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leovander··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
Reading through the comments, people should self reflect on their workflows whether it be prompting or agent workflows and double check if they really need to be using Opus or the latest and greatest model from their favorite provide of choice.
leovander··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
Not to downplay your experience, but from your prior students' comments, they aren't wrong to question your industry credentials? You had maybe less than two years of "gaming" industry experience 14 years ago before going into academics?

Seems like you found an opportunity that you really wanted to pursue, but unfortunately at the same time sort of became a stat of those that can't do, teach.

I had plenty of professors along the way that touted their credentials, but they were so stale in what they were teaching. I know I know, a Computer Science degree doesn't match industry expectations, but so many professors definitely did not keep up with what was going on outside of their bubble.

leovander··on Rotten Dot Com
Similarly, pain olympics.
leovander··on Waymo Safety Impact
Make sure to never be in a hurry to get anywhere because you might then get stuck behind a fleet of them going exactly the speed limit, grid locking you in.
leovander··on Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile
That was a sleek demo, good job! Only thing that I could nitpick is if you polished your floating toolbars to look a bit more Apple-y, this feels like something Apple is going to be sending you an acquihire for.
leovander··on How I block all online ads
Look into Sponsor Block as well.
leovander··on Zed is our office
Not sure, I was only answering in regards as to what Slack shared rooms brings to the table for companies in the form of letting Project Managers/Account Managers have direct line of contact with clients.

Code wise I guess you can could be working with any agency or contractors and you could collab on PR reviews? No idea to be honest.

leovander··on Zed is our office
Your company has a user pool, you sign a BAA or start working with a partner company that has their user pool. Instead of creating slack accounts in both you can share external slack rooms that only people that are invited in/from their respective orgs can join without having to co-mingle employee user pools.
leovander··on Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted
I had never seen Jeff's posts pop up on HN prior to this year and only learned of him via YouTube r/homelab content. Scrolling through the hn search his domain has had plenty of posts over the years, but his content has now become stickier and/or the audience has changed?
leovander··on I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack
If you organize your folders correctly, you could probably have that dropbox folder synced with one of those services. The maintenance isn't too bad once its up and running, probably more hurdles (proxies, etc) if you are accessing outside the home. If you are the only user, you can use tailscale to access your hosted apps when out of the home.
leovander··on EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office
> we were literally trying to help cure cancer lol

Project Ronin?

leovander··on My Self-Hosting Setup
Not sure if it happens to most, but I have looped back around to not wanting to play sysadmin at home. Most of the stuff I have running I haven't updated in a awhile, luckily since I own it and it's all internal I don't need to worry about anyone taking away my locally hosted apps. Thank the IT gods for docker compose, and tools like portainer to minimize the amount of fuddling around I have to do.
leovander··on Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
A handful of comments already alluded to it, but maybe YC startups aren’t as smart as they think they are when they are looking for their founding engineers. Especially when it’s just the two founders looking for find their early engineers and the one holding the mba is the one leading/hiring. East to dupe these folks early on?
leovander··on Grammarly acquires Superhuman
I miss waiting in that large invite queue until you were finally let in, what felt like the first inbox zero proponents and possibly(?) introducing the swiping rows with different actions depending how much you swiped.
leovander··on Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial
Surgically implanted under the collar bone.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf13/P130008d.pdf

leovander··on Building my own solar power system
I feel like they overpaid maybe because they got direct to consumer rates for the gear. If you would have went through a full on solar installer that solar system would have come out to less than $15k, throw in having to get the subpanel and a reroof you would maybe be looking at $30k all in. (Not including the batteries, but by the time he got to the batteries I feel like his budget was way overboard even going the non-microinverter route).

Make sure you are buying and not leasing from the company, have that all rolled into a single loan and then you claim the tax credits to help pay for the reroof.

To add to this, they take care of getting the certified roofers, the city permits for both the roof and solar and handle the PTO for you, which from what you called out is even more costs.

leovander··on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
Extreme amount of training? More like once a year online HIPAA test that everyone blows through with the occasional CISO phishing campaigns that at least one person fails.
leovander··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
They do have those options out of the box. I immediately switch them over to the VSCode bindings when on a new work machine.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/configuring-keyboard-and...

leovander··on Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
Don't read too much into what I am saying. I am not even talking about the AI piece.

I download a torrent with movie that I didn't pay for. If I don't allow to seed it, then I don't get in trouble. If I let it seed either during the download process or after, I'd get a DMCA notice if that torrent/magnet link was getting tracked.

I don't need a hypothetical book, that is just how it works if I were to download illegally obtained documents/media.

As technical as people are in this thread, easy to tell when folks didn't have their parents wondering why they were getting scary letters from the ISP.

leovander··on Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
> have been bankrupted for doing exactly this.

Only if they seeded the data and some other entity downloaded it, i.e. they hosted the data. In a previous article I believe it was called out that Meta was being a leecher (not seeding back what they downloaded).

It's the hosting that gets you, not the act of downloading it.

leovander··on I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective
https://youtu.be/IACHfKmZMr8?si=kiTOU7NpoQEwC6kj&t=45
leovander··on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
> An error occurred: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not str
leovander··on OpenAI O3-Mini
I did update my comment, but said that I am using the distilled version, so yes?
leovander··on OpenAI O3-Mini
You can get around it based on how you ask the question. If you follow whatever X/reddit posts you might have seen for the most part, yes, you get the thinking stream to immediately stop and get the safety message.
leovander··on OpenAI O3-Mini
I am running the 7B distilled version locally. I asked it to create a skeleton MEAN project. Everything was great but then it started to generate the front-end and I noticed the file extension (.tsx) and then saw react getting imported.

I gave the same prompt to sonnet 3.5 and not a single hiccup.

Maybe not an indication that Deepseek is worse/bad (I am using a distilled version), but moreso speaks to much react/nextjs is out in the world influencing the front-end code that is referenced.

leovander··on Eli Lilly's weight loss drug slashes the risk of diabetes in long-term trial
Hopefully they reduce the cost overall. As soon as people are taken off it, whether that be because they finished their trial or they get out priced, appetite shoots right back to what it was before and the weight comes back with it unless the person changed their habits.
leovander··on Show HN: I quit my job and made an automatic time tracker
Via CoreData/SwiftData?
leovander··on Ask HN: How do you structure your shared finances with your spouse/partner
Ally let's me do recurring transfers to support the same account setup that they mentioned.
leovander··on Radial Menus in Video Games (2022)
I remember Emblaze Smarthphone's planned UI, it carried on via this Android Launcher. [0] And Kando was posted here back in January. [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUDCgZnJvnc

[1] https://github.com/kando-menu/kando

leovander··on OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
Sorry, 7 months* before.
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