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joshdavham commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent   ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik
joshdavham · a day ago
How confident are people that Omarchy will be well maintained in the future?

I'm considering making that same switch from MacOS to Arch, but I'm not sure if I should have confidence in something like Omarchy which is relatively new.

joshdavham commented on When did AI take over Hacker News?   zachperk.com/blog/when-di... · Posted by u/zachperkel
rising-sky · 6 days ago
What I found insightful about this article was the framing of another article cited.

> " This pretty negative post topping Hacker News last month sparked these questions, and I decided to find some answers, of course, using AI"

The pretty negative post cited is https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/. I went ahead to read it, and found it, imo, fair. It's not making any direct pretty negative claims about AI, although it's clear the author has concerns. But the thrust is inviting the reader to not fall into the trap of the current framing by proponents of AI, rather questioning first if the future being peddled is actually what we want. Seems a fair question to ask if you're unsure?

I got concerned that this is framed as "pretty negative post", and it impacted my read of the rest of this author's article

joshdavham · 6 days ago
I felt the same. I also definitely don't see the cited article as a "pretty negative post".
joshdavham commented on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity   elliotcsmith.com/linkedin... · Posted by u/smitec
modeless · 6 days ago
Or just don't visit your feed?
joshdavham · 6 days ago
I was using LinkedIn a couple months ago to look for jobs and the problem was that the feed was really hard to avoid and kept sucking me into wasting my time.

When I did the above two things, it completely nerfed my feed so that I could just focus on jobs.

joshdavham commented on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity   elliotcsmith.com/linkedin... · Posted by u/smitec
joshdavham · 7 days ago
If you find reading posts on LinkedIn as annoying as I do, there’s actually a nice solution that will literally wipe your feed blank:

1) Change your preferred feed view to “Most Recent Posts” : https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/preferred-...

2) Unfollow all of your connections. You’ll stay connected but won’t see their annoying posts anymore.

…and there you have it! Focused peace and zen on an otherwise excruciating website.

joshdavham commented on Traps to Developers   qouteall.fun/qouteall-blo... · Posted by u/qouteall
joshdavham · 7 days ago
> Python: - Default argument is a stored value that will not be re-created on every call.

PSA for anyone working with datetime variables!

joshdavham commented on Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz   treeform.github.io/devcom... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
joshdavham · 7 days ago
This was fun!

Also, I'd recommend NOT telling the test taker which dimensions they're getting scored on as it will affect the responses. For example, if you gave me a test telling me that you're gonna score me on Introversion-Extraversion and Neuroticism-Emotional Stability, then I may be more biased to answer questions to score me as an emotionally stable introvert since that's what I identify as.

Oh, and Abstract ↔ Concrete: 0 Neutral | Human ↔ Computer Friendly: +11 Human-Friendly

joshdavham commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
tokioyoyo · 8 days ago
One thing that doesn’t seem to be discussed with the whole “tech revolution just creates more jobs” angle is that, in the near future, there are no real incentives for that. If we’re going down the route of declining birth rates, it’s implied we’ll also need less jobs.

From one perspective, it’s good that we’re trying to over-automate now, so we can sustain ourselves in old age. But decreasing population also implies that we don’t need to create more jobs. I’m most likely wrong, but it just feels off this time around.

joshdavham · 8 days ago
If there are going to less people in the future, especially as the world ages, I think a lot of this automation will be arriving at the right moment.
joshdavham commented on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters   sfchronicle.com/californi... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
mertleee · 8 days ago
There's a reason most people you run into SF are either here on O1 or h1b visas these days...

Time to cull the waterloo crowd and maybe think twice about cheap outsourcing to latam and india.

joshdavham · 8 days ago
> Time to cull the waterloo crowd

Are implying that reducing the number of graduates from a single program (CS) at one specific university (Waterloo) from a country 10x smaller from the US (Canada) will help lower tech employment in California?

joshdavham commented on I used to know how to write in Japanese   aethermug.com/posts/i-use... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
themafia · 8 days ago
> Admittedly, I've never heard of someone forgetting how to write a letter from the Latin alphabet.

Printing? No.

Cursive? Yes.

joshdavham · 8 days ago
This is probably a better argument than my original comment (and much simpler!)

I actually can't write cursive at all, but I can usually read it fine. This is because I went to school when they stopped teaching cursive.

But alas, an article entitled "I used to know how to write in cursive" probably won't be very interesting to HN readers...

joshdavham commented on I used to know how to write in Japanese   aethermug.com/posts/i-use... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
joshdavham · 9 days ago
This article actually hits on a pet peeve of mine where I feel people sorta “mystify” kanji/hanzi unnecessarily.

The truth is that there’s actually nothing particularly weird about being able to read some kanji but not be able to write them…

You actually get close to my point here:

> Admittedly, I've never heard of someone forgetting how to write a letter from the Latin alphabet.

Yes! But have you ever heard of someone forgetting how to spell certain words in a language that uses the Latin alphabet (e.g., English)? I can use myself as an example here: while writing this comment, I forgot how to spell “peeve” in “pet peeve” (I thought it had an ‘a’ in it) and I also forgot how to spell “unnecessarily” (I thought it had one n and two c’s).

The western equivalent of being able to read some kanji but not write them is simply called bad speling. No need to mystify kanji in particular.

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