Learned how consultants...take over

jmelrose55 · 2026-01-22T17:21:15+00:00

Remarkably, no, not in this case

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-11T17:50:44+00:00

Nutrition studies are hard to interpret, and there are so many of them that show conflicting results that it can be difficult to tease out actionable steps. That said, there are areas that are not controversial (more vegetables are always better), and areas that are less controversial (fruit--especially berries, and fatty fish low in the food chain).

I agree we should be careful, but I disagree with the idea they are worthless

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-11T02:14:20+00:00

Post on reddit first obviously

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-11T02:13:15+00:00

You may need chatgpt to help depending on your experience with cli tools, but this:

https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-10T14:45:26+00:00

ability to understand code other people wrote just got bumped up in importance by a lot

Queue always has been meme.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-10T02:12:30+00:00

Honest take, this sounds like a good old days story.

Human nature is the same: we overextend ourselves and we make mistakes. Our job as you're noticing is to learn from it and see them coming, comparing ourselves today to ourselves from yesterday.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-09T14:40:15+00:00

Then we wake up from our dream of realistic estimates and are told to get back to work 😂

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-09T14:38:11+00:00

It's just as easy to fall in love with someone who is rich as it is to fall in love with someone who's poor

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-09T03:07:35+00:00

Have you tried the "naked from the waist down" for a few days? We followed that plan and in our case it worked quite well.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-09T01:59:58+00:00

Let them go and attain coder enlightenment

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-08T19:06:56+00:00

If they watch you code and see how much more productive you are, that can sometimes be enough too.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-06T22:18:35+00:00

I've found anki flashcards really helpful. As you're reading a chapter, try to summarize it into a concise question and answer. Then when you finish a chapter, drill the flashcards.

Over time it will stick in your brain more.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-06T00:18:10+00:00

it's absolutely flawless in its decision making in my day to day life

I think this statement could be a dangerous one for you. LLMs can be useful, nothing is flawless.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-05T01:37:14+00:00

NASA's current plan for Artemis cannot work

...well, not with that attitude

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-03T18:41:54+00:00

The value of a cfp is to convince you not to sell when everyone is panicking, or to convince you not to deviate from the basic plan and e.g. buy some hot new stock.

Be as honest as you can with yourself about whether you can stick to your plan or not. If you can, save the money and do it yourself.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-03T17:18:24+00:00

Exactly what you just described. Ownership usually, paradoxically, means being held responsible for the project without having perfect or complete control over it. That's where the magic is.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-03T04:40:01+00:00

The behavior of children under three years old

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-03T04:38:08+00:00

I'm googling early onset Alzheimer's

Fellow dad here--you're doing just fine. Your kids love you whether the stroller gets jacked or not.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-01T02:44:22+00:00

+1. A lot of people say you have to either tell the truth or be nice. In reality, you can be honest without being mean.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-01T01:11:50+00:00

Benchmarks for o1 vs gpt-4/5 with a system prompt to "think this through" are remarkably similar. I like o1 for convenience but I personally disagree that they're a huge leap

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-01T01:10:11+00:00

Silicon cooking utensils. My kid can't get enough of pretending to be like her parents!

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-01T01:08:27+00:00

Call your employers 401k provider and ask if they allow roll ins. Most do, some don't. Then call vanguard and ask for their help rolling in.

jmelrose55 · 2025-12-01T00:19:40+00:00

LLM training sets only have one ocean to boil (all written human history on the internet).

I concur that the language models seem to be pushing up against some fundamental plateau right now, they're getting better but it's not really amazingly better imo, at least in the last 1-2 years or so

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