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hahajk commented on The Coffee Warehouse scopeofwork.net/the-coffe... · Posted by u/NaOH

Bluecobra · 2 days ago

The Starbucks locations near me recently replaced their brewed coffee with on-demand coffee machines for each flavor, so I guess we are all destined to wait in the queue for coffee.

hahajk · 2 days ago

Those are Clover machines from a company they acquired like 15 years ago. They're very good and in my opinion a big improvement over their traditional batch brew-and-store coffee. There are more roasts available to order, the coffee is guaranteed to be fresh, and most of the time they still "skip queue" and hand you your coffee at the register.

hahajk commented on The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat anandsanwal.me/ai-educati... · Posted by u/LouisLazaris

hahajk · 15 days ago

"If a machine can do this assignment perfectly, why are you giving it to this student?"

This is Idiocracy in the making.

hahajk commented on Technical Deflation benanderson.work/blog/tec... · Posted by u/0x79de

darkerside · a month ago

Does anyone else agree with this the premise of this article? Is it sensible to put off building things now because it will get even cheaper and faster later?

Maybe the time value of time is only increasing as we go.

hahajk · a month ago

The conclusion that you should wait to build anything is an illustration of the danger of economic inflation that the author started with. I'm not sure why he thinks the economic version is toxic but the technological version is a good idea though.

The answer to should we just sit around and wait for better technology is obviously no. We gain a lot of knowledge by building with what we have; builders now inform where technology improves. (The front page has an article about Voyager being a light day away...)

I think the more interesting question is what would happen if we induced some kind of 2% "technological inflation" - every year it gets harder to make anything. Would that push more orgs to build more things? Everyone pours everything they have into making products now because their resources will go less far next year.

hahajk commented on AI Broke Interviews yusufaytas.com/ai-broke-i... · Posted by u/yusufaytas

xandrius · 2 months ago

Why wouldn't something like this work?

1. Get students to work on a more complex than usual project (in relation to their previous peers). Let them use whatever they want and let them know that AI is fine.

2. Make them come in for a physical exam where they have questions about they why of decisions they had to take during the project.

And that's it? I believe that if you can a) produce a fully working project meeting all functional requirements, and b) argue about its design with expertise, you pass. Do it with AI or not.

Are we interested in supporting people who can design something and create it or just have students who must follow the whims of professors who are unhappy that their studies looked different?

hahajk · 2 months ago

If I read your suggestion correctly, you're saying the exam is basically a board explaining their decision making around their code. That sounds great in theory but in practice it would be very hard to grade. Or at least, how could someone fail? If you let them use AI you can't really fault them for not understanding the code, can you? Unless you teach the course to 1. use AI and then 2. verify. And step 2 requires an understanding of coding and experience to recognize bad architecture. Which requires you to think through a problem without the AI telling you the answer.

hahajk commented on OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-p... · Posted by u/badprobe

jcmontx · 2 months ago

If this happened any non-western country headlines would say "corruption".

hahajk · 2 months ago

The WSJ did describe it as a "subtle threat".

hahajk commented on Tell HN: Azure outage · Posted by u/tartieret

vasco · 2 months ago

They both share the fact that you don't see your vote enter a ballot box.

hahajk · 2 months ago

I mail in to Florida and I can log in and see that they received it and it was counted. So, close to seeing it enter the box.

hahajk commented on I, Sharpie commonplace.org/p/chris-g... · Posted by u/delichon

Animats · 2 months ago

Onshoring is easier when your product has six parts.

hahajk · 2 months ago

and also when 5 of the six parts are oil derivatives.

hahajk commented on Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions ambisounds.app/... · Posted by u/alpaca121

hahajk · 2 months ago

Very nice :) The ability to add my own mp3 loops would be choice. Is that possible? I’m choosy about the exact cafe-train mix I work to…

hahajk commented on I only use Google Sheets mayberay.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/mugamuga

corry · 3 months ago

Always overlooked point in these pro/anti-spreadsheet discussions:

A spreadsheet gives you a DB, a quickly and easily customized UI, and iterative / easy-to-debug data processing all in a package that everyone in the working world already understands. AND with a freedom that allows the creator to do it however they want. AND it's fairly portable.

You can build incredible things in spreadsheets. I remain convinced that it's the most creative and powerful piece of software we have available, especially so for people who can't code.

With that power and freedom comes downsides, sure; and we can debate the merits of it being online, or whether this or that vendor is preferable; but my deep appreciation for spreadsheets remains undiminished by these mere trifles.

It's the best authoring tool we've ever devised.

EDIT TO ADD: the only other thing that seems to 'rhyme' with spreadsheets in the same way is: HyperCard. Flexible workbench that let you stitch together applications, data, UX, etc. RIP HyperCard, may you be never forgotten.

hahajk · 3 months ago

I agree. However, so many of my use cases include a one-to-many relationship that I was outgrowing excel/sheets too quickly. Once a project added a VLOOKUP, it hit an inflection point in complexity.

I spun up a local Grist instance in my org, using SAML with our org's email authentication. It's intuitive enough that I've replaced a few shared spreadsheets with it (now with rowwise permissions) and powerful enough that I've also replaced a few internal CRUD apps.

https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core

hahajk commented on Show HN: Autism Simulator autism-simulator.vercel.a... · Posted by u/joshcsimmons

ActorNightly · 3 months ago

Scrum is literally a scam though. It was invented by some guy not even worth remembering who sold it to both sides (buyers and sellers of software). On the buyer side, the incentive was to encourage the seller to use scrum to communicate progress. On the seller side, they are encouraged to use scrum because the buyer wants it, and it "proven" to be an effective management tool.

There are too many unknowns to deal with to actually make use of it, and managing the unknowns is a whole other aspect of management outside scrum. This is why most scrums essentially devolve into ad hoc work per sprint with very loose planning.

hahajk · 3 months ago

What project estimation/management process would you suggest as an alternative?