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by bgirard 2y ago
> Why build it if you are just reading? Is this a serious question? Assuming it is, to insert printf statement, or attach a debugger and step through the program and take backtraces to supplement or confirm the information you gather fro
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by bgirard 2y ago
> Chromium's codebase isn't so bad for a first timer. Agreed > It took me like 30 minutes I can tell you didn't need to build it ;)
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by bgirard 2y ago
> If you were on Jupiter measuring Voyager’s speed before and after it interacted with Jupiter, you wouldn’t measure a net effect. Again that's not something I'm claiming.
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by bgirard 2y ago
> From the Earth’s frame of reference there is no change in delta-v other than a change in direction. But no one is talking about the Earth's frame of reference. > But “the gravity of Earth” imparts no net delta-v and wouldn’t on
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by bgirard 2y ago
> However, it's crucial that we have multiple reliable launch and crew providers to ensure the safety and sustainability of space missions. The keyword here is reliable and I would add the word competitive. Having an expensive, late
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by bgirard 2y ago
I spoke to V8 engineers about this many years ago. JS VMs -could- handle this without leaking, but they would have to do more analysis when compiling code. So are we willing to trade-off startup time to fix a somewhat rare memory usage? I d
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by bgirard 2y ago
At Meta I worked on memlab [1]. This tool is very effective at finding memory leaks in our JavaScript. AFAIK we found one, but only one, such leak that happened in production code. Once discovered it was easily fixed. But understanding this
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by bgirard 2y ago
That's a question for their hiring team, not me. But normally companies apply a culture fit interview. Also it's not inertially bad. Non-compete agreements allow employees to become field expert in niche areas and to jump between
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by bgirard 2y ago
Keyword is "could". Currently 2.5k employees, that's $600k per employees but if there's plans to significantly increase employees that can be quite a bit lower. That's likely including equity grants. It could also h
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by bgirard 2y ago
I think they look amazing. Letting your customers download all your media for a onetime $10 is unreal. You definitely need to up the pricing somehow. Maybe $10/pack and $100++ for unlimited access. Value added might be to bundle it wit
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by bgirard 2y ago
Dig in -> "An update on Amazon's plans for Just Walk Out and checkout-free technology"
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by bgirard 2y ago
My quote above is 2 clicks away from your link. If your definition for AI washing is higher than most then that's fine. Also going on wayback machine for your link and I find this: > We built Just Walk Out technology leveraging the
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by bgirard 2y ago
> Generative AI and other technologies behind Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology are making checkout lines a thing of the past. Took me 5 seconds to find posts from Amazon touting it as "AI".
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by bgirard 2y ago
Easy. There's a few customer profile: 1) People who will always pay it in full 2) People who incorrectly think they're 1) but wont pay in full for some reason 3) People that don't understand the cost of 20% APR 4) People that
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by bgirard 2y ago
It's the other way around. Regardless of speed, it has the same number of particles to displace. At high speed these particles you're hitting are like hitting a concrete wall. The faster you go, the worse it is, and the less time
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by bgirard 2y ago
I'm pretty sure they're going to charge what they think is the optimal price point for their product, independently from any product blunder they've had in the past.
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by bgirard 2y ago
On target earnings is a standard terms. I'd rather have equity be disclosed upfront. You can weight that however you want, even if you value it at zero. Just because it's non trivial, I don't think the answer is to give up. S
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by bgirard 2y ago
Just show the breakdown. levels.fyi does this correctly. It shows the information correctly and I can then properly compare how I value salary, performance bonuses and equity/options in each particular company. This should be the golde
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by bgirard 2y ago
I wish job sites would show total compensation. They show a Mozilla job posting which, when I was there, would consistently pay 30%+ bonuses. At other jobs equity comp has been 50%-75%+ of my comp. Comparing jobs looking at base only is use
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by bgirard 2y ago
> “Starting with Edge 122, the Browser Essentials UI is now much more responsive. The UI is now 42% faster for Edge users and a whopping 76% faster for those of you on a device without an SSD or with less than 8GB RAM!” If their old fron
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by bgirard 2y ago
I wonder that too. If you're only measure one part of the funnel (e.g. CS costs) and not the total funnel (e.g. losses due to poor CS quality like a customer dropping the project) then it's easy to conclude that making CS more pai
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by bgirard 2y ago
They make it sound like it's the first discovery if a rocky planet with an atmosphere. What about other exoplanets like TRAPPIST-1d?
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by bgirard 2y ago
> The compiler (sometimes linker) is perfectly capable of seeing that a class has no derived classes How? The compiler doesn't see the full program. The linker I'm less sure about. If the class isn't guaranteed to be fully
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by bgirard 3y ago
Agreed. For me it's often the time it takes to find the contact to notify, start a conversation, update the conversation, wait for the issue to be picked up, wait for the software to be updated. Now repeat for everything you notice. If
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by bgirard 3y ago
> ULA has a contract for possibly 83 launches from Amazon for Kuiper. To put that into perspective, a single SpaceX booster could cover 25% of those launches!
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by bgirard 3y ago
It's good advice sure. But downgrading their work, no. Unless you have explicit requirements that aren't met like your text being selectable, downgrading work because you have a prejudice against an authoring tool isn't cool.
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by bgirard 3y ago
I lived in California for 5 years and didn't see or hear a gunshot either outside of those exclusions. Same living in Canada for 20+ years. It's not a useful measure to be honest.
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by bgirard 3y ago
> To be effective, warnings like this have to be MANDATED on the item in question, and FORBIDDEN when not present. I think for it to be effective you'd have to require them to provide an itemized list of WHAT is AI generated. Otherw
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by bgirard 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up like prop 65 cancer warnings, or cookie banners. The intention might be to separate believable but low quality hallucinated AI content spam from high quality manual content. But it will backfire
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by bgirard 3y ago
Could those waveform drawing recreate the sound? Looks like some are squished and certainly couldn't recreate the original. I'm not sure about the others?

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