nlowell

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by nlowell 5mo ago
I'm working on Prompter Hawk, which is a dashboard for managing your local coding agents like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini's cli. It's my answer to the problems you encounter when trying to run multiple claude code&#
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by nlowell 7mo ago
With a bit of tuning, you can get models like Claude to output Mermaid-style diagrams. I built this as a feature into the tasks, so that you can hit a toggle which adds a prompt asking the agent to create a Mermaid diagram during or after t
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by nlowell 7mo ago
I'm thinking all the time about what the "best" way of using local AI agents like Claude / Codex / Gemini is. I'm trying to figure out the best UI/UX. There's so so so much that hasn't been explo
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by nlowell 3y ago
It's sad for me to admit this but I find online ordering especially for fast food in my area is a much better experience because it standardizes the presentation of the order details for the cashier. When I speak to a human being howev
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by nlowell 3y ago
E.g. The fire alarm going off is always a big deal even if there is not always a fire.
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by nlowell 4y ago
Sorry if I made it worse, I really felt like people's opinions were being treated uncharitably, and I was trying to right it.
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by nlowell 4y ago
You're missing the point and willfully characterizing others as solely being concerned with making the AI's say slurs. That's not their concern. But you can win any imaginary argument you like.
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by nlowell 4y ago
I think multi-currency systems can be used to juice microtransactions pretty hard still. For example League of Legends gives players free "chests" and free "keys" as a slow-drip, and you can open any chest with a key to
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by nlowell 4y ago
He didn't say "if the tech is successful one day". He said it will happen. [0] [0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1380316949087854595?s=20
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by nlowell 4y ago
Musk has said that one of his companies will give paraplegics the ability to walk again. He's overstated and overhyped the autonomous driving capabilities a million times as well.
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by nlowell 4y ago
FWIW the NH mountain (Mt. Washington) is a freak of nature and its experiences don't generalize to New England as a whole.
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by nlowell 4y ago
Matlab's focus on examples really shines. It's how people actually want to use docs: let me copy and paste something that works and then iterate from there.
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by nlowell 4y ago
"9s" are brought up in reliability discussions. They refer to the number of 9's in an uptime metric like 99%, 99.9%, 99.9999%, ... See also "march of the 9s"
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by nlowell 4y ago
Karpathy's videos (and blogs) are excellent. I wonder how history will reflect on his time at Tesla, however.
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by nlowell 4y ago
I wouldn't expect any normal car to behave like this, but the drivers following should have recognized it was a Tesla
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by nlowell 4y ago
If you're selling a motorized vehicle to children, you should probably follow all the laws even if they don't seem that critical to your bottom line
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by nlowell 4y ago
>an establishment made up of thousands of workers, jointly aiming to present information as accurately as possible I don't think that's what media organizations "aim" for, which is why I don't trust them.
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by nlowell 5y ago
>How many creative and truly innovative thinking people do you know that will spend hours studying for and partaking in such a ridiculous interview process‽ I may be posting this defensively, since I practice leetcode to prepare for tech
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by nlowell 5y ago
Calling yourself a tech bro is intentional ironic humor. Guys doing this are likely aware of the negative connotations but also the fact that if you are a young man in tech, other people will label you a tech bro regardless. It's just
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by nlowell 5y ago
We're in all-caps italics territory so I'm not sure how helpful I can be, but I just want to stress the fact that as a modern human we all have to rely on organizations and companies outside of our control. Things like IRC, in 202
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by nlowell 5y ago
Paying someone to take the assignment for you and secure you the job. People are out there doing this already, though I wouldn't recommend it :)
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by nlowell 5y ago
Yeah, you pay someone to take the assignment for you. Which, by the way, there's already a market out there where people are paying others to interview in their place (deceiving the company). I think video interviews are less cheatable
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by nlowell 5y ago
I like these and find them wise. Here are some additional fun questions: 1. How has the company changed in the past five years? How do you think it will change in the next five? 2. What was the biggest surprise about working here? I like th
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by nlowell 5y ago
Interviewing is one of the unsolved problems in computer science. I think take-home assignments have their own tradeoffs such as time investment by the engineer or the (I'm assuming) increased chance of cheating. You also still run int
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by nlowell 5y ago
I don't know if we can assume males and females drive the same amount.
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by nlowell 5y ago
Overpass phantom braking has been getting reported by drivers for years. IIRC Tesla's solution was to mark those overpass locations in some special hexmap so that the cars would then just not brake there. I don't have a source for
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by nlowell 5y ago
What are the requirements for a twitter account these days? Just an email or also a valid phone?
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by nlowell 5y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction
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by nlowell 5y ago
I'm red-green colorblind, and for this reason was never allowed in accounting at work. I kid, but it sure does surprise me that so much of the world uses red/green to visualize! Passive-aggressive fun fact: roughly 8% of men have
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by nlowell 7y ago
Glad to see no one here ever has bugs in their code!

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