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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Always nice to read a new retelling of this old story. TFA throws some shade at how "a single get of the office repo took some hours" then elides the fact that such an operation was practically impossible to do on git at all witho
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
I mean, that just blog sums up the whole attitude issue here. "It’s an exciting time to be a designer on iOS. My professional universe is trembling and rumbling with a deep sense of mystery." This person is excited that their job
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Shouldn't it be called "Fuckbrain" then?
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
We will start to see the emergence of frameworks and libraries (and languages?) that are optimised for LLM coding rather than human coding. Maybe - overly verbose and repetitive, but easy to generate correctly and very flexible? Or maybe su
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
Clicked expecting some sort of 3d printed rocket-propelled grenade launcher. TFA is not that.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
More banal than ill intent, it's just self-serving hubris, lack of self awareness and lack of empathy, that sort of thing
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
So to sum up the "methods" listed: 1. Curry favour with stakeholders separately in advance of a big joint decision 2. Lie about estimates 3. Use filters like "falls for reverse psychology" to find subordinates that are e
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
"Getting things done" means applying torque to one or more of the cogs in the corporate cash flow machine of which you are a part. Unfortunately that doesn't always correspond with "build a better product". If it do
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 1y ago
"Generating boilerplate code, Summarizing documentation, Understanding complex concepts, Debugging tricky error messages, Drafting unit tests, Formatting data" Thing is, this is probably 99% of the programming work of a junior dev
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
Yeah your small business doesn't need to be a unicorn. But your small business that a VC has bought part of does.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
Imagine you start a new OSS RDBMS project. To help drive adoption you license a trademark from Oracle and call it "OracleBase", even though it has nothing much in common with the well known Oracle database other than also being an
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
I especially enjoyed NHI10:2025 Human Use of NHI. Time to stop all that pesky human use. Switch off the servers too, just to be sure.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
"Guns aren't the problem, it's all the people pulling triggers."
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
Don't know the UK banking landscape, but it doesn't look that unusual in recent times: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/prudential-regulation/new-ba...
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
You can't really "take deposits and issue loans" without just becoming a bank yourself. People start new banks all the time. Or by "disrupting" does he just mean "end run around the laws and regulations"?
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
Yet another article that purports to show concern for artists being exploited by big bad streaming providers, but is in fact written out of concern for the record labels and distributors who are no longer able to exploit said artists as com
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
Was Tor ever safe to use? I don't think so.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
> It’s also 3-4x faster than typing out comments Yeah faster for you, much much slower for everyone who has to receive it and listen to you ramble incoherently. That's just selfishness talking, just like that friend who is always la
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
All of them!
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
Well beyond even that, they're optimising for profit so they are looking for things like setting odds that match popular sentiment when the real outcome probability is significantly different.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
Depends on the dataset available. Usually final odds because that is what is preserved for posterity. You are right of course. My back testing was more for interest than for any other purpose. And the bookies models are obviously optimising
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
I also don't have numbers, but I'd opine that you need that (top 5% every round) AND you need to be to have a few big rounds where you greatly outperform almost everyone. Getting those big rounds means taking some calculated risks
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
Player value correlation is indeed a thing. So too match ups in the next game, player playing out of position, etc. I haven't experimented but you are probably right that a model that could use factors like these effectively would outp
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
yeah matches my experience
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
The value function is crucial, sure. But back testing over a couple seasons I can usually land on something much better than what I as a (usually pretty casual) fan has in my head. From an automation perspective the harder problem is gettin
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
I've used similar approaches to play sports fantasy games (casually) since 2009. Using LP solvers like this team selection games, and an ELO+regression approach for score/margin prediction games. Mostly as a way to beat friends wh
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
build systems logging libraries application frameworks Every dev at some stage early in their career always thinks that they can create a better one.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
Interesting but this page reads like a marketing piece. The discourse around VCSs is mature and you should BLUF with where yours sits in the spectrum of alternatives. What is the repository model and the concurrency model? Those are the bas
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
I'm not qualified to expound on it but the featured article doesn't cover opportunity cost, and a scale of risk appetites. To name just two concepts it's missing.
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by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 2y ago
“Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.”

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