I just bought a gas lens set for my welder and it included cups called the BBW and the FUPA. When I was taking MIG classes, they had a jar of anti-spatter gel called cooter snot tip dip. Can’t imagine why women are so rare in the profession…
I’ve been a tourist in a number of different trades, and welding beats them all for hostility and resistance to safety practices. You get called a pussy for wearing a mask, but of course the manganese fumes from welding steel will give you brain damage. I’ve been advised to run cutoff wheels far above their rated RPM, which risks explosion. It’s sad because welding might as well some combination of knitting and calligraphy but with metal. It’s great.
This was my experience exactly working on a welding crew when I was 19. We worked 12s 6AM-6PM (or 6PM-6AM if on a night shift) and often worked longer. The longest shift I worked was nearly 20hr, which was great because every hour past 8hr was worth 1.5x.
"Safety" was "watch the fuck out and don't get hurt." I didn't have access to a respirator even if I had known enough to want one.
I did have enough sense to listen to the old guys who said your body can't take that kind of work for more than about 15yr without starting to break down, and that I should go to engineering school instead.
There was one (1) female welder that crew of at least 20 and she put up with a ton of overtly horrible stuff. She was also incredibly good at welding, I saw her once burn an entire 7018 rod without looking, no helmet, just by feel, and the slag came off in one piece.
I'm suggesting that the "inuendos from both" is the wrong analysis and that the workplace issue would be the sexualization of the product name being used as a tool to harass women (there would probably also be comments made to men, but harassment would predominantly be towards women).
Context matters. In a 95% male profession, making hostile comments about women is absolutely more of an issue than similar comments about men. And vice versa in a predominantly female profession.
Please use PPE. My dad and grandfather were both mechanics (not welders, but adjacent) and both contracted very similar bladder cancers most likely from skin exposure to a particular solvent bath chemical.
There is no reward for macho or risky behavior, only a painful/miserable death and shorter life, and less time with family. So many male members of my mom's extended family died early from tobacco use and from industrial and agricultural hazards.
That means breathing fumes, unknown substances, or fine dust without a respirator (or smoking), not using gloves while handling chemicals/coatings/etc., or putting oneself in mechanically risky situations.
TL;DR: Just use PPE.
They cost money, they're a hassle, they're not fashionable, their benefit isn't immediately obvious but so is a seatbelt until there's a known problem like DDT, asbestos, tetraethyllead lead, dirt particulates, or fiberglass.
I only weld at the edge of my garage, with the door open, with a fan running, and while wearing a respirator. Thanks for looking out for me and others.
I wear a 3M 7502 half face respirator behind my 3M Speedglas autodark mask and it fits just fine. A proper integrated system would be nicer but this setup is safe and works for 1/10th the price. Also if it's not too hot and humid I can leave safety glasses on which is convenient for grinding--just flip up the visor and go for it, no safety squints needed.
Women face higher consequences for pregnancy so you would expect attitudes towards sexual suggestion to be different. Also, when you're talking about a group where the gender ratio is like 20:1 the woman is going to be the butt of a disproportionate number of the jokes.
> I just bought a gas lens set for my welder and it included cups called the BBW and the FUPA. When I was taking MIG classes, they had a jar of anti-spatter gel called cooter snot tip dip. Can’t imagine why women are so rare in the profession…
Makes sense. I suppose if women had invented these things, they would have been able to name them something nicer.
cursor. First one I've tried that seems like it's more than a neat demo.
- but I'm weird and I usually disable tab completion, I find having generations popping up while I'm typing slows me down, I gotta read them and think about it, feels like it's giving me ADD. So I've always kinda been a copilot hater. Lots of people find this more productive, and a fancy version of it is on by default in Cursor. However, Cursor implemented a bunch of different interfaces well not just the copilot one, and I find the chat window in your editor for churning out boilerplate or refactors is a huge productivity win personally. There are a lot of one-off refactors that are annoying enough that I wouldn't want to dedicate an afternoon to them but now they are taking me just a few minutes of reviewing AI changes.
Exactly why I never went with getting copilot, I instead got a chatgpt subscription and prompt for stuff I need.
I do sort of regret it too, sometimes you just want to give more context and it's a hassle at that time. Figuring out what is it you need to paste to ensure the model has adequate context to generate something valid. Also, Claude is magnitudes superior to ChatGPT anything. Both are terrible at implementing abstract completely unique code blocks, however ChatGPT is significantly more "markov-y" when it comes to generating any code. When Claude gets things wrong it feels like a more human mistake.
