Simon_ORourke

8 ms·

91.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I remember being blown away by something similar on the venerable Commodore Amiga in the early 90s. Can't remember the name of the app, but you'd adjust a few parameters and line by line a terrain may would appear.
92.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> It doesn’t really solve enough of a “real” problem to justify the current cost Exactly this, for now the minimal use cases for these kinds of high-end VR headsets leave them firmly in the "gimmick" category. I'm pretty
93.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Meetings without an agenda and a published list of minutes and actions are effectively theft. You're stealing people's time and with that company resources. However, having said that I've found these kind of "Hi can we c
94.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I'm not sure it's rose-tinted glasses or some sense of nostalgia for the "good old days", but it does feel that our manufacturing processes have taken a step backwards since then.
95.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
You'd be surprised at how it's a great developer of latent narcissistic behavior. I know a couple of solid developers who immediate turned into outright jerks on promotion to senior.
96.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I'm guessing whatever the poster has in mind it'll have some Godwin's Law style implications :)
97.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Surely a mealy-mouthed email without a formal apology or admission of culpability will be the order the day - perhaps with a $2 Amazon voucher for those willing to click a box and agree to not sue for damages or engage in public disparageme
98.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Awesome, any open-source cross-platform media player is always welcome in my setup!
99.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Seems like these folks decided that shelter in place was the best idea and it backfired on them.
100.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
What?! You mean that my company's half-baked quickly-on-the-bandwagon AI for AI's sake strategy might backfire? Shocking! Seriously though, it seems AI is being marketed towards investors, and that wherever it was included in a pr
101.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Lunar rollercoaster park?
102.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I'd speculate that a lot of this is down to the kind of diagnostic tests run on the typical patient coming in for treatment. I know from personal experience that in Europe it's a lot less and tends to be a "take an advil, go
103.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
These are still very much in use in Germany today. I met a few of these guys in Berlin looking for a couch to crash on for a few days, all carpenters and very funny guys. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman_years
104.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Any LLM would outperform the DBA we had in our first start-up. This guy was a buddy of the co-founder and was parachuted into the top paying IC role out of about 25 developers. His "achievements" included dropping the production d
105.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Not to mention burdening your in-laws with some feckless poop-everywhere dimwit of a canine, which we've been dealing with in this house for the past two weeks while said in-laws are in the Caribbean. "But, but Nellie would hate t
106.
Hydraulic Construction on the Pyramids(bloomberg.com)
2 points by Simon_ORourke 2y ago|0 comments
107.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I'm sure it could be emulated with a FPGA or similar, if it was a few hundred bucks and came with a DSKY lookalike I'd buy it
108.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
If you've not already listened to the podcast, I'd really recommend The Space Above Us episode on this particular rabbit's foot/four leaf clover of a near miss... https://thespaceabove.us/ To have severa
109.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
There's a story my uncle told me about meeting Beefheart after some gig in Phoenix in the early 70's, where he literally bumped into him outside the stage door after the show. My uncle, basically awestruck, offered Beefheart a smo
110.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I thoroughly support Meta's open-sourcing of these AI models going forward. However, for a company that absolutely closed down discussions about providing API access to their platform, I'm left wondering what's in it (monetar
111.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Great to see Lance Armstrong's name (he of the legal threats regarding doping) getting rolled out and given a thorough going over again.
112.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Where I work, there's a somewhat haphazardly divided org structure, where my team has some responsibility to answer the executives demands for "use AI to help our core business". So we applied off-the-shelf models to extract
113.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
If you've got a defendant with a war chest of several billion USD there's going to be a very drawn out legal process.
114.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Yes, and don't list skills like git, numpy, scipy, in some massively long bullet pointed list. Two pages max. Qualifications and experience, with previous role title front and center.
115.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I'm hiring two senior SWE roles right now, after many many months alternatively cajoling and threatening various VPs in my org. They kinda admitted at the start of the year we were due some headcount after some other engineers left las
116.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
If this is hinting at 1-in-3 American adults being somewhat culturally deficient or otherwise intellectually challenged then that feels about right.
117.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
No, it's sacrificing salary and well being in the present in order to let yourself sacrifice salary and well being in the near future
118.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
While I wholeheartedly agree that this approach makes perfect sense and would perhaps help with context switching various tasks, the time required to pour your heart out journaling would take time away from doing actual work. While I do som
119.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
The only metric they worry about each day, looking good for their C-suite bosses. Genuinely, they'll go and say they've reduced costs and their orgs headcount by whatever, and absolutely NOBODY will ever ask the follow-up about wh
120.
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
If you believe your company has your best interests at heart then you're just a mark waiting to be given some unpleasant news some day soon. As a manager I've personally saved a few folks over the years from a very arbitrary sacki

More ›