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__xor_eax_eax··on GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
Is Mastodon successful?
__xor_eax_eax··on Grok Bot
We will soon be in a world where human to human communication is the only one that has value. Mark my words
__xor_eax_eax··on Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
YAGNI still undefeated in 2026
__xor_eax_eax··on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
Not proud to admit that I got into a knockout shouting match with ChatGPT regarding its take on push vs pull based metrics systems.
__xor_eax_eax··on On loyalty to Your Employer
Be loyal to people (your boss, your peers), but don't be loyal to tne entity that is your company. It has one job, and that is to make money. If it could do it without you, it would
__xor_eax_eax··on With AI you need to think bigger
I love throwing questions at it where previously it would have been daunting because you don't even know the right questions to ask, and the amount of research you'd need to do to even ask the proper question is super high.

Its great for ideating in that way. It does produce some legendary BS though.

__xor_eax_eax··on 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
Now that takes me back
__xor_eax_eax··on Boeing workers vote to strike
Sadly, this will kill the US. We have no other aerospace manufacturer at that scale.

Unless you're not in the US, you want Boeing to get better, not fail (or root for a competitor, but I see no such thing)

__xor_eax_eax··on The Programmer's Brain (2021)
And no one ever talks about this. Doing a code review when dropped in cold in SO hard for this reason.

Yes, I can tell what you're doing here, but is that what you're SUPPOSED to be doing?

__xor_eax_eax··on 2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast
Hmm. Yea, you would expect to see localized warming I imagine
__xor_eax_eax··on 2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast
Over the long-term, yes. But the very recent, very acute 1.5 degree warming is unexpected against pure CO2-based models. I've read a bunch of theories (reduction in certain type of emissions from ships being a prevalent one), but nothing conclusive
__xor_eax_eax··on 2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast
I've heard that theory is pretty contentious. I'm certainly not an expert though
__xor_eax_eax··on 2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast
Possible that this could explain some of the recent unexplained ocean warming?
__xor_eax_eax··on Look, ma, no matrices
Was that first paragraph even english? Man thats thick
__xor_eax_eax··on How Netflix really uses Java
Fix it!
__xor_eax_eax··on GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code
Or StableDiffusion
__xor_eax_eax··on Kidney stone procedure "has the potential to be game changing"
> Ureteroscopy is another minimally invasive way to treat stones but often requires a temporary stent, which can be quite uncomfortable.

"The ways we have to currently treat stones have some downsides," he said. "Most involve anesthesia."

In contrast to the shock waves used in ESWL, the BWL procedure uses "short harmonic bursts" of ultrasound energy, potentially enabling the stones to be broken up in a shorter procedure without the need for sedation or anesthesia. Pre-clinical studies supported the effectiveness of BWL in breaking experimental stones of varying size and composition, the study noted.

__xor_eax_eax··on The Cloud Computer
I feel like this company misses the point of cloud computing. Its mostly cost elasticity, not where your servers are physically located.

This feels like the rackspace approach

__xor_eax_eax··on The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
Huge engineering cost though. If most of your customers are on mobile, makes sense to optimize for mobile, and hope its "good enough" on desktop.

At the end of the day its all an ROI problem (as are most things)

__xor_eax_eax··on Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder
>instead of run a business

Running a business is a gamble, always

__xor_eax_eax··on Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation
Thats where the experience comes in
__xor_eax_eax··on A student asked how I keep us innovative – I don't
Meh. Reading the techniques behind the giant GCloud DDoS before this, if you're not understanding the latest and greatest technology and you're attackers are, you're going to be victimized.

To me this sounds like a stogy old grey-hair being defensive about why its okay to be obsolete. Its not

__xor_eax_eax··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
So a house is 6x a yearly tech salary - that's pretty bad.
__xor_eax_eax··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
30 days vacation is wild to me. Almost couldn't put a value on that