GeneralMayhem

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by GeneralMayhem 10mo ago
Really only prefixes, without a significant loss in accuracy. The point is that because later tokens can't influence earlier ones, the post-attention embeddings for those first tokens can't change. But the post-attention embedding
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by GeneralMayhem 10mo ago
Go with Bazel gives you a couple options: * You can use gazelle to auto-generate Bazel rules across many modules - I think the most up to date usage guide is https://github.com/bazel-contrib/rules_go/blob/mast
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by GeneralMayhem 10mo ago
> if updating that shared library automatically updates everyone and isn’t backward compatible you’re doing it wrong that library should be published as a v2 or dependents should pin to a specific version ...but why ? You're beggi
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by GeneralMayhem 10mo ago
Internal and external have wildly different requirements. Google internally can't update a library unless the update is either backward-compatible for all current users or part of the same change that updates all those users, and tha
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by GeneralMayhem 10mo ago
I worked on building this at $PREV_EMPLOYER. We used a single repo for many services, so that you could run tests on all affected binaries/downstream libraries when a library changed. We used Bazel to maintain the dependency tree, and
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by GeneralMayhem 10mo ago
"Ignoring the code entirely and only prompting" is the only definition of vibe-coding I'm aware of. It's from a Karpathy tweet ( https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 ): > There&#x
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by GeneralMayhem 11mo ago
Turning around a track definitely dissipates some heat energy through increased friction with the rails. Imagine taking a semicircle turn and making it tighter and tighter. At the limit, the train is basically hitting a solid wall and reb
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
I like natural keys... if you can prove that they're actually immutable and unique for the thing they're representing. Credit card number is a decent natural key for a table of payment instruments , not for users. Even for a natu
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
I hadn't thought about GitHub -I'm guessing the authors of the bill didn't either - but you're right, that is somewhat concerning. Still, I don't think it's the end of the world... > The requirement is also
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
It's always possible that they'll say it, but it would be a lie based on my reading of this bill. Sideloaded apps can choose whether or not to respect the OS's advice about the age of the user, it's not on the OS or devi
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Bill text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3193837 This seems... not terrible? The typical counter-argument to any "think of the children!" hand-wringing is that parents should instead i
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Yeah... I'm far from an expert on state-of-the-art ML, but it feels like a new embedding would invalidate any of the layers you keep. Taking off a late layer makes sense to me, like in cases where you want to use an LLM with a differen
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
It's much weirder now. The current holder of that domain is using it to host a single page that pushes anti-vax nonsense under the guise of fighting censorship... but also links to the actual PuTTY site. Very weird mix of maybe-well-me
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
> MCP promises to standardize AI-tool interactions as the “USB-C for AI.” Ironically, it's achieved this - but that's an indictment of USB-C, not an accomplishment of MCP. Just like USB-C, MCP is a nigh-universal connector with
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Uptime and reliability are not the same thing. Designing a bridge doesn't require that the engineer be working 99.9% of minutes in a day, but it does require that they be right in 99.9% of the decisions they make.
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Yeah, I know that's how it works under the hood - and why you have things like all integers with values in [-5, 256] being assigned to the pre-allocated objects - but I don't think it's a particularly useful model for actuall
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Your first example has to do with the fact that tuples are copied by value, whereas lists are "copied" by reference. This is a special case of an even larger (IMO) misfeature, which is that the language tries very, very hard to hi
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
SF city and county are actually the same legal entity , not just the same land. It's officially called the City and County of San Francisco, and it's just as unusual as it sounds. The mayor also has the powers of a county executi
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
I don't think that's the point. If non-technical people are able to make a product happen by asking a machine to do it for them, that's fine. But they're not engineering. It simply means that engineering is no longer req
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
It's not just time-value. It's also not just tying/advertising (although it is some of that - if I'm getting a ton of "free" points to American, I'm more likely to fly with them). It's both of those,
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
The tradeoff on short domestic flights is that it encourages more - and larger - carry-ons, which slows down boarding/deplaning and therefore adds to turnaround time. If I don't have to pay for checked bags, I'd often prefer
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Extra impressive then, since you'd be making what's typically been a 6-day round trip every day!
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
That'd be a very impressive service record - Neptune is right around ten thousand times as far as the moon.
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
At least in the remake, I think the dance minigame was randomized, but you could pretty easily play it perfectly. The dance partner does a little hand gesture to show you what to do next, and then you just hit he key in time with the music.
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Settlers might have less of a snowball effect than Monopoly, but it's definitely there. Pretty much any resource-gathering game is going to have it. If your resource numbers get rolled early on, you get to be the first one to build a
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Christ, what a ghoul. "The ends justify the means" is a horrific way to run a society in any case, but of course it skips over the question of whether the means actually caused the ends, let alone were the only way to do so. Even
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
> If you really believe your employer's stock will double in value, you can take your cash bonus and buy shares of it. RSUs aren't quite that deal, because they're "invested" before they vest. Even assuming that
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Basically none of it. RSUs at public companies are as good as cash that just happens to be pre-invested. The tax implications are very simple (they're just regular income like getting paid in cash), and so are your legal rights (you&#x
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by GeneralMayhem 1y ago
Same, as another former Googler. I worked on a team that had a relatively large amount of data access, and the amount of protection in place - technical and procedural, preventative and remedial - made me extremely comfortable giving Google
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by GeneralMayhem 2y ago
I don't think you're disagreeing with me. The comment I responded to says that calling Trump voters ignoramuses was - > trying to find an easy way to avoid the conclusion that the majority of them are sane and rational people w

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