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throwawaygo··on Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
All thought is born of failure.
throwawaygo··on We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
Workin on it
throwawaygo··on Show HN: Open source, logical multi-master PostgreSQL replication
pgactive?
throwawaygo··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
This has been happening in anthropic subreddits.
throwawaygo··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
I have so many disagreements on goals for the language with Russ, but have been a fan since his early days of writing the regex package and the c-to-go conversion code. Glad to hear he will still contribute to the lang, and hoping for a bit different direction from the new leads.
throwawaygo··on Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
How long until this is just a prompt?
throwawaygo··on Iterators in Go: A proposed extension
Bingo
throwawaygo··on Go 1.21 Release Candidate
You’re right. Backwards unfriendly is maybe a better way to say it.

min and max are common variable names so depending on the version of go and the scope you should expect min and max to mean different things.

No reason these functions couldn’t have been part of the stdlib.

throwawaygo··on Go 1.21 Release Candidate
Can we get arenas yet?
throwawaygo··on Go 1.21 Release Candidate
breaks all my variables named min and max
throwawaygo··on Go 1.21 Release Candidate
tbh whenever I write one of these it makes me wonder if I can accomplish the same logic in a better way.
throwawaygo··on Go 1.21 Release Candidate
So I guess with new builtin functions we will be breaking backwards compatibility?
throwawaygo··on Air-to-Air Heat Exchangers for Healthier Energy-Efficient Homes
Uh huh.
throwawaygo··on Ask HN: Suggestions for working effectively with junior devs?
At a company with “flat team” aspirations it’s like this but the loudest juniors call the shots. Come in with 10 years exp in a language and get constant pushback on my suggestions because I’m new and unproven. After 2 years most of the loud ones that made all the decisions are gone and we’re stuck with something that doesn’t scale and needs to be rewritten because before end of quarter. Amazing how much tech debt is possible in this model.
throwawaygo··on Stop Listening Please, Google
Realtime collaborative filtering using proximity transmission. :B
throwawaygo··on Animal Sedative Mixed with Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to US Drug Zones
Why are we getting normal news here now?
throwawaygo··on UPS and the package wars
Why is there a long form article here?
throwawaygo··on The record-breaking -108.00 diopter myopia lenses (2016)
I assume this is here to discuss the mobile experience.
throwawaygo··on Tell HN: I asked ChatGPT to build a login form in React and it gave me the code
This is the new threat vector. AI copy pasta. Gonna make pen test research way more fun. Just describe the website you’re at and read the source code.
throwawaygo··on Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost
Find a Jungian analyst.
throwawaygo··on Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’
Yes and it’s completely arbitrary. My only point is there isn’t really anything new or interesting here, sadly.
throwawaygo··on Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’
Any representation of reality should not be confused with reality. The map is not the terrain. The menu is not the meal. -post-modern philosopherzzz

It’s true varying resolutions are stored and retrieved but all are a reduction of the inputs to some useful representation.

throwawaygo··on Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’
Surprise!! The human brain compresses all experience into low-res summaries. Full res is not possible. :D
throwawaygo··on Multicomputation: A Fourth Paradigm for Theoretical Science (2021)
I feel like we’re adding graph meta-modeling on top of Tony Hoare CSP. If these graphs were not dags we would be heading into cybernetics. I want to feel like this is novel but can’t escape the idea that the boundaries of a multi-way model are arbitrary.

It also seems like a natural next step for automata modeling.

Maybe I am missing the breakthrough.

throwawaygo··on Ask HN: What book changed your life?
Coders at Work
throwawaygo··on Golang.org will be merged into go.dev
Lol you think you are enlightened and you are part of the problem.
throwawaygo··on Golang.org will be merged into go.dev
I've never understood why we change things on the internet so much. I've got muscle memory after 10 years of navigating the docs. Seriously why did you just decide to remove my workflow?
throwawaygo··on Generics enabled by default in Go tip
Sadly go is losing the spirit it was built with and alienating the experience that it needs to regain that spirit. This has been my top feedback every go survey is that it is being designed democratically where it needs to be led by experience.
throwawaygo··on Show HN: I made a generator of art – Suprematism
They appear to stop when one intersects the center of another or they all pass the point of being able the intersect the center of another. Neat idea.
throwawaygo··on Terraform 1.0
The v1 guarantee is they will break your code at anytime just like before v1.
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