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by alentred 2y ago
This is one of the reasons I didn't like "The Toyota Way" book. I have read it after I have been exposed to the theory of constraints and some other knowledge about production organization, and I was turned off about all the
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by alentred 2y ago
Enchanted?
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by alentred 2y ago
This is BRILLIANT ! I knew of a trend to implement lots of different things at compile-time (in Scala and Haskell communities at least) - definitely fun and quirky, but it never seemed that "special". This one, it has an air of ol
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by alentred 2y ago
If "computer use" feature is able to find it's way in Azure, AAD/Entra, SharePoint settings, etc. - it has a chance of becoming a better user interface for Microsoft products. :) Can you imagine how simple the world woul
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A solution for the global warming crisis(alentred.medium.com)
1 points by alentred 2y ago|0 comments
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by alentred 2y ago
Even if you pretend that questions are just accidentally ambiguous, the difference is that subjects are supposed to answer 30 questions in 10 minutes with zero mistakes. This is deliberate and virtually impossible to accomplish.
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by alentred 2y ago
I am tired of innovations being abused. AI itself is super exciting and fascinating. But, it being abused -- to generate content to drive more ad-clicks, or the "Now better with AI" promise on every landing page, etc. etc. -- that
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by alentred 2y ago
This study seems to hide everything behind the magical "luck" while not actually explaining anything. The way I understand it, some randomness is added to the model, which I assume was calibrated until the model yielded the result
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by alentred 2y ago
Because Code ≠ Product. Code ∈ Product, among many other things. I would go even further and say that that relationship between the two is weak, but also very peculiar: bad code can ruin a good product; but good code alone says very littl
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by alentred 2y ago
I would go with whatever I know best. Whichever you chose, your productivity won't depend on the technology per se, but how familiar you are with it - when doing MVP/prototypes the tech needs to not get in the way, all else is doa
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by alentred 2y ago
I get the joke, but jokes aside the title should be "...because OpenAI couldn't care less", I suppose, because it was not exactly the objective? The "chain of thought" was, and when instructed properly it comes up
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by alentred 2y ago
It is fun to imagine how my intestines become transparent every time I drink Fanta and there is no one to see it but the microbes living there. Who probably "freak out" in their own way.
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by alentred 2y ago
> Ultimately pointless I wonder if there are crowd-sourced iptables instead. Similar to how ad filters are maintained.
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by alentred 2y ago
You are reading it in the wrong direction. "Learn to type on a keyboard" is the basic skill (and I am pretty sure it means some form of touch typing, not a finger-poking), and "Buying a domain" is the advanced one.
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by alentred 2y ago
Oooh! Thank you, it makes much more sense now. It is weird, though, that we humans need to be distracted to focus on brushing the teeth.
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by alentred 2y ago
> showed an up-to-date current world events news feed Say what now? Oral-B? World events news feed?
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by alentred 2y ago
It is my new Google, ever since Web Search and the Web itself stopped to work as a source of information. When I look for answers to specific questions, I either search Wikipedia, or ask ChatGPT. "Searching the Internet" doesn&#x2
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by alentred 2y ago
It is funny how these methods get rediscovered and reinvented over and over again. I believe that it is absolutely necessary for each to have their own "framework" for this kind of things, but it also falls into the category of th
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by alentred 2y ago
There is a lot to consider given your situation and you have lots of input here already. So, I would only add my 2 cents in the case you finally decide to bring the dev in-house: 1. Start the team from hiring *senior* talent. Prefer *pragma
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by alentred 2y ago
I think the book is "How to Solve It" by Polya, I mean it. The skills are transferable.
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by alentred 2y ago
Haha, yes. There are always assumptions to make or constraints to consider. But they are also often not obvious, so... A quote by Fry from Futurama comes to mind: > Zoidberg: All 6,000 hulls have been breached! > Fry: Oh, the fools! I
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by alentred 2y ago
We are all a bit overwhelmed by the complexity of the field of software engineering. Arguably sometimes accidental. But I don't agree that rejecting all the ideas we have come up with over the decades is a solution. On the other hand,
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Berkshire halves Apple stake, boosts cash to $277B as it gets 'defensive'(reuters.com)
71 points by alentred 2y ago|96 comments
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by alentred 2y ago
I love the concept! I think TinyPod is an outcry over the sizes of the smartphones today. The smallest most recent iPhone you could buy was iPhone 13 mini and it was discontinued. Don't know about other brands, but from what I am seein
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by alentred 2y ago
I, for one, have recently refactored my NeoVim config in the exact opposite direction: now using mostly default nvim settings, dropped lots of plugins, etc. Feels great really. Quite honestly I was simply tired of maintaining my old configs
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by alentred 2y ago
Curiously, French is also good at being "pronounced how its written", but horrible the other way around, writing down what you hear. With only a few exceptions, you can always read out loud a written word. There is quite a lot of
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by alentred 2y ago
Agreed on first two points. You often can get a feel of a company based on the interview. > I don't understand when companies try to give test assignments to senior developers. I think this is perfectly valid, though. When I intervi
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by alentred 2y ago
Very nice. I was considering installing a few PV panels and was looking for something like this to estimate the solar exposure in various time periods. Works nicely to get an initial idea.
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by alentred 2y ago
Agreed. The abstractions on top of parquet are quite immature yet, though, and lots of software assumes that if you use Parquet - you also use Hive, Spark and stuff. Take Apache Iceberg for example. It is essentially a specification to how
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by alentred 2y ago
Hi! OP here. Thank you for pointing this out! Indeed, I do tend to "think out loud" and give a lot of context. Your comment makes me think how I can communicate more directly and to the point, I mean it. On a side note I see you b

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