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I like creatine when I’m lifting because it reduces soreness. For some people that effect helps them push further and train harder, for me it’s just proactive pain relief

Yeah, but most current corporate radio sucks. It’s not a human broadcasting and allowing their idiosyncratic tastes to sneak in. Nationwide each station is just shuffling one of three or four playlists of inoffensive songs picked because nobody hates it (but nobody loves it)

There’s a human connection element to old radio that streaming will never replicate. And I worry that it’s gone from modern automated radio too.

It used to be if you were driving down the road and heard a song you liked

Hearing a song you liked on the radio hit harder then playing it yourself because you knew that there was another human nearby at that moment in time that had picked it out and played it. You were physically tethered to them through invisible waves through the sky. Lonely road trips felt less lonely. Late night work shifts felt less alienating because there was somebody ELSE working late.

proofs by counterexample are effective but ultimately unsatisfying. they get you to an answer but they don't help help you understand and bend you r mind into seeing how the math works and lead you on to the new set of questions.

and for now as long humans are going to judge of what counts as an elegant or illuminating proof, there's going to be work for human mathematicians

And manias are so foundational to the relatively young field of AI that they made the term “AI winter”. We should brace for the third (I think) AI winter soon

i feel like the useful applications of AI get silently integrated into workflows.

the ill-conceived moonshots by and for a non-technical audience get labelled as "AI projects/initiatives" and they fail.

"They Live" vibes

a feature that i thought would be good for llm-centric languages would be making something like python's doctest prominent where you put simple little unit tests in the docstring of the function rather than in some testing module someplace else.

it would make it easy for humans to easily stub out tests with a docstring description and the tests that would guarantee certain behaviors. for the machine, it'd make it easy to add in new tests because the function+tests are in the same context window

What percentage of folks in this thread saw the Vasa because of “Intro Days”?

shouldn't finding a way to kill yourself be pretty easy, even without legal DWD? you can overdose on OTC meds, or get a knife, or (in America) pick up a gun.

I’d be fine signing a non compete if they ever offered anything in return. If they want me to stay out of the market for a period of time, they better pay garden leave or SOME sort of consideration

I think the implication is that it’s easier to modify paper than a Docusign form where the only option is “click here to sign”

i like the timer.

BUT i'd like it if each round started with letters hidden and timer paused in case i need to step away and redirect my attention to something else.

i did "habit"

i hate that there are so many worktrees now that its a real pain to find the actual file and modify it by hand.

there are so many stupid little changes (e.g., rewording or deleting their numerous comments) that would be done better and faster by me but it's usually just less cumbersome to keep asking the machine to tweak it instead.

LLMs are well suited to my (some would say annoyingly) curious nature.

when i get an answer, and my first instinct is to ask a ton of follow-ups and "what about"s. i've learned to tamp this down with fellow humans, but with LLMs its great because most of the time the response is "you're right, something doesn't add up... let me try again". i think we eventually converge on to something reasonably true

of you could require presentations with a Q&A section at the end.

they can use the AI all the want to help their workflow to develop teh content, but the better engage with the material enough that they can field some questions at the end.

the main downsides are:

- takes a long time to administer

- the Q&A section leads to unstandardized grading, but i think that's fine. just away from scores on precise 0-100 scale and just score in a couple coarse buckets (superb, acceptable, fail, etc)

i remember our 90s ISP advertising the use of PowWow[0] as a way to surf the web with other people. I never used it, but it seemed like a fun idea

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)

i'd love to switch from my lastpass family plan to... something else.

but there is a non-trivial switching cost to migrate several people (with varying technical aptitudes) that each use several platforms.

if 1password had a one-click migration flow they'd be able to win over a lot of converts.

for a while i was using the sports gambling apps to make lots of little bets.

it was fun to put $0.50 on a game I normally wouldn't watch and tune in with a real rooting interest. i never bet more that $1 on a game because I knew that I would really dislike losing 'real money'.

the fact was that the stakes were completely irrelevant to me. the value came from definitively and publicly taking a side. if you're the fan of a team, you do this in every game. but with these little bets it's a way to sign-on for a little slice of being a fan in every game.

and that got me thinking that there's potentially a different type of gambling app that ignores the money and is more of a social/prediction-making platform. people love chasing worthless internet points (reddit upvotes, HN karma, etc), so why not build a platform that gives you points for betting?

you could let a chunk of the population scratch the itch they get to gamble without creating financial risk. they can still brag about their wins.

we prevent people from gambling on early stage startups and risky investments by limiting investment to "accredited investors". same thing should apply to gambling.

i hate references.

all a good reference means to a potential employer is "you are on good terms with somebody from a previous job".

and as a job seeker, it's awkward reaching out to people you may not have talked to in a couple years to announce that you're job hunting.

2. FAANGMANGAMEME never hired that many truly exceptional people in the first place and you've fallen for corporate propaganda.

in my experience, FAANGMANGAMEME hires good people but they get placed on a weird career trajectory.

they learn how to work experience in enormous well funded company that has spent a fortune building fancy in-house tools for their dev experience, spend their time thinking about scaling problems that no other company will likely ever face, and all covered in ten layers of bureaucracy and "process".

if you hire a faang employee into your startup or normal mid-sized business, there needs to be a bit of a detox period where they have to learn what software dev is like for the rest of us mere mortals.

learning or doing anything "changes your brain". that's how learning works.

i hate this phrase and how it's generally used for scare-mongering headlines.

I always love RTS games and am sad to see how they've largely disappeared.

some of my first experiences 'hacking' were modifying .ini files for command and conquer to make a new version of the game for my friends. it was... very unbalanced

all around me in the northeast are decaying little towns and attractions that used to be vacation getaways for the first half of the twentieth century.

they say that airtravel killed the catskills resorts (ala dirty dancing) because why spend a few hours in teh car when you could go someplace so much more exotic with a few hours on the plane? and now there's a second-wave killing it with social media travel photos. everybody feels like they need to travel to the same handful of farflung locales that have been deemed 'the best'. basically, people with the means to travel have decided that regional travel isn't cool enough to impress their friends, so they let it die.

i think that's a terrible mistake for everybody. people dont have a fun, affordable place to go on a little weekend jaunt. towns that could scrape by on their natrual beauty have been left to decay (and once there's no way to monetize the natural beauty, local development sees no reason to preserve it).

i've seen a number of articles claiming things like "devs self report they'er +x% more productive with AI, but actually they're -y% LESS efficient!". and i think that this is explanation for why.

as a boss (or researcher) i'm going to measure productivity based on amount of output per hour that i'm paying you; as a workers, i'm going to measure productivity based on amount of output relative to the amount of effort i'm putting in.

so what may be happening is that bosses see that output is at 80% (productivity down!) but workers see that they can give that 80% output with 40% effort (productivity up!).

i know series hybrids aren't as efficient as parallel hybrids (thanks technology connections!), but i wonder if they'd be a good candidate for fun restomods.

drop in a tiny, powerful electric motor and a small battery (crammed in whatever location is best for weight distribution), and then wire up a little genny powered off your existing fuel tank that can jump in as a range extender

i dont think jira (or linear or any other ticketing platform) is about saving anybody time. they know on some level that they are all a burden.

but they will gladly take the productivity hit from that time sink because it gives them teh ability to track employees. they'd rather know that everybody is working at 80% productivity than release that burden and just trust them. it's either this or filling out frustrating timesheets.

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