bandrami

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by bandrami 4mo ago
I mean, I'm very much tech-forward and have spent the past decade in major world cities and I've seen a driverless car once in my life. Sometimes things that seem inevitable really aren't.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Yeah, so again the point of text editors is you shouldn't be typing all that much with them. That's why we use them. Macros. Shortcuts. Metaprogramming. Snippets. Identifier completion. Were people actually typing out the full tex
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by bandrami 4mo ago
So there are these things called "text editors"
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by bandrami 4mo ago
If "I want to see your instincts towards solving a problem" is a "gotcha" then we should just draw lots to hire people.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
In the 2016 primary. Trump was always fiscally heterodox to the old GOP.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
At some point we have to just admit we're mass cargo-culting here and that these secret invocations people swear by have the same epistemic value as medieval superstitions.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
As an aside, the mass mockery in response to Rumsfeld's statement always bothered me because it's the single most intelligent statement he ever made about the Iraq war, and if he had started out with that mindset things probably
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I mean, any answer is "accepted" in the sense that the whole point is to let me see how you think about solving simple problems. What has been distressing is seeing the number of applicants who can't even try , when it'
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I've managed to work in tech for 30 years without ever significantly coming into contact with javascript professionally. I hire Ada and C programmers for a stodgy defense contractor where we have to wear ties and it takes 6 months to g
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Nope, not remotely awful. I've made great hires from it, which is its point.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
No, it's a pretty good interview question because it tells me if somebody's instinct is to reinvent the wheel or not. What I didn't expect was how many people couldn't say how a wheel even works.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I have a question I usually ask which is "How would you convert a Julian yyyy-ddd date string to a military yyyy-mm-dd date string?" (I explain how a Julian date works if they aren't familiar with it.) The answer that almost
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Everybody talks about finding that mythical 10X but in my recent hiring experience it's more like there's a whole bunch of 0Xs and the trick is finding the actual 1Xs among them.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
At least as of 15 years ago when I was in grad school that remained an open conjecture.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
No this is still the level below needing a SCIF. The USG really tightened this stuff up in the 2010s and highly restricts what you can do with CUI. That's why there's a whole parallel FedRamp-compliant cloud ecosystem. But in term
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Oh Lord yes. We have very specific communications channels we're allowed to use about any of our sensitive products, and that's only the unclassified stuff (classified is obviously its own, stricter, beast).
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Google Workspaces and Dropbox have an IL5-compliant offering, which means they attest that they will not do exactly this (and are audited on that). Not sure about iCloud and Notion.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Keep in mind I'm still not convinced that 2000s bazaar was better than 90s cathedral (in fact I lean the other direction)
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by bandrami 4mo ago
And (now that I'm in management I understand this better than I used to) this problem becomes self-reinforcing. If every candidate out there only knows react and doesn't actually know how to do a simple front-end without it, you
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by bandrami 4mo ago
What if -- and bear with me here -- that barrier was actually a good thing?
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I always thought that fundamentally diffusors were the cooler idea of the two
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I mean, this is the biggest reason that's my employer's position
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by bandrami 4mo ago
And if the IPO does a WeWork, SpaceX's debt:equity ratio gets really bad really fast
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I think the benefit of rust here is that it's not hosted whereas typescript is
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I was just thinking this reminds me of the scene in The Wire where Avon admits to D'Angelo that the new heroin is in fact just the old heroin with different baby powder cutting it.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Right but the word "capex" isn't a magical amulet that makes balance of payments and cash flow problems disappear. Plenty of companies have been wrecked by overextending on capital spending.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Well, right, but if the real use case for LLMs is "making software that wasn't economical to make before" that's bearish for the labs because it means they're only going to be chasing the low end of the market.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Only if you count the 2 months of discounted compute Musk gave them.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
You understand xAI hasn't magically stopped producing debt, right? It's still setting money on fire every single quarter
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Do you hold hopes for finding a revenue stream to outweigh the massive influx of AI debt Musk glued onto SpaceX?

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