Anyway, with 50% of HN obsessing over Cursor, is it worth it? I couldn't get it to open projects I have in WSL2 and I kind of gave up at that point. I've gotten far with Claude's free tier and $20 for just cursor seems steep for something that's not as stable.
Have you assessed Zed auto completion or read about others experience of it? Zed seems like something with a more stable foundation than any of these VSCode forks.
My trajectory was sublime -> vscode -> cursor. I tried Zed, but didn't need any of the collaboration features, didn't notice any speed increases vs normal vscode usage, and was generally just less productive than vscode with all the extensions I had configured. Cursor imported all of those, and my keyboard shortcut muscle memory still worked right after install. For me at least, moving over to it was completely seamless.
Like you, I started using LLMs in a chat window copy pasting code back and forth, (but I think Claude 3.5 sonnet was the first model I felt it worth the hassle). The cursor workflow is basically indexing all your files in your codebase to figure out what to copy over into the LLM, and then scraping the LLM output to figure out where to paste it in your code. It works like 95% of the time, which is way more than I was expecting, and falls back to the manual copy paste workflow pretty easily. Also it comes at a time where models are good enough to be handed gobs of context and trusted with more than a handful of lines at a time (Claude Sonnet 3.5 really shines here).
The whole experience just feels very polished and well thought out. One great (not really well documented?) feature is a .cursorrules file that gets invisibly pasted into all the context windows where you can say things like "use double quotes in javascript" or "prefer functional paradigms and always include type annotations in python" to avoid having to make those edits for consistency and style if the LLM fails to pick them up from the surrounding code. You can commit this file and have teammates get the same part of the prompt. Now everyone's autocomplete consistency and style is improved.
It's difficult to state how nice having it automatically do this copy paste back and forth just a keyboard shortcut away feels, it really is much better than I expected. So yes, I would try Cursor.
Cursor has been my favorite so far but I also have never tried Codium. Copilot was the winner prior but honestly its just tab completion. I tried Jetbrains but it felt janky and slow. Cursor tab completion feels nicer, its super fast and will do updates based code changes. I like being able to quickly get it to write some code updates and it returns in a green/red line like a github PR. The flow is really nice for me and I am looking forward to the future.
I am about 70% through my first paid month with Cursor.
I should say I have budgeted that I am going to pay $20 for something AI right now no matter what.
Cursor is worth it, but I should have had an exact project in mind when I subscribed. I don't think I am going to get my money's worth completely this month because of how generous Claude's free tier is. I do like just asking the web ui random things sometimes.
At one point a few weeks back I did have overlap with o1, Cursor paid and Claude free tier all at the same time. I know I am not subscribing again to chatGPT until the non-preview o1 is out.
I do like the Cursor UI but there is something about copy/paste with the chatbot that I also like in conjunction with non-AI VScode or jupyter. Like the difference between oil paints and pastels. Both probably have their place in the tool belt.
Zed - open source, written in rust and hence extremely fast. I’ve always been a jetbrains user and every time I tried VSCode it never stuck. For such people zed is great since you can set up the config to use jetbrains key maps. Also you can get it to work with open LLMs via ollama or groq or cerebras; the latter two require an unpublished hack; here’s my config, thank me later :)
I don't use AI much but I do have CopilotChat.nvim for when I do need it. o1 and Claude support was just added yesterday. (Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers)
You can’t judge backlash by how the robot repeats the exact same set of movements over and over. That removes hysteresis from the problem definitionally.
I’m not totally sure what makes this result so novel but also that’s probably due to my ignorance. Hyperfine qubits are pretty common using neutral atoms, and you can do imaging on the hyperfine states. Is the novelty here that the electron spin is on resonance with the nuclear spin and that it’s done with STM? I guess I don’t see how pump-probe is so much more direct than using an imaging transition.
I think the key thing they were pointing out was the ability to store information inside a nucleus that can be read back (reminds me of how core memory worked on the old Apollo 11 Era computers) which could be a very reliable and dense memory. It's reliable because the electron shell is sort of protecting the information stored inside the nucleus.
I wonder if they'll have the same issue that core memory also had which is that by reading the magnetic state you also destroy that state, and so every bit 'read' operation has to be followed with a 'now write the bit back again' step.
Whatever you do, DO NOT enter your email and absolutely do not give them your phone number. Keyence famously will not leave you alone. They’re very aggressive.
I’ve been a tourist in a number of different trades, and welding beats them all for hostility and resistance to safety practices. You get called a pussy for wearing a mask, but of course the manganese fumes from welding steel will give you brain damage. I’ve been advised to run cutoff wheels far above their rated RPM, which risks explosion. It’s sad because welding might as well some combination of knitting and calligraphy but with metal. It’s great.
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