Kamq

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by Kamq 4y ago
You're assuming they're mutually exclusive. I've had all of the ceremonies and no AC on plenty of tickets.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Certainly regulation of products that are imported for sale or sold across state lines is within even the most restrictive commerce clause reading. Sure, but you're really only mandating 50 factories instead of banning them.
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by Kamq 4y ago
We have... very different ideas about how capable random devs on a government contract are. Or how feasible it is to prevent the worst possible behavior in a large codebase. That is to say, I tend to assume code managed by a large team on a
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Once you have proper buy-in, you can likely move way faster than by trying to constantly side-channel things through existing processes. I've noticed this as well. It's amazing how many road blocks an executive trying to save
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by Kamq 4y ago
> it's short term vs long term productivity You should pick short term. Pretty much every time. The tradeoffs just don't make sense the other way. There's a 9/10 chance the thing you're working on will fail or no
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by Kamq 4y ago
My instinct says the IoT things are mostly fine. Might be some weirdness right around the overflow that makes things segfault (especially a time range crossing the event), but they'll probably just reboot. Banking and government/m
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Do you just have zero organic connection to 99% of your colleagues? They aren't really your colleagues in the sense you're thinking. Companies that big get broken up into departments or business units that function pretty clo
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by Kamq 4y ago
> the main issue with C from a security POV is the total lack of memory safety and the consequent vulnerability to buffer overflows. Sure, but C++ also has these issues, so the "not even C++" doesn't exactly make sense.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> In healthy orgs... This is, so far as I can tell, ~5% of them.
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by Kamq 4y ago
That's true of all A/B testing for real world things isn't it? You could have measured increased traffic because something was trending on twitter/HN instead of the UI changes you just deployed. Might be completely diffe
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by Kamq 4y ago
HTTP methods don't really have functionality inherently attached. They're only semantically meaningful. Occasionally intermediate infrastructure will treat them slightly differently, such as a firewall stripping bodies from GET re
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by Kamq 4y ago
No, they run in them.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Imagine you are a 5 year old child, and the judge is your parent. You think that this argument would work for them? Parents aren't bound by the US constitution.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> it doesn't take that many people to create a social change, for better or worse. It doesn't, but this brings up an interesting question. Is it legitimate to limit speech to prevent social change? I'm sure there were a lo
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by Kamq 4y ago
There are very few universities that hit this mark. That being said, MIT might actually be one of them. My understanding of the situation is that most universities accept federal funds, which have a bunch of strings attached. One of these s
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by Kamq 4y ago
> ...qualifies them pretty well to run… a better search engine, or whatever LLMs grow to be. Running it? Absolutely. Once again, their technical chops are not in question (at least by me). My concern is their ability to capitalize on it.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> The grandparent comment is trying to emphasize that there just isn’t a technology gap between Google and OpenAI. This is an entirely fair point, and I think I just missed it on my first reading of that post. > Google is not sitting
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by Kamq 4y ago
A lot of people have family that can't handle discussions adjacent to politics without moving into politics. The point of the list is not to generate interesting discussion. It is to generate interesting enough discussion while minimiz
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by Kamq 4y ago
> It says a lot about how confused political discourse gets that the author considers these things "not politics". "Politics", used in this context is used to mean: the set of topics that professional politicians and
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by Kamq 4y ago
> So you believe that firms should abide by contracts but that firms shouldn’t try to enforce the terms of those contracts. No one is saying that they should or shouldn't (or at least I haven't seen anyone saying this). But, wh
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Risk-averse to cannibalizing existing revenue I think this is the big one. The other ones are dangerous, but I don't think they're an existential threat to google. Not wanting to take a hit to existing revenue, however, is th
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by Kamq 4y ago
> the new system is too generic and insufficiently close to the original program I may have been unclear, but this was the scenario I was describing. The need for a bug-for-bug re-implementation is a special case where the acceptable dev
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by Kamq 4y ago
Do you know any platforms that adhere to vim/emacs conventions? Because that sounds way better than any of the options I'm aware of.
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by Kamq 4y ago
Version control practices have changed a lot since the 70s. It's possible the code has actually been lost. Or, more likely, the version that actually runs has been lost. Some code still exists (or existed), but how exactly it differs i
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by Kamq 4y ago
This tends to be the case when you need a bug-for-bug re-implementation of the old program, but it isn't stated up front.
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by Kamq 4y ago
Yes, but that's a limitation of humans. Science doesn't care about which ones you pick. You can be doing science with any set of initial non-falsifiable assumptions that humans are capable of holding.
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by Kamq 4y ago
Sure, but that's why metaphysics and epistemology aren't considered sciences. You wall off the non-falsifiable stuff in a box labeled "not science" and focus on the stuff that is falsifiable.
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by Kamq 4y ago
It absolutely is a legacy system (one of the ultimate ones). The problem is, all of the replacements since then have been worse.
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by Kamq 4y ago
Which works until you have a quote in your data. It also prevents chunking out the file to process in parallel since you could have new lines between the quotes. What I've found to work well is to just % encode your delimiter, the new
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by Kamq 4y ago
Peak subscribers. I should have been more specific.

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