Internet points.

which can then translate to real-world money points

How would karma on HN lead to this?

You need a minimum threshold of karma in order to downvote others on HN. Additionally, accounts with more well received activity are harder to identify as shills. That's why there are black markets where social media accounts are bought and sold and the price is typically proportional to the account's karma.

This is fantastic and it really looks like a passion-fueled side project.

Trump defunded my math PhD so I got a programmer job just to pay the bills. The Substack lets me do what I love.

Thanks for this comment!

Currently working on my own education by learning C from Antirez's C course on YouTube.

I've been working as an ERP developer for a couple years now and the job is so dull and boring that I'm already starting to feel stagnant. So, I am learning more advanced things now in order to: 1. Advance my career, and 2. Maybe code some linux tool (for personal use only, for now!) and stop looking at enterprise code.

That's genius ?? Gonna try this starting right now as I'm at work scrolling through HN, lmao

I just used “less” to read them, if I were to do it again I’d find something that at least kept my place on program close. I think I only accidentally closed it like once in that three months, but over time it would have been a problem worth solving.

Personally I would've opted by opening on vim inside tmux. But then again, I never liked "less".

Or maybe "since <<I was>> 40 years old"?

I think it’s an unfortunate typo…”old” => “ago”?

yeah, typed too fast. I was talking about 40 years ago. Apple 2+ to be specific.

As a migraine sufferer this sounds scary and only today I have learned about it. What was it like? If I may ask. Is there a way to prevent it? I googled it and it seems to appear rather arbitrarily and suddenly.

It's very rare. I was a migraine sufferer, but this is how that time it was different:

- I was under severe stress at work - I woke up with aura, realised it when looking at the mirror, I had only one eye - visual symptoms (aura) didn't go away after 1 hour. That's the limit where you MUST seek medical advice - having "a migraine" that day raised my stress level... because work... - symptoms persisted... and after getting better over a year, what was left became permanent (blind spot where the migraine started in my field of vision)

DO NOT take triptans during the aura. DO NOT take any vasoconstrictors during aura, since it's a phase where blood flow is restricted. That could have caused my stroke.

When a migraine hits, I take aspirin, stop all stressors, ALL stressors, try to calm down (I've used anxiolytics occasionally), breathe and rest. I'm often off for 2 days. It happens about once a year.

Again, migrainous infarcts are VERY rare. You'll be fine, just let the aura pass, and know to seek medical attention if it doesn't.

Thank you very much for this information. I hope you're doing well now!

It's the bell curve meme all along.

Subdivisions is my favourite song of all time and I thought about Rush as well while reading that line.

That link automatically downloads a CDR file.

To be honest, you don't even need AI for something like that. You might just write a script to automate that kind of thing which is no more than a scrape-and-notify logic.

Bandsintown already does this