bitshaker (u/bitshaker)

bitshaker commented on Show HN: A Claude Code plugin that catch destructive Git and filesystem commands github.com/kenryu42/claud... · Posted by u/kenryu

eigenvalue · 3 months ago

This sure looks similar to something I posted on X 2 weeks ago:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/misc_coding_agent_tips_...

You be the judge:

https://x.com/doodlestein/status/2002423770259345451?s=46

bitshaker · 3 months ago

Sure does.

bitshaker commented on Tailwind CSS v4.0 tailwindcss.com/blog/tail... · Posted by u/g3eorge

davidw · a year ago

Question for people who are good at CSS stuff. I am not.

I'm upgrading a personal Phoenix project to 1.7, and Phoenix now uses Tailwind by default. So I thought I'd try and update my one page thing to use it instead of Bootstrap.

So far, it looks like crap whereas the Bootstrap one looked 'good enough'.

What's the easiest way to get something that looks kinda sorta decent, with some nice defaults, without trying to become a designer?

Or should I just reinstall Bootstrap and be done with this.

bitshaker · a year ago

Put your HEEx into a LLM. They understand both Bootstrap and Tailwind very well. It will probably not be too hard.

bitshaker commented on Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data · Posted by u/macklinkachorn

bitshaker · 2 years ago

Digitizing and organizing old document scans for birth, marriage, and death records would be a huge win for genealogy research. The Mormon church would be a great customer for you.

bitshaker commented on Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions? · Posted by u/throwawayigd

bitshaker · 2 years ago

This resource helped me personally.

Start with videos, your son will likely resonate with them.

https://www.youtube.com/@HealthyGamerGG

Further, there’s guides and even coaching to help.

I have no affiliation with them other than as someone who has benefitted tremendously from everything on offer.

Definitely treat this like an addiction. If something, chemical, behavioral, or otherwise is causing your life to suffer, it’s an addiction.

I would guess your child gets more positive feeling from the game than life.

It can take a little time, but there is hope and a healthy way through.

On a related note, my college roommate was exactly the same way. He failed out of college. He worked for a very large game studio by starting at the absolute bottom and then eventually headed a new game category of the type of game he frequently played in college.

He now runs a game studio of his own making multiples of what I do.

As parents, it’s hard to watch a child take a different path than you would expect would be optimal for them, but sometimes they can surprise you by getting out of the local optima you find yourselves in and branch out to something new.

Good luck to you. From someone who previously suffered this same thing, I wish you all the best.

bitshaker commented on Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary github.com/transcriptions... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

bitshaker · 2 years ago

Amazing. I’ll see if I can get this working on Mac too. I have so many use cases for this.

30 years of audio that needs transcribing, summaries, and worksheets made out of them.

bitshaker commented on Show HN: SpRAG – Open-source RAG implementation for challenging real-world tasks github.com/SuperpoweredAI... · Posted by u/zmccormick7

bitshaker · 2 years ago

Amazing. I’m looking at building an app to look over the employment sections of the legal code and come back with results if things are allowed or not.

Answering questions like:

Can my employer do X? As an employee in this country, what’s my minimum days off I can take?

And so on.

If your claims are true, then this will be exactly what I’m looking for.

bitshaker commented on Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

hn_throwaway_99 · 2 years ago

The way I like to think of it is that it's possible to have willpower when I'm feeling strong and only have to make a big decision once - what's really hard is having to use that willpower over and over.

Thus, I've always felt it's better to change your environment than trying to improve your willpower. For example, I got a ton of exercise when I lived in a city when the most convenient thing to do was walk everywhere or take public transportation. When I moved out to the suburbs, I tried to force myself to walk more, but it never really worked. Driving was just by far the easier "default" way of getting places in the 'burbs.

The way I think of it is to try to set things up so you don't have to use willpower in the first place.

bitshaker · 2 years ago

Environment change >>> willpower

bitshaker commented on Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

ThrowawayR2 · 2 years ago

Whether decision fatigue is a real thing has been called in to question: https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_stor...

bitshaker · 2 years ago

Doesn’t matter. Changing via willpower and context cues is quite difficult.

Identity change is the best, most lasting way.

bitshaker commented on Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

rodlette · 2 years ago

> This is described well in Atomic Habits. Train yourself to think “I am just not the kind of person who does x.”

Is this just basically willpower?

Or perhaps I should read the book to find out.

bitshaker · 2 years ago

No. Changing your identity is much more powerful and sort of operates in a background process whereas willpower is more of a conscious foreground one and very difficult to sustain long term.

Read the book. It goes into some detail.

I’ve worked with thousands of people personally over the years to help them with supposedly difficult to treat addictions for instance. Willpower is fine to start, but completely fails in the long term. Identity change is the only thing I’ve found that works long term.

bitshaker commented on Ask HN: ChatGPT’s Impact on Headcount – What’s Your Experience? · Posted by u/simonmesmith

mechagodzilla · 3 years ago

But it didn’t really “replace” anyone in this case - you started a new company that might never have existed, and it might only be economically viable because you didn’t need to hire those people. Voila! We have a net increase in employment thanks to ChatGPT.

bitshaker · 3 years ago

It was certainly economically viable without LLM help, but the fact that I didn’t have to give up equity, get a loan, or use substantial amounts of my own funds to get it done at what would normally be a longer timeline to boot seems like a loss for some bankers and some freelancers or cofounders I would have needed otherwise.

I do agree that I’m creating something from whole cloth here so it’s not technically replacement as I haven’t let anyone go, but I’m going with the spirit of the question here.