StevePrefontain

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by StevePrefontain 5d ago
I don’t think this is universal advice. I’m also a staff engineer and had to ask to get promoted to senior and staff level. Yes, you have to actually be doing good work and operating at that level as you say, but promotion culture has enorm
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by StevePrefontain 9d ago
How do geneticists go about identifying alleles associated with autism? Seems like the effect size would be very small for most of them, and given the relatively small sample population of humans that can be practically sequenced for this,
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by StevePrefontain 9d ago
GDP growth is never going to be that high again. GDP growth is just per-capita GDP growth (1-1.5% per year) + population growth (used to be 1%, now is 0% or slightly negative). GDP growth of 1-1.5% will be normal going forward and could eve
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by StevePrefontain 10d ago
Very hard to tell if this is satire. It reads like one of those old r/programmerhumor posts where people competed to come up with the worst designs possible for a volume control. I could not think of a worse technology to use for an ET
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by StevePrefontain 12d ago
Trump is almost amoral. It’s why he can’t understand at a basic level why his corruption would even be considered a scandal at all. In his mind, of course I’m using the presidency to enrich myself, my family, and my friends; that’s the whol
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by StevePrefontain 27d ago
You’re misunderstanding 2 fundamental things. First is that it’s very expensive to build anything in major US cities with the high cost of labor, materials, and permitting. Rent control completely tips the balance against building housing t
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by StevePrefontain 27d ago
These camera also monitor the ambient Bluetooth output of phones in cars that pass by to identify who exactly was in the car at the time. Don’t think the LLC will hide that unless your phone is also owned under an LLC
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by StevePrefontain 2mo ago
They have already added the ability for these cameras to scrape Bluetooth metadata from phones passing by as well so they know who is in the car with you as well
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by StevePrefontain 2mo ago
I highly doubt anything more than a small single-digit percent of users are willing to pay $50-100 for a Claude subscription themselves. Just like everything else (if your company isn’t paying for a seat) 90% of people will just use the fre
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by StevePrefontain 2mo ago
We are having trouble onboarding engineers with AI now. Some still struggle after their first year with very basic concepts/patterns we use and make the same mistakes again and again in their PRs because they just ask Claude to fix it
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by StevePrefontain 2mo ago
It’s not better than human review. It’s good at catching low-hanging issues but it is often requested overly-defensive code to handle edge cases that don’t exist or are handled elsewhere in the stack. It generates a ton of noise with low-si