andrewvc

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I'm a programmer living in Minneapolis, MN.

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Comment · 1 month ago
This is really true, people used to have to figure what was a dietary preference vs a dietary requirement.

I was just planning a dinner party a while ago and the Venn diagram of what foods I could make was truly vexing.

I will move heaven and earth and scrub pots and pans for someone with Celiac, but working around people’s mere preferences is irritating.

prior generations would just eat around it or suck it up.

Comment · 2 months ago
Once you have a box vibe coding has happened on I wouldn’t trust anything on it. Thats why I vibe code on a fully separate machine.

Im not an Omarchy user but we now live in a world where most of the actions (including ones the llm asks users to run as root) originate from somewhere other than the users brain.

There will be a reckoning in terms of how we think about trust and auth in coming years. It’s just a matter of increasing severity of incidents .

Comment · 4 months ago
Indeed, we worked hard as an industry to move beyond "blame the author" to "blame the process/team".

Unfortunately this article is just bait, may as well say "People seem to think dinner is about eating food, but it's not about eating at all, actually it's about connecting with family and friends!". It's a specific type of poorly constructed reductionist argument that plays well on HN.

Comment · 6 months ago
There are many people who have the diagnosis and don’t agree with the mainstream perspective on medication etc. Don’t claim to speak everyone.
Comment · 6 months ago
Exactly! My point was that despite the precision of calories we should really think of them as ballpark estimates .
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
It’s a great article on something that’s useful, but a bit overconfident in its universality. Better at what? There are many dimensions to being a guitar player. Is it technique? Theory? Ability to pickup a song by ear (this article)? Better at playing in a group? Better at playing solo? Better at reading music? Better at accurate bends? Better at fingerpicking?

One of the nice things about music is you can’t get good at ALL of it. You have to pick where to focus. I’ll also say, you might need to ask yourself if you want to get better. I love relaxing by reading through the chords on a new song and playing it. I already have a job, and the time I truly have for intentional practice is like once a month. Most people are not studying to become guitar pros but to enjoy their time with the instrument. If that is your goal let joy be your guide. Perhaps some short term pain is part of that journey but really weigh out what you want out of the experience.

Comment · 7 months ago
They say an ideal container system would download portions of layers on demand, however is seems far from ideal for many production workloads. What if your service starts, works fine for an hour, then needs to read one file that is only available over the network, but that endpoint is unreachable? What if it is reachable but it is very very slow?

The current system has issues with network stuff, but in a deploy process you can delineate that all to a new container deployment. Perhaps you try to deploy a new container and it fails because the network is slow or broken. Rollback is simpler there. Spreading network issues over time makes debugging much harder.

The current system is simple and resilient but clearly not fast. Trading speed for more complex failure modes for such a widely distributed technology is hardly a clear win.

The de-duplication seems like a neat win however.

Comment · 9 months ago
I mean this idea of defiance is absurd. People here are 99.9% exercising their constitutional rights. The majority of crimes happening at this moment are ICE infringing on people’s constitutional rights. I appreciate you sharing your perspective but that logic exists in isolation from the reality. ICE are so bad at policing they are creating more crimes than they are solving.

Of course with the Trump FBI the message is loud and clear, those crimes will not be investigated

Comment · 9 months ago
Can you describe at what point someone would “have blood on their hands” in your view?

The problem in my mind is that these systems are exclusively in service of dishonesty. ICE is clearly being used to further political ends. If it were actually trying to stem immigration it wouldn’t concentrate its officers in a state with one of the lowest rates of illegal immigrants.

Are you saying you agree with that cause or that you bear no responsibility?

Comment · 9 months ago
I’m here in the ground, I’ve seen them detain people for no cause. Masked agents grabbing guys out of a Home Depot parking lot and throwing them in a van only to drop them off later after scaring them. No charges.

Maybe you’ll be lucky enough to get picked up so you can get your proof.

Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
You are misquoting me. I wrote:

> to decorate intentionally in the way we do today

Most people not so long ago did not have the luxury of saying “that shirt is so last last year” , or “that living room set is a relic of the 90s!”.

Of course people always find ways to decorate and show off, but that’s different than what OP talked about WRT quality furniture. In the past that stuff was so expensive you bought it and lived with it, possibly across multiple generations. If the style changed you probably couldn’t afford to just swap it out.

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