Ask HN: Is a human brain more like a CPU or an FPGA?
Is the “hardware” of the brain fixed?Or can the “software” cause changes in the hardware?
The .txt file approach works for work stuff because I never need to reference it on mobile, if I'm doing software development I need to be on a computer anyway.
Whereas personal stuff I need an actual notetaking app like Notion for the mobile usability
The only extra thing is I set up autohotkey macros
For example typing $today or $yesterday will insert the date with a dividing line underneath to separate days into clear blocks
I've tried a lot of different note apps and what I eventually realized is that when it comes to work, I generally don't actually care about old notes 98% of the time.
I only really care about the last week or two and when everything is in one file it makes it really easy to scroll back to see that. Can still CTRL + F once in a while to go back farther.
The text file ends up gigantic but its still small data for a computer even after many years of adding to a single file and searching is still fast.
If it’s so good why hasn’t it made you rich?
The more niche the thing you’re working on the worse results I’ve found these tools to give
“Show me the money”
Where are the results of this supposed 90%?
Shouldn’t that be making the author rich?
Is the “hardware” of the brain fixed?Or can the “software” cause changes in the hardware?
Exaggeration is a common technique employed in human language for emphasis.
Valve is a game company
I joke that it’s the most opposite activity from programming
Does anyone else find that LLM code generators improve your overall productivity marginally but you prefer not to use them due to what I call the “annoyance cost”Basically the extra cognitive annoyance you have to experience every time it generates the wrong thingIt’s like you can achieve the end result faster but it’s more mentally draining and annoying to keep tweaking the LLM than to just...
It’s a good idea to take some time to understand how the official language docs are organized so that you can just jump there straight away and bypass all the noise
Sometimes you come upon a library and it tells you what it does but there is no explanation or context on why you would want to use it
If you could report a bug on any product/project and it’s up to the users to open/verify/close it
Could put pressure on companies to improve quality since the number of bugs is public
Turns out this whole virtualized house abstraction is a sham
I see so many comments on the huge productivity gains of coding with AI but it mostly seems to just be perceived productivityBut does anyone have stories of the actual results or impact?If the productivity gains are so huge, shouldn’t we see those engineers getting promoted super fast or getting rich from building a product extremely fast?Where are those stories?
It’s possible to apply systems, frameworks, or categorizations that are actually wrong or overstated
The author obviously adds some exaggeration to get the point across
I don’t think they actually think everyone does this
Out of date after only 3 years?
I’ve noticed ads with AI voices already, but having it lip synced with someone talking in a video really sells it more