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I found that since LLMs can produce any code I want, I don't really feel the same drive to learn React or whatever is popular and trendy to make myself useful in a new job. Instead I feel like I have the space to play with something that I enjoy instead, like learning Z80 assembly and writing games for the Gameboy that I would have wanted as a kid. I think you're right that it feels just like going to the gym, intellectually.

I'll be honest, this was helpful for me even as someone who lives about 2km from the Quebec border. I was uncertain as you don't often see it in the Hacker News context.

For everyone else clicking, the one with the actual discussion is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447057

The other factor that might be in play is that the people who made great games got lucky and didn't really know exactly what made their games so good and aren't able to recapture the magic.

This is a really interesting idea. I'd never put this together myself, but its really compelling. It really shows the value of the phrase "history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme".

The bad news is that we lose Windsor in this trade. The good news is that we pick up Seattle and Minneapolis.

According to Denis Leary, he would be an "asshole". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

I'm from Ontario and its very simplified in my experience as well. Maybe the problem is the sample audio clips they have are all 'posh', its not how most people speak. Two large examples I can think of that even have their own wikipedia pages are the Ottawa Valley Twang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Valley_English) and the 'Torontomans' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_slang). I grew up in Toronto, and the latter isn't just something funny you see on tiktok, people actually talk that way.

Reminds me of the Dan Luu article from a few years ago: https://danluu.com/look-stupid/

If anything, this probably shows their reddit heritage.

People are already correcting you, but I find it hard to read this much into the case of this particular text. We'd need to know the full context to what exactly happened, but they might have chosen to sacrifice the catalog for many reasons, not just because of an anti-scientific bend. Maybe it was one of many copies that they held, yet the other ones didn't survive.

We also need to consider that these sorts of texts did survive because of monks. They kept the embers alive. Without them, we would have nothing, not living among the stars.

My Volkswagen has assistance features which routinely fail on snowy days and can’t seem to be disabled. The best you can do is disable them for a minute (!) at which point they start blaring again. Its ironic because the time you need the most focus is the time the car lets you focus the least.

I don't live in London, but was there a few weeks ago and walked right by one of the buildings featured and didn't notice. Goes to show that you should always be looking up.

Since I had to find the link: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

Bookstores like to make things easy for themselves by defining categories (a la Seeing Like A State), especially due to the perceived overlap between the readership of the two categories as the weird books the nerdy guys read.

While that may have been true historically, fantasy has a new, blossoming, largely female readership, although you could consider this to be overloading the term 'fantasy' as these new BookTok books seem to have little in common with the old school sword and sorcery.

I hate the removal of the shift. I thought it was such an interesting innovation to the game, and the fact that baseball allowed for such things part of its magic.

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a CPA-turned-engineering leader who has spent the last few years bridging technology, operations, and strategy. I most recently worked in the Office of the CTO, driving AI adoption, building technical governance frameworks, and overseeing complex infrastructure transitions (domain migrations, data centre expansion, disaster recovery testing, etc).

Alongside leadership, I stay hands-on: building with Go/React, orchestrating CI/CD pipelines, and creating AI-powered internal tooling. I’ve also built products from scratch in accounting/fintech, led teams, and streamlined processes with automation.

My main side project is Zettelgarden, a personal knowledge management system where AI agents help capture, process and work with your information.

I'm working on Zettelgarden: https://zettelgarden.com.

It's a personal knowledge system. It's a zettelkasten with an LLM substrate. It uses LLMs to build a model of the theses, arguments and facts used in cards, and uses these to both summarize the information on the card and to automatically link cards together based on shared concepts.

Given the title, I was surprised to find Canadian metro stations on the list, even my native Ottawa!

This is a pretty common behaviour. My dad has been buying both his dream Amigas and his dream car, a Triumph TR6. I bought my dream childhood console, a Gameboy Advance SP (I only had a regular Gameboy Advance).

Agreed, this is a big problem. I tried a paper zettelkasten to get around the taking notes and losing them problem, but my collection grew too big to maintain on paper. Because of that, I've been building Zettelgarden (https://github.com/Zettelgarden/Zettelgarden) to help and try to solve this problem for myself.

Among other things, it breaks your notes apart into facts and entities, then stores those along with embeddings. This helps surface things you've seen before since it makes and surfaces links based on individual things, instead of the text as a whole.

In case anyone is interested, I wrote a bit about the process here: https://nsavage.substack.com/p/facts-arguments-theses-buildi...

I bought a Remarkable and ended up returning it. It was a cool device, but you're exactly right, I had a hard time justifying the cost over a $10 notebook.

I see what you’re saying, this works a little differently in that its asking the LLM what it thinks the writing is trying to say and what the writing uses to support it. Agreed that hallucinations are an issue though.