unexaminedlife

Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty much locked into a contract through mid-2024 in a work-from-home capacity so this recent media blitz and companies "changing their minds" about work from home aren't affecting me…

Like most of you I have been working from home since early 2020. I left SO MANY companies during that time too, in order to find a company who had some semblance they knew what they were doing... And what I have…

Imagine a GPT-X model that can understand concepts like algorithms and how to compile lists of steps based on a strict set of available instructions. This would ultimately fill the gaps of writing arbitrarily complex…

I am still not 100% certain about what's going on, but this is the second pay period in a row where my Routing# and Account# have been updated on ADP's website without my consent. Luckily I caught it the first time, and…

I've been working in technology my entire career. At times I've been extremely productive. Specifically when I "run the show" and can decide how our team makes progress and what we should concentrate our attention on.…

I am utterly dumbfounded at the experience I have had the last few years. Even the stock exchanges are fully incapable of reliably delivering historical trading data, in bulk, on a nightly basis. I feel like I am paying…

I've been programming for a long time. Over the years I've become way too familiar with the back and forth arguments between different programming language philosophies. I've generally avoided the more religious of the…

I'm old-school with HN. I use the original web interface. However, it just dawned on me that some people are using mobile apps these days. I'm not familiar with how these apps work so I wanted to see if anyone could…

I had an idea the other day which I'm sure is not totally unique, but I thought was at least worth discussing in terms of relatively simple / organic ways a government could level the playing field in a (mostly)…

I've created an ad campaign that is intended to direct viewers to a blog I started about a technology consultancy I am considering starting in the Cincinnati area. https://loticsystems.blogspot.com My mistake may have…

Ok, I admit, the title of this post was 100% clickbait. Now let's talk :) In today's world I read plenty of articles about the possibility of an alien invasion (I promise I'm not a nut job so please keep reading :) ).…

I like to toss around ideas quite a bit. Mostly I find I'm the only one listening :) I've been thinking recently about the state of the country, all the crazy news I read and the perspective I've gained from it all…

I may be missing some nuance in my evaluation here, but I wanted to bring up what I think may be an important point about how we treat intellectual property and our philosophy about sharing it with other countries. I…

I just had a thought that was novel and interesting enough I thought I'd throw it up online to see if it could spark conversation. I experience ASMR. I've heard that some people don't. When I started learning about it…

FUN FACT (if my math was right): Suppose a computer "BYTE" == 1 JOULE of energy, how does the theoretical capacity of a 16-bit computer differ from 64-bit? 16-bit: How much ~2.2 sumo wrestlers eat per day 64-bit: How…

I didn't like the answers provided in the Quora thread I read on this subject, so I won't even really bother linking it here. I'm far more interested in what the HN community would have to say about this topic.

I resigned recently from one of the largest tech consultancies on the planet. On day 1 I could tell I probably made a bad decision to work for them. I kept delaying the inevitable hoping I was in some isolated…

I've been following the market recently due to its unprecedented recovery. I am also dabbling in some home-grown strategies for how to position myself as well. One thing I've done is I've positioned myself short with…

I think most highly educated / forward thinking / reflective individuals will agree that our current trajectory as a society is unsustainable. If we polled those same people during the dot-com bubble they may have had a…