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It's just slopyfied version of https://www.hellointerview.com/
Re:Appearing productive in the workplace on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @02:36PM (#48039894)
> He ended up promoted to management.

I bet, with such qualities he is VP by now.

Re:Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym on Monday May 04, 2026 @11:50AM (#48010251)
That’s the only book you need to read, really. All modern books on this topic are derivatives of it.
Fascinating! Thanks for breaking it down.
Re:China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:33AM (#47930486)
Not that I fan of CCP, nor I know details of this situation, but isn’t barring people under investigation from leaving the country a pretty normal legal practice?
Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees on Thursday April 23, 2026 @11:06PM (#47885004)
Apple innovate in hardware.

What Google innovated during the last decade?

Re:WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @08:13PM (#47883932)
Interestingly enough, Tailscale, that is build on top of Wireguard, work flawlessly on Mac.
Re:Parallel Agents in Zed on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:20PM (#47868045)
neovim or eMacs are the best text editors as up today.
The idea of blaming something you can choice not to do is quite strange.
Re:Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore on Sunday April 19, 2026 @09:46PM (#47829457)
Why just don’t send books on the email associated with your kindle?
Re:The seven programming ur-languages on Sunday April 19, 2026 @07:12PM (#47828564)
Even tho I probably never will get paid for writing Rust, I have zero regrets about learning it - it tough me really think about data ownership in programs.
Re:The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:59PM (#47820268)
I personally don’t see its being a case, based on my observation.

There is this town nearby where I live - super white, gives old money type of vibe, very expensive real estate. It’s full of free range kids running around on the streets.

It was shock to me to see it, after our diverse suburb, where kids pretty much either locked at home doing homework or at classes all the times.

So in my opinion there is definitely a cultural aspect of it.

Re:The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:43PM (#47820177)
Was the mom Asian? Asking because my pre-teen daughter has a lot of Asian friends and I clearly see a pattern of hyper vigilance among their moms.
Re:LittleSnitch for Linux on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @10:37PM (#47698705)
From what I understand, macOS uses weird kernel implementation, which is almost open source, but not 100%
Re:What Being Ripped Off Taught Me on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:33PM (#47668808)
Just reinforces the golden rule of not doing business with friends or family.
Cold showers - good for immune system. Heat expose - good as well. I guess what doesn’t kills us - makes us stronger is true after all.
Im genuinely curious what is a use-case for 25GB Internet in a typical Switzerland household?
Re:Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor on Saturday April 04, 2026 @03:55PM (#47642724)
It absolutely doesn’t look as sharp as 4k, even on 22” inch screen
Re:Run Linux containers on Android, no root required on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:15AM (#47636350)
I find the title very misleading. Linux containers typically means LXC, but when in readme you say it’s intended for running OCI-based containers.
I think you are re-inventing the wheel https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
Re:Accelerating the Next Phase of AI on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @06:18PM (#47594240)
Are we going to see a trillion dollar IPO?
So we do at least agree on the fact that quality of human language <-> embeddings transition depends on how good target language is represented in the training dataset?

Even if it happens at the edge, on every conversation turn, I may assume non captured small subtleties of meaning over time can accumulate into significant error.

> it’s clearly not the case that these things only make use of Spanish training data when you prompt them in Spanish.

It’s not! And I’ve never said that.

Anyways, I’m not even sure what we are arguing about, as it’s 100% fact that SOTA models perform better in English, the only interesting question here how much better, is it negligible or actually makes a difference in real world use-cases.

It’s just a subjective observation.

It just can’t be a case simply because how ML works. In short, the more diverse and high quality texts with reasoning reach examples were in the training set, the better model performs on a given language.

So unless Spanish subset had much more quality-dense examples, to make up for volume, there is no way the quality of reasoning in Spanish is on par with English.

I apologise for the rambling explanation, I sure someone with ML expertise here can it explain it better.

Because 90% of training data was in English and therefore the model perform best in this language.
Re:Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading on Monday March 30, 2026 @07:55PM (#47581130)
That’s good to know your personal preferences. Please keep us posted!
Fair enough! Indeed, there are ways to build performant microservices on Java, e.g. Qwarkus + GraalVM, but I've never seen anyone in enterprise world is doing it - 99% of services are still being build on Spring Boot, so in my mind Java in SB are inseparable.
I’ve Been stuck with Spring for many years too and I think it’s just awful choice for micro services that need to scale, simply due to startup time.

Not to defend Nodejs ecosystem - your points are 100% valid.

With that in mind, I think Go is much better option.

Re:Typing and Keyboards on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:11AM (#47570962)
Because of my ignorance, I thought it’s the same thing.

What I actually meant to say is “not staggered”.

Re:Typing and Keyboards on Sunday March 29, 2026 @03:59PM (#47566651)
I use Colemak DH for many years and Dvorak before that and I am of an opinion that alternative layouts are way overrated. I even somewhat regret inventing so much time in learning them. QWERTY is just fine!

The matter I want to preach about tho are split ortolinear keyboards. I believe absolutely every typist should use them. Conventional keyboards are just bad from ergonomics perspective and eventually it’d have a toll on your wrists health. And many of these keyboards stores key mappings directly on the chip so no need to mess with weird mapping software.

Having said that, my split keyboard is one of the best investments I did in my life.

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