powersurge360

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by powersurge360 20d ago
Good writing is generally writing that communicates the intended meaning. Transmitting thought and meaning is inherently lossy and the content is irrelevant if it is insoluble in the mind of the recipient. LLMs aren’t really great at this y
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by powersurge360 21d ago
Speaking speculatively, humans love percussion. I’d bet that like how many songs have a drum beat, these sequences of short punctuating sentences are common constructs in lots of prose and therefore over represented.
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by powersurge360 21d ago
I find LLMisms very annoying to read, it’s almost like they are bullet points in the shape of a paragraph. It feels very “skippy” to me. EDITED: Removed a question that I couldn’t make feel suitably polite.
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by powersurge360 1mo ago
If you are curious about this, I recommend There’s No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. It covers how some folks, with no credit, are forced to live in extended stay hotels (where they take cash up front and don’t run credit) w
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by powersurge360 3mo ago
I had an M1 Pro MacBook and I agree with you about not needing a new computer. However, it seems like things are at best going to be the same if not worse over the next 5 years with AI prices. I went ahead and updated because although I’m s
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by powersurge360 3mo ago
I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to come off as adversarial. I don’t feel like you have to get words exactly right to communicate. There’s lots of folks on hacker news and sometimes, for some reason or another, folks just don’t know an idiom, so I
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by powersurge360 3mo ago
I’m sure you can figure it out if you try. I maybe was overexpressive with “exclusive”, that was my mistake. Wrapping thoughts in words is lossy and generally making an effort to be understood implies the listener making an effort to unders
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by powersurge360 3mo ago
You may be unfamiliar with the colloquialism. This one is exclusively for unreleased products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_on_arrival#:~:text=In%20a...
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by powersurge360 7mo ago
I don’t know if it works for windows but on other operating systems if you hold shift while pasting it strips the special formatting. I don’t have a windows machine readily available but I hope even if it doesn’t work there this will be use
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by powersurge360 8mo ago
lol I also have had this experience. I played DnD to get to know people and after two years I realized I only knew their characters. Challenging.
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by powersurge360 8mo ago
Tell your friend to look up the Western Reaches style of play. One of the core ideas is that you begin and end each session in a safe zone so that you can have a rotating pool of adventurers. You can tuck in some rules for having mercenarie
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by powersurge360 11mo ago
I didn’t see it mentioned in the comments so I guess I get to be the person to post the quote! > “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be” Excerpt From Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut This is often quot
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by powersurge360 11mo ago
I keep circling this with AI and I'm not really sure what to do with it. They mention that the AI is meant to be used as reference only in the linked article but what does that actually mean? Who is checking who? Is the AI filling out
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by powersurge360 1y ago
If you don't feel like you need the extra bells and whistles don't worry about it. The great thing about org-mode is it _is_ just plain text and all the magic is in the interpretation of the plain text. If you have yourself a tabl
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by powersurge360 2y ago
Seems to be a problem with the gem website, consistently getting a 403 from some kind of GraphQL API. ETA: I wonder perhaps if the job posting is in some kind of pre-published state? Or maybe something in our resumes is catching on some kin
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by powersurge360 2y ago
I think GraphQL works its best magic when you are building your own unified data access layer for a backend. Your individual services can be backed by Postgres or Mongo or an in memory database, whatever, doesn’t matter. And from there a ba
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by powersurge360 3y ago
I used it full time with Doom in a mix of typescript, JavaScript, ruby, and golang for a while. I got frustrated with a few minor things like heredocs not highlighting the inner syntax (which isn’t a standard thing, but a nice to have) and
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by powersurge360 3y ago
This minimizes things a bit. The definitive editions got torn apart for being ugly and poorly developed. It was a better experience to use the originals and mod them in many cases. This original version is still not available and people are
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by powersurge360 3y ago
Chronic stone former here, requiring surgical intervention a few times a year. It definitely can be sudden and debilitating but for most of my teenage years I had mistaken the pain for ‘sleeping wrong’. Sometimes when I would bend over and
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by powersurge360 3y ago
You may consider using asdf or some other Python version manager to get a newer (or older) Python https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
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by powersurge360 3y ago
It isn't literally the same thing as a company town but the concept from the headline at least is close enough to cause a pretty visceral reaction. Honestly, even as explained in the top level comment I am uncomfortable with my corpora
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by powersurge360 4y ago
This was a concern for me but when the Remote Ruby devs had the AlpineJS guy on last year, he mentioned that you can pull them apart into data components, which provides a separation that I found quite tidy. Did you check this out and find
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by powersurge360 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. After reading this and messing with my config, looks like doom emacs has a variable associated with the theme that sets comments to have a brighter background to compensate. Thanks for the nudge.
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by powersurge360 4y ago
I agree. The biggest thing I dislike about Tokyo night, though, is the comments are not very well contrasted against the background. Aside from that I like everything else though.
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by powersurge360 4y ago
This really resonated with me, thanks for sharing. This lines up very well with my perception of success being composed of preparedness and opportunity. To me, Level One represents the cultivation of skill; preparing, said another way. Leve
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by powersurge360 4y ago
Is this using an iPad for coding or is this using an iPad as a dumb terminal and using something else for development? At the end of the day, that’s what makes an iPad unappealing for me as a development machine. If I am going to pay for an
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by powersurge360 4y ago
This might actually be the first thing I've seen pop up organically about Elixir that isn't red hot glowing praise. Can you elaborate on what was going wrong and if it was anything specific to Elixir/Typescript?
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by powersurge360 4y ago
It's org mode in emacs with the org-roam plugin. If I wasn't using emacs I would probably have a folder full of markdown files instead and leverage a project-based grep to search it. The real power in the system is that it's
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by powersurge360 4y ago
I am becoming increasingly skeptical that good internal documentation is even possible. I've been working in software development for around 12 years and have _never_ seen it done well and asking around the best I've heard offered
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by powersurge360 4y ago
I also have a 9 year old w/ ADHD and tried this with the reminders and he just turns them off lol. It's been great for other things though. Facilitating social connections w/ friends (the cellular watch gets its own number) a

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