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New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants""

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:05:22 +0000

Then they shouldn't use libraries, open source code or even existing compilers. They shouldn't search online (man pages is OK). They should use git plumbing commands and sh (not bash of zsh). They should not have potable water in there house but distill river water.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants""

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:59:48 +0000

Not new they had that 5 years ago at least.

Anthropic interview is nebulous. You get a coding interview. Fast paced, little time, 100% pass mark.

Then they chat to you for half an hour to gauge your ethics. Maybe I was too honest :)

I'm really bad at the "essay" subjects vsm the "hard" subjects so at that point I was dumped.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003)"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:56:26 +0000

I used to think creating a CHM was peak professionalism. I'm a mini Microsoft!

Actually I'd go back to CHMs for docs. A modern reader would be good tho.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Global variables are not the problem"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:55:24 +0000

Man, the bugs they prevent. Vs everyone rolling their own multithreaded file reader/writer code in C. How many programmers would think to journal transactions and ship them for backup for example.

SQL or 15000 lines of C++ or Go or Rust doing whatever with files.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Global variables are not the problem"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:48:48 +0000

What does the ideal look like then? Data storage encapsulation in the app? Perhaps different DB users with granular access, accessed from different non-global parts of the program. Chuck in some views later when you need performance pragmatism!

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Global variables are not the problem"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:45:06 +0000

Your program is also one giant type.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003)"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:07:30 +0000

It is slow. Like geocities.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003)"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:07:11 +0000

Interesting concept http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/d...

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Fake thinking and real thinking"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 07:52:44 +0000

They really mean crap not fake. If you use a nail where a screw is needed, that is crap.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:50:12 +0000

Performance art of many HN exchanges on non-startup/cs topics.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:39:29 +0000

Podiatry?

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Ask HN: Should Canadian companies leave AWS in preparation for cut?"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:27:50 +0000

Can't AWS just restructure to have a Canadian subsidiary if that happens? Maybe they have this already. Unless they ban ownership of foreign companies.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Ask HN: Is software engineering just patching APIs and wrangling Kubernetes?"

nejsjsjsbsb — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:02:36 +0000

There is no money for the employees in consolidation and boring tech.

Outside of the US, career driven development (CDD) might be needed to get your salary to a level you can say ... have a family. Or for some ... afford rent. Therefore my salary is dependent on me not understanding development Zen!

Then with an army of CDDs there is a tide that is hard to swim against.

Making it worse is how we interview people and any heroics you did at the last job are worth 0c but ability to talk about GraphQL and advanced TS and AWS are worth, dunno, $20k.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Ask HN: Do the tarrifs impact software/SaaS? If so, how?"

nejsjsjsbsb — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 19:24:27 +0000

Genuine question!

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Ask HN: Recommendations for Running LLMs Locally"

nejsjsjsbsb — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 09:21:32 +0000

    docker run -d -v ollama:/root/.ollama -p 11434:11434 --name ollama ollama/ollama

    docker exec -it ollama ollama run llama3.2:1b

Have a chat at the CLI

Then try bigger models if that is too fast for you :)

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Ask HN: Percent of employees that benefit financially from equity offers?"

nejsjsjsbsb — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:16:34 +0000

You can sell the RSU tranche the day you get it though right? So it like cash. Unfortunately that also means for tax purposes.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Ask HN: Do the tarrifs impact software/SaaS? If so, how?"

nejsjsjsbsb — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:06:31 +0000

What about contracting? Hourly rates? Employment?

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Ask HN: Do the tarrifs impact software/SaaS? If so, how?"

nejsjsjsbsb — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:02:59 +0000

Yep at all levels. Chinese businesses planning their next 5 years may want to diversify away from US customers. US people voted for unhinged presidents is the clear message.

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Smart fabric heats up under the sun"

nejsjsjsbsb — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:21:32 +0000

50-90 latitude it might be useful plus mountains.

Might be good for daytime heating of a tent?

New comment by nejsjsjsbsb in "Avoid ISP Routers (2024)"

nejsjsjsbsb — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 01:25:48 +0000

What about: I use the ISP router for support convenience then I turn off its wifi and daisy chain a second router I set up?