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Re:Show HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs? on Thursday November 20, 2025 @01:50PM (#45996193)
Would you be willing to write an article comparing the results ? Or share the code you used to test? I am super interested in the results of this experiment.
Re:Google Antigravity on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @04:51PM (#45972692)
I downloaded it, but I was not even able to get past `Account Set Up`. :(
Re:Ask HN: Is it possible that ChatGPT is not creative at all on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:50PM (#37574457)
Under that definition, I wonder if anybody is `creative`. We would need to assess how many of what we call `original ideas` are not rehashes of other ideas.
Greatness comes at a very high cost. But to me greatness is not about money, or economic success. Greatness is a very subjective term.

For me greatness is about mastering my craft. Creating great things. It still comes at a very high cost, because practice is not free, and it takes away time from life, especially family time.

Now, Why? Look at life this way: Humans only care about the experience of life. Experience can be focused on family, money, personal achievements, material things, etc.

What you refer to a `great` experience is not really a `great` experience for another person. So `greatness`, IMHO, refers to the experience you wanna have. My great experience is becoming a master in my craft. That is my image of greatness. To Transcend. I trade time focused on my work, for time doing other things.

Now, there could be a person that has a vision of `greatness` that refers to being the greatest dad ever. That is still greatness. So basically, what I am trying to say is that everyone looks for their version greatness, and that not necessarily matches what you define as greatness.

Re:Ask HN: Mono-Repo or Multi-Repo? on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @01:16PM (#29653037)
IMHO mono-repo vs multi-repo should be decided based on the sources of change for each component in a product. For example, the cloud components of a product usually change at the same pace and for the same reasons, it makes sense to have them in a mono-repo. Even in a microservices approach. Even in the cloud certain components can change at a different pace and for different reasons. For example if you have grpc api that talks to your mobile app and a webapi exposed to your customers.

I believe that components that move at a different pace and change for different reason should not be in the same repo. It is difficult to setup CI/CD for different ways of deployment and specially if they not changing at the same time.

Now, regarding security, it is important to keep different components of a product in different repos, this will give you the flexibility to manage a more restricted set of credentials and reduce the number of people that have access to it.

In the end it involved 3 things: 1) Sources of Change, 2) CI/CD Processes and 3) Security. You can definitely mix and match.

Re:Ask HN: Monitors vs. 1 Big Monitor on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:47PM (#26345496)
I haven't seen any research that has pointed to me to one or the other. I can however give you my own experience.

I have mixed feelings about this. I moved from multiple monitors to one big monitor. I do not see a considerable difference between one or the other.

Obviously this is all subjective so I cannot give you any numbers to back this up. I am however not going back to multiple monitors.

Re:Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin? on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:02PM (#25444941)
This book made me fall in love with Lisp: Land of Lisp - https://nostarch.com/lisp.htm

I found it super helpful understanding everything there is about Lisp, and you can move from there.

In the case of technical books, I have found that pricing is not that different from digital to physical books.

This is a good example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449373321/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_qQ8...

It is $29.99 for Kindle and Physical is $34.91.

Re:Ask HN: Is there a list of known software attack vectors? on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:23PM (#24427573)
Not sure if this is what you are referring to, but this page contains a list of offensive techniques which could be used to create attack vectors:

https://attack.mitre.org/

Re:Tiny Core Linux Dead? on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:31AM (#24244767)
Re:Ask HN: Ergonomic Keyboard Recommendations on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:32AM (#24211461)
Basically what put me off was the way the keys are arranged in a semi circle. It was uncomfortable to code. I am not sure if it is because I have big hands or just the design didn't work for me.
Re:Ask HN: Ergonomic Keyboard Recommendations on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:13AM (#24211177)
Most of the good ergonomic keyboards are around the same price. Look at this one which it is good, but I personally didn't like: https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

You could try Microsoft's ergonomic keyboards, they are cheaper, but I personally didn't like them either: https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...

Re:Ask HN: Ergonomic Keyboard Recommendations on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @02:28PM (#24202324)
I love Ergodox (https://ergodox-ez.com/). There is a new keyboard by the same company which looks cool, but I haven't tried it yet: The Moonlander (https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/)
I second this. Will Larson's book is definitely one of the best if not the best book I have read on the subject.

There are other good books which can add to it like "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier.(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XP3GJ7F/)

I am right there with you. The whole idea of "master" is not really based on the idea of slavery focused master.

Master represents the final version of a component or software which ends up in production. It is the same meaning as an audio master (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering_(audio))

If the word master is considered evil, then what would happen to a Master Degree ? or Dojo Master ? Words have different meanings in different context, let's focus on changing language that changes the way you think.

Re:Ask HN: Where to Store My Events? on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:27PM (#22997889)
If what you are looking for is a DB-like application, I recommend: https://eventstore.com/

Not sure if you can set retention periods, but it is definitely worth to take a look into that, and definitely a good starting point.

Re:Ext.net 7.0 Preview for Asp.net Core on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:36AM (#22822922)
And this is why Ext.Net is so expensive. Sencha is the one who decided to hike the price.
Re:Ext.net 7.0 Preview for Asp.net Core on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:22PM (#22814947)
I was a big supporter of what the Ext.net engineers do, and in a way I still do. Their tech is very professional and stable.

I stopped using them right after the price hike. IMHO, it is overpriced. Since I can get most of the same stuff done with other frameworks and mostly for free.

Nevertheless, their work on https://bridge.net/ is awesome.

Re:Héctor García-Molina Has Died on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:35PM (#21642987)
Is there any official outlet where this is published ? I didn't find anything. I learned this because of people who knew him.

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