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New comment by devenson in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

devenson — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:55:32 +0000

Good observation. Yes, because the gable wall isn't load bearing so it doesn't have a load bearing header which needs jack studs.

New comment by devenson in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

devenson — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:04:00 +0000

https://buildfreely.com helping people build a shed or small struture.

New comment by devenson in "Magical systems thinking"

devenson — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:55:59 +0000

> non-linear computationally irreducible systems cannot be predicted

How confident are you of your ability to identify such systems?

Many systems are not such and therefore easy to predict.

New comment by devenson in "Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of almost right AI code"

devenson — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:38:58 +0000

mRNA could be said to be in the trough of disillusionment -- didn't prevent COVID as initially promised, and has problems like causing heart damage in rare cases.

This disillusionment is evidenced by lower proportion of people seeking to take such injections now.

New comment by devenson in "Checklists are hard, but still a good thing"

devenson — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:34:04 +0000

Is the checklist complete? If not, it might lull you into a false sense of security. How do you know if it's complete or not?

New comment by devenson in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

devenson — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:41:31 +0000

less than perfect writing is a signal that your human. At least for now.

New comment by devenson in "The Moving Assembly Line Turns 100 (2013)"

devenson — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:15:55 +0000

It would seem the assembly line also prevents workers from slacking, as they are in constant competition to stay ahead of workers at other stations.

No need for managers to crack the whip. They do it to themselves.

New comment by devenson in "Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]"

devenson — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:07:45 +0000

Can't reset state after breakage.

New comment by devenson in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

devenson — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:16:47 +0000

A category for politically incorrect ads would be cool.

New comment by devenson in "A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up"

devenson — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:39:31 +0000

A reminder that simple inventions are still possible.

New comment by devenson in "Getting Past Procrastination"

devenson — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:50:00 +0000

When stuck I do what I call "prepping". Don't try to do the task, just prep for it -- clean the room, the desk, close distracting websites, gather the materials.

It's lowering the activation energy so the reaction can happen more easily.

New comment by devenson in "My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth"

devenson — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:13:50 +0000

>There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people.

You can't hold onto it regardless.

The best you can do is choose who gets it.

New comment by devenson in "People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test"

devenson — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:03:18 +0000

If people would spend more for the US product, we wouldn't need the tariffs.

New comment by devenson in "UML diagram for the DDD example in Evans' book"

devenson — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:36:19 +0000

Documenting existing system dependencies using the product which which I'm a founder:

https://schematix.com/video/depmap

Like UML deployment diagrams, but our models are interactive and can be queried.

We also have a large customer doing DDD modeling and then generating code directly from the models they build.

New comment by devenson in "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece"

devenson — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:26:53 +0000

I feel the same way about Farscape.

New comment by devenson in "Milk Kanban"

devenson — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:37:23 +0000

Depends how far away her desk is.

New comment by devenson in "Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?"

devenson — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 03:32:44 +0000

a brighter room with light screen (not dark mode) causes smaller pupils and thus better focus.

New comment by devenson in "How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain"

devenson — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:20:39 +0000

When I was younger, dark room, dark screen was fine. Gets harder to focus as you age. Bright screen and room cause smaller pupils and therefore easier focusing like a pinhole camera.

New comment by devenson in "So you want to build your own data center"

devenson — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:33:29 +0000

Not OSS but I have developed a tool for modeling racks and much more.

https://schematix.com/video/racks

New comment by devenson in "The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?"

devenson — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:19:53 +0000

Thinking is emulated -- therefore much slower.