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Comment · 6 months ago
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant hasn't been bombed because (1) the Russians control it right now (it's behind their lines) so why would they, and (2) the Ukranians live downwind so why would they?

Russia has bombed the switchyards and trandformers of other NPPs though.

Comment · 7 months ago
Online reviews indicate that Superpowers is best for people who are not already experienced SW development managers.

Is that true? What is your experience of it?

For me, I am a solid KISS believer, so I have not yet found a better framework than just plain old Claude Code. But happy to move to a better workflow, if it's real.

Comment · 7 months ago
Isn't this just Dale Carnegie 101? I've certainly never had a salesperson tell me that I'm 100% wrong and being a fool.

And, tbh, I often try to remember to do the same.

Comment · 8 months ago
Well, the wives.

But women are generally ignored in our society.

Comment · 8 months ago
If you ever want to watch a movie again, do NOT work on codecs. Just saying.
Comment · 8 months ago
A long and venerable litany of spaceflight disasters would beg to differ:

- Apollo "Little Joe" A-003 (May 19, 1965): A roll gyro - Proton-M Launch Failure (July 2, 2013): Yaw sensors - Genesis Space Probe (2001): Accelerometer

Getting things the right way round is very important.

Comment · 8 months ago
Srsly? People actually watch all the chatter in the little window?

Pro tip: "git diff"

Comment · 8 months ago
This example is always cited as different from the "demographics" approach. But it literally started by segmenting the buyers, and then focussing on a previously unrecognised demographic sector (car commuters).

Clay Christensen is smart, and one of the many things he is smart about is marketing Clay Christensen.

Comment · 8 months ago
When developers who were comfortable as individual contributors start using agentic AI they necessarily start to work somewhat as managers.

The workflow and responsibilities are very different. It can be a painful transition.

There has always been a strong undercurrent of developers feeling superior to managers and PMs and now those develoeprs are being forced to confront the reality of a manager or PM's experience.

Work is changing, and the change is only going to accelerate.

Comment · 9 months ago
Well that's full of really useful tips. I'll get the builders in to construct a 1.37m (4.5ft) thick spine through the middle of my house. Obviously.
Comment · 9 months ago
Consider what happened to painters after the invention of photography (~1830s). At first the technology was very limited and no threat at all to portrait and landscape painters.

By the 1860s artists were feeling the heat and responded by inventing all the "isms" - starting with impressionism. That's kept them employed so far, but who knows whether they'll be able to co-exist with whatever diffusion models become in 30 years.

Comment · 10 months ago
+1 - I made the same technology choice back in 2014. Seems like nothing has changed.

TL;DR: You can't keep things too simple.

Comment · 10 months ago
I definitely want this for QA. And luckily I haven't quite finished spending this Sunday setting up Claude Code in a container...

Instead I'm just going to give Claude a separate laptop. Not quite air-gapped, but only need-to-know data, and dedicated credentials for Claude.

Comment · 10 months ago
I'm (genuinely) curious about the overwhelming preference for PostgreSQL on HN. I've always used MySQL for OLTP, and been very happy with it.

If you've seriously considered both and then selected PostgreSQL please comment and tell me what drove that decision.

Note: I'm only talking about OLTP. I do see that PostgreSQL adds a lot for OLAP.

Comment · 10 months ago
Excited for this! A couple of questions:

1. What is the resolution of timestamps (milli-, micro-, nano-seconds)? 2. Any plans for supporting large data BLOBs (e.g. PostgreSQL TOAST)? This would open up a lot of use cases and would be really interesting to make compatible with the in-memory emphasis for the atomic data types.

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