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IME: Cycling bibs and shorts from knockoff amazon brands seem to be of equal quality to entry-level name brand stuff (pearl izumi) at a fraction of the price. Plain underwear, on the other hand, has serious want of quality vs 'real' athleisure brands (nike, underarmor, hanes). I was surprised to have such different experiences with two similar product categories.

I don't agree with everything this piece concludes, but I do admire getting to read through a whole HN article without feeling the sheen of AI co-authorship.

I actually realized last night that everything that got me excited about the internet circa 2013 is actually way easier now, fun little one-off websites are far more doable, but we've lost the zeitgeist perhaps. It makes me wanna move back to NYC and go to BrooklynJS again.

I started doing this a few years ago, it works a treat with non-junior engineers. With the right testing in place, review becomes more about communicating the ideas clearly rather than gatekeeping.

I really miss the old way of doing things. I know it was a maintenance nightmare, but I only really value having an iphone app with native notifications that lets me see exactly the same stuff I would see on my laptop. I don't manage a ton of agents, I typically have one main task I am focusing on and possibly another smaller task on the back burner.

While refrigerated transport came with great benefits - everyday families who previously had meat only 1 or 2 nights a week could have it daily! - but I don't think we've yet realized the impact of only consuming food that has been dead and stored for several days.

[dead] 7 months ago

By your own logic, anything that can be done 'for women' would equally benefit you. You are in a woman's societal role, and being marginalized to the point of invisibility comes with the territory.

My mother always enjoyed playing Jeopardy! on alexa, it was a novel format and everybody could participate while sitting around and chatting. She happily would have paid for it, even the dreaded monthly subscription, but it was neglected. The service started being buggy (lagging, repeatedly restarting the day's question series) and now they've moved on.

If anyone knows of an open-source alternative I could stitch together, I am all ears!

A Fond Farewell 9 months ago

Getting into climbing was secondarily a health choice, but primarily a social endeavor for me.

Exactly this. After the enshittification of evernote I swore I would only write documents in formats and contexts where I can easily pick up and move.

LLMs unlock a fundamentally different paradigm of interaction, in my experience a non-technical person with a good humanities background can describe what they want adequately. This is without needing to master the arbitrary grammar of a no-code system. Does often inevitably turn out to be a 'toy' version of what a real business needs? Yes, but it's still strictly better than previous ways of working.

type safety, integration testing, and thorough readmes are now cheap, I don't know why any developer would not be using them with claude code. even if all the LLM services go under tomorrow you'll still have code that practically autocompletes itself.

The Promised LAN 12 months ago

Do y'all get mosquitos on the roof? My back patio is screened in and some are still sneaking through. Would love to know the wired-ethernet-certainty type of approach to dealing with this.

I now have the pleasure of giving exercises to candidates where they are explicitly allowed to use any AI or autocomplete that they want, but it's one of those tricky real-world problems where you'll only get yourself into trouble if you only follow the model's suggestions. It really separates the builders from the bureaucrats far more effectively than seeing who can whiteboard or leetcode.

IMO you're better off investing in tooling that works with or without LLMs: - extremely clean, succinct code - autogenerated interfaces from openAPI spec - exhaustive e2e testing

Once that is set up, you can treat your agents like (sleep-deprived) junior devs.