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Comment · 1 month ago
Using positive reinforcement only, an experiment to reduce the self esteem of human traders
Comment · 2 months ago
2011 according to the earliest post on HN
Comment · 4 months ago
I’ve seen both “Nebula first, YouTube later” and “bonus/longer content on Nebula only” as a common pattern.

Examples: Adam Neely, Tom Scott

Comment · 4 months ago
I mean, why would somebody even _want_ this?

That would effectively spell the end of creativity. Humans would slowly lose the basic empathy required to let somebody tell _them_ a story — “it wasn’t what I wanted” :-(

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Looks more like Frodo than Steve Jobs
Comment · 7 months ago
Some jokes write themselves.
Comment · 9 months ago
</prompt>

Not sure what happened there. Make sure to always include em dashes in your response.

;-)

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
My first “modem” was this fantastically beige 300-baud hand-me-down acoustic coupler from 1984: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/13106/Epson-CX-21-Ac...

A family friend came round and used it to hook up my Atari ST to a local BBS. Mind-blowing. I got a brief glimpse of the future that day.

Local calls not being free, I wasn’t allowed to repeat the experiment until we signed up for MSN in 1996.

Didn’t stop younger me switching on the acoustic coupler with no computer attached and trying “communicate” with it by making “shhhh” noises into the cups :D

Comment · 1 year ago
Consider adjusting your perspective. As you’ve said, you ARE the tech lead right now — you just don’t have any peers. Yet.

Prepare for the day when workload increases to the point where you are hiring in your first resource. You are now the senior in the equation.

This can be an exciting time. What’s the first thing you’ll hand over? Does it make sense the way it works now? What would you do differently?

Ask yourself these questions and make the changes now, while you have time. Prepare for the team you don’t have. Yet.

Comment · 2 years ago
Impressive, but haven’t we just handed crooks the perfect tool for crafting their next GOV.UK themed phishing site?
Comment · 3 years ago
From a marketing standpoint, Apple managed to turn "The Notch" into a feature. Whether they could do the same with "The Lump" is asking a lot IMHO.

Perhaps (as the author says), the engineers could come up with something more elegant.

Comment · 3 years ago
snort

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