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Re:Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:18PM (#49760382)
To restate what I put elsewhere, I genuinely don't think I care much for how it was written. The problem is that it felt exhausting to read and was chock full of the same claudese voice that makes claude so infuriatingly exhausting to read. I gave it a try and gave up halfway through. If it was AI generated but was a good read that conveyed a central point/theme, I wouldn't be complaining. This at least is trying to argue a single point, but it does so in what feels like at least 10x the word count.
Re:Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:14PM (#49760345)
I usually don't complain about stuff being AI generated. But in this case, regardless of HOW it was written/generated, it reads exactly like claudese and frankly I am so exhausted of reading that particular voice that I made it half way through this article before I just couldn't do it anymore. I really don't care if AI was used, I care that it is readable. And frankly, it isn't.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:13PM (#49039575)
Do you have a source for this? That would explain it, but could be a bit of a concern on the general focus the model at higher thinking exhibits.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:21PM (#49038865)
I'm not sure what to make of this graph[0]. It shows medium as the most effective thinking mode by far for frontier code.

It's the only case that I saw going through the system card where more reasoning effort meaningfully negatively impacted the resulting eval. I know sometimes max efforts show a small dip, but this is substantial. I wonder why in the world that is?

[0] https://imgur.com/a/Nv8V7Ry

Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:18PM (#48937392)
Odd that open AI models aren't on that graph but are on the rankings! Must be a data lag issue?
For me claude is the best, hands down. Fable took it a step even further.
Re:You Are Not Your Job on Monday March 23, 2026 @11:03AM (#47490512)
I believe they were trying to push back on the easily word in "easily produced". While, thank god, modern medicine makes birthing dramatically safer than at any time in history, it is still an incredibly taxing process on the human body and still fundamentally dangerous. It is not "easy" per-se.
Re:Chuck Norris has died on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:45PM (#47458048)
Those points are fine, but not the root of what makes MAGA shameful. You can go about having that opinion and take actions towards it without being racist, anti-LGBT, generally hateful, and backing an administration that has been proven time and time again to be deceitful in every facet and tuned to the interest of the wealthiest.
The thing is, for most people a standard wall outlet is plenty. The math works out that a simple 15/20 amp circuit can charge over 40 miles overnight, and the vast majority of people aren't driving more than that for their daily commute plus errands. Level 1 charging is genuinely sufficient most of the time. I was particularly swayed by the technology connections video on this topic I watched before buying my first EV https://youtu.be/Iyp_X3mwE1w

The real pain point, in my opinion, is whether you have any place to plug in nightly. If you don't, then as you pointed out, it becomes a nightmare to own. Range anxiety is completely justified when public charging infrastructure is still as unreliable as it is, years after the initial build outs. Your points about charging pain are all too common.

If you have a garage with an outlet, you are generally fine. I lived off a level 1 charger for over a year before I decided I wanted the convenience of a level 2 charger.

Re:GraphQL: The Enterprise Honeymoon Is Over on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:06PM (#46278847)
No problem! I hope you have a good time with it!
Re:GraphQL: The Enterprise Honeymoon Is Over on Sunday December 14, 2025 @03:21PM (#46266452)
If isomorphic TS is your cup of tea, tRPC is a nicer version of client server contracting than graphql in my opinion. Both serve that problem quite well though.
Hallucinations by LLMs are both normal, well documented, and very common. We have not solved this problem so it is up to the user to verify and validate when working with these systems. I hope this was a relatively inexpensive lesson on the dangers of blind trust to a known faulty system!
I would highly recommend talking this through with a therapist! I don't think anyone on the internet has the time/understanding/or context to tell you either way in any satisfying manner that would settle your confusion. It is never too late to introspect and learn about who you are as a person, and a therapist is a great sounding board at the very minimum.
Re:BiomeJS 2024 Roadmap on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:34AM (#39091431)
I'll be honest, with the knowledge they are building their own type system and not adopting typescript, my interest went to near 0. Typescript has been a delight to use and migrating off of it is a non-starter. It will take a lot to get me to move off of using typescript even in greenfield projects.
Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:15PM (#38945541)
Our company has exactly this and I think it works really well! We are a small engineering team spread out across 4 states with tiny offices/hubs for those that want to get together. I work with a friend in town and we go to an office 3 days a week on the same days and I love the schedule.
Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) on Sunday July 17, 2022 @11:52PM (#32134455)
I think I would recommend warming a ceramic mug that you pull your shot directly in!
Re:Show HN: Initiative.sh, an in-browser command line for D&D on Thursday November 04, 2021 @10:06AM (#29107347)
This is super cool! I love it overall but couldn't help but want for it to let me link NPCs/things to locations and just generally add more metadata for when campaigns progress and the world fleshes out more
Re:Lyft cuts internship salaries by 50% on Friday May 01, 2020 @08:28PM (#23047910)
While I do not pretend to know your financial situation, I do have a good friend of mine who interned in the bay area for $15/hr with no benefits (housing or otherwise) and managed to live relatively fine for 8 months. It's not close to ideal, but I know it is possible.
Couldn't this be curbed by better radiation shielding on the plane itself?
Re:Tesla Software Version 10.0 on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:37PM (#21086834)
Not sure how you came to that conclusion. Part availability is a valid complaint about tesla. This seems to just be a blatant attack on the poster for no reason.
Re:People love working remotely on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:37PM (#20748929)
As someone who has worked from home for over 2 years now, I have found the best way to counteract loneliness for me is to have weekly scheduled time with friends to play board games, hop on and play games at night with friends, and to sometimes go sit in a crowded coffee shop. I have also been remote calling some other friends at work to just shoot the shit, and work on our separate things while in a call. Between those things, it usually sates my need for social interactions. As a side thought, I have noticed that creating a dedicated work space as apposed to working from the sofa or any other place in the house has helped reduce the amount of loneliness or isolation I feel for some reason.

That being said, sometimes I do still find myself feeling a tad lonely at times and is something I still am figuring out the best ways to manage. I still believe that the benefits of remote work still vastly outweigh a typical office job and it would be very hard for me to give up my current situation.

Thanks for the links!
They harp a lot on how fast it starts up - which sounds great - but I would like to have some solid numbers on what that startup time actually is on actual devices! I can't seem to find anything perusing around the GH page or the site
Re:Ask HN: How do you become a good mentor? on Monday April 29, 2019 @01:57PM (#19780781)
This is fantastic advice! Thank you for your input.

Ask HN: How do you become a good mentor?

I have recently become a team lead and have a decent amount of experience being an engineer myself, but have found that the hardest part about my new responsibility is figuring out how to be a good mentor and to help the more inexperienced engineers on my team grow. I am not sure exactly what makes a good mentor or how to get there.

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There is a difference between unprofessional and just outright toxic. I just tried it out and for our company with over 2900 members it was sparsely used and most of it was just outright insults with little to no discourse minus one or two decent threads.
Re:Flutter: Futures, Isolates, Event Loop on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @10:56AM (#18969149)
It really is a language by language basis. Many languages adopt features insanely fast, many insanely slow. JS for example has as of late has a very fast rate of change[1]. Or you could look at how Java has changed from 8->10 and all the new features added there. There are other languages like C that haven't changed much at all (to my knowledge). It isn't relevant to take the rate of change of other languages and apply it to another as an expectation. You would get a better metric by taking the rate of change of the current language in the context of the last year or two.

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