How did you learn how to use AI for coding? I'm open to the idea that a lot of "software carpentry" tasks (moving/renaming files, basic data analysis, etc) can be done with AI to free up time for higher level analysis, but I have no idea where to begin -- my focus many years ago was privacy, so I lean towards doing everything locally or hosted on a server I control so I lack a lot of knowledge of "the cloud" my HN betheren have.
Readit Newsfirefax commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? · Posted by u/lemonlime227
I don't have kids and my family is abusive, so I'll probably find the homeless folks I used to vent to during COVID around the neighborhood and pay them to listen to another airing of grievances with pizza on Festivus[1].
> Aggressive lookbehind correction: these days you have to be seriously on your guard for your keyboard to not sneak-edit something you typed 5 words back
If I ever meet the person that invented lookbehind correction, I’m not sure I’ll be able to restrain myself. This person has robbed me of my peace of mind as I now have to be on guard every time I type anything on a mobile keyboard
>If I ever meet the person that invented lookbehind correction, I’m not sure I’ll be able to restrain myself.
your comment reminds me of this comic from the 2000s that became a bit of a meme back in the day
swap out "comic sans" with "aggressive lookbehind correction" and it'd fit perfectly ;-)
firefax commented on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
They went up to $1.25 in '21 I think. It was extensively cover by the press.
>They went up to $1.25 in '21 I think. It was extensively cover by the press.
I'd love to see a citation on that, since I think you're mistaken -- there's plenty of things that are still a dollar, mostly stuff like packages of napkins or plastic cups, cards and other sundries.
(What was extensively covered was that they were no longer a "everything is a dollar" store.)
firefax commented on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
firefax commented on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I had a clerk flip out on me a while back at a Dollar Tree because I wanted a charge for a dollar -- it rang up as 1.25. They rolled their eyes and told me not everything is a dollar, and I maintained that absent pricing stickers indicating otherwise, the default is a dollar. When I pointed out another way to look at it is it's a twenty five percent price discrepancy, someone came out of an office and literally screamed at me and chased me out of the store for "causing a problem", telling me that if I'm going to cause problems, so will she.
I wasn't cursing or yelling, just calmly making the points I made above as the employees took a dive bar approach to customer service...
It doesn't surprise me at all that this kind of thing is intentional -- they're banking on you not walking out without the item having carried it to the checkout.
firefax commented on How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019) reverbmachine.com/blog/de... · Posted by u/dijksterhuis
I always assumed he spoke to the airport about what sorts of music it enjoys, this method seems needlessly hostile to user research.
firefax commented on Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean · Posted by u/novateg
text.npr.org is another good low bandwidth site op
firefax commented on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? · Posted by u/ferguess_k
I remember people I knew at conferences who were extremely fond of Thinkpads due to being Linux geeks (at a time when it was harder to find hardware support for things we now consider basic features like wifi) complaining when it went from IBM to Lenovo the build quality went down. OTOH they were looking at migrating to Dell...
I've had good luck with a Macbook Air and running a Debian VM for anything of import. The build quality is good and I can go to a physical location for repairs.
(Though over time more and more can't be fixed on site sadly.)
I used to have an EeePC back before decent mobile hotspot plans were affordable, I'd love to just use a dumbphone as a hotspot and do most of my computing on a small linux computer, but most of the flip phones I've found use 2G (yikes!)