EliRivers

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by EliRivers 10mo ago
Forcing people to move to another country en masse sounds like the failures wouldn't be caused by a culture clash so much as more fundamental issues around being forced to move to another country.
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by EliRivers 10mo ago
I've taken money to create software for most of three decades and I don't think I've ever actually worked on software that needed the people who created it to be near it while it was running, once it was working. I think the
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by EliRivers 10mo ago
I worked on the same for many years; same deal - playout system for broadcast, years of uptime, never miss a frame. The C++ was atrocious. Home-made reference counting that was thread-dangerous, but depending on what kind of object the mult
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by EliRivers 11mo ago
What I like most about this math problem is explaining it to people who understand what I'm saying but still insist that it might be possible and they're going to do it. It's a nice lesson for me to think about and carry thro
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Rings a bell. Sounds simple, but being able to reliably make huge numbers of tiny little metal spheres with tiny tiny tolerance is a serious feat; being able to do that brings knowledge and experience that unlocks an entire level of the tec
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Changing anything was a dangerous thing to do, because you might cause jobs that have known and reliable setups I am reminded of some of the very finest semiconductor plants. Where parts could in theory be swapped out and replaced, but to
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on These people live in fantasyland bubbles, powered by their unshakeable belief in their own intelligence and "hy
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Picture a machine endowed with human intellect. In its most simplistic form, that is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Artificial human intelligence. Not what I'd call general, but I guess so long as we make it clear that by &quo
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Because I need to specify an amount of time short enough that big investors will hand over a lot of money, long enough that I can extract a big chunk of it for myself before it all comes crashing down. A couple of years is probably a bit ti
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by EliRivers 1y ago
People need to understand that most reformists don't want to get rid of the truly exceptional immigration to the US. What do the most influential reformists want? The ones who set the extreme agenda that everyone else follows? As I u
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Okay, so if I had some employees working jobs that are part of this, could I give them a tip? Could I give them 25000 dollars of tax free tip.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
"Having run this “proxy” process for years now, I can tell you it is, in fact, the most accurate indicator I have seen of software engineering capabilities." Genuine question; how do you know? Presumably you have some good feedbac
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by EliRivers 1y ago
We don't have those integration tests. They happened by chance when customers did things. Do we really have tests if we cannot define those tests, if we cannot run those tests? If we make a significant change that could feasibly affect
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by EliRivers 1y ago
The Chagos Islands are very valuable as an unsinkable, static aircraft carrier in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Obviously valuable to a nation with the capability to actually support and operate such an aircraft carrier.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Is there no performance requirement on these? Surely there must be. You can't wait forever for a response; safety critical systems are only safe if they work in time.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
So if your code is ascertained to work at the high level, you also know that it must be working at the lower level too. I have 100% seen bugs that cancel each other out; code that's just plain wrong at the lower level, coming togethe
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by EliRivers 1y ago
I think the record uptime for a customer before they shut down one process to upgrade the software (leaving a dozen other such processes running, taking over the work in turn as each was upgraded) was on the order of six years. This was a s
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by EliRivers 1y ago
At my last employer, some of our customers used our software to run systems of which the hardware value alone exceeded the entire market cap of my employer. They ran systems with a physical footprint many many times the area of my employer&
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Truth. There's a reason that people say to never read the comments section of HN or YouTube.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Surely all programs are performance critical. Any program we think isn't is just a program where the performance met the criteria already.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Laudable too. I do things that are laudable, that most of society would applaud, that I nonetheless routinely do not disclose and sometimes hide. You will note, perhaps, that I didn't disclose them.
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by EliRivers 1y ago
I have so much to hide. I want to hide what I had for breakfast. I want to hide what books I read recently. I want to hide which TV shows I watch. I want to hide who I have conversations with. I want to hide who I avoid. I engage in so much
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Whoever has the largest no of servers can see all the traffic Is that true? If there are a million servers, and I control ten of them, and everyone else who has control of servers controls only nine each (so I have the largest number of s
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Unhelpful but related; back in the day (15 or so years ago), Netflix had a truly excellent back catalogue of old movies. Over a hundred thousand titles. A DVD collection that we just didn't realise was going to vanish as quickly as it
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Sure looks like the wealthy have captured an awful lot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/19...
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by EliRivers 1y ago
The US has plenty of manufacturing operations much more complicated than building CPUs It's my understanding that this is not the case. That CPU (and similar) manufacturing is considered one of the most complex processes humanity has
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by EliRivers 1y ago
"Taken at face value, you couldn't even use a pocket calculator to back up a management decision." That makes no sense. I am the manager. I make the decision. The calculator gives me some numbers but I am still the manager, s
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by EliRivers 1y ago
If the alternative - that people pay an absolute fortune just to make their own houses liveable - comes out worse, seems like a good option to me. The Great God market isn't magically going to make ordinary people's lives better a
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by EliRivers 1y ago
A nice idea I've seen is that residential households pay a low amount per kilowatt-hour they consume until they reach some determined minimum "amount of energy this household needs to maintain a basic standard of living", and
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by EliRivers 1y ago
Has the mental health of the nation got twice as bad in 2 years? Obviously not. Assuming that's true, do we know if the new claims are fraudulent, or are they valid claims that people simply didn't claim for before?

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