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yukinon commented on Self-employed, self-exhausted theisolationjournals.subs... · Posted by u/furk

reactordev · a month ago

This is why I highly suggest every once in a while go on a cruise. Specifically a cruise. You’re trapped on the boat. Forced to face the moment, forced to let it go, and party until you get back to reality.

Positive vibes where you have no choice but to shed the stress. It’s worth it. Even a cruise to no where for 5 days.

yukinon · a month ago

Thank you for this, what a great perspective! I've never been on a cruise because I always figured "but what is there to do?". But you're right, that's the point. I might actually book one now.

yukinon commented on Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer? · Posted by u/taiboku256

cshimmin · 7 months ago

Yeah, it's literally the most important practical development in AI/ML of the decade. This is like reading an article (or headline, more like) on HN and saying "please define git".

yukinon · 7 months ago

Not everyone is aware of the details of AI/ML, "transformer" is actually a specific term in the space that also overlaps with "transformer" in other fields adjacent to Software Development. This is when we all need to wear our empathy hat and remind ourselves that we exist in a bubble, so when we see an overloaded term, we should add even the most minimal context to help. OP could have added "AI/ML" in the title for minimal effort and real estate. Let's not veer towards the path of elitism.

Also, the majority of developers using version control are using Git. I guarantee the majority of developers outside the AI/ML bubble do not know what a "transformer" is.

yukinon commented on How to Cure Acid Reflux with Simple Exercise: An Anecdotal Study pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/oneturkmen

shafyy · 8 months ago

I don't snore. What do you mean by "post-nasal drip"? I do have allergies to environmental stuff like dust and hay fever, and my nose is running / sneezing from this. Some weeks more, some weeks less. But it's not new, I've had that for years. Do you think this could be related?

yukinon · 8 months ago

I am not an anything, but allergies can cause inflammation in your nasal passages, which results in post-nasal drip. Post-nasal drip is where you get a lot of mucus being produced that drips down the back of your throat, which can make you cough or get a sore throat. It's pretty bad when you're lying down and asleep.

For me, when I have to deal with seasonal allergies, if I am feeling particularly bad that night, I will take an allergy pill to make sure I don't wake up with a sore throat.

yukinon commented on How to Cure Acid Reflux with Simple Exercise: An Anecdotal Study pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/oneturkmen

shafyy · 8 months ago

Slighly related, but maybe somebody here has some tips: I've had a sore throat for months. And initially they thought it's from GERD, but it does not appear to be. Checks showed no other issues wiht my oesophagus or stomach. Did anybody experience something like this before?

yukinon · 8 months ago

Do you snore? Alternatively, do you have post-nasal drip from a new allergy?

yukinon commented on The Fastest Redis Ever redis.io/blog/redis-8-0-m... · Posted by u/lsferreira42

reissbaker · 9 months ago

What do you think doesn't belong in Redis? I've always viewed Redis as basically "generic datastructures in a database" — as opposed to say, Memcached, which is a very simple in-memory-only key/value store (that has always been much faster than Redis). It's hard for me to point to specific features and say: that doesn't belong in Redis! Because Redis has generally felt (to me) like a grab bag of data structures + algorithms, that are meant to be fairly low-latency but not maximally so, where your dataset has to fit in RAM (but is regularly flushed to disk so you avoid cold start issues).

yukinon · 9 months ago

> that has always been much faster than Redis

Do you have some reliable recent benchmarks comparing the two?

yukinon commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba

totaldude87 · 10 months ago

For many this ended up with

"Have i felt better over the past 4 years" .

Imagine coming out of covid, without a recession, only to be hit with inflation (both parties to blame) and sky high interest rates coupled with all other stuff like illegal border crossing to lack of majority support from Women to Harris to Harris being a silent VP for 4 full years and thrown to lime light.

yukinon · 10 months ago

I don't disagree with your message, but-

> coupled with all other stuff like illegal border crossing

I've seen a few comments talk about this, but this doesn't affect my day-to-day literally at all. This never crosses my mind because there aren't illegals I come across or maybe just don't ever cross paths with. Is this primarily a border state thing? If so, wouldn't that limit it to just CA, TX, NM, AZ? And only one of those is a swing state.

yukinon commented on The number of CS grads who don't even know basic Git commands is astounding twitter.com/t3dotgg/statu... · Posted by u/lopkeny12ko

whitfieldsdad · a year ago

This has proven to be an extremely controversial topic, but, in my opinion, it's perfectly okay to use git in college or university, and we should encourage, not discourage people from using technologies like distributed version control software.

You could substitute git with WhatsApp, Google Drive, or e-mail for small projects, and get by just fine, but, why not spend 15 minutes learning the basics of git?

As far as I know, the use of git and other distributed version control software is very popular, and we don't see the same hesitation when adopting technologies like Google Docs and its collaborative editing features in college or university.

Is distributed version control software truly a controversial technology?

If distributed version control software is not suitable for use in college and university, what would be a more appropriate technology?

yukinon · a year ago

The university could even setup their own private self-hosted Gitlab and use it as part of assignment submission.

10 years ago, my no-name college had a CS degree that required us all to take a "Software Engineering" course that covered the fundamentals needed once you graduated, including Git. We did group-style large coding projects where teams had to submit their GitHub repo at the end.

The prof was able to review who committed what and then hammered us on good commit messages, clean coding style, testing, etc.. I feel that a large part of my career success was due to the early start I had from that course.

yukinon commented on Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night english.elpais.com/health... · Posted by u/danboarder

nojvek · 2 years ago

I relocated to Redmond, WA for a few years to work at MSFT. Let me tell you, every winter there felt like a sadistic game show called "How Miserable Can You Get?" And boy, did I win!

Thankfully, the good ol' USA is a massive country, so I hit the eject button and moved to FL.

3154 hours of sun in FL compared to 2170 hours of sun in WA. Huuuuuuge difference in mental and physical aptitude. I feel more energetic. More focus, more workouts, more horny, less self loathing.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/average-annual-sun...

yukinon · 2 years ago

I'm in the PNW and the gray gloomy weather is a delight for me. I love mushroom foraging, love being surrounded by trees, the beautiful waterfalls, the wet hikes, the moss everywhere, the berry picking, everything! I used to live in a VERY sunny state, I found it depressing. Sun irritates me. I never realized how uncomfortable it made me until I moved to a rainy cloud region and felt at home for the first time. Really shows there's something for everyone!

yukinon commented on A coder considers the waning days of the craft newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jsomers

atleastoptimal · 2 years ago

What about opinion of the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, pivotal deep learning researchers, etc?

yukinon · 2 years ago

People with a vested interest in being proven correct?

yukinon commented on Ask HN: Why does Google rank the real Python documentation below content farms? · Posted by u/josephcsible

alexb_ · 2 years ago

Yeah I enjoy the content farms. Who needs documentation on a simple problems when you can instead have something easy like this:

Many are asking questions about the Python Documentation How To Check Null Python 2023. Here are some solutions to How To Check Null Python 2023:

Solution 1: Type "if variable is None"

The first solution out of many is to type "if variable is None". This is the best way to solve Python issues, recommended by experts.

Solution 2: Download Windows Computer Cleaner

yukinon · 2 years ago

That seems a bit disingenuous on your part. I picked the top 3 hits on Google and they are all very helpful and to the point - Programiz, W3Schools, Tutorialspoint. Granted, I have ublock origin, as most people should have anyway.