JambalayaJimbo

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by JambalayaJimbo 7mo ago
> The best engineering managers I've worked with didn't "become" managers. They were already doing the work - unblocking people, aligning priorities, having hard conversations - and the title caught up. I have only be
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by JambalayaJimbo 7mo ago
But the company can deploy economies of scale to make their AI chatbots defeat yours? Company A can still hire someone in India to continually change their chat bot protocol or whatever to make it difficult for you chat bot to succeed in ge
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by JambalayaJimbo 7mo ago
Network effects on iMessage mean people buy iPhones
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by JambalayaJimbo 7mo ago
The MCP implementation is itself an agent right? Is that not just pushing the problem somewhere else? Also, I run programs on my machine with a different privilege level than myself all the time. Why can’t an agent do that?
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by JambalayaJimbo 7mo ago
This is both really cool and also fucking insanity - the lengths we’ll go just to avoid building better train service.
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by JambalayaJimbo 7mo ago
The problem with your DC beltway example wouldn’t be automated enforcement then, but with the speed limit itself. A road without pedestrians and intersections in it should have a speed limit that reflects the reality of its use (70-80)
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by JambalayaJimbo 7mo ago
>cars have gotten safer For their inhabitants, maybe not pedestrians though. Speeding laws are in part for protecting pedestrians
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by JambalayaJimbo 7mo ago
While contributing back to ffmpeg is great, this is insanely hyperbolic lol. Do you genuinely think Instagram and Facebook are positive contributions to society?
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
Is everyone here just ignoring the fact that the 12 year maintainer of this project performed the re-write? Companies cannot do this with relative ease unless they hire these OSS maintainers
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
How do you know it didn’t look at the source?
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
I graduated in 2020 and I took a circuit design class and was taught Nagles algorithm. I guess I could have learned more but I thought the degree was packed enough with enough when you consider all the different parts of it, from the math t
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
That’s the Spotify model.
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
Management is salivating because their jobs are hard to automate, so they stand to benefit from not having to pay employees as much.
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
“I met my husband on hinge” is something that gets people to download the app right away. I’ve seen it happen tons of times
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
Fewer lines of code would result in the exact same gamified metric
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
Batman is a vigilante using brutal violence to pursue his goals outside of any legal system. The whole concept of the comics, movies, etc. is predicated on him being a virtuous guy that you can trust will always do the right thing (mostly,
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
>against the owner of the device Would you consider MFA to be a measure against you, the owner of the device, because it makes it harder for you to login? >If the bank wants some assurance about a device, they need to sell or issue on
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
If you are not checking that the phone number is 10 digits (or whatever the rules are for the phone number for your use case), it is absolutely pointless. But why would you not?
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by JambalayaJimbo 8mo ago
Why is 2FA impossible if you self host?
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by JambalayaJimbo 9mo ago
I think he’s talking about Siege
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by JambalayaJimbo 9mo ago
This is disingenuous because the US has massive problems with its ethnic minorities today, never-mind in the past. With mass incarceration and funky electoral borders being used to disenfranchise people.
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by JambalayaJimbo 10mo ago
Do you really think that gender, sexuality, and race are not sensitive topics everywhere? Musicians are routinely banned from south east Asia for lgbt lyrics or activism, for example.
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by JambalayaJimbo 10mo ago
This might be useful when working on a low trust team but I can’t imagine doing that in my job, unless specifically working a poc or presentation.
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by JambalayaJimbo 10mo ago
This is not really an option for your standard IC.
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by JambalayaJimbo 10mo ago
I’ve been seeing obviously LLM generated PRs, but not huge ones.
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by JambalayaJimbo 10mo ago
Can you not just use verbose descriptions in your swagger document?
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by JambalayaJimbo 10mo ago
How does it remove the need for CSV export? The LLM can make mistakes right? Wouldn’t you want the LLM calling the deterministic csv export tool rather than trying to create a csv on its own?
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by JambalayaJimbo 10mo ago
The cost of the car itself is minimal compared to insurance, gas and storage costs.
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by JambalayaJimbo 11mo ago
By "self-employed" - are you referring to subsistence farming? Everything I know about subsistence farming makes it appear much more precarious than corporate work; where hard work is especially disconnected from your rewards; gov
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by JambalayaJimbo 11mo ago
>You don’t see investment bankers / lawyers / management consultants / etc. go on about side projects, leveling up their skills during the weekend, and other things that are considered completely normal in this industry. I

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