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stillblue··on Ask HN: Has anyone made the transition from app development to ML/AI work?
Is this an internationally remote position?
stillblue··on Blitz.js – Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js
0.07 KB/S???? Are you okay my dude?!
stillblue··on Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned from working in tech
What do you have lined up?
stillblue··on 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
> I don't want to waste any more of my life on this merry go round.

And? Don't leave us hanging. Have you figured out a way to get out of this vicious cycle?

stillblue··on My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)
> Where do I begin?

I could picture you taking a deep breath before you wrote what came afterwards. I just wanna hug you and cry man! I've been through so much shit because of Azure's weird behaviour at work. Ruined weekends, Late night troubleshooting cos Azure is weirdly broken somewhere and this is not just isolated to one service. I'm talking about databases to app services to AKS to Azure Functions, Blob Triggers what the fuck not. I've had to do weird workarounds for issues which should not even be issues in the first place. Most of the production issues I've had with a fairly fairly complicated clusterfuck of a project was mostly Azure related issues. I don't even know what to think anymore!

> I went to the lengths of writing a Log Analytics alert to trigger

I've done this lol. Not for the date issue but something else.

stillblue··on Apple’s hidden flight tracker app
Can someone ELI5 how this works exactly?
stillblue··on Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned windows 11
stillblue··on We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
hahahahaha. I needed this today!
stillblue··on Ask HN: I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?
This should be a blog post at this point. This was super helpful. Thank you!!!
stillblue··on An update on recent service disruptions
SQL Server is crappier? How?
stillblue··on TrueCaller built a billion-dollar caller ID data empire in India
Truecaller was a royal PITA when it came to privacy until I figured out how to fuck with the system.

1. Anyone that has your phone number and Truecaller automatically gets you a name:phone_number entry in the Truecaller database. To get around this, I created a Truecaller account using my own phone number on a phone with zero contacts and gave myself a fake name(with my choice of subtle cuss words). This takes priority over other entries in the database. Am not sure if it works that way anymore.

2. Anytime I need to look up a number, I sign in using a dummy gmail account that I have.

There were a good few years where people looked up my number on Truecaller and it showed up a very obscene name that would shock em.

I hate Truecaller so much!

stillblue··on Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac
source?
stillblue··on .NET Myths Dispelled
Oh lordy!
stillblue··on Space junk on a 5,800-MPH collision-course with moon on Friday
That is a very interesting question! I wanna know too.
stillblue··on Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book?
One of those threads where you can literally choose anything and It would be amazing!!!!!!
stillblue··on Caltech's CS interview prep course
> Tune interviews to the role at hand. This should be obvious, but for some reason full-stack web devs still have to pretend like dynamic programming is a big part of their daily work.

This personally hurt :)

Completely agree with you on everything you've written.

stillblue··on Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book?
This thread was like walking into a candy store on a Monday morning! Hearty thanks for all your recommendations. Time to go hoard!!!!!!
stillblue··on Caltech's CS interview prep course
What do you suggest instead?
stillblue··on iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
As someone who uses a lot of Apple devices, I agree with you 100%
stillblue··on Faster Python calculations with Numba
What's with people going Python is slow and then we have you telling us you've written a computationally intensive portion of your application in python? Can you eli5? I'm very confused.
stillblue··on Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
Checking HN is the very first thing I do after waking up. It has been that way for years now. Amazing community!!!!
stillblue··on 6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup
How does it undermine credibility?
stillblue··on Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant
I've read the book. That chapter talks about what kind of environment initially "trains" the immune system. It does not say anything about viruses such as the ones that common cold being ineffective in doing the same. Please be careful when extrapolating from what's written in a pop science book.
stillblue··on I quit my job to make free web tools
I just took a short look at it and seems very polished. You did it all in 8 months? I'm beyond impressed. Great job dude!!
stillblue··on Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant
This sounds as silly as the claim you're refuting.

Can you please provide links to any evidence that it's false? I'm curious.

stillblue··on Ask HN: Where can I find quality, written explanations of Calculus concepts?
This looks pretty amazing. Thank you.
stillblue··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
I'm 31 and just started learning music a year ago. Ever since I started this is probably the only thing I actually enjoy doing everyday. Is it possible to get to a level of proficiency at this point in life where you get to play good enough you can start getting paid for it?
stillblue··on Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?
I thought Supabase was the Open Source Firebase alternative?
stillblue··on Ask HN: What skills are you hiring for but can't find qualified applicants for?
>they’re wanting champagne work output on a horse piss beer salary

Permission to steal this line?

stillblue··on Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
How do you go about doing that?
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