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Blog thing: https://thomasburgess.github.io Github: https://github.com/thomasburgess
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nxpnsv··on Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome
However, in the first case you learned something which probably is useful when you want to change said app in any way or make another project...
nxpnsv··on What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?
Ah yes, my hate is mostly for the kind of thing that happens on teams/miro.
nxpnsv··on What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?
Rant: I hate brainstorming meetings. A manager who wants to feel like they are doing something invite a mix of one or two experts, a clueless pm, engineers from an unrelated project, and handful of random ones hers. Next, with zero preparation we’re supposed to come up with groundbreaking new ideas. Then there is some voting and finally waiting for a summary or gameplay that’s postponed until the heat death of the universe. Perhaps I will bring cookies next time.
nxpnsv··on Beyond Meat fights for survival
BM is getting rarer on the shelves in Austria. When it first showed up, it was something special, but now there are heaps of great other alternative meats, often cheaper and made here. I guess BM is struggling because of increased competition. During my 20 years of plant based dieat it has never been easier to find fancy plant based things.
nxpnsv··on My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
I don’t care too much about % vs {} . I have stuff where i need nice logs locally, and structured logs in batch, for me loguru made that easy. I don’t think it’s a terrible thing at all, but you do you :)
nxpnsv··on My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
The {} syntax is better, and more similar to f-strings. And you don't have to use that backtrace. I use it to send json for some batch jobs, or have it write to google cloud logger for gcp jobs. Are you holding it wrong?
nxpnsv··on My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
It looks great out of the box, has fancy colors (if you want them). It is easier to configure than logging and you don't need a lot go get_logger stuff. It does log rotation, and you has lazy formatted {} comments `logger.info("x={x:.2f}", x)`. It is better for threading/multiproc, handles exceptions better. And it is fast. I like it on appearance.
nxpnsv··on My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
Well if you use loguru (and really you should, it is awesome) you would use, `logger.info("Super log {var}", var=var)` (possibly without the keys). It is also lazy and works better for structured logs.
nxpnsv··on My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
It does well but also sometimes gets it completely wrong but plausible looking. Together, we managed to make several quite intricate bugs. About two months in, I actually don't think my coding speed increased much from using Cursor - and I just can't take "Perfect, ..." "You're absolutley right, ..." - even with custom rules to supress it, it just can't help itself.
nxpnsv··on I was wrong about robots.txt
It can still be more dead
nxpnsv··on Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)
They did, 4 years ago, by responding to that post, it is in the last part of the text.
nxpnsv··on I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
Printing is still not uncommon in professional scientific environments. When you actually have to read a paper, it turns out that actual paper is quite convenient.
nxpnsv··on I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
Well during 5 years of undergrad reports and papers, then 5 years of PhD thesis papers, you do tend to hoard some useful snippets, it is more of a byproduct than a fixation... at least for me.
nxpnsv··on Missing Matter in Universe Found
No.
nxpnsv··on Missing Matter in Universe Found
1. It is a phenomenon not a hypothesis. Dark matter is a collection of observational facts that indicate an unknown source of gravity. 2. Yes, in any medium lights slows down. This is what refractive index measures.
nxpnsv··on Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise
Pretty and informative!
nxpnsv··on Show HN: Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table
or like contribute...
nxpnsv··on European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech
I applied to a few different programs and got funding for industry research a few different times. It was some work, but still not harder than getting academic research funding...
nxpnsv··on ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model
*citation needed
nxpnsv··on Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole
If a significant portion of dark matter was made of these we would see a lot more gravitational lens distorions of distant objectes. There are further hard limits on how much baryonic dark matter there can be from big bang nuceleo synthesis. I think that would also put limits on contributions from lone black hole contribution.
nxpnsv··on What the hell is an elliptic curve?
I feel this is what came out of the author’s llm chat of choice…
nxpnsv··on 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
How is that bad in any way?
nxpnsv··on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
And what is the deal with functional scrolling?
nxpnsv··on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
the lack of large video ads really is jarring too
nxpnsv··on Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
I agree options are good as no single solution fits everyone, but I feel I too often hear the sentiment that school/uni/courses is useless. And that is just not true.
nxpnsv··on Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
What's wrong with taking formal courses? I think that is a perfectly legitimate way of learning stuff.
nxpnsv··on Microsoft’s original source code
Nice design
nxpnsv··on One Last Ride for Antarctica's 'Ivan the Terra Bus'
I was driven in this from the ice runway to McMurdo station in 2001. It was very loud and slow and bouncy. I loved it.
nxpnsv··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
Sure, but they are also not fighting about it, this seems crucial.
nxpnsv··on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
I really enjoy the affinity suite.
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