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Ask HN: Has single-task focus become outdated in the AI era?
2 points by yura 2mo ago|3 comments
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by yura 1y ago
You're literally restating the same point that the original poster has already made in his comment. You're agreeing with him. Seems like you just read the first phrase of his comment and immediately went into an adversarial "
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Ask HN: Best books for designing a weekly schedule?
4 points by yura 1y ago|1 comments
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by yura 2y ago
> No, they really care strongly about the equality thing They really don’t. The restriction heavily benefits programmers and/or very technical people who know how to game it.
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by yura 2y ago
"Every single one of those ads were programmed by... a human! We (as humans) are the ones doing this!" See? That logic doesn't work so well. "Software engineers" are not a singular entity nor a homogeneous group. To
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by yura 2y ago
I’ve used Protonmail for years, but lately the encryption is making me seriously consider a switch. You can’t use 3rd party email clients, unless you also install Proton Mail Bridge, which is only available for paid users. And the bridge on
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by yura 2y ago
More importantly, there's zero evidence for the claim that achieving AGI would be beneficial to mankind.
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by yura 2y ago
> It may be possible to practice this but someone who does poorly at this untrained is unlikely to ever reach even median level ability. There are techniques you can learn to perform this task in a multiple choice test situation but they
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by yura 3y ago
Some say scammers are very smart, and that they deliberately use every trick in the book to tap into our psychological weaknesses and make us act irrationally. But I have the feeling that, 90% of the time, scammers are just told to write an
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by yura 3y ago
I've learned so many things on SO though. For example, some amazing answers there made me realize the power of sed and awk, and motivated me to learn it. Ironically, I think the greatest quality of SO is exactly what most people compla
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by yura 3y ago
> Near as I can tell the fundamental problem was that the GoldOwner and GoalDonor weren't the same. The customer feeding stories to the team didn't care about the same things as the managers evaluating the team's performan
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by yura 3y ago
- in code: code-level context - in commits: changeset-level context - in jira: if you need to provide changeset-level context, point them to the MR/commit log - in confluence: high-level documentation - in daily standups: status update
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by yura 3y ago
> Exactly my point. You can call BS on anyone when you are IRL talking to them. People can't hide the vibe of being an idiot. Unlikely, otherwise people like Elizabeth Holmes or Bernie Madoff wouldn't be able to scam so many in
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by yura 3y ago
Definitely not. Especially if you're not yourself an expert in the subject. This was clear before, but it's now even more evident with the advent of ChatGPT, which can generate very elaborate prose on any subject that will sound e
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by yura 3y ago
> People should really give them a chance; unfortunately many are mislead by the Emacs and Vim's docs, but when they were written touchpads didn't even exist. Emacs's docs are updated constantly, up to this day. And in the
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by yura 3y ago
> I have a very bad memory for things I have to do but since reminders I set up never appear right when I can do the task I still forget about it. Taking some inspiration from GTD, you can have different reminders, or rather task lists,
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by yura 3y ago
In my experience it’s not supposed to be that hard, unless you’re working at the cutting edge or on really hard problems. But from what you’ve written it seems like you’re struggling with basic stuff. Maybe you’re still lacking fundamentals
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by yura 3y ago
The Art of Problem Solving books are not for regular high schoolers. I'd say they're more geared towards gifted high schoolers (which may eventually go on to compete on contests such as the USAMO or the IMO). So definitely no sham
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by yura 3y ago
> I have been taking a course on dialectal behaviour therapy which seems to give me a lot more space in my thoughts and actions and how effective I am at getting what I want out of life. Is it a MOOC or available online in any way? Would
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by yura 3y ago
I don't think they've extended Linux in any meaningful way. I'd say we're at Embrace phase at best.
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by yura 3y ago
It changes based on the `prefers-color-scheme` CSS media query. When the value is `dark`, the page shows a yellow font with an orange glow over a dark background, otherwise it shows black on white.
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by yura 3y ago
Well said. This is also something that I don't buy from the criticism towards Lisp. Something along the lines of: "Lisp did not become mainstream because everyone writes their own little language for their project, and so no one c
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by yura 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231002034316/https://www.tundr...
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by yura 3y ago
> I've spent more time with him than I ever neeeded to as his "escort" when he talked to my university's LUG. Dude wouldn't stop staring at women's chests and left my car smelling like a barnyard. We lost fe
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by yura 3y ago
Your point being? I don't see how it's relevant that Google uses free software. RMS is probably happy that they do. Of course, they should stop spying on people, but I don't see how that's related to their use of free so
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by yura 3y ago
> But without someone as strong-headed as him we will have a hard time defending freedom of software. Anyone who is not as strong-headed as he is will have no hope of defending software freedom. The only thing I wish is that he would lea
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by yura 3y ago
He's eccentric, and most people would say that his social skills are subpar. But if you spend more than a few minutes reading his emails or watching him talk you'll realize that he is most definitely /not/ an asshole.
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by yura 3y ago
RMS is one of the most amazing individuals that I know of, and has certainly changed my life forever. I wish he stays many more years in this world.
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by yura 3y ago
> Since it's impossible to un-vote a story When I vote a story, an "unvote" button appears to the left of the "parent | context | flag" buttons. Are you saying that it doesn't work?
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by yura 3y ago
Care to share an example? (the concept and how it was clarified)

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