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by bgirard 4y ago
Not being familiar at all with the situation in SF these days, is this really the reason for closure? I've noticed a pattern of using whatever convenient trendy excuse (crime in SF) for leadership to avoid stating the real reason that
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by bgirard 4y ago
> bob taught me about what a weak map should really do: keep a value alive when both the map and the key are alive. It blew my mind. Can you share more details? That's so counter intuitive to how I think of WeakMaps and I would like
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by bgirard 4y ago
That's a good example. I found it handy when I was new to the subreddit and it's easily ignored at the bottom of the thread.
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by bgirard 4y ago
I don't have a specific definition of complex in mind. Seeing more examples of this with the prompts used + output and the overall steps is exactly what I'm asking for. I'm particularly interested in how the success rate chan
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by bgirard 4y ago
Is there examples / case studies of more complex apps being built by LLMs? I've seen some interesting examples but they were all small and simple examples. I'd love to see more case studies of how well these tools perform in
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by bgirard 4y ago
There was a news site that did something like that, I don't recall which. It was incredibly distracting and I think they started annotating ads in their popovers as well.
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by bgirard 4y ago
I wonder what the cut off speed is for relativistic speeds. If you think about it, it's not only a matter of speed but also how much precision you want in your calculations. Even if something was moving very slowly, you need to account
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by bgirard 4y ago
It would become redundant very quickly I think. Reading stories about quantum computing feels this way. The first 3 paragraph include the same 'qubits can exists as a 0, 1 or a superposition' over simplification followed by a sing
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by bgirard 4y ago
Which part of stock comp is causing the issue? Is this what was granted this year but is vesting over multiple (e.g. 4 years)? Is this the stock granted in past years but vesting this year?
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by bgirard 4y ago
The "new" reddit is much slower when collapsing large comment threads and has annoying/dark patterns like pushing the mobile app download & sign-ins.
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by bgirard 4y ago
I agree. This post has so much visibility on Reddit and HN. The manager is openly discussing terminating the employee with strangers online. The situation and the details are so specific. If this is real, the employee is likely to find this
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by bgirard 4y ago
Having done a lot of performance work on Gecko (Firefox), we generally knew where cycles mattered a lot (low level graphics like rasterization, js, dom bindings, etc...) and we used every trick there. But for the majority of the millions of
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by bgirard 4y ago
"Software engineers on Hacker News are discussing joining the circus after mass layoffs" - paychex, probably
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by bgirard 4y ago
Are we using "considering" with a stronger definition? Otherwise this is meaningless. On any given week I consider changing job, quitting, early retiring, changing teams, changing projects, etc... My brain will just rapid fire dif
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by bgirard 4y ago
Presumably they're trying and that's driving up the price for Apple?
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by bgirard 4y ago
A Mozilla engineer had a working toy build in ~2011 and it didn't take them a lot of work from what I recall when they showed me.
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by bgirard 4y ago
I'm not sure you can "fix it". If you slice your data and look at enough possible bias types I think it's impossible for highly dimensional data to be even in all possible comparison pairs. I don't think we can &quo
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by bgirard 4y ago
I have a similar experience. I've been using it to explain minified code I come across and unusual code patterns I don't understand. It's similar to a coworker in that it's not always right but can generally point me in
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by bgirard 4y ago
I can confirm this. Any money sent via e-Tranfer is auto deposited.
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by bgirard 4y ago
Sure, depreciation is a thing. But I'm not sure how they arrive at 25% of the original value as being fair. It's not reasonable to assume that the average MacBook Pro is 8 years old. Paying out 25% of the value is not a fair compe
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by bgirard 4y ago
Right. If you can't see them, you can't see them. It's not a parallax problem.
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by bgirard 4y ago
But with computers and sky tracking charts shouldn't it be trivial to find new spots in the sky without using parallax? Anything new should be pretty note worthy.
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by bgirard 4y ago
I found that as well. The cheating controversy seemed to have kicked off some interest and then chess started appearing in my YouTube and TikTok feed have started recommending interesting creators. For the first time I've been passivel
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by bgirard 4y ago
Isn't cooking also cutting, melting, and evaporating chemicals? These definitions are overly broad. Isn't this how California ended up with Prop 65?
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by bgirard 4y ago
I would have liked to see a section discussing what the long strategy looks like before presenting the short strategy. I imagine it's just the inverse of the short strategy? What if you apply different rebalancing rules to the long str
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by bgirard 4y ago
I used it at Sybase when I interned there in 2009. I've been fascinated by good developer tools ever since. It was such a joy to run, understand the reports and make fixes, and repeat.
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by bgirard 4y ago
Here's a relevant example that timing isn't that important in the long term: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/27/the-inspiring-story-of-the-w...
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by bgirard 4y ago
Can't they satisfy the WARN act by giving at least 2 months of severance pay and benefits?
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by bgirard 4y ago
If the parks stay crowded despite the high prices, what solution would make people happy? Lower prices with a limited number of tickets? Perhaps with some lottery system? Seems unreasonable to ask a business to forgo profits and not use sup
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by bgirard 4y ago
Which metric improved by 70%? Time to show the skeleton? I agree the skeleton is quite good. I see it takes about 350ms to show the skeleton and about 1s to show my content.

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