simonsaysso

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by simonsaysso 18d ago
When I get worried about my skill set or career going away from LLMs, I get hit with a post like this with huge traction describing something I’ve already found and solved for myself. It makes me realize: I’m probably ok for a while because
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by simonsaysso 3mo ago
I bounce between boards and my favorite solution so far is a layer that gives my right hand a “numpad” for the F keys. You need to make sure you can hit other modifiers trivially from that position, but I like it so much I’ve added this to
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by simonsaysso 10mo ago
Been nerd sniped recently so am working on a Rust version of markdownlint-cli2. I'm tired of having a node dependency in my projects and this seems like a constrained enough problem space that I'll actually get around to doing it.
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by simonsaysso 1y ago
10-15 hours is NUTS. I do mine by hand every year and I can get them done in about 3 hours. I would say my taxes are nontrivial thought certainly not super complicated (no K1s)
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by simonsaysso 3y ago
This has been my primary objection with Go, as well. I wonder if it's just a lack of practice and that I'd eventually git gud, but I find it so hard to flow through code to get a general idea of what's going on. It's bas
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by simonsaysso 3y ago
I did a similar experiment on myself. For songs I knew very well on good headphones, I could reliably distinguish up to 320 kbps on MP3 and 256 kbps AAC from the lossless copy. For songs I didn’t know as well, 128 kbps AAC was usually trans
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by simonsaysso 3y ago
Ha, and I’m the opposite in a different direction. I _hate_ positive feedback. What motivates me is failure and a fear of failure. I go out of my way to downplay accomplishments but will talk your ear off about how and why I failed or almos
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by simonsaysso 3y ago
I would agree in principle, but from experience it seems people are less interested in the energy of the city as they age and acquire more things, and prioritize building their own space around them instead of utilizing the city around them
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by simonsaysso 3y ago
The great appeal of San Francisco is that you don’t have to think about what you’re going to wear at least 300 days of the year. If you’re outdoorsy at all it’s very hard to go to the rest of the US and feel trapped inside. Unfortunately fo
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by simonsaysso 3y ago
I was lucky enough to dive Alexey and his mother 15 or so years ago. I was terrified of swimming in open water so only joined the group for a deep dive once and my memories are mostly people talking and laughing on the boat, but I remember
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
You are using gender to mean both sex and gender. You are assigned a biological sex by… biology. You get to choose your own gender.
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
The sunk cost fallacy is real. Most important to me when I started tinkering with him was the speed/feature tradeoff, and portability. I was working on 7 machines at one point doing pretty quick edits of config files and Python scripts
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
I tried this once when I was little, but dip tends to go bad pretty quickly so you need even more dip to cover up the older dip and soon you've spent all your money on dip but no one wants your old dip
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
We’re told that you need to squat with a vertical spine and vertical shins. Even high school kids figure out that’s impossible to do. I’m in full alignment with the article: squatting is just about balance in the end: how can you keep your
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
Both my parents went to graduate school. One of them loved the academic setting and went through with the postdoc and then found a tenure track job, the other decided it wasn't for them. I talked to them recently and the one still teac
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
Not the other person, but I miss Gradle every time I use something else. It feels like the correct tradeoff of complexity and power. The Bazel family always felt unapproachable, and things in the Python or Rust universe basically require a
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
Q: Wasn’t ZZ an attempt to avoid the crazy ZBF2L algorithms and came after ZB? People understood the value of ZBLL (hell, even I wrote out all the speed-oriented algorithms for it) but everyone doubted the viability of ZBF2L, so they tried
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
For the code review step, sure, commit messages don't really matter unless your team reviews PRs commit-by-commit. How many times do you actually change the default squashed message? If you write a series of garbage commit messages, I
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
Might as well post my own crappy blog while I check out everyone else’s: simonsays.so
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by simonsaysso 4y ago
I'm a huge, huge fan of writing your own prompt. I've had too many people not actually understand what was being displayed to them by their latest and prettiest version of their prompt and have to walk them through it. The folks p
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by simonsaysso 5y ago
1. Find someone to talk to. It might be a professional or it might be a parent. I had a great conversation with my dad when I had a tough time like you are. It won’t fix things immediately but it’ll start a habit of reaching out for support
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by simonsaysso 5y ago
I try to avoid snacking whenever possible but you always have to plan for at least one trip to the kitchen per day. I can’t tell if there’s some subtext in your question about “healthy” snacks, but that’s what you’re gonna get from me. Bell
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by simonsaysso 5y ago
I would imagine you can add an F key layer pretty easily so this shouldn't be a big deal. I found it impossible to touch-type the F-row on my Advantage 2, and it's awesome to be able to move keys closer to your fingers. That being
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by simonsaysso 5y ago
If you're looking for something small but more ergonomic than a Plank, take a look at the Atreus (either as a DIY or in a kit from Keyboario[1]). I also had issues with the Plank but the slight angle of the keys on the Atreus has been
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by simonsaysso 5y ago
I'm completely with you here. Until I read Clean Code, I could never really figure out why my personal projects were so unreadable a year later but the code I read at work was so much better even though it was 8 years old. Sure, I prob