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by roland35 14d ago
I feel like ai essentially reduces the effort to both produce and parse through text. Right now most of my day is spent thinking about what to build next. If ai is gone, a large chunk will go back to reading and writing code again! So prett
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by roland35 14d ago
With the correct tools and materials soldering can be very easy or with the wrong tools very difficult! There are probably some great videos on soldering on YouTube, luckily it's a mature field so not much has changed! Some random tips
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by roland35 23d ago
Patrick McKenzie (patio11 fame) had a great blog post in credit card rewards There is a lot that goes into it, and it is interesting how customers like me who literally never have carried interest and have to made thousands of $ in rewards
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by roland35 1mo ago
Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader was a popular series of books back in the 90s!
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by roland35 2mo ago
Those are some long turnaround times! I actually had a positive, although a bit weird, experience with Microsoft. First, I got a response 3 months after I applied to schedule an interview! I figured it was due to the holidays. After the int
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by roland35 2mo ago
Neovim is where it's at. You can use lazyvim which has tons of languages you can select to add LSPs for.
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by roland35 2mo ago
You could maybe, but water tended to collect on the surface (this was exhaled breath, so pretty humid). Maybe if it was ambient air and not breath the humidity might not be as bad?
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by roland35 3mo ago
I had a project miniaturizing nasa tech for detecting hypoxia with o2 and CO2 sensors. It used a phosphorescent dye that changed a delay flash (ie you blinked a light, the dye would absorbed and blink back after a delay) based on temp and
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by roland35 4mo ago
Yes, I think in that way it is dumb. But in another way I think it could be justified as a way to try and blaze some new trails and see what's possible by having users not worry about cost in the beginning. Sure most token burning ends
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by roland35 4mo ago
Its interesting, I think people sometimes think there is some binary existence of furniture sometimes! What's nice about todays modern economy is that there is a whole spectrum of tables I can purchase. I can get a ultra cheap mdf Walm
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by roland35 4mo ago
I've found llms themselves get way more long winded in their responses once context starts to fill up. Fortunately it's not impolite to tell Claude to be more concise!
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by roland35 4mo ago
Like it or not it's true. I only worked at meta for two years before getting laid off myself but it seems to have greatly helped getting interviews. I am much happier not working there though, getting laid off was a relief. Things chan
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by roland35 4mo ago
I found if you delete your cookies the overlay goes away. I use the mobile site and found that both desktop mode and old.reddit is pretty hard to read, so at least there is one workaround (for now!)
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by roland35 5mo ago
This isn't a surprise at all. I saw the exact same thing at Meta. The incentives are so strong to improve your individual performance that it's hard to resist, literally hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake. Now with the fear
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by roland35 5mo ago
I had a side project going off and on for YEARS. I thought it was a great business idea with some interesting technical challenges. I asked Claude and ChatGPT about it, and they both shot the idea down as a viable startup. It was a libera
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by roland35 5mo ago
I don't think it's bad code that's necessarily the problem - it's bad architecture and systems which will bite you! Often bad code can be easily replaced if it's easy to refactor. Of course, bad business can ruin it
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by roland35 6mo ago
I am staying away from sports betting, but I have done fantasy football a few times. I was constantly on edge from it all, even when I was winning! Constantly thinking of who I needed to pick up, who to trade, which matchups were good, it w
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by roland35 6mo ago
That's true, but I think there is a gray area in between. As things scale up in one way or another, having high quality is important for both #1 and #2. Its hard to extend software that was designed poorly. The question where experienc
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by roland35 6mo ago
I would be shocked if he ever does that. Much more likely is just say something completely different and pretend that has always been the case
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by roland35 6mo ago
For better or worse, Claude is my intuitive interface to jq. I don't use it frequently, and before I would have to look up the commands every time, and slowly iterate it down to what I needed.
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by roland35 6mo ago
Business majors typically. I remember seeing a small graffiti in my engineering lecture hall that said something along the lines of "limit gpa -> 0: major= business administration"
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by roland35 6mo ago
A true prisoners dilemma!
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by roland35 6mo ago
I am not huge fan of Meta but I wouldn't dismiss them quite so much. I think reels is probably doing pretty well, and despite being cringeworthy FB itself is still going very strong. There are a lot of behind the scenes AI work impro
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by roland35 6mo ago
No need to proselytize please. I think recommeding a community is not a bad idea obviously
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by roland35 6mo ago
If we want to stretch this analogy a bit - I believe all world-level chefs have a team of sous-chefs working for them. Doing things like chopping ingredients, prepping things, in fact probably doing a lot of th cooking. I think building wit
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by roland35 7mo ago
I think learning vim is definitely relevant. To me, vim is the fastest and most effective way to navigate and interact with text. Even with AI, I think those skills are not going out of style.
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by roland35 7mo ago
Thanks for sharing, I remember reading about tinypilot back when I was interested in starting my own thing! I had an idea for a hardware business for years and it was nice to dream, but thinking about it more and reading this story makes it
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by roland35 8mo ago
Yeah solar viability is highly dependent on your local conditions and electricity costs. Also on your utility’s buyback program. I have low electricity costs, no time of use pricing, and I don’t think I can sell back. I also live in a very
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by roland35 8mo ago
Those levels are based on the electronics themselves. Earlier circuits used TTL which needed higher voltages to signify a "High". Newer CMOS based electronics need less voltage. Lower voltages help with power savings. Higher vol
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by roland35 8mo ago
You should look into the slate truck! This is exactly what they are trying to do

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