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by quxbar 1mo ago
Here in Austin, I'm stuck calling an uber and hoping I get a Waymo. When does that deal expire?
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by quxbar 2mo ago
IME: Cycling bibs and shorts from knockoff amazon brands seem to be of equal quality to entry-level name brand stuff (pearl izumi) at a fraction of the price. Plain underwear, on the other hand, has serious want of quality vs 'real&#x2
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by quxbar 3mo ago
Love this, it's like Randall Munroe x Lynda Barry
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by quxbar 4mo ago
About time somebody started flooding the millennial nostalgia collectibles market with fakes.
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by quxbar 4mo ago
Ah yes, my first love. I remember creating a quiz game based on greek mythology, and a little RPG where I realized the power of exponential functions by wrecking my power curve.
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by quxbar 4mo ago
I don't agree with everything this piece concludes, but I do admire getting to read through a whole HN article without feeling the sheen of AI co-authorship.
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by quxbar 4mo ago
I actually realized last night that everything that got me excited about the internet circa 2013 is actually way easier now, fun little one-off websites are far more doable, but we've lost the zeitgeist perhaps. It makes me wanna move
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by quxbar 5mo ago
I started doing this a few years ago, it works a treat with non-junior engineers. With the right testing in place, review becomes more about communicating the ideas clearly rather than gatekeeping.
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by quxbar 7mo ago
If you go outside and they are burning witches, it's best to go along with it.
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by quxbar 7mo ago
I really miss the old way of doing things. I know it was a maintenance nightmare, but I only really value having an iphone app with native notifications that lets me see exactly the same stuff I would see on my laptop. I don't manage a
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by quxbar 8mo ago
Yes, look at the massive 'success' of Vail, Colorado.
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by quxbar 9mo ago
While refrigerated transport came with great benefits - everyday families who previously had meat only 1 or 2 nights a week could have it daily! - but I don't think we've yet realized the impact of only consuming food that has bee
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by quxbar 9mo ago
By your own logic, anything that can be done 'for women' would equally benefit you. You are in a woman's societal role, and being marginalized to the point of invisibility comes with the territory.
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by quxbar 9mo ago
My mother always enjoyed playing Jeopardy! on alexa, it was a novel format and everybody could participate while sitting around and chatting. She happily would have paid for it, even the dreaded monthly subscription, but it was neglected. T
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by quxbar 10mo ago
After the better part of a decade spent with chromecast and legal streaming, I have been forced back to the high seas as of late. I can't reliably get programs without onerous subscriptions, each for one or two shows I actually care ab
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by quxbar 10mo ago
Getting into climbing was secondarily a health choice, but primarily a social endeavor for me.
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by quxbar 11mo ago
vanilla ice would like a word
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by quxbar 11mo ago
A lot of people will need to stop identifying as 'someone who makes art with enough value to trade it for the decent wage'. Millions of egos destroyed, not a dollar of GDP lost.
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by quxbar 11mo ago
If one claims to be able to write good code with LLMs, it should just as easy to write comprehensive e2e tests. If you don't hold your code to a high testing standard than you were always going off 'vibes' whether they were f
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by quxbar 11mo ago
Exactly this. After the enshittification of evernote I swore I would only write documents in formats and contexts where I can easily pick up and move.
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by quxbar 11mo ago
LLMs unlock a fundamentally different paradigm of interaction, in my experience a non-technical person with a good humanities background can describe what they want adequately. This is without needing to master the arbitrary grammar of a no
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by quxbar 1y ago
Yeah, my assumption is a ton of people are getting for half the advertised capacity, and if they looked at actual 10Ah batteries this would be in line with their energy density.
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by quxbar 1y ago
His work has enabled so much creativity and he gets to give great software away for free, what a chad.
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by quxbar 1y ago
I won't even look at a youtube video essay about an obscure vintage RPG (my preferred form of guilty pleasure viewing) if it's under 20 minutes long.
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by quxbar 1y ago
Not just stop and wait, the intention is that the world will fully start to spin backwards and reverse the flow of time until post-WW2 abundance returns. All that's needed is the right cargo cult of American values.
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by quxbar 1y ago
the crazy thing is, I can get locally-roasted beans that are single-origin microlots from all over the world, in part because of the coffee boom that was a result of instant coffee and the desire for better.
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by quxbar 1y ago
You've never seen those stands at the boardwalk where artists draw caricatures? They're extremely formulaic and rarely resemble the subjects aside from a few distorted features, but humans have being paying other humans to pump ou
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by quxbar 1y ago
type safety, integration testing, and thorough readmes are now cheap, I don't know why any developer would not be using them with claude code. even if all the LLM services go under tomorrow you'll still have code that practically
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by quxbar 1y ago
Do y'all get mosquitos on the roof? My back patio is screened in and some are still sneaking through. Would love to know the wired-ethernet-certainty type of approach to dealing with this.
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by quxbar 1y ago
I now have the pleasure of giving exercises to candidates where they are explicitly allowed to use any AI or autocomplete that they want, but it's one of those tricky real-world problems where you'll only get yourself into trouble

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