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The choice of names (Tyrone vs Brett) made me wonder whether this was an experiment about racial prejudice.

A dehumidifier solves both problems. Put your damp clothes in a room with a dehumidifier and they're dry by the morning. You can also use it when it's wet to keep the room humidity down to 50%.

This submission was on the front page of HN yesterday (Show HN: How random are you?):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074909

The top comment:

> This is a nice spin on the Aaronson oracle:

> In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next

And today we have a web app of this that seems fully generated by Claude.

They did read this and still complained, as you predicted

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1wqhd02/im_the_mom...

The person you replied to understands that it is satire. No need to be condescending. You could have just posted the article that it seems to be satirising.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510

I've seen a few attempts at "accounting for programmers" guides, some of which I came across while browsing HN (if you search you'll find plenty). The one I used to send new developers was one such guide[1]. They also have another on building a ledger[2]. These are a good start and I wish I could recommend a proper textbook that goes into more detail - detail that I wish I had known early on - but I learned mostly as I went along.

[1] https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/accounting-for-develo...

[2] https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/how-to-scale-a-ledger...

I have just left a fintech company after 5 years and I can say after reading this, it looks legit to me (not AI slop as someone asked). These are the same sort of lessons I learned during my time in the industry.

I would recommend anyone starting in fintech to take some time to understand accounting principles and the ledger in a bit more depth than just debits vs credits - this is likely what is most unfamiliar to programmers.

Also financial software is very data-heavy and I learned more about databases in my time working in fintech than the 15 years before that. I think going into a bit more detail about even the basics (indexes) will save a lot of headaches.