Denzel

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by Denzel 2y ago
In his specific example, a comment is not the best solution. You can create self-documenting code easily with an interface and an implementation, also commonly referred to as the strategy pattern. Interface expresses “what the function does
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by Denzel 2y ago
What's hilarious is that my business account has been suspended by Facebook's automated fraud detection no less than 4 times in the past 5 months. Every time, they send a standard automated message saying some term was violated fr
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by Denzel 3y ago
I operate an auto detailing shop. As part of that I've done some research and spoken with my local city (100k+ pop.) officials about this. It's actually quite logical. First, there's a distinction between sewer vs. stormwater
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by Denzel 3y ago
I'm directly stating that maybe it's time for Facebook to consider a different governance model than autocracy because their resources and integration within humanity-at-large has scaled beyond that which a single person can reaso
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by Denzel 3y ago
We're essentially opining about the difference between governance systems. Facebook (like most corporations) operates an autocracy. However, unlike most corporations Facebook generates 100B+ in revenue per year (more than most countrie
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by Denzel 3y ago
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. You are correct. Learning is made up of two processes: encoding and retrieval. Encoding dominates retrieval in that the better your memory is encoded the shallower your forgetting curve is such that
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by Denzel 3y ago
You’re entitled to free speech in the U.S. (if that’s where you reside) of course, however that doesn’t mean you’re right. To the contrary, the market, represented by millions of individuals’ actions, disagrees with you about who “deserves”
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by Denzel 3y ago
It’s telling that you haven’t actually responded to anything on the basis of your proposal.
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by Denzel 3y ago
To a first order approximation you’re advocating for communism over capitalism in that you believe the will of the State (funded by “crazy taxes”) takes precedence over the will of the People, represented by local decisions made in a free m
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by Denzel 3y ago
So what solution are you proposing? Right now, you’re simply complaining about a perceived problem without offering any logical argument for an alternative. I do not mean to sound flippant, I’d like to hear what your alternative ideas are.
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by Denzel 3y ago
That supremely depends upon what you define as “fundamental” and in what context. :) Do some ideas have higher leverage than other ideas: certainly. Is it easy to tell a priori which ideas those are: not entirely. Consider log-structured me
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by Denzel 3y ago
Thanks for taking the time to read the article! My responses are key’d by paragraph number. 1. The study is comparative in that it answers the question do engineers from other fields consider software engineering “real”. The interviewees an
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by Denzel 3y ago
Hillel Wayne offers a much better, more formally grounded survey of how software engineers compare to “real” engineers - https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/ . He actually interviews civil engi
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by Denzel 3y ago
Why is it surprising that beings with finite time capacity are unable to learn information that’s expanding at a daily rate greater than their capacity? https://xkcd.com/1053/ is relevant. The world would do well by ad
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by Denzel 3y ago
The Minto Pyramid Principle (MPP) offers an analogous, perhaps more accessible, process to problem solving similar to Andrew’s description. You use a problem solving process built on structured analysis by first defining the problem in term
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by Denzel 3y ago
While this advice may work for some FAANG companies, I can assure you this won’t work for Google, especially at higher levels. You won’t find their questions in any public test bank online (trust me, I searched after my interviews). Also, a
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by Denzel 3y ago
That’s a strange statement because I definitely canceled my subscription as a result of the happenings. This very public battle confirmed for me how misaligned OpenAI is with the originating charter and mission of its nonprofit. And I didn’
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by Denzel 3y ago
Consider what an artificial super-intelligence can do in the physical world with humans as a proxy. An ASI could effect meaningful change in the physical world through simple text interfaces. What's the limit for an ASI that has access
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by Denzel 3y ago
> Google uses legitimate sites to make their search engine a viable product and at the same time directs traffic away from those legitimate sites towards SEO spam to generate revenue. [Disclosure: Google Search SWE; opinions and thoughts
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by Denzel 3y ago
Two congratulations are in order, first for your graduation, and second for your awareness, early in life, that you can take control of your finances instead of letting your finances control you. Invest in learning how to use Quickbooks. Qu
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by Denzel 3y ago
You missed the part where it’s not a zero-sum game. If you’re interested in the economic concepts behind why an economy is a positive-sum game in an open system, look up: production possibilities frontier (PPF) and comparative advantage. An
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by Denzel 3y ago
You’re working from a cost-efficiency / cost optimization perspective. That’s a great perspective in some contexts, for example, mature late-stage products, fully saturated markets, etc. Is cost efficiency an effective perspective for
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by Denzel 3y ago
> As far as I can tell, chatgpt performs the action of finding and simplifying the information needed to take the next step forward [...] But that's all it does at the moment. ChatGPT's output is certainly limited by its input.
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by Denzel 4y ago
The value prop on this is unbelievable. I've been trying to get an affordable whole home heat pump system for over a year now. You've explained the problem space, the solution, and why your background is relevant, extremely well.
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by Denzel 4y ago
> I am sorry for being so critical You should apologize for being disrespectful. There's no reason to attack the founder personally with words like: pathetic, desperate, or insulting their critical thinking by saying "you haven
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by Denzel 4y ago
> If you don't work at Google, convincing your engineering organization into learning Bazel is almost always a non-starter. Who uses Bazel in the wild? Xooglers primarily. My response shows these hypotheses to be false. You’re corre
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by Denzel 4y ago
Off the top of my head, some companies that successfully use Bazel: SpaceX [1], Datadog [2], Databricks [3], Stripe [4], Uber [5], etc. That's a good 10k+ engineers using Bazel successfully in the wild. There's more, of course. [1
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by Denzel 4y ago
I'm not trying to be overly critical here, in fact, I want to share the type of empathetic feedback I'd hope to receive as a founder. Have you actually talked to Blaze/Bazel users to understand what frustrations (if any) they
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by Denzel 4y ago
Not to mention using an actual language aids readability, extensibility, and static analysis, unlike a data exchange format. Starlark is a benefit, not a con, so YAML feels like a major step backwards. I'm generally happy with Blaze&#x
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by Denzel 4y ago
Yes, this is why some people are afraid of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). We can't even control or predict simple, by comparison, LLMs and yet we have the hubris to believe we'll learn how to control or predict AGIs.

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