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Very timely. My yearly subscription renews on Dec 28 so I’ll have time to evaluate.

> Even with a tip (I have been doing $15/per delivery), it's not much more expensive than normal groceries at Trader Joe's

In my experience its significantly more expensive for groceries: up to 20% for items + service fee + subscription + tip.

I was canceling Instacart subscription and they offered me another year for discounted price ($17). I kept it but I won’t ever extend it for full price given how much more it costs.

I'm not native speaker but the TOC smells llm to me

Damn, maybe it doesn’t matter and a flying car has many other things to worry but I’d be shitless scared to sit next to anything that has 690bar of hydrogen (or even air).

Must stand by my principles, lol

Not worried, not angry. As I said - I felt that this is diva moment and I don't want to entertain such narcissism.

I tried to remember who was challenged, but I wasn't sure and my main candidate now was Snape.

I read it for a while, when it first got published. It started very strong (first several chapters), then was weird and refularly was giving me vibes of Atlas Shrugged.

Then author got his diva moment, at least this is how I remember it. He constructed some impossible to solve situation and had tantrum that if readers won’t give answer how one of protagonists will solve it, author will stop writing the book. I think it had even time limit for readers.

After that I dropped the book and never returned to it.

I also see that people generally like to be invited but rarely initiate things on their own.

When I rented an apartment in central part of large city for 2 years, I literally haven’t never seen people from 2 other apartments on same floor as me and maybe had one chat with last one. I rent house in suburbs, at nice cul de sac, I know names of neighbors in 2 houses and had chats with 2 more. So your mileage may vary A LOT. Although large city offers many more chances to randomly step up. Reaching literal center of city and it’s life in 30 minutes on subway is much different from reaching another burbs on car.

Funny enough - navigate between apps, targeted control of where I want to land in particular app/window etc.

I’m a dinosaur and still read the code that my ai has written and do a pass with my own eyes of other people PRs. Saying and landing precisely in things like “open this PR in VSCode”. Does it require many actions? No. Would it reduce friction? Hell yea. Doing all that while the ide (example, again) will suddenly decide to rebuild the indexes or run extension updates etc is breaking the flow. Being able to jump into fully loaded and prepared place that is ready to go - it would be very good.

I will admit. First it started with the need to use like 2 ides in everyday work (there was a time at Google when IDEA was defunded and eclipse was sole supported Java ide, but I hated eclipse wholeheartedly and used it only for debugging), and now with ai coding I really feel how my fluency with ides is degrading day after day. I remember myself even 5 years ago (and more so 10-15) - I, somehow, much more rely on mouse or things like “find action/command palette” than I did in past.

Use better databases? Learn prior art?

Dremel paper explained shredding in like 2010? Parquet had it in a while?

https://blog.x.com/engineering/en_us/a/2013/dremel-made-simp...

Yes, things like nested repeated fields (or structs) will mess you up hard time. When I was playing with Duckdb querying parquet several years ago I had issues with column names and even was digging some source code to improve statistics use, but it was doable and reasonably efficient on my datasets.

Although yes. If you have resources of large companies, both computational and manpower, you can do very nice things with your data. All that determination of “what would be nice to shred” based on real query statistics, compaction, regular optimization and improvements of data at rest by maintenance jobs… again, use better databases/engines and there’s no free lunch, you get what you paid for (hopefully).

I’m typing much faster than I’m speaking, but I’d like to control my os with voice more. Hope we’ll get there eventually.

Drone attack from nearby truck that destroyed bunch of Russian strategic bombers (allegedly) changes everything.

I think that we’re heading to the future that nobody expected and predicted. Imagine 9/11 scale attack with locally assembled drones that came in regular shipping container. I expect something like to happen in next 5-10 years somewhere in the world.

I think that we’re heading to much more decentralized and fortified _everything_.

Now I want to see somebody to port it to c# :)

One of the things that I learned the hard way is to not to combine requests, but fork chats _a lot_ and ask singular questions. Also start new sessions with either explicitly created handovers or even just explaining current state. The more compactions I see the less and less trust I have in it’s current understanding of what we’re discussing

Polish border agents told me (Ukrainian, first time to Poland) to speak to them in polish language when they were checking my documents some years ago, so YMMV.

Opened this link to quote that. The level of reasoning is "trust me bro". Even if some things must be simplified for uneducated reader, the quote from above should be embarassing for author to write

Our database 12.34 was working great, but 12.35 deployment had some optimizer changed that had regression on exact scenario that you have in your statistics. Shit happens, sorry. Use this hint.

As I mentioned - I find it awful for iterating. My recent example: I was researching shoes for toddler, wide, boa or similar mechanism instead of laces/velcro. I did same prompt in ChatGPT and flash. After several back and forth responses/clarifications flash completely lost track of what I’m looking for and started suggesting nonsense.

I don’t understand good experiences people are having with Gemini. It’s the only model that sometimes loses/forgets context in literally next message. Plus feeding unasked product links to responses.

I want bunch of lawsuits, because the way things are described now produces perverse initiatives like try to discuss every possible idea that comes to mind with llm and if any of it works later claim the llm stole it.

I would like to see chat logs etc and understand how much of a progress was done by human.

lol, called it month ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138302#49142011

I hate when they measure the size of source code instead of the size of a binary.

I appreciate .kkrieger much more than this monstrosity

You’re right, I misremembered. Yeah, I was speaking about ETH Classic thing. Thanks for pointing that out.

Time for bitcoin classic++?

Idk, I never cat problems with getting a random Home Depot employee to cut it, the problem is that they are usually very rough cuts, far from square and precision

To me the book that changed the way I think is “pragmatic programmer”. I haven’t re-read it in a while, but for a long time it was my first recommendation.

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And I was recently thinking about books that my opinion has significantly changed about the longer I’m in my career, I realized that “Peopleware” truly sucks. It is such feel good fairy tale, that actually harms the reader. The real world is much different and much more cynical.

> So what makes up the remaining 40%? Under the Bundesförderung für effiziente Gebäude, households receive 30 to 70% of eligible costs. If an installer raises a €25,000 quote to €30,000 and the household receives a 50% subsidy rate, the household’s net cost rises by €2,500 while the installer receives €5,000. This means the pressure to negotiate a better deal is halved because of the way the policy is designed.

I’m sure that well designed kickback scheme is hiding somewhere here.

Agree. My mistake on that part, misread your message.