it to quiz me - Produce An
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by mistahenry 8mo ago
I agree that when it comes to portion size and whole foods, Europe makes it easy to follow by example. FWIW, I ate healthy in the US before because I rock climbed and needed to maintain a very lean mass. If I wanted to cut weight in Indones
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by mistahenry 8mo ago
I lived in Germany and Indonesia. It’s easier for me now back in the US than ever to eat healthy. I can buy pre-chopped Cole slaw, diced peppers / onions, etc. Whole Foods is best in class (Alnatura doesn’t come close) While to me, the
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by mistahenry 1y ago
Cool project! I run tech for a reverse logistics business buying overstock from Costco/Target/Walmart and we’re building a similar system for recognizing and pricing incoming inventory. I sent an email a few days ago to see if you
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by mistahenry 2y ago
For the never-ending text file for todos and work journal, I've found great success with org-mode, especially since deadlines automatically end up in my calendar with org-agenda. The outline format of org-mode is quite nice and it took
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by mistahenry 4y ago
If you get Berzerk, I’ll sign up :) that’s what I’m looking to read next, one way or another. I really enjoy the Shonen Jump app on my iPad for reading One Piece so I’m definitely keen on a service like this with an expanding catalog!
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by mistahenry 5y ago
Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach, Jim Kurose I read this about 2 years into my study of CS. I found the design of the internet, at times intentional and very often emergent / working around constraints, absolutely fascinating.
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by mistahenry 5y ago
I'm probably C2 comprehension, C1 speaking in German. I self-taught to high B2 (based off placement into that level in a Goethe Institut Intesivkurs) in 15 months of 2 hours a day. I studied 1-2 hours per day on average and did not mis
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by mistahenry 5y ago
I moved to Germany as well and self taught German to a high B2 level in the 15 months before moving. That was enough where I was able to be conversationally fluent within 3 months of arrival When I self taught, I primarily used Assimil and
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by mistahenry 5y ago
This is why I always like to have a `status_history` or `audit` table. You don't have to have event sourcing to still want a trail of who changed what in the system when.
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by mistahenry 5y ago
Kotlin does this, and I find it’s massively improved the readability of our codebase
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by mistahenry 5y ago
I read Kurose’s book in college and recommend it as the perfect book for this topic. As a neophyte at the time, I remember really drilling into the details of TCP and just being in awe of how well thought out the whole system was. This book
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by mistahenry 5y ago
Your reading of this is rather extreme, and I feel you've missed the point by thinking that Russell is advocating to avoid fun intentionally at times so as to preserve a happy life. I read it as more an observation that the boring time
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by mistahenry 5y ago
I was specifically thinking banking and it’s exactly this type of spear phishing attack that happens (although with other types of tokens the Fido). In these scenarios, you only need to move the money once. You definitely have a point with
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by mistahenry 5y ago
While mitigating a number of attacks, MFA with these types of physical tokens is still only as strong as their setup/enrollment process, which in many cases can be compromised via phishing. From my experience, there’s a difference betw
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by mistahenry 5y ago
What type of physical tokens are you talking about and what exactly do they do to prevent authentication on the scammer site?
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by mistahenry 5y ago
I’ve used the Cocoapods tool Xcodeproj to facilitate really nice Workflows that Xcode didn’t provide for me out of the box. I don’t need this in every project but when I do it’s a really nice API for manipulating the pbxproj files https:&#
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by mistahenry 5y ago
Completely agree. When implementing new functionality in my Kotlin Spring Boot apps, I find the debugger crucial for fixing any exception that isn’t immediately clear. I’ll simply rerun my test with a breakpoint on the failing line, peruse
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by mistahenry 6y ago
I recently got an app on to the Shopify app store. The review process is the worst that I've been through. My rejections in chronological order: 1. Rejected for having text in the app icon. The text was our company's name and is o
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by mistahenry 6y ago
I'm an American living in Germany and I'm always thrilled when Germans think I'm Dutch after hearing my German ;) As for the accents, I had a similar experience when moving around from Berlin to Munich to Mainz with regard to
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by mistahenry 6y ago
The existence of a system that allows for companies to pay foreign labor well below market puts a downward pressure on compensation for everyone in industries that take advantage of it. You mention that there are Americans who also struggle
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by mistahenry 6y ago
I've spent the last 3 years building the whole solution suite for 2FA banking devices. We have our own hardware devices with secure elements that use your computer as an internet proxy (connected via bluetooth low energy or USB). If yo
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by mistahenry 6y ago
Risk analysis requires accepting trade offs. I don’t think it’s so backwards or self destructive to not want the level of potential danger that a nuclear power offers in your backyard. The reality is that many nuclear disasters have happene
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by mistahenry 6y ago
I’ve worked in a number of areas with basically no fail/delay SLAs. I think it’s naive to think “if you need a hot fix right now, you’re doing it wrong”...the number of times we needed to hot fix because of ourselves was very low. But
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by mistahenry 6y ago
> so the money stops having tangible value I couldn’t agree with this sentiment more. My current job isn’t the highest paying job I’ve ever had (or could currently get). But the value in what I’m learning and exposed to keeps increasing
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by mistahenry 6y ago
I have a Chemex three cup and I can make one or two cups with it without any timer or scale. It tastes great to me and is really consistent. The need for scientific exactness is overblown here (although using a scale and timer only helps th
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by mistahenry 7y ago
I was already using zsh and somehow the MacOS upgrade path for making zsh the new default shell deleted my shell history. This was a short term blow to productivity since I had only made external notes on about half the difficult command li
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by mistahenry 7y ago
oh wow, that is certainly different than the news video which I assumed was relatively unbiased
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by mistahenry 7y ago
I use awk very often at my current job when analyzing our logs. I've been slowly compiling a list of useful shell pipelines, the majority of which involve awk. Any time I need to do some novel analysis, I can steal the syntax/idea

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