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chriotte | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?

He is probably referring to x1 extreme. I have a 3rd gen and it’s like a jet engine and space heather had a baby. Even after undervolting in bios, limiting cpu frequency in windows and only using it for very light jobs it’s super noisy. Not to mention the max 5 hour battery life… This chassis with an AMD cpu and no dedicated GPU would be perfect, but I’ve had enough and a M2 MacBook Air is on its way from Apple.

chriotte | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?

I did many interviews in my previous workplace, and we never cared about age when recruiting. My colleagues were between 20-something and up to retirement age (I'm now in my late twenties). The most exciting and valuable people I've worked with were the latter. The more senior people always brought a ton of knowledge to the table and were often able to draw parallels between the stuff we were solving now with things they had already solved 20 or 30 years ago. I would not worry about your age, and your troublesome past adds some spice and a different perspective to life, and I'm sure most companies will embrace your talent.

Feel free to send me a note on chris *at** dataespresso *dot** com, and I can share with you some info about my previous employer and possibly make an introduction. They have offices all over the UK, and I think you'd enjoy working there.

chriotte | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Research AI – AI Writing Assistant

Looks very impressive from your video! What is running it behind the scenes? GPT-3? ParlAI?

This is a service I would love to use, but I'd like to have a free taster before committing my payment details. I know you do a 7-day trial, but at least, for me, there is a big barrier to commit my card details to a random service. Maybe worth taking inspiration from Grammarly by offering a limited free service to get people hooked? Or even letting people sign up for the 7 day trial before giving a way payment details?

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