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Comment · 25 days ago
A dehumidifier solves both problems. Put your damp clothes in a room with a dehumidifier and they're dry by the morning. You can also use it when it's wet to keep the room humidity down to 50%.
Comment · 25 days ago
This submission was on the front page of HN yesterday (Show HN: How random are you?):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074909
The top comment:
> This is a nice spin on the Aaronson oracle:
> In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next
And today we have a web app of this that seems fully generated by Claude.
Comment · 1 month ago
They did read this and still complained, as you predicted
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1wqhd02/im_the_mom...
Comment · 1 month ago
The person you replied to understands that it is satire. No need to be condescending. You could have just posted the article that it seems to be satirising.
Comment · 4 months ago
I've seen a few attempts at "accounting for programmers" guides, some of which I came across while browsing HN (if you search you'll find plenty). The one I used to send new developers was one such guide[1]. They also have another on building a ledger[2]. These are a good start and I wish I could recommend a proper textbook that goes into more detail - detail that I wish I had known early on - but I learned mostly as I went along.
[1] https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/accounting-for-develo...
[2] https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/how-to-scale-a-ledger...
Comment · 4 months ago
I have just left a fintech company after 5 years and I can say after reading this, it looks legit to me (not AI slop as someone asked). These are the same sort of lessons I learned during my time in the industry.
I would recommend anyone starting in fintech to take some time to understand accounting principles and the ledger in a bit more depth than just debits vs credits - this is likely what is most unfamiliar to programmers.
Also financial software is very data-heavy and I learned more about databases in my time working in fintech than the 15 years before that. I think going into a bit more detail about even the basics (indexes) will save a lot of headaches.
Edit: yes this is explained at the end of the article after the quiz. It's still a confounding factor.