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New comment by blitztime in "AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery"

blitztime — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:18:36 +0000

For better or worse I’ve been finding it difficult to stay motivated at times for sharpening my craft. I’m currently reading Learning Go 2nd and it’s cool learning the idiomatic ways to write code in a language. However part of me feels like even if I strive to write “clean code”, now the bottleneck seems to be shifting to reviewers time and expertise.

So I fear I’m fighting a losing battle. I can’t and don’t want to review everything my coworkers put out, and code has always been a means to an end for leadership anyways so it seems difficult to justify carving out time for the team as a whole to learn, especially in the age of genAi.

New comment by blitztime in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

blitztime — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:49:11 +0000

How do you keep the context.md updated as the code changes?

New comment by blitztime in "How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card"

blitztime — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:53:57 +0000

I’d say bluffing in poker isn’t really lying. I mean you certainly can look at it that way, but another way to look at it is “I have good hands here more often than you do so here strategically you have to fold when I bet”

New comment by blitztime in "Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform"

blitztime — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:03:10 +0000

The readme and the emojis seem heavily AI.

New comment by blitztime in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"

blitztime — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:19:05 +0000

I found out about mermaid recently and have been using it to make diagrams. How do you use it for data modeling though?

New comment by blitztime in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

blitztime — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:14:47 +0000

Incredible the amount of new tech that goes into this device. Still seems pretty niche and I’m skeptical about how good the controls will be.

New comment by blitztime in "Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining"

blitztime — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 08:30:00 +0000

I think they’re referring to the recent Terra/Luna crash.

(2014) Divide rent fairly, starting with a triangle (Sperner’s Lemma)

blitztime — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/science/to-divide-the-rent-start-with-a-triangle.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25300367

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New comment by blitztime in "How to Think for Yourself"

blitztime — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:40:55 +0000

This reminded me of a different article by Scott Alexander which also addresses the topic of certain ventures like the stock market and job interviewing being “anti-inductive” aka resistant to formulas that worked in the past. You could say that successful independent thinking is also a highly anti-inductive activity.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/11/the-phatic-and-the-ant...

New comment by blitztime in "Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space"

blitztime — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:01:46 +0000

For me working remote has come with a mix of upsides and downsides. One of the main upsides for me has been mentioned a few times in this thread, and that's the fact that without having people physically present, your performance is now necessarily more tightly tied to what you actually accomplish rather than how long you're present in an office. This gives employees a lot more autonomy and freedom with how they spend their time as long as they manage to get everything done. No energy and time needs to be spent keeping up the unproductive facade of looking busy.

On the other hand, losing the ability to have spontaneous hallway conversations does cut out a lot of the communication that would normally happen in office. The signal-to-noise of these conversations may not be so high in terms of actually communicating purely work related topics, but they do a lot to foster a sense that you're actually part of a team with people you enjoy working with. With IMs and video calls, communication happens much more deliberately so coworkers feel much more like these virtual entities who you only contact for purposeful knowledge transfer. Perhaps some people actually prefer this and see it as more efficient, but I personally find it to be a somewhat dreary proposition.

Ultimately, I think what I would prefer is a flexible WFH policy, with maybe 3 days in office and 2 days of flex.

New comment by blitztime in "Kongregate closed to new games, shutting down forums and chat"

blitztime — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 05:01:37 +0000

This is very sad news. I spent a great deal of time in my childhood playing games on Kongregate. I remember reading strategy guides for Kongai, their CCG that admitted wasn't very good but I always tried to complete the game challenges to earn that weeks Kongai card.

Eventually it seemed like everyone moved away from browser games to console and PC games, at least that was true for me. It's been a long time since I've even thought about Kongregate, but it's still sad to see it go.

New comment by blitztime in "Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018)"

blitztime — Sun, 24 May 2020 21:04:21 +0000

I'm pretty sure zaaakk was being sarcastic here.

New comment by blitztime in "Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees"

blitztime — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:17:33 +0000

An article that gives some insight into why these tech companies seem to have a bloated workforce is https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/.

Part of it is that the MVP might be easy to create, but scalability and edge cases add a lot of extra complexity. The other part of it is that it's not so much that a company _needs_ every employee it has, but it will keep hiring until the marginal benefit of an employee is no longer positive.