Simon_O_Rourke

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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
> Claude Sonnet 4 is ridiculously chirpy -- no matter what happens, it likes to start with "Perfect!" or "You're absolutely right!" and everything! seems to end! with an exclamation point! Exactly my issue with i
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Don't tell management about this, as they're all betting the house on AI agents next year.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Very scummy behavior from Hyatt hotels. I'd always check out the negative reviews of hotels before booking, and this might have caught it
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
There's a concept I read about before called micromorts, where activities are given a danger rating something like the expected number of fatalities per million events. So riding a motorbike 100 miles is 8 micromorts. Hang-gliding is 9
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Not that I doubt the reports, but how could anyone possibly make that call?
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Ahhh now, that's a bit of an exaggeration. Just because the kid doing the narration happened to have close family in a military organization somehow negates the ideas presented in the piece? Always be reframing the narrative to focus o
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Yeah, but that guy was well insulated with blubber.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
And a drop in the ocean what those companies are losing too on an annual basis.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Love it, that's where I direct all our new hires who want to pick up the basics of Python. I'll be reading this chapter myself this weekend too.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
> It's difficult to conclude anything other than murder-suicide. The balance of probability might tend to support that hypothesis. However I'm wondering if it was just something involuntary. My ex for instance who learned to dr
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
How can you figure out that percentage? The commit logs?
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Crashing isn't the totality of unsupported code. I previously worked in a company where a goodly proportion of the back end product team was let go, and their system stayed running for two plus years without a single fix or update goin
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
> lets just make sure we never need to work together Seeing as how you seem to prefer to let everyone else steal a march on you in interviews in the interest of "fairness", that's not likely to happen anytime soon.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
I hear being unfortunate enough to be in an elevator with Steve Jobs was enough to get you fired from Apple back in the day.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
In fairness, he only explained why a vast vast majority of people don't float away. He didn't adequately explain edge cases like Joseph of Cupertino - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
How is it unethical? Say you ask whoever what's being asked and they say you need to sort a string in place and then discuss how a random forest gets trained... You still need to answer those questions AND know enough to answer the fol
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
There's the flip side to it too... I'm just waiting for an overly ambitious non-technical colleague in what should be a technical management role to overreach in terms of role and promotion.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Doing whatever it takes to get the foot in the door may be encouraged, but only to a point and I think out and out cheating is probably crossing a line... As would murder, arson etc. etc. If cheating means asking someone in the company you&
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Super simple, but an AI powered greenhouse. Arduino with a humidity, temp, soil moisture hat, logging in MySQL, semantic to layer with growing info, AI front end.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
The reason I'd highlighted Chinese telcos particularly, was an experience of my ex-wife who worked with a well known Western telecoms provider. She was out in the middle east (not Dubai though) to pitch for some 5G backbone business a
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
> what business partners want in a deal is enhancing prestige, aligning with family business values, and offering something genuinely unique in a market where exclusivity matters. There must be some awfully corrupt shenanigans selling st
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
That's true but it sucks, it's just a massive scam masquerading as religion. If there's any legislation to tax the bejesus (pun intended) out of any and all religious groups I'm all for it. It'll pay for all those f
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Bret Devereaux does touch on an interesting concept though in his articles on this nitpick... That movie goers are so acclimated to seeing how "movie Roman" armies fight, that showing them a more historically accurate battle scene
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Is this more of a battery cost issue - if you owned a battery that charged off the grid and discharged during blackout periods then that might just about cover you if you budget for the expected outage duration.... And assuming you can affo
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
I've had the privilege (?) of experiencing one in the wild only once. Was hashing a few columns to create a hash key for a dimensional table in snowflake and two wholy different rows clashed.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Many thanks for the update on this particular aspect of it. That rules it out of any production deployment until 2026 so.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
That's an all around bad move for the US. Getting dragged into an Israeli war and probably having to carry the can for the next few years alone after getting into a mess not of our own making (well directly anyway). This is going to hi
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
No, for the love of God don't try Finnegan's Wake. Take the 25 bucks you would have used to buy it online and do something better with it, like burning it in the trash can, or buying a North Korean memecoin with it.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
That's doubly suspicious, so they can, by that statement readily hand over your imprecise other-than-personal messages at an individual level to the Israelis.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
> I can assure you that the recipients produce little of worth. This is pure BS, how would you weigh the cultural value of one thing versus another. Not everyone's cultural has an event in the Kennedy Center with tuxedo clad morons

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