ragle

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by ragle 6mo ago
This reminds me of a nightmare I had in college one semester when I was taking 18 credit hours and consulting part time. I'd been up for days and had been cramming for a computer architecture exam when I basically passed out. I had thi
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by ragle 6mo ago
I think a lot of people have projects like this going at the moment, but I'm working on a deterministic (i.e. code / data persistence) layer that sits between agents and helps orchestrate their work. Basically an API wrapping a cy
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by ragle 6mo ago
Hope you feel better soon! What sorts of topics do you enjoy learning about on Youtube?
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by ragle 8mo ago
I hate it, but I'm actually counting on this and how it affects my future earning potential as part of my early(ish) retirement plan! I do use them, and I also still do some personal projects and such by hand to stay sharp. Just: they
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by ragle 1y ago
My experience has been almost the opposite. Typing isn't the fun part of it for me. It's a necessary evil to realize a solution. The fun part of being an engineer for me is figuring out how it all should work and fit together. Onc
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by ragle 2y ago
> Perhaps he and other true geniuses can understand things transcendently. Not so for me. My thoughts are serialized and obviously countable. You needn't be a genius. Go on a few vipassana meditation retreats and your perception of
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by ragle 2y ago
Likewise. I was 2-3 days into testing positive and had a fever that could not be controlled by maximum strength OTC antipyretics, awful cough producing glue-like greyish globs, headache, blood oxygen consistently 2-3% below typical for me,
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by ragle 2y ago
This makes sense. I've mostly been successful doing these sorts of things as well and really appreciate the way it saves me some typing (even in cases where I only keep 40-80% of what it writes, this is still a huge savings). It's
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by ragle 2y ago
I wonder about this too - and also wonder what the difference of order is between the historical shifts you mention and the one we're seeing now (or will see soon). Is it 10 times the "abstracting away complexity and understanding
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by ragle 2y ago
In a similar situation at my workplace. What models are you using that you feel comfortable trusting it to understand and operate on 10-20k LOC? Using the latest and greatest from OpenAI, I've seen output become unreliable with as litt
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by ragle 2y ago
The other side of this challenge is that the "technology" is mostly irrelevant for above-average applicants with solid CS chops. I apply for lots of jobs featuring technologies I haven't used (beyond toy personal projects or
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by ragle 3y ago
I haven't used the remarkable but I bought a screen protector for my iPad that's intended to yield a paper-like writing and drawing experience when using the Apple pencil. It gets pretty close I think. N.B. if you go this route yo
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by ragle 3y ago
I want to share a personal anecdote, as I recently spent quite a bit of time deciding whether or not to leave Mac OS for linux (Manjaro) this year for my personal computing needs - primarily because of gaming. Ultimately, I did make the swi
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by ragle 3y ago
* $3500 price tag * 2D / "Arcade" games support (lol) I'm a buyer 3-4 generations in if price comes down significantly and I can replace my monitors with it. The seamless use with a mac for work will be reall
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by ragle 3y ago
Anecdotal: the app "One Sec" broke my twitter habit over the course of a few weeks. Via iOS' automations feature the app allows you to configure a per-app waiting period during which you can decide you don't actually wan
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by ragle 4y ago
> Given a simple problem A, when adding more options, at some point, choosing among the options requires more effort than solving the simple problem, if only by brute force. Hick's Law, more or less: https://en.wikipedia.
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by ragle 5y ago
I can only speculate - but I'm really curious. Looks like they may have launched a hypersonic missle that reached speeds of ~Mach 10[1], and the US (publicly, at least) seems to be lagging behind China and Russia in Hypersonic R&D
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by ragle 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23848039
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by ragle 5y ago
"Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle For the Soul of American Business"[1] by Bob Lutz tells this story really well, from Lutz' vantage point trying to salvage General Motors from the clutches of an army of MBAs. There&#x2
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by ragle 5y ago
Off topic, but perhaps of interest to anyone in Thailand who would like to experience similar views firsthand: https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/thirty-nine-boulevard-execu... The room my wife and I booked in 2019
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by ragle 5y ago
Ownership of single-family residential properties by large financial institutions should be limited to their traditional role - i.e. custodial ownership of a home for the duration of a mortgage.
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by ragle 5y ago
Whether or not we are in a bubble is increasingly the wrong question to be asking in an age where failure for sufficiently-large institutions is no longer permitted. The question used to be pretty simple: "has a sufficient portion of t
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by ragle 6y ago
I can totally understand that sentiment. I don't know about you, but for me the obvious way in which politicians and other powerful sorts have abused and perverted religious devices (and systems of control) to achieve their own ends ha
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by ragle 6y ago
Right. For a very good (but not exceptional) developer, I wonder if ending up "out on the street" would be a reasonable expectation if something like this became truly widespread. If companies like Google were no longer able to fi
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by ragle 6y ago
There are cryptocurrencies like monero whose primary purpose is to facilitate transactions between wallets that cannot be observed (I think). If they've traded into that currency somewhere, how does one know where that money pops back
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by ragle 6y ago
Professor Skiena has also made his lectures from SBU's CS373 (Analysis of Algorithms) available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtl7M3yp-DX32N0fVIyv...
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by ragle 6y ago
Apologies in advance for the wall of text, but this is a topic that has occupied a considerable portion of my attention for nearly 25 years. :) If any of what I share here is helpful for someone, it will be well worth drifting significantly
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by ragle 6y ago
> and worked on a few important pieces of software before becoming a bar owner instead. Fun documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y
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by ragle 6y ago
> I don't get what introvert has to do with focus. A common object of attention for Samatha (one-pointed concentration / tranquility) practice is a Mandala or Kasina. The copy on the site and the mandala-like art the app genera
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by ragle 7y ago
Interesting - makes me wonder if this scam is what was being pulled in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21410039 Though in this case, the difference in price is about 50%.

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