Hacker News: pault

New comment by pault in "Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring"

pault — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:37:25 +0000

Ask an LLM to write it?

New comment by pault in "FRED: New Zealand open-access and crowdsource database of fossil records"

pault — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:07:33 +0000

All the interesting bones are hidden in the Smithsonian.

New comment by pault in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

pault — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:16:18 +0000

It’s just an anecdote but I quit a job because the CEO fired an extremely good manager that I worked with. If a company has issues, a good person getting fired can lead to a mass exodus. In my case about half of the developers followed closely after me.

New comment by pault in "HTML First"

pault — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:46:19 +0000

The chances of this happening before your project is obsolete are pretty slim.

Edit: it depends on what you mean by "bites the dust". If you mean "isn't cool anymore" then I'd say that's kind of irrelevant. If you mean "isn't supported anymore", I don't see that happening any time within the next decade at least. Rails isn't cool anymore but it's still supported and lots of people are still (more or less) happily using it at their day jobs. React is so widely used it'll be kept on life support long after it has been supplanted by something better, if and when that happens.

New comment by pault in "As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful, what happens to SEO?"

pault — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 23:16:34 +0000

Try searching for anything related to a recently released video game. Chat gpt spam has made it completely impossible. Even the reputable wikis are pushed down far enough to become very difficult to find.

New comment by pault in "Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?"

pault — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 04:28:30 +0000

Have you tried working with recruiters? In my experience applying directly might as well be sending your resume directly into a black hole. If you turn on the “looking for work” setting on linked in you’ll probably get plenty of opportunities to interview. I was interviewing in the spring and I had a few interviews lined up within a week this way.

New comment by pault in "Forty years of programming"

pault — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:05:19 +0000

Try a keyboard running QMK firmware. You can map a single key to multiple codes depending on the length of the key press. I use caps lock as escape if released immediately, and control if held down. Putting the modifiers in the bottom corner of the keyboard was a sadistic design choice.

New comment by pault in "Organization probably doesn't want to improve things"

pault — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 04:08:16 +0000

Are you hiring? I'm looking for a job that will allow me to explore my passions. My passions are: video games, anime, and watching youtube videos about video games and anime.

New comment by pault in "Newly discovered comet Nishimura could be visible to naked eye this weekend"

pault — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 06:27:03 +0000

Not only that, you could see it in the middle of the day. After witnessing that I understood why ancient people considered them an act of god.

New comment by pault in "The End of the Googleverse"

pault — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 23:34:53 +0000

The proliferation of LLM spam websites has made it completely impossible to search for any video game related information. Every search returns hundreds of sites with the same garbage chat GPT articles derived from Reddit or game wikis. Ironically, this makes the source material impossible to find. It’s really dire.

New comment by pault in "Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable"

pault — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 04:08:47 +0000

There’s a website called mynoise that has a bunch of noise generators. No algorithms required.

New comment by pault in "Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job"

pault — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:31:13 +0000

Probably bundling the server side dependencies into the client. I’ve also seen this happen when people add uncompressed 4k png images and the build tool is configured to inline all static assets. Obviously there was a lack of domain knowledge in the company or this wouldn’t have happened.

New comment by pault in "LCD TVs won’t see any further development"

pault — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:58:34 +0000

It’s because of yield. More pixels per panel means more panels ruined by dead pixels.

New comment by pault in "It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)"

pault — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 20:28:11 +0000

That’s interesting, I’ve been on vyvanse for five years now and never felt any of the telltale signs of dependency (which I am familiar with). I had to stop taking it for a month once and it just made me very drowsy for a week.

New comment by pault in "Bytes are all you need: Transformers operating directly on file bytes"

pault — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 03:56:51 +0000

No, the book does.

New comment by pault in "Managing State with Signals"

pault — Fri, 19 May 2023 09:48:47 +0000

Have you ever worked with redux saga? It’s exactly what you’re describing.

New comment by pault in "GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor"

pault — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:55:50 +0000

"Just" sending it overseas to be coded is more likely to end in failure than success, unless you have a lot of experience and know what the pitfalls are (which is a very expensive education). I'm not picking on developing countries; the same goes for big enterprise contractor providers in the U.S. They have no incentive to write stable, maintainable code. Their incentive is to make it just stable enough to not get sued and get it out the door as quickly as possible. An employee that will have to live with that code for several years will focus on maintainability purely out of self interest if nothing else. As to whether overseas firms are able to undercut domestic firms, it's a possibility, but anyone that has dealt with time zone issues and cultural barriers most likely knows what they are sacrificing to get that discounted rate.

New comment by pault in "Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific – research (2019)"

pault — Sun, 22 May 2022 20:31:35 +0000

Counter anecdote: I lived in the tropics for 10 years and met many people with tans and acne.

New comment by pault in "The U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon, America's “flying aircraft carriers”"

pault — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:30:24 +0000

That’s exactly it; I don’t expect the technology to be sufficiently discriminate.

New comment by pault in "The U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon, America's “flying aircraft carriers”"

pault — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:14:12 +0000

I believe weaponized drone swarms should be categorized with chemical weapons, cluster munitions, etc. A few thousand drones carrying shrapnel explosives and trained to recognize humans is basically a mobile minefield. It’s terrifying, really. I expect they will be used heavily if WW3 comes around, with devastating effect. Much like horse mounted cavalry encountering machine guns for the first time at the beginning of WW1. I’m not a weapons expert, so I could be wrong, but it seems so cheap and practical I can’t think of a scenario where it doesn’t happen eventually.