mikesabbagh

I had such a good time on my Commodore 64

each LLM has its own personality and preferences. I choose different LLM to answer different needs. Claude is good to create a website from scratch, but if I ask it to fix one specific thing, it goes and modify something else too. GPT-5 has more of this. it is harder to control. it even answers me using incomplete sentences, and once used slang. It may be because i use slang and incomplete sentences. But yeah, it is not clear to me when i will go to GPT5 instead of others

most new software runs in the cloud. you only need the browser for many tasks. I even code in the cloud. for many people, why pay for something you dont need.

seems his problem is mainly marketing and finding product market fit. I suffer from the same syndrome

what is the difference of running the same code 5 times in parallel or running the same code 5 times sequentially?

I got a Xiaomi GT3 watch for less than 40$ including shipping. it has blood pressure measuring. How accurate? I dont know. I have a normal BP, and it always shows me normal values. Whe I try it on my son or wife's wrist, it always measures a lower BP.

Anyways, I stopped looking at it, and I only use it for the looks and to show me notifications.

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I got my pcb sample, 5 pcbs + assembly (had to make sure all components are in their library) How many days ? including shipping 6 days from order to delivery!!! cost ~250$ They are unbeatable!!

I suffer the same problem. It is all about conserving mental energy. The way I see it, each person has 2 different mental power gears. A high power one, that drains you and makes you excited at same time. You need this for planning and thinking big or learning about a new tool. And a Low power gear that allows you to fix bugs and create a small feature for a known tool. We mostly use this low power gear in our daily life, in meetings, while driving or preparing coffee. The high power gear is used sparingly, when we can't sleep at night because of an idea, when we try to learn something new. it is exciting, but draining and painful at the same time. We want to do it again only after forgetting the pain.

I think proscratination is because we use a high power gear too frequently, we are exhausted mentally, and it is too painful. so we say let's do it later. But what if you have a small task that does not need a lot of thinking to do? something not painful? Well this is easy. I can do it. The trick is, it needs to be easy. you should not waste 1 hour to set up your environment to be able to start. it has to be easy.

So to advance on a project, I need to make sure I always have low energy, easy tasks ready for me when i am not in my mental capacity to use my high power thinking.

It is as if I am 2 persons. a developer and an intern. you need to make sure there is enough easy tasks for the intern to work on. You have to accept this about youreself

Dont waste days planning and creating issues for youreself. This is too draining. you need to write the big plan only and make sure you have few tasks ready. not all of them defined from day 0. do a big planning every 2 to 3 weeks (looks similar to a sprint)

It is all about conserving your mental energy

nothing if you are turkish

Image recognition software could read a trauma xray to find a broken bone years ago. But this was not used by hospitals. The problem is that the medical profession is not ready to give control as the losses for doctors is too high. I am sure that chat GPT will be used in poor countries that lacks doctors, and it will then spread to rich countries when it prooves its accuracy and reliability.

How many services were saved by HA? The cost of HA is loss of performance and increased complexity in addition to monetary cost. If your application is not highly critical, I am not sure you are benefiting from HA. Is hackernews HA? nope

Douglas Tallamy is my new hero