Closi

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by Closi 2y ago
I think being an agency is different to selling software - I work for a consultancy and do sales and the process is: 1. Get a lead and qualify it. Red flags for qualification are small company size, weird location which isn't in your g
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by Closi 2y ago
I think it fits the idiom of "aim for the stars and you'll land on the moon". If you are the kind of company that has a focus on all aspects of security, and assumes a sophisticated actor is attacking, you will have a better
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by Closi 2y ago
We are clearly closer than 20 years ago - o1 is an order of magnitude closer than anything in the mid-2000s. Also I would think most people would consider AGI science fiction in 2004 - now we consider it a technical possibility which demons
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by Closi 2y ago
What about OpenAI Structured Outputs? This seems to do exactly this.
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by Closi 2y ago
Is this the rate in the USA? In the uk it’s a standard 1% for the seller.
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by Closi 2y ago
> With an intern, I don’t need to measure how good my prompting is, we’ll usually interact to arrive to a common understanding. With interns you absolutely do need to worry about how good your prompting is! You need to give them specific
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by Closi 2y ago
Although excel spreadsheets have had more longevity than lots of other formats…
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by Closi 2y ago
They might be aspirationally. The implication is 'if it's good enough for a photographer/videographer, it will be excellent for me if I want to take photos and videos of my hobby/kids/travels'. But professional
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by Closi 2y ago
> Smaller notch? Touch ID? Better battery life? Faster charging? Larger default storage? Nope, let's skip all that and spend most of the event talking about video recording. They probably have done a load of research that shows that
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by Closi 2y ago
Some of the syntax choices seem a little strange to me, but I maybe just don't understand the language. What's the reason for (/ num1 num2) rather than just num1/num2 for division for example?
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by Closi 2y ago
It's imperfect information because both players don't know the same information. Perfect information = Chess Imperfect information = Poker This fits into the latter category - if player 2 knew everything that player 1 knows, they
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by Closi 2y ago
This assumes Ballmer is cheating, rather than just behaving adversarially but within the rules. If we accept cheating is allowed, we can also potentially accept other 'cheating' scenarios where the player repeatedly punches Ballme
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by Closi 2y ago
Although Ballmer could still be incorrect, because a 'sufficiently logical' player would also presumably know that he could pick numbers that'll be the most difficult to find via binary-search, so by the same logic you could
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by Closi 2y ago
The use-case I can probably see more is schools. Lots of schools give all their students ipads. Also lots of kids have iPads but not laptops (my girlfriend's daughter does not have a laptop that could do Godot development, but has an i
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by Closi 2y ago
Or the checkout workers at Walmart?
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by Closi 2y ago
I'm in the UK and we have this system too, although half the time the servers will just press 0% for you before they even hand over the terminal just because tipping isn't really a big cultural thing over here (at least compared t
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by Closi 2y ago
In most cases they might be incremental enhancement, but in some cases I am arguing that they will be 'pivotal' changes.
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by Closi 2y ago
Got it, so it's more about removing microcode.
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by Closi 2y ago
Because video is much more difficult than images (it's lots of images that have to be consistent across time, with motion following laws of physics etc), and this is much more limited in terms of scope than pure arbitrary video generat
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by Closi 2y ago
Instructions can be completed in one clock cycle, which removes a lot of complexity compared to instructions that require multiple clock cycles. Removed complexity means you can fit more stuff into the same amount of silicon, and have it be
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by Closi 2y ago
I'm not sure the second statement is true - there are plenty of sectors I can think of which could be massive winners that would make up for the failures. Obvious examples are things like AI-assisted language translation for books if y
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by Closi 2y ago
Put another way, "try to avoid instructions that can't be executed in a single clock cycle, as those introduce silicon complexity".
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by Closi 2y ago
Depends - sometimes/often the goal is just to bring it into a modern language to improve maintainability (i.e. its an easier hire) rather than to do a ground-up rewrite. Especially as ground-up rewrites are often risky, and bringing it
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by Closi 2y ago
One hack though is to drag out proceedings to cause additional cost, which a judge can limit but not entirely avoid.
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by Closi 2y ago
> Scale up production until we have a lights-out factory Classic mistake for software companies who go into manufacturing! Lights-out shouldn't be the goal, the goal should be lowest cost, most flexible, scalable e.t.c...
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by Closi 2y ago
Then let someone come along and try to rewrite and improve - but if your solution is so flimsy it forces a rewrite, it's just poorly made to start with.
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by Closi 2y ago
These are really great questions - if it will take a 4 person dev-team a year to build what you have at the moment at $100k per engineer, what would $400k in co-development spent with your existing vendor get you? Often quite a lot!
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by Closi 2y ago
IMO spinning off comes with it's own complexities in terms of product - If you are writing it for 'in house' you are writing bespoke software to your own requirements, but there are players out there in the logistics software
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by Closi 2y ago
I'm a logistics consultant that specialises on the software side of things! What kind of logistics does your company do? (Transport, Warehousing or both?) Will depend a lot on your functional requirements, but I would say that unless y
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by Closi 2y ago
This is great! Would be great if the website would give a summary of which shop was actually cheapest (e.g. based on a basket of comparable goods that all retailers stock). Although might be hard to do with messy data.

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