Aurornis

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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Companies with projects that are doing well don't try to hire consultants who specialized in saving failing projects. No company with a good AI strategy is going to go to the Hermit Tech website where text written in Ye Olde Font expla
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This is an interesting strategy for trying to impress potential customers. Most consultants try to impress you by talking about the great companies they've worked for. This blog post screams, "Look how dumb my past coworkers were!
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They run a consulting company called "Hermit Tech". Their websites has an olde style font. They boast about "ancient techniques" from books written prior to the year 2000 > For non-executive management who might be st
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If you read the footnote, they follow up to say they've rejected 100% of the AI projects brought to them. Go to their home page and one of their consulting selling points is recovering struggling projects. One of their front-page selli
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Clicking the footnote for the weird "All of the AI projects we have observed as a team are failing" is equal parts enlightening and confusing: > We have rejected all AI implementation work. It is absolutely a gigantic bubble an
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That’s less than the fully loaded cost of hiring another engineer. If someone is making the case that it’s helping the team get twice as much work done without hiring more people (which I’m neither agreeing with or disagreeing with) then th
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> Point being my real API usage here must be very unsustainable! I think it’s funny that everyone anchors to the API pricing as the real cost. Most likely is that their API costs are printing profits. They can sell the subscription plans
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With the obligatory disclaimer that I’m impressed with what open weight models can do, I have the same experience with all of them. The benchmarks come out and say they’re as good as Opus from N months ago, then I use it for a complex task
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> SO did that all to themselves when they decided they didn't want a community to form SO did develop a community in a way, but it was primarily the gatekeepers and rule enforcers adopting positions of pseudo-power. They liked using
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> In time, though, lobste.rs got fairly boring since it's always the same stuff over and over again. There are some interesting comments there from some people who don’t spend time on other sites, but your assessment is similar to m
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> So I don't think that getting downvoted enough so that you're invited to delete your account is a common occurrence with productive members. It is! It’s a rite of passage on the site if you dare comment anything that someone
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> I dont remember why I was kind of barred from lobsters , but I applaud all this behavior you mentioned. Some serious cognitive dissonance here. I think a lot of people like this idea of a close-knit clique of like minded people, but th
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Lobste.rs is very anti-AI. They force any LLM topic to be tagged with “vibecoding” even when the majority of LLM posts are not about vibecoding. AI posts are usually the most commented on. Linus Torvalds’ comments saying that LLMs are actua
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I’m sure the original home was amazing for its size, given who was driving the construction.
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It’s an interesting strategy, but I question how much it pays off, if at all. Very few parts of a program benefit from manually tuned assembly compared to the naive C implementation. Writing everything in assembly adds an extra layer of tho
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Falling Water was an engineering disaster, but it was a unique project for him. Most of his houses are not like that.
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That was for the original construction, which was much smaller in size. The house you see in the photos was after multiple expansions and additions as his career took off.
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The house you see in the photos is the result of years of additions and expansions, funded by his success as a world-class architect. The original construction was much more modest in size.
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> This is a solved problem though. Wireless earbuds can do it They’re all solved problems! That doesn’t change the fact that every additional complication adds cost, complexity, failure points, more warranty returns, and time to market.
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Exposed terminals would need a lot more than a single transistor. It would need ESD protection and it would change the outer case from being a complete sealed over mold into something that had to seal against two exposed terminals. That’s a
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No, for two reasons. First, we can’t summon infinite money to pay for things. Paying 10X more per bridge means we can build 1/10th as many bridges or we have to start stealing from other budgets. Second, we don’t know what the needs wi
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> 2. IQ is going down in the US. Flynn effect research says otherwise. If you think prehistoric humans were geniuses because They could survive in the wild, by that measure monkeys and gorillas must be geniuses too.
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> There's a saying that the intelligence of an average prehistoric cave man should be, in general, higher than a modern day human simply because the lack of technology required stone age humans to be far more intelligent then we are
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> Devs have relatively no incentive to be more productive for their orgs, and all the incentive to be more productive on their own personal work. AI definitely supercharges the side project myth, but I think we’re going to see waves of d
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> because why would i output 50% more when the pay environment and leadership are already underwhelming The productivity uplift measured in some of these reports is from more tasks being done, not from developers giving themselves more i
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> Zig is not pre-1.0 because it’s not ready for production (bugs or missing features), it’s pre-1.0 because they want to be able to make breaking language changes. This is a solved problem in other projects. Either use the version number
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The section this came from was talking specifically about usages of `unsafe` in the compiler code. It's not about the memory safety of the resulting binary.
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That's not what it says at all. The section we're talking about is for the compiler and emitting machine code > we ended up with about 1,200 uses of unsafe > remember that for compilers which emit machine code, like roc and
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> n practice, Go can typically outperform Rust in throughput (using more memory), despite having a mountain of disadvantages against it in theory This is a huge claim that disagrees with both my real-world experience and everything I&#x2
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That line confused me, too. What parts of their compiler require memory-unsafe operations to produce machine code?

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