Spartan-S63

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by Spartan-S63 28d ago
The fascination with "software factories" is strange. We don't have "bridge factories" or "skyscraper factories." We engineer those for the specific requirements from each individual project. I think it&#x
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by Spartan-S63 1mo ago
I'm curious for folks who use multiplexers: I've tried tmux and Zellij and if I used a multiplexer, it would be Zellij. However, I can't stand losing terminal real estate, but I don't know why that is. How do you deal wi
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by Spartan-S63 2mo ago
For at least half that time period between world wars, there was significant economic depression. It might simply be the economy. The vibes are bad and have been bad since the late 70s because wealth distribution is lopsided and income grow
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by Spartan-S63 2mo ago
First job I had was a pair-programming shop that outfitted each station with a 27" iMac and a 27" Cinema display (along with two sets of mice and keyboards). Second job was remote, so I outfitted my own home office. I upgraded fro
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by Spartan-S63 2mo ago
Depending on industry and public versus private here, that $80k+ barrier for non-tech is mostly management positions.
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by Spartan-S63 2mo ago
I think they're generalizing beyond software engineers with what they're saying. G&A, Marketing, etc roles pay significantly less than software engineers and that $55-75k figure is realistic in lower cost of living areas. Even
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by Spartan-S63 3mo ago
My 1/3 life crisis was buying a Toyota Tacoma Trailhunter long bed last year. It’s been my dream to own a Tacoma for several years, so it was finally time to make it happen. Eventually, I’d love to modify the exhaust to make it slightl
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by Spartan-S63 3mo ago
Better solution: Adopt summer and winter hours to follow the sun rather than arbitrarily changing the clocks and interrupting sleep schedule and circadian rhythms.
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by Spartan-S63 3mo ago
I took a long break from reading for enjoyment after I graduated from college. I got burnt out from reading things I didn't enjoy in high school and undergrad. Now it's what I do to wind down my day before bed. It's a nice re
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by Spartan-S63 3mo ago
I'd be interested to see more concerted research into contagious/self-replicable vaccines that are self-replicating and spreadable to a wider swath of people. That seems like a step forward in public health prevention for seasonal
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
If we're evaluating a person, rote recall is not necessarily cheating. It's expected, but then you'd expect them to apply that rote-memorized information in a novel way later on and prove they understand how they applied thei
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
No, the public at large are the stakeholders. The enterprise is the subject of the regulation.
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
How is the subject of potential regulation considered a stakeholder?
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
I find that OpenAI's agentic tools and models are better for building human-maintainable software. Meanwhile, Anthropic seems to be cosplaying Apple while missing out on all the exceptional engineering required to create something that
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
I think the ideal, but politically infeasible outcome would be passing regulation to prevent hyperscalars from hosting their own models (or requiring wholesale leasing of infra), akin to other country’s telecom line-sharing regulations. Ess
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
I don't fully agree. If the only way information and cross-pollination is through in-office water-cooler conversation, that's an organizational smell. If you have most of the work and conversation is done in public, you're no
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
Most variants of GPT-5.5 are less chatty and token-intensive than Opus 4.8/4.7, so despite the output token price being higher, it generates fewer tokens, so the net cost is lower. Per-token pricing is totally sensible from the provide
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
Yeah, it's certainly a departure from the Prius-style hybrid powertrain. I'll watch that video as I haven't come across it yet! Also, I love how my 4th gen Tacoma drives! So glad I got a long-bed Trailhunter last year.
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
If they cleaved off xAI and let it die, they'd be in much better shape!
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by Spartan-S63 4mo ago
I now have a hybrid Toyota truck (Tacoma i-Force MAX), so it's not like the classical EV/BEV powertrain, from my understanding. Instead, the motor is between the engine and the transmission, so it gives an initial kick of torque b
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by Spartan-S63 5mo ago
I had my breakup with them when I realized that I always install vim keybindings for every editor I use and that Neovim plus plugins gives me the typical workflow I use. It became a no-brainer to lean into the LSP ecosystem (and DAP for deb
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by Spartan-S63 5mo ago
> except that no one has been able to articulate what "new work" might emerge I think it's worse than that. The frontier labs are purporting that there won't be any "new work" required in the future—starting
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by Spartan-S63 5mo ago
Wouldn't it be incredible if they remove the sequel trilogy from canon and rebrand "Legends" as the actual post-Galactic Civil War timeline? I'd certainly like that.
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by Spartan-S63 5mo ago
At some point, because these models are trained on existing data, you cease significant technological advancement--at least in tech (as it relates to programming languages, paradigms, etc). You also deskill an entire group of people to the
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by Spartan-S63 7mo ago
Yeah, I agree with this. I think age-related content moderation is a losing fight and one that will create more contempt for laws, more surveillance, and much more PII surface area that will be exploited. There are really two "core&quo
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by Spartan-S63 7mo ago
App Tracking Transparency. I first through "AT&T" and then actually realized the acronym.
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by Spartan-S63 7mo ago
And even if you could be made whole via insurance, the TSA agent not facing repercussions and the system not having a feedback loop to improve is the actual problem.
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by Spartan-S63 9mo ago
I think this, or calmer heads prevailing and Powell retaining soft power/influence are the most likely outcomes. Without being able to dismiss board members at will, Trump won't have the influence he wants over the Fed.
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by Spartan-S63 9mo ago
He won't be chair, but he'll still be a governor. I think the attempt is to get rid of him in both positions early and for good.
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by Spartan-S63 10mo ago
Even still, over more than two decades, only a ten percentage point increase is still somewhat mind-blowing. As someone who grew up upper middle class in a wealthier suburban area, I lived in a bubble where the vast majority of people I wen

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