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by TYPE_FASTER 8mo ago
The FAANG companies hoarded engineering talent for years. It was really difficult to hire in any market where they were located. What I think will happen/is happening is the combination of AI assisted development and reduction in FAANG
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by TYPE_FASTER 8mo ago
I've reached the age where my body starts complaining if I don't exercise somehow on a frequent basis.
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by TYPE_FASTER 8mo ago
I have an old Mac Pro that I have upgraded to High Sierra. I don't really want to upgrade it further.
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by TYPE_FASTER 8mo ago
That brings back so many memories! The Vic was our first computer. 45ish years later, here I am, still writing code. Thanks for making that and posting it here.
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
It's still new, but it's useful now. I'm on the Claude Pro plan personally. I had Claude write a Chrome extension for me personally this morning. It built something working, close to a MVP, then I hit the Claude Pro limit. I
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
> The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise Recently, it so happened that I spent an hour reverse engineering and documenting a piece of a system. A co-worker asked a LLM to do the same. It generated some really
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
I asked Claude to summarize a legacy codebase yesterday. Some of it was accurate. Some of it was not.
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
Is this from LinkedIn? Sounds familiar.
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
At zombocom, everything is possible!
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
There was a super weird alignment at a previous job where the appearances, personalities, and seniority/rank of some of my co-workers matched characters in Dilbert to the T. It was really funny and almost eerie, like Scott Adams was hi
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
Same here. It’s not the signal everybody thinks it is.
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
Yeah exactly, I was thinking this would be a good solution for crypto mining rigs. AI is similar from a power requirement perspective.
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
Apple and Google already have the search relationship. Makes sense for this to happen. Am curious what kind of data Google gets out of the deal.
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
Computer software is on the chart, computer hardware should be as well. Compare the cost of a new Apple II or Commodore 64 system with a modern Chromebook.
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by TYPE_FASTER 9mo ago
Founder of American AI company believes AI infrastructure should be built in America. Let's see what the United States Secretary of Commerce has to say regarding onshore manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
> It is when you use a coding agent to build towers of complexity that go beyond what you have time to understand in any detail. I think the quality of the product depends on the person (or people) responsible for it understanding the de
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
The cost of health insurance is going up by a factor of 8x per month for some people next year. Everything costs more. People in rural communities are aging more rapidly than in more densely populated areas. Wood heat is more common in rura
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
Domain name checks out
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
At one point years ago, there was an iOS release where the recently used apps would render, then re-order themselves after a second or two. You could tell it was caching then dynamically updating. It was frustrating from a UX perspective be
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
mmmmm cromulent
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
> networking is absolutely essential for post-graduation job-placement success Looking back, this has absolutely been the case for me personally. My first job out of school was at a startup spun off from a lab where a friend from my CS c
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
You can run shortcuts using Siri. You can create a shortcut with an action that executes via SSH: https://matsbauer.medium.com/how-to-run-ssh-terminal-command... .
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
When you click "Dive Deeper...", it says "Yes, 2026 is next year."
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
> And, even if it did, 99.99999% of folks wouldn't read any of it anyway. One approach that I've seen work is start the meeting by having everybody read a document (see https://www.sixpagermemo.com ). It's fresh
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
I didn’t know for years that you can ask it to do things remotely over SSH.
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
What I have seen work in the past is testing using a production backup as a final step prior to releasing, including applying database scripts. In this case, the permissions change would have been executed, the query would have run, and the
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
> Looking over this PR, the vast majority of the code is a DWARF library by itself. This should really not live in the compiler, nor should it become a maintenance burden for the core devs. I think this is a good point, that publishing a
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by TYPE_FASTER 10mo ago
> Metaprogramming style in C++20 only has a loose relationship to previous versions. It is now concise and highly maintainable. You can do metaprogramming in the old painful and verbose way and it will work but you can largely dispense w
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by TYPE_FASTER 11mo ago
> To my knowledge rather consulting firms are great at selling the necessity of lots of consultants consultant days: Just let the customer talk very openly about their wishes for the project, and you immediately get an insane scope explo
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by TYPE_FASTER 11mo ago
> For final grading I saw the excavator trucking out what looked like native soil and trucking in rocky soil. They sell the topsoil and replace it with cheap (rocky) fill. Every. Time.

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