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New comment by lightbendover in "Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified"

lightbendover — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:55:17 +0000

When I tried warp I was convinced that was where the industry was going (agents as terminal replacement), but it felt a bit too heavy to me so I haven’t been using it lately. Still think all things will converge on terminal and browser replacement.

New comment by lightbendover in "Quantum Computation Lecture Notes (2022)"

lightbendover — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:04:51 +0000

(1) be naturally gifted, (2) avoid falling down wells of distraction, (3) be lucky. Don’t sleep on (3), it’s easy to call it capitalizing on opportunity in hindsight when it was honestly just luck.

New comment by lightbendover in "Jane Street's Figgie card game"

lightbendover — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:40:55 +0000

Person 1 made every deck exactly the same way though.

I guess Person 2 could run some simple validations of what Person 1 initially did.

Then again, Person 2 could have also replaced all of Person 1s decks with their own.

New comment by lightbendover in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

lightbendover — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:09:45 +0000

You may be referring to PayPal as one of those companies, but in case you’re not: Elon did not found Tesla.

New comment by lightbendover in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

lightbendover — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:19:01 +0000

You do not know with any degree of certainty what their motivations are. In fact, the utter disdain they demonstrate for certain US citizens dismantles your entire claim.

New comment by lightbendover in "US pauses all federal aid and grants"

lightbendover — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:44:31 +0000

Then frankly you weren’t paying attention. This was all laid out in Project 2025 and there were plentiful ties between it and Trump despite his deflection.

New comment by lightbendover in "'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly"

lightbendover — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:45:19 +0000

My industry? My industry is tech, where I got paid 7 figures for years and years doing fuck all to benefit society. It’s pretty telling that you just assumed someone defending a marginalized group was a member of that cohort.

Are there improvements that could be made in the grant process? Sure, just like there are improvements that could be made in any process. That is not a justification for taking a sledgehammer to the existing institution and affecting thousands of our brightest and hardest working residents who generally are not in it for godforsaken money but to better society. The ends in your kindergarten example do not justify the means. This is political, it’s not a merit-based cleansing.

I’m sure someone such as yourself would never see medical research as a public good so I guess we’re done here. The ideological bridge is too vast and frankly I have lost complete interest in the drivel on the other side.

New comment by lightbendover in "'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly"

lightbendover — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:05:45 +0000

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New comment by lightbendover in "'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly"

lightbendover — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:52:16 +0000

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New comment by lightbendover in "'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly"

lightbendover — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:34:37 +0000

People will absolutely lose their labs over this, please stop spreading lies either intentionally or from a place of ignorance.

New comment by lightbendover in "'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly"

lightbendover — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:33:27 +0000

Oh good, it’s just grant proposals so only some people will lose their labs due to the idiotic politicization of the NIH. This pushes back study sections by months even if they do resume on Feb 1. You can’t just schedule x leading researchers to review a grant on a whim, it’s planned months in advance.

New comment by lightbendover in "'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly"

lightbendover — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:22:38 +0000

Except middle America, where the populace would find a reason to be distrustful of a straight up cure.

New comment by lightbendover in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

lightbendover — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:16:11 +0000

Someone very close to me had their study section next week cancelled with no further comms. They are already fucking up grants. Please everyone, educate yourselves on this; the sky actually is falling this time.

New comment by lightbendover in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

lightbendover — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:26:25 +0000

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New comment by lightbendover in "Ask HN: Alternatives to the Pomodoro technique?"

lightbendover — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:40:10 +0000

Engineering crushing stress from existential threats of my own creation is just about the only productivity trick I have. It works at least.

New comment by lightbendover in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"

lightbendover — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:09:46 +0000

Some might argue that is what LLMs do.

New comment by lightbendover in "Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long"

lightbendover — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:43:53 +0000

If someone sends me an multi-thousand line CR, I'll review it and give them impactful feedback. I may miss some details, but I guarantee I'll miss close to all of the details if that is split over 40 CRs. I wouldn't want to work with someone who has time to review like that unless it's a very niche domain.

New comment by lightbendover in "Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long"

lightbendover — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:40:43 +0000

I just think the people who whole-heartedly believe in such "best practices" (and much more so the people who succumb to them) help justify my salary.

New comment by lightbendover in "Infinite Craft"

lightbendover — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:29:59 +0000

You should consider yourself lucky that you haven't witnessed the torched sushi craze [yet].

New comment by lightbendover in "Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees"

lightbendover — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:55:35 +0000

I am teetering on the decision myself. Have you enjoyed it?