JohnCClarke
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Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant hasn't been bombed because (1) the Russians control it right now (it's behind their lines) so why would they, and (2) the Ukranians live downwind so why would they?
Russia has bombed the switchyards and trandformers of other NPPs though.
Online reviews indicate that Superpowers is best for people who are not already experienced SW development managers.
Is that true? What is your experience of it?
For me, I am a solid KISS believer, so I have not yet found a better framework than just plain old Claude Code. But happy to move to a better workflow, if it's real.
Isn't this just Dale Carnegie 101? I've certainly never had a salesperson tell me that I'm 100% wrong and being a fool.
And, tbh, I often try to remember to do the same.
Well, the wives.
But women are generally ignored in our society.
If you ever want to watch a movie again, do NOT work on codecs. Just saying.
A long and venerable litany of spaceflight disasters would beg to differ:
- Apollo "Little Joe" A-003 (May 19, 1965): A roll gyro
- Proton-M Launch Failure (July 2, 2013): Yaw sensors
- Genesis Space Probe (2001): Accelerometer
Getting things the right way round is very important.
Srsly? People actually watch all the chatter in the little window?
Pro tip: "git diff"
This example is always cited as different from the "demographics" approach. But it literally started by segmenting the buyers, and then focussing on a previously unrecognised demographic sector (car commuters).
Clay Christensen is smart, and one of the many things he is smart about is marketing Clay Christensen.
When developers who were comfortable as individual contributors start using agentic AI they necessarily start to work somewhat as managers.
The workflow and responsibilities are very different. It can be a painful transition.
There has always been a strong undercurrent of developers feeling superior to managers and PMs and now those develoeprs are being forced to confront the reality of a manager or PM's experience.
Work is changing, and the change is only going to accelerate.
Well that's full of really useful tips. I'll get the builders in to construct a 1.37m (4.5ft) thick spine through the middle of my house. Obviously.
Consider what happened to painters after the invention of photography (~1830s). At first the technology was very limited and no threat at all to portrait and landscape painters.
By the 1860s artists were feeling the heat and responded by inventing all the "isms" - starting with impressionism. That's kept them employed so far, but who knows whether they'll be able to co-exist with whatever diffusion models become in 30 years.
+1 - I made the same technology choice back in 2014. Seems like nothing has changed.
TL;DR: You can't keep things too simple.
I definitely want this for QA. And luckily I haven't quite finished spending this Sunday setting up Claude Code in a container...
Instead I'm just going to give Claude a separate laptop. Not quite air-gapped, but only need-to-know data, and dedicated credentials for Claude.
I'm (genuinely) curious about the overwhelming preference for PostgreSQL on HN. I've always used MySQL for OLTP, and been very happy with it.
If you've seriously considered both and then selected PostgreSQL please comment and tell me what drove that decision.
Note: I'm only talking about OLTP. I do see that PostgreSQL adds a lot for OLAP.
Excited for this! A couple of questions:
1. What is the resolution of timestamps (milli-, micro-, nano-seconds)?
2. Any plans for supporting large data BLOBs (e.g. PostgreSQL TOAST)? This would open up a lot of use cases and would be really interesting to make compatible with the in-memory emphasis for the atomic data types.
Not 100 hours a week. More like 50. Taxes to the local baron, lord, monastery, or whoever took the other 50.
Well, "Arcadia" is good, but "Tron Legacy" & "Star Trek" are better. Famously he hated ghost writing, so I hope he can make his peace with it now.
FWIW: I think we've all been there.
I certainly did the same in my first summer job as an intern. Spent the next three days reconstructing Clipper code from disk sectors. And ever since I take backups very seriously. And I double check del/rm commands.
What percentage of the papers where written by AI?
And, if your AI can't write a paper, are you even any good as an AI researcher? :^)
The question is not are the reviews AI generated. The question is are the reviews accurate?
In 1967 Louis Washkansky lived 18 days after receiving the world's first heart transplant. Today Bert Janssen has lived 41 years with a transplanted heart.
Progress is hard won, and the first people to undergo new procedures are the ones who have it hardest.
If the cost of returning and refurbishing a rocket stage is less than the cost of building a new one then that gives a competitive advantage on price.
But space flight is a strategic competency for states so China, the EU, and even eventually Russia, will all develop reusable rockets. I suspect that launch capacity will far exceed demand and that none will make profits for a long time.
I suspect that the push for civilian SMRs is a disguised subsidy for the naval reactor programme. This is shortsighted because (1) for electricity renewables are cheaper than nuclear, and (2) large naval vessels are enormously vulnerable to drones.
Ukraine's success against Russia's Black Sea fleet proves this for surface vessels. Similarly, it is easy to imagine a swarm of small underwater drones detecting, tracking and trailing nuclear submarines.
The UK government's is more focussed on providing juicy contracts to large corporations than realistic preparations for the future.
Upvoting b/c this comment is true, obviously I disapprove of insider trading.
Is there any way all those involved in the killings can be prosecuted for murder?
Thing is: people are correct.
Central London monthly rent for a 3-bed house is around £3500, but a 1-bed flat rents for £2100. So split the house into two flats and the landlord makes more money.
Hence relaxing zoning restrictions will push prices up.
If any alien civilizations believe the "Dark Forest" hypothesis, then they will definitely disguise their probes as asteriods and comets. At least, I would.
Anyone want to help me build a rehearsal service so that folks can be trained to ace robot interviews? The prompt HR uses can only be a half a dozen lines long, and I can guess it already.
Indeed. Pretty soon all jobs will be filled by bots.