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New comment by nathanielks in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

nathanielks — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:59:40 +0000

Unfortunately that's not the case. There are many senior and above level engineers out there who are unskilled communicators but very technically skilled.

New comment by nathanielks in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

nathanielks — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:08:27 +0000

Indeed, I'm not using LLM output without thorough review.

After reading a bunch of other comments, it sounds like people are referring to letting agents go wild and code whatever off a limited prompt. I'm not using LLMs like that; I'm generally interacting only via conversations with pretty detailed initial prompts. My interactions with the chat after that are corrections/guiding prompts to keep it on point and edit the prompt output from time to time.

New comment by nathanielks in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

nathanielks — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:03:43 +0000

I think you need to read the studies linked in the footnotes. This is a well-studied issued.

New comment by nathanielks in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

nathanielks — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:18:45 +0000

Yeah, their statement just isn't true. With enough instruction, I've been able to get great output from models. I think that's the key: with detailed, pointed instructions, the output will match.

New comment by nathanielks in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

nathanielks — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:58:05 +0000

You realize _anytime_ someone needs to talk to you would qualify as interrupting and bothering someone else? Your expectation is unreasonable. Good luck with that.

New comment by nathanielks in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

nathanielks — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:54:51 +0000

Consent is still necessary. People's opening line when talking to strangers should indicate whether the other consents or not.

New comment by nathanielks in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

nathanielks — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:29:47 +0000

> If not, I will not let you know.

This is 100% completely on you, then. If you don't inform people you're being interrupted or that what they are doing is bothering you, they have no data to telling them to stop, and any energy you spend on silently judging them or being frustrated is only harming yourself.

New comment by nathanielks in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

nathanielks — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:07:43 +0000

> World is not your amusement park

That's literally what the world is. It's the amusement park for all of us. Some of us like sharing our joy with others. It's up to you whether you are open to receiving it.

New comment by nathanielks in "What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers"

nathanielks — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:14:38 +0000

This doesn't affect day to day operations for the vast majority of users, though. Unless you're these guys (and maybe Pulumi and a handful of others), one's ability to use Terraform as the way you manage your cloud infrastructure is unaffected.

New comment by nathanielks in "What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers"

nathanielks — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:12:07 +0000

...quoted from the co-founders of a closed-source company running previously open-source software. Pot calling the kettle black. Their company wouldn't exist either, this is a ridiculous statement.

New comment by nathanielks in "I was wrong, we need crypto"

nathanielks — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:26:15 +0000

I think you missed the part where people were being sleep deprived. It's not just a bit of honk honk lulz.

New comment by nathanielks in "On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness"

nathanielks — Tue, 04 May 2021 23:28:26 +0000

This isn't my experience. I lost attraction to someone I was in a relationship with and regained it after doing some work on myself. Attraction is definitely something you can foster within yourself for another person.

New comment by nathanielks in "“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”"

nathanielks — Sat, 01 May 2021 00:03:45 +0000

That's a distinction without a difference as white people still make up the majority.

DockerApp is an adaptable Dockerfile that works perfectly in every host system

nathanielks — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 00:49:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/docker-app-manager/docker-app-manager

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17528076

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

GitHub and Medium take down database of ICE employee LinkedIn accounts

nathanielks — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 05:28:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/19/17480912/github-ice-linkedin-scraping-employees

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17352812

Points: 79

# Comments: 54

gVisor: Container Runtime Sandbox, a user-space kernel for containers

nathanielks — Tue, 08 May 2018 01:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google/gvisor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17017943

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by nathanielks in "NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready"

nathanielks — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:00:59 +0000

From what I can gather, nginx still sits in front of Unit and proxies requests to it

New comment by nathanielks in "NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready"

nathanielks — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:24:08 +0000

I'm struggling to understand the purpose of this, or why I would choose this over php-fpm. It seems to be competing with Docker as it isolates applications with cgroups, but if I'm already running docker, what's the point? Perhaps another layer of isolation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