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kapnapon Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

For me, on Mac, VoiceInk has been top notch. Got tired of superwhispr

kapnapon M8.2 solar flare, Strong G4 geomagnetic storm watch

It's kind of a running joke when you work as a Drilling Engineer and the Directional Driller says they can't confirm their coordinates due to magnetic storms.

https://www.usgs.gov/communications-and-publishing/news/gett...

kapnapon M8.2 solar flare, Strong G4 geomagnetic storm watch

Negative - when directional drilling a well, a magnetic storm can actually cause you to lose signal and halt the entire drilling process. It's kind of a running joke when you work as a Drilling Engineer and the Directional Driller says they can't confirm their coordinates due to magnetic storms.

https://www.usgs.gov/communications-and-publishing/news/gett...

kapnapon M8.2 solar flare, Strong G4 geomagnetic storm watch

Good luck to any directional drillers out there trying to drill your well blind.

kapnapon Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Any change there will be a way to copy and paste the responses into other text boxes (i.e., a new email) and not have to re-jig the formatting?

Lists, numbers, tabs, etc. are all a little time consuming... minor annoyance but thought I'd share.

kapnapon Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python

Off topic but whenever I see a blog with some 90s/2000s vibes, I always go to their first page of posts. Never disappoints to sneak a peak into that time capsule - including gwolf.org!

kapnapon Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

"Everything in moderation, including moderation" comes to mind.

kapnapon Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

Sheesh. That's insane.

My understanding is that East California is like that too. Not sure the status as of today and if this is still permitted or not? Look up some images from LA in the early oil boom - crazy.

Here's an example of them in Alberta (where I am familiar): https://maps.app.goo.gl/73x4uKZxWKbZkgD76

kapnapon Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

Perhaps you are correct - I had hectares in my mind for some reason while reading his original comment. My bad.

kapnapon Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

Incredibly false.

A typical "large" rig will need a 100m x 100m drill pad, roads to access which are often highly controlled during the design phase.

A drilling rig will remain on location for MAYBE 30-40 days if it is a deep well (2000m-7000m).

A completions rig (aka service rig) will come out afterwards to complete the well (install downhole equipment / frac / get the well ready for production). Lease may be a bit bigger if large frac. Been a drilling engineer for 15+ years so haven't really seen too many fracs.

kapnapon Show HN: SuperDuperDB – Open-source framework for integrating AI with databases

Perhaps a starting point would be the models on huggingface.co