wnolens · HackerTrans

As an old user of thinkpads for years, on a Macbook the trackpad is as much under your thumb as the trackpoint is under your index finger and I find the trackpad far more accurate and less strain to use. In fact, my work-at-home setup is macbook pro, open face so i can use the keyboard+trackpad but external monitor so my posture isn't terrible.

wnolens

先月議論

I subscribed 2 years ago and it took over 2 weeks to actually get my first paper at my door. I live in NYC..

Cancellation wasn't difficult though, and didn't require me to call anyone.

wnolens

2 か月前議論

I loved this. And love when someone chats me up at the gym more than just "you using this?". See you around the gym, my guy.

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4 か月前議論

I'm not applying at all! Happy employed and not looking. They're mailing me through linkedIn (i have a profile, and it's not set to looking and i'm completely inactive there), and or finding my email on the internet somehow and going direct.

wnolens

4 か月前議論

Anyone else's inbox slammed with recruiters, more than it ever has been in the past? Feels like there's 10x the jobs available, but perhaps it's just that LLMs have automated a recruiter's job and they're letting the slop fly

wnolens

5 か月前議論

This advice was also given to me if I ever get caught in the rain while camping and soak my shoes. Bring some newspaper for both a firestarter and for leaving in your shoes overnight, and wake up to dry shoes!

wnolens

5 か月前議論

This has been my experience too. I feel freed up from the "manual labor" slice of software development and can focus on more interesting design problems and product alignment, which feels like a bit of a drug right now that i'm actually working harder and more hours.

wnolens

5 か月前議論

Yes, if anything I think harder because I know it's on the frontier of whatever I'm building (so i'm more motivated and there's much more ROI)

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6 か月前議論

Exactly my experience and how I leverage Claude where some of my coworkers remain unconvinced.

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7 か月前議論

Same. I've resurrected side projects and done months of work on them overnight, getting to my true end goals. Creating software is fun. Wrangling a bunch of opinionated libraries and plumbing together systems with terrible ergonomics (i.e. webpack, maybe web development generally?) is bs work I'm glad to not have to do.

wnolens

8 か月前議論

Why would I want to spend 1-2h researching humidifiers if I can spend that time in any other way, and still end up with a humidifier that fits my needs first try?

This kind of task is perfect for AI in a way that doesn't take away too much from the human experience. I'll keep my art, but shopping can die off.

wnolens

3 年前議論

Thanks for sharing. I aspire to such elegant projects.

wnolens

4 年前議論

> I left a large tech company with the dream of building a startup. I failed and am back doing consulting work and figuring out my next step. After realizing I'd failed, I fell in a deep rut.

Same. A verrrrry deep rut.

Taking a complex job in big tech again let me flex my only partially atrophied dev muscles back to full strength. The narrow focus (entrepreneurship is sooo ambigious) and steady stream of hard work let me rebuild my confidence.

Not completely out of the rut, but after struggling for months post-failure, I would still be in that rut (or worse) if not for a steady job. Religion might have helped too, but I'm not the type unfortunately.

wnolens

4 年前議論

I don't think life is _necessarily_ boring as you claim. It's just that a lot about life is boring, particularly working at a job you don't intrinsically enjoy as well as things like commuting, preparing/waiting for food, etc.

But a best friend? A delicious meal? Making love? Learning something you want to know about? I could go on.

If you're bored, it's because your life is structured to not contain any of the things that make you feel alive, or you are a boring person.

wnolens

4 年前議論

Love kubb! I wish I had folks to play with during the work day ahha.

wnolens

4 年前議論

This guy is the only one on youtube I like. The rest often take the answer for granted.

https://www.youtube.com/c/SystemDesignInterview

wnolens

4 年前議論

I know this is a throwaway, but I would like to hear more. Your writing reflects my own life, but I'm in the wrestling part.

Care to expand on this process of cultivating values, the wrestling with the void, where the sense of goodness comes from..

wnolens

4 年前議論

Sounds like me at 26. I finally walked away from it at 28.

Your window to return to bonkers tech money is wide so you can afford to go away from it a while. But after you do, you probably won't want to return. That's fine! Just sock away enough that you don't feel you have to, otherwise it'll feel like reinserting yourself in the matrix and it SUCKS.

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