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New comment by kuahyeow in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

kuahyeow — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:27:38 +0000

This is a delightful reverse turkey graph (each day before Thanksgiving, the turkey has increasing confidence).

New comment by kuahyeow in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

kuahyeow — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:05:30 +0000

GitLab employee here. We have completed the move away from Gollum years ago (see https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2381).

It looks like that doc https://docs.gitlab.com/development/wikis/ was outdated - since fixed to no longer mention Gollum.

New comment by kuahyeow in "Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics"

kuahyeow — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:00:59 +0000

If anyone is interested in this - checkout Richard Behiel's video on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_GSBaUE1o

It is fantastically long, but still fascinating !

New comment by kuahyeow in "How good engineers write bad code at big companies"

kuahyeow — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:44:41 +0000

I think you are ascribing too much into this. If he does not believe anything then there will be nothing to write about. It looks like he does not believe in _your_ ideals - that does not make it nihilism though.

New comment by kuahyeow in "Human coders are still better than LLMs"

kuahyeow — Fri, 30 May 2025 03:54:56 +0000

Compiler is the more apt analogy to a mechanical loom.

An LLM is more like outsourcing to a consultancy. Results may vary.

New comment by kuahyeow in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

kuahyeow — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:28:16 +0000

What protection do people use when enabling an LLM to run `bash` on your machine ? Do you run it in a Docker container / LXC boundary ? `chroot` ?

New comment by kuahyeow in "Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World"

kuahyeow — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:06:06 +0000

I think you need to read the OP again. Not just the pictures at the end.

New comment by kuahyeow in "Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World"

kuahyeow — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:15:13 +0000

OP does not ban digital screens despite the title. They even play video games !

It's more the en-shittification of the Internet, and other media.

New comment by kuahyeow in "Why the weak nuclear force is short range"

kuahyeow — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:57:50 +0000

I will go one deeper. Are fields (quantum fields) even real, or just a model ?

New comment by kuahyeow in "What it's like working for American companies as an Australian"

kuahyeow — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:58:25 +0000

I work from New Zealand, for a quite geographically distributed team. For our team, the solution is partly:

    1. "Write everything down" culture.
    2. Rotate the regular meetings. For example, a meeting around 1000 UTC for Europe / Asia folks on Monday. Repeat the same meeting at 2000 UTC for US / Asia folks.
    3. Write good notes for each meeting, so people who could not attend can review asynchronously.

2x meetings may not work for a truly distributed team where you have people all over the world. In which you will need to have 3x rotating meetings which becomes a bit harder to manage.

DST changes do happen every six months, or so. We mostly roll with it, and adjust the meeting times as necessary.

Yes, PostgreSQL Has Problems. But We're Sticking with It

kuahyeow — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:25:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2023/06/yes-postgresql-has-problems-but-were-sticking-with-it.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41899650

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)

kuahyeow — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:52:51 +0000

Article URL: https://chelseatroy.com/2018/04/05/how-do-we-make-remote-meetings-not-suck/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40958064

Points: 109

# Comments: 103

New comment by kuahyeow in "Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source"

kuahyeow — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:54:57 +0000

So AGI will invent fusion, but we need fusion for AGI. Chicken-egg :)

New comment by kuahyeow in "The state of merging technology"

kuahyeow — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 01:08:03 +0000

Didn't Git have a new default merge strategy, `ort` https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNote... ?

New comment by kuahyeow in "Adulthood Is a Mirage"

kuahyeow — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 22:49:22 +0000

Even with kids, I simply do not care about any judgement.

99% of the time, no one on the proverbial soccer field honestly cares about your family setup - they are more worried about what's for dinner.

New comment by kuahyeow in "Adulthood Is a Mirage"

kuahyeow — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 22:45:19 +0000

Absolutely this, knowing what's _important_ at the end of the day. Must haves, nice to haves, not needed. We all only have limited lifespans.

New comment by kuahyeow in "Software disenchantment"

kuahyeow — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:15:41 +0000

> Modern cars work, let’s say for the sake of argument, at 98% of what’s physically possible with the current engine design. Modern buildings use just enough material to fulfill their function and stay safe under the given conditions. All planes converged to the optimal size/form/load and basically look the same.

Cars cost around X * $10,000 each. Houses cost Y * $100,000 each. The author is ignoring the economics of producing real world goods.

New comment by kuahyeow in "Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand"

kuahyeow — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 05:29:30 +0000

Train new people ! That is the only long term sustainable option.

New comment by kuahyeow in "Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext"

kuahyeow — Mon, 01 May 2023 02:31:32 +0000

Maybe there's engineers / developers working like this. Most likely it's a reflection of company culture.

But there are real-world repercussions of just plain bad working practices

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-27/whats-happening-with-...

It's not as bad as a bridge falling down, but this is why there's professional bodies and code of ethics in certain professions.

New comment by kuahyeow in "Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls"

kuahyeow — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:01:04 +0000

Haha, no - way to stereotype. If you follow that it just leads to non-independent children.