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garte commented on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion    · Posted by u/shannoncc
ynac · 6 days ago
Same here - it's like programming with a couple of buddies. Occasionally they goof off and wreck everything, but we put it back together and end up with a finished project. I'm literally going through my backlog of projects from the early 80s! There are parts of each of these projects that were black holes for me - just didn't know enough to get a toe hold. With Karl (that's my agent) he explains everything I don't understand, does stuff, breaks stuff, and so on. It's really a blast.
garte · 5 days ago
Maybe it's like that. But they're drunk. Which means they are very supportive but quite unreliable and have a short memory.

I've caught Claude making the gravest anti pattern mistakes using Elixir and trying to get it to correct them makes the whole thing worse.

It's ok for smaller scoped stuff but actual architectural changes come out worse than before more often than not.

garte commented on China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built   executivetraveller.com/ne... · Posted by u/teleforce
rmccue · 9 days ago
A 450kph limit for the rolling stock is great, but how many lines are actually capable of these speeds? There's only a single line (Chengdu–Chongqing, currently under construction) which is designed for 350kph, with sections capable of 400kph. Aside from that, most lines are at 350kph - unless I'm missing something.
garte · 9 days ago
This is how you start something and get progress.

More lanes on the highway are not progress.

garte commented on Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives   old.reddit.com/r/DataHoar... · Posted by u/HelloUsername
garte · 16 days ago
so fossil fuel is too fucking cheap. this is arbitrage with our environment, it fucks me up.
garte commented on Facebook is cooked   pilk.website/3/facebook-i... · Posted by u/npilk
ipaddr · 20 days ago
How can we complain that everyone is siloed and no one talks to each other and complian that their feed is full of ideas outside of the silo.
garte · 20 days ago
what the poster mentioned did not sound like a balanced exchange of ideas was about to happen...
garte commented on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)   science.nasa.gov/climate-... · Posted by u/doener
rayiner · 22 days ago
You weren’t already doing that? You guys literally changed a dictionary definition to make a conservative appointee look bad: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/merriam-webster-changed-def...

Trump, a democrat himself, is simply using the multi-front strategy he already knew.

garte · 22 days ago
thats a wild take... isnt this exactly the purpose of a dictionary: to reflect the words used in general language usage?
garte commented on U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/j_maffe
retired · a month ago
Because I was able to get a better QoL elsewhere in the EU.

The average worker in The Netherlands has one of the best QoL compared to average workers in other countries. But the Dutch income leveling and benefit system makes it so a high earner doesn’t have a significantly better QoL. Someone earning €30k has roughly the same spending power as someone earning €50k. (edit: net income after tax and benefits is €42k versus €47k for those two incomes but the person earning €30k has access to cheaper government housing)

In other countries, earning more gives you a better QoL.

garte · a month ago
It gives you more things to buy, doesn't it? That does not necessarily translate to a better life.
garte commented on U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization   nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us... · Posted by u/reaperducer
garte · 2 months ago
Look up why it was called SARS-2 in the beginning (and most of all what SARS was) and you're going to understand a lot more why they reacted how they did...
garte commented on 210 IQ Is Not Enough   taylor.town/iq-not-enough... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
jcdny · 4 months ago
Or the distribution could be leptokurtic like almost everything in the real world. Also galaxies are bigger than you think.
garte · 4 months ago
You took those trillions literally, it's not meant like that. It's a general observation on how abstract the measuring is.
garte commented on My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her?    · Posted by u/Gerard0
garte · 5 months ago
Ask her if a banana taped to a wall is art.*

If she says no she has no idea what art is, apparently. Or there is no actual concept what constitutes as art and what doesn't. ;)

*https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/21/maurizi...

garte commented on Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules   apnews.com/article/pentag... · Posted by u/pjmlp
ap99 · 5 months ago
49.8% of the population voted for Trump, myself among them. First time voting Republican.

Everything I've seen so far from Trump is what I voted for. And almost everything Democrats have said and done has reaffirmed my choice.

Every one I've spoken to that has been surprised Trump was elected lives in a bubble. Hacker News is one such bubble.

You're not going to get any reliable "when are the masses going to revolt" info here.

garte · 5 months ago
You must be bummed out that your party didn't get a candidate that follows your morals and values and on top of all that is a convicted felon.

Wouldn't you have wanted a better candidate?

u/garte

KarmaCake day154October 20, 2021View Original