bartimus

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by bartimus 4y ago
I wasn't happy when they moved the "Close tabs to the right" menu option into a submenu and then not have that configurable. It's an important feature for me. I now need to install an add-on to get the desired behavior.
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by bartimus 4y ago
The premise being that the information is currently in a perfect state. It isn't. It's actually in a horrible state. ChatGPT might exactly have the opposite effect. It's able to detect conflicting patterns. It's able to
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by bartimus 4y ago
The choice of architectural solution is exactly where the developer can achieve their 10x gains. So who knows your monolith idea might achieve the 10x gains over whatever solution you're currently stuck with?
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by bartimus 4y ago
> we are perhaps converging to a future where a FAANG L7 can just sketch out architectural details and the programmer equivalent of paralegals will simply query the latest LLM and clean up the output. This is just proposing waterfall + o
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by bartimus 4y ago
Hope this isn't going to lock GPT behind MS's product offerings.
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by bartimus 4y ago
I still don't entirely get what has happened. So he runs a bitcoin node on a compromised machine. But why would he store (or use) his 200+ BTC private keys there? He also mentions: > No, they got my cold wallet too somehow How can t
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by bartimus 4y ago
It's why the legs are loaded server-side.
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by bartimus 4y ago
> no one is bombarding us with ads. is where journalism left the building. Not because of "ads". But because of "us". The article is subjective. What problem is he talking about? The problem of Mastodon not getting en
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by bartimus 4y ago
You can also ask it to translate phonetically for a specified alphabet. Have it say things sarcastically. And then have it capitalize certain words to emphasize the sarcasm.
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by bartimus 4y ago
I think it's being correct in its response: Q: A survey was done among a group of people. The result of the survey was that the group didn't like dogs. Does the group like poodles? ChatGPT: Without knowing the specifics of the sur
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by bartimus 4y ago
Yes, I've had meetings with those people managers. I would consider them more HR type managers. After some reading it's my understanding that - from an HR perspective - the main difference between a manager and an "individual
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by bartimus 4y ago
Big companies usually operate on a yearly / quarterly cycle when budgeting things (bookkeeping cycle). If they need someone in January you're probably hired in December. January is the new start of the year. If they decide to take
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by bartimus 4y ago
I have a fairly high level IC / lead engineer role with two other team members (1 junior and 1 medior). I need to keep an eye on their work. Provide direction on how things can be implemented. I'm not their official manager. We ha
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by bartimus 4y ago
I'm also confused. It's my understanding that staff engineers are responsible for taking the software into a certain technical direction. "Upper management" related to engineering. Wouldn't that automatically involv
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by bartimus 4y ago
I can third this. Usually companies are busy making plans for the new year. Then somewhere near February is where they start looking for the people who can make it happen.
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by bartimus 4y ago
It's painful how slow we're coming to realize the concept of "how much screen time?" has been asking the wrong question. Isn't a piece of paper just another screen? Isn't a book just another screen? What about
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by bartimus 4y ago
> Apparently on newer chipsets, there is no such thing as "suspend to RAM" anymore. Newer chipsets? Or AMD chipsets particularly?
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by bartimus 4y ago
Ah, split screen. No option for covert strategies. I guess many people stopped investing into expensive pc gaming rigs when consoles became more popular. And work provided them with a Windows laptop.
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by bartimus 4y ago
Would everyone bring their TV set?
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by bartimus 4y ago
They wouldn't even know where to find it.
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by bartimus 4y ago
How many people does it take to keep HN running?
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by bartimus 4y ago
It's strange how music databases have became less extensive moving forward into the future.
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by bartimus 4y ago
Perhaps not the most popular take: It actually got saved by Trump.
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by bartimus 4y ago
HDR is mentioned only once. Yet this should be the primary case for any new image standard. I'll repeat a comment I wrote here earlier: Our camera hardware supports HDR. RAW image formats support HDR. Our display devices support HDR. V
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by bartimus 4y ago
Building the system that understands how the AI is coming to certain results/conclusion is probably way more complicated than the AI itself.
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by bartimus 4y ago
It's an interpersonal/social problem between people who are not being a person. There's numerous things you can (algorithmically) do with regard to people who choose to be real persons on the platform. Especially when payment
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by bartimus 4y ago
It's just one of many indicators and I will most certainly not leave it behind.
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by bartimus 4y ago
It so much amazes me. Our camera hardware supports HDR. RAW image formats support HDR. Our display devices support HDR. Videos support HDR. Smartphones can now record in HDR. All the hardware is there ready for the future. Yet due to softwa
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by bartimus 4y ago
Exactly. They somehow managed to do it without men?
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by bartimus 4y ago
I think I've never had a burn-out. I would say it's important to strictly manage your boundaries. Make sure you control what gets onto your plate. Make sure the load on your plate is within your comfort zone.

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