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New comment by totally in "Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials"

totally — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:44:19 +0000

If only the AI could explain the errors that the AI outputs.

New comment by totally in "Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon"

totally — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:39:06 +0000

What would be more sane? Allowing things to remain broken at night? Having someone who is not a software engineer fix it?

New comment by totally in "A new kind of symmetry shakes up physics"

totally — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:59:20 +0000

Is symmetry between left and right brain what allows consciousness to exist?

New comment by totally in "Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]"

totally — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:26:26 +0000

What good is blame?

New comment by totally in "Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website"

totally — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:08:19 +0000

If an FBI raid is confirmation of guessing right, then could we brute force all top secrets by making guesses and seeing who gets raided?

New comment by totally in "Twitter Problems?"

totally — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:13:11 +0000

If things had been different it could have been called "Occam's Tweet"

New comment by totally in "I Quit Shopify After Five Months"

totally — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:58:23 +0000

They used to say "tell me a little bit about yourself." At least for a literal-minded developer the "little bit" added some guard rails against unnecessary verbosity.

New comment by totally in "U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient"

totally — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:54:20 +0000

Yes, it doesn't say why it wasn't.

New comment by totally in "Who wrote this shit?"

totally — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:18:54 +0000

C'mon, man. You're better than Torben.

New comment by totally in "Do you want to be making this much money when you're 50? (2012)"

totally — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 20:10:41 +0000

I started reading and thinking that 50 is old, and then I realized that I'll be turning 41 soon enough. So, yeah.

New comment by totally in "Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices"

totally — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:58:04 +0000

and ethical

The Night Watch (2013) [pdf]

totally — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:07:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505138

Points: 2

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Are U.S. Officials Under Silent Attack?

totally — Mon, 24 May 2021 20:36:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/are-us-officials-under-silent-attack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27269390

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by totally in "Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?"

totally — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:03:49 +0000

The audiobook is good as well, you can hear the tone of voice, which is useful.

New comment by totally in "Bacteria and Colon Cancer"

totally — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:06:11 +0000

What causes one bacteria to flourish in the colon? Is it a lack of other flora? Is it diet related?

Not to be crass, but I also kind of wonder what it smells like. Are there scientists who study the smells of these biological systems? Seems like that would be a high bandwidth way to gain insight into a gut.

New comment by totally in "Ask HN: What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?"

totally — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:36:54 +0000

+1 on Becoming a technical leader:

https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Technical-Leader-Problem-Sol...

New comment by totally in "Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet"

totally — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 17:23:01 +0000

Would they also circuit break on 7% increase, in order to give people time to come back from positive feelings?

New comment by totally in "Ask HN: What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?"

totally — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:14:02 +0000

Sure, would love to know what a change your actions would take with this mindset, thanks.

New comment by totally in "Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find"

totally — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:01:10 +0000

What can I do to make this better? I would really like to stop ruining earth but it does seem that there is a lot of momentum in that direction.

New comment by totally in "'Shockingly High' Number of Injuries at Amazon's Staten Island Warehouse"

totally — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:15:40 +0000

Would it then be reasonable to fabricate injuries in order to game performance assessments?