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by atemerev 1y ago
In mid-90s, people who are now in their 30s were about 5 years old. Their formative age was from 2005 to 2015, and yes, things were staying relatively the same during this time.
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by atemerev 1y ago
Sure. Just set the temperature to 0 in every model and see it become deterministic. Or use a fully deterministic PRNG like random123.
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by atemerev 1y ago
This is obviously the most important HTTP header, but HTTP is application-level, and clacks is a packet routing system. Perhaps something like IPv6's Hop-by-Hop Options can be used to pass names with every packet? Or, even better, we c
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by atemerev 1y ago
Yes, I am paid for work in crypto (I am a consultant), and I can exchange it for cash and pay for rent and groceries in cash, just like people did in the previous century. In some other Swiss cantons like Zug, you can pay some of the bills
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by atemerev 1y ago
Stablecoins are a thing. But yes, I hate the current state of affairs, with "memecoins" and whatsnot. Particularly the government push from one particular country. We created crypto to be independent from governments, not to enabl
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by atemerev 1y ago
I am a Russian immigrant in Switzerland. As of right now, all Swiss banks block all Russian bank accounts until their owners can provide a valid physical residence permit card, due to sweeping sanctions (meanwhile, Russian-owned companies c
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by atemerev 1y ago
"It's crypto all over again" Crypto is a lifeline for me, as I cannot open a bank account in the country I live in, for reasons I can neither control nor fix. So I am happy if crypto is useless for you. For me and for million
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by atemerev 1y ago
Docker makes things opaque. You deploy black boxes and have no idea how the components there operate. Which is fine for devops, but as a software engineer, I prefer to work without Docker (and having to use Docker to install something on a
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by atemerev 1y ago
Sure, that's what Github is for. Working in corporate environments is another story.
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by atemerev 1y ago
Emigration? It is really easy for Americans to move to Europe. If you are Russian, Pakistani or Kenian, that's another story.
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by atemerev 1y ago
If you already have enough investments to not work, why would anyone even work in tech? Leaving the grind when you already kind or rich is easy mode. Leaving it when your net worth is negative is another story.
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by atemerev 1y ago
I miss this so much. Deployment should be just copying the file (over ssh or whatever). Why people overcomplicated it so much?
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by atemerev 1y ago
Because otherwise it would break syntax highlighting until you finish writing the string. And no, sorry, I like my syntax highlighting, I won't turn it off. This feature is useful for me. So are LLMs. If someone doesn't want to us
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by atemerev 1y ago
True, that usually works, but not in the time of economic downturn.
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by atemerev 1y ago
O hi. Well, they are one logical leap away from realizing that instead of sending undesirables to CECOT they can send them to their guerre du jour instead. I guess Erik Prince could use a penal battalion or two.
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by atemerev 1y ago
Ah, the good old Sybil attack problem. Usually resolved by reputation systems and auto-ban algorithms.
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by atemerev 1y ago
Nice. It would be great to document other abuses in detail, particularly from DOJ.
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by atemerev 1y ago
The current balance of engagement / sustainability of 8 hours per day, 5 days a week was reached after decades of trial and error. One might argue that it converged during the industrial age (it was 6 days a week in agricultural age),
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by atemerev 1y ago
Because the masses need to be be busy, otherwise they would get ideas.
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by atemerev 1y ago
It's not that simple, I think. There are many Russians everywhere, and probably they work at victim companies too, so just being Russian won't be enough, if ransom could be in the millions. You'll have to convince them that t
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by atemerev 1y ago
I am fine with constant linear improvement too. What model do you use? SOTA is Gemini 2.5-pro. We definitely didn't have anything comparable in 2024.
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by atemerev 1y ago
In eight months, we got SOTA from 50% to 83% on Aider's Polyglot benchmark (225 Exercism problems). That increase matches my own experience.
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by atemerev 1y ago
I don't know. Like, only eight months ago or so, I was explaining my colleagues how using AI for coding can actually work, in some cases. Now, I don't know any engineers who don't use AI tools, at least at work (our own pet p
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by atemerev 1y ago
Of course there will be displacement of workers. That's entirely the point. "We are in the business of unemploying people", like software engineering in general, but on steroids.
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by atemerev 1y ago
Godwin himself suspended the law some years ago. Yes, Nazis were also immensely popular with the electorate, and one can argue they even were democratically elected. Pushing people they didn't like to livestock cars or planes to CECOT
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by atemerev 1y ago
If you want reproducibility and statelessness, there's random123 which I highly recommend. Particularly useful for GPU code. (Not cryptographically secure, but passes all statistical tests you throw at it).
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by atemerev 1y ago
Sure, absolutely. Turned out that's a common ADHD symptom. Turned out I has ADHD.
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by atemerev 1y ago
Oooh, as there was a law to sent Jews to concentration camps, you couldn't hurt gestapo officers or their families, that would set a really bad precedent! Right? Law is not arbitrary. Cruelty and unfairness need to be fought, lawful or
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by atemerev 1y ago
I am in awe how people can talk about buying 1.8 million homes like it's nothing big.
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by atemerev 1y ago
Oh right, just doing their job sending innocent people to foreign concentration camps. "They just follow orders".

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