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baketnk commented on VA-based DOGE associate gets 'the boot' after publicly discussing his work   nextgov.com/people/2025/0... · Posted by u/whalesalad
_djo_ · 7 months ago
Guessing his superiors at DOGE don't like anyone countering their claims that all of government is irredeemably inefficient and corrupt, as the only thing he said was that he found the VA to be run quite well, and the VA's staff to be competent and motivated.
baketnk · 7 months ago
would you care to discuss the private details of your employers internal workings in a public forum or with a journalist then?

no?

baketnk commented on In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships   wqtz.bearblog.dev/high-st... · Posted by u/wqtz
motorest · 7 months ago
> The stress comes from people who are bad at what they do and are trying to make it someone else's problem.

There's some irony in the way you try to pin the blame on a third-party, and while trying to denigrate it too. I think it warrants some soul searching. I mean, would you feel stressed if you had to endure a team member who threw blanket accusations at your competence and in the process blamed you for causing grief to other team members?

> They don't have vision for how they will accomplish what is asked of them. In their imagination, there is not a clear set of steps that can be burned down over the coming days and weeks to arrive at something of value.

There's a lot to unpack there. Only a highly disfuncional team would throw a team member to the wolves and leave them out to fend for themselves on a task that is relatively complex. No wonder people would feel stressed in that environment.

baketnk · 7 months ago
you have no idea how luxury this belief is.

having been the guy fixing the third party's bugs at almost every position, i side with the parent.

baketnk commented on Uber raises in-office requirement to 3 days, claws back remote workers   cnbc.com/2025/04/28/uber-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
SSJPython · 8 months ago
Can someone tell me what the point of RTO is? These companies made insane profits during the pandemic and when everyone was WFH. Why rock the boat? Is it just corporate real estate prices? Is that all it comes down to?
baketnk · 8 months ago
software development generally is no longer a standard tax write-off; it has to be amortized now.
baketnk commented on How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend   bbc.com/culture/article/2... · Posted by u/sonabinu
ziml77 · 8 months ago
HN doesn't hate humor in general. Many of us just know what happens if you don't downvote away the easy jokes: all comment sections become more comedy than discussion. It's just too easy to make joke comments compared to the difficulty of making a comment that contributes to the discussion.
baketnk · 8 months ago
in the olden days of slashdot, this was addressed by decoupling "insightful" from "funny". you wouldn't get karma for being funny but you weren't punished for it either.
baketnk commented on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI   kapwing.com/blog/what-its... · Posted by u/justswim
donnachangstein · 9 months ago
> Classic bigotry.

Hiring is all about finding the best candidate. If you find you cannot function sitting in conference room with three other people for an hour, there is a 100% chance there is a better candidate suited for the role, even if his/her technical skills are less than yours.

Jobs have soft skill requirements, and there is nothing bigoted about that.

baketnk · 9 months ago
there is a world of difference between interacting with three people you don't know for an hour for the explicit purpose of stress testing your experience and knowledge and interacting with three people that you talk to every day talking about a project that is well familiar to you.
baketnk commented on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI   kapwing.com/blog/what-its... · Posted by u/justswim
drivingmenuts · 9 months ago
The general rule seems to be if you’re not customer-facing, then no suit is needed. Just wear clean, neat clothes and that’s usually enough. If a suit or uniform is needed, that would be noted up front.
baketnk · 9 months ago
is it bad form to just like, ask your HR screener what the general dress code/vibe is like?
baketnk commented on Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March   axios.com/2025/04/04/fore... · Posted by u/timvdalen
praptak · 9 months ago
Non-punitive my ass. The German tourist was put for eight days in solitary confinement: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/ice-german-t...
baketnk · 9 months ago
there's never backstory given, we're just supposed to automatically feel bad and never get to have a real story about why that decision is made.

this is less of a defense of ICE than more of a push for transparency so we don't have to deal with low information appeals to emotion.

baketnk commented on Show HN: Daily-notes.nvim – fuzzy time journal and planning plugin   github.com/fdavies93/dail... · Posted by u/fdavies93
przems · a year ago
I can't tell if you're serious or joking. If it's the former, could you elaborate on how that works? E.g. are you using a public LLM, or a self-hosted model?
baketnk · a year ago
i just use a text editor plugin and use the auto-logging/search features. everything i ask any model in any workspace is searchable

cant grep a react app

baketnk commented on Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim   sgoel.dev/posts/trying-ou... · Posted by u/siddhant
toisanji · a year ago
I use cursor and vim now. I have been on vim for 15+ years. Are there LLM extensions that make vim work like all these new AI editors? I would prefer to stay in 100% vim world, but the productivity benefits from LLMs with composer mode and context is so powerful.
baketnk · a year ago
Avante is much more active and polished at this point, but there's alternatives:

https://github.com/baketnk/l.nvim (self-shill, docs overhaul needed)

which was inspired by the original:

https://github.com/yacineMTB/dingllm.nvim

Also brand new from ggerganov: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim

dingllm is very straightforward, you submit your entire selection/buffer and it streams out to the current position. mine is a bit more complex with configurations, context management and so on.

The thing I always tell people is just roll your own. The docs are there, the LLM is there, use them. At the end of the day it's just an http call against text from your buffer to put text in a buffer.

u/baketnk

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