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Readit Newsbenttoothpaste commented on Good software knows when to stop ogirardot.writizzy.com/p/... · Posted by u/ssaboum
benttoothpaste commented on Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place eukaryotewritesblog.com/2... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
My parents have underground power lines, and they've lost power multiple times, from vulnerabilities in the infrastructure. The transformers are still above ground, in big green boxes, and occasionally someone will drive into one and knock out power. The substation is also above ground, and once they lost power because a mylar balloon landed in the substation and shorted some lines.
They've also lost power from rolling blackouts due to not having enough power plants, but that's a California thing, at least compared to first-world countries. In a similar vein, a substation in the city my dad grew up in was once taken out by a sniper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
My neighborhood has underground power lines and we lose power every time there is a hurricane/tropical storm or even a major thunderstorm.
benttoothpaste commented on Ask HN: Has Hacker News already been Infiltrated by Clawd Bots? · Posted by u/baxtr
So we are re-inventing what was then called a 'botnet' but with LLMs.
What's old is now 'new' again.
Considering the famous lack of appreciation for security and sandboxing in Clawdbot community this will soon transform into a very traditional botnet.
benttoothpaste commented on Microsoft stock plummets as investors fret on AI spend finance.yahoo.com/news/mi... · Posted by u/m-hodges
> Microsoft continues to face AI capacity constraints, meaning customer demand for AI is outpacing Microsoft’s ability to supply it, putting an artificial cap on the Windows maker’s revenue.
Strangely, all I hear about is how annoyed people are with MS shoving AI into everything. Who are these "customers"?
The customers here are the executives that then require everyone in their companies to "use AI". It's an old and trusted business model of selling software not to the users, but to their managers.
The first few seasons of SpongeBob SquarePants are also masterfully crafted in this way
Bluey is pretty good in in that aspect too.
benttoothpaste commented on Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills qu8n.com/posts/most-impor... · Posted by u/quanwinn
I've heard this "soft skills are the only skills that matter" thing throughout my entire career but these days this is indeed greatly amplified.
Our CEO started sharing screenshots of his xitter/linkedin feeds and most of them contain wisdoms like "Opus 4.5 is better than 90% of talent". There is also longer form business fan fiction. It usually follows this template: there is a hero - a humble manager/sales person, and a villain - a cocky, nerdy software developer. The villain claims that some task is impossible or takes months to complete. Then the humble hero (equipped with Opus 4.5) completes the task in 2 hours. The villain is then humiliated/fired and everyone lives happily ever after.
These posts definitely contribute to the declining morale among employees. Nobody goes "above and beyond" anymore - we just strictly doing the tickets and nothing more.
benttoothpaste commented on LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf] ctan.math.illinois.edu/gr... · Posted by u/zahrevsky
Love this. My resume has been in LaTeX for over 20 years now.
Underappreciated IMHO. You can version control it, no dealing with wild Word shenanigans. Totally deterministic. Just find a style, insert your bullets and you have a nice sharable PDF.
Nowadays you can even have your preferred LLM do the conversion for you. LaTeX is finicky and I've had it fix warnings in mine that I couldn't be bothered to.
Good stuff, highly recommend a LaTeX resume, whether or not you drink coffee.
Totally agree! I'm adding the coffee stains to my resume as we speak.
Our CEO started re-posting this kind of stuff from various xitter influencers a few weeks ago. And now we're preparing for our first layoff.
benttoothpaste commented on Show HN: Mirror_hash – Hash anything with C++ reflection github.com/FranciscoThies... · Posted by u/fthiesen
This looks awesome. I don't have access to clang++ with reflection enabled yet so I can't really play with it. But does it handle correctly structures with padding (i.e. all members trivial but there is padding between members):
struct Data {
char c;
int x;
};
I use OpenSuse so I had to use the guide for Fedora, but there were some differences as far as I remember.