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by chaboud 5mo ago
It's amazing for us to consider "massively wasting someone's time" as "complementary".
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by chaboud 5mo ago
That's like a free bus ride to Cleveland... if I wanted to go, I'd happily get myself there.
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by chaboud 5mo ago
They seem to have changed this recently, possibly due to theft or items falling from the trunk. My last two trunk-use rides have had closed trunks on arrival.
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by chaboud 5mo ago
Fearful that a simple software issue could do exactly this, I have adopted an approach to using Waymo with luggage: 1. Get out. 2. Leave the door open. 3. Open the trunk. 4. Get stuff. 5. Close the trunk. 6. Close the door that I left op
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by chaboud 5mo ago
Having had Claude Code jump to inserting juvenile and all-filtering regex to (attempt to) solve open-ended semantic natural language problems (-sigh- there's 12 hours of my life I'll never get back), I can absolutely imagine tha
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by chaboud 6mo ago
I was under the impression that insider influence was the point of these systems? Want something to happen? Bet a lot of money that it won't, pulling the market forces towards the action you want. It goes from "taking out a hi
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by chaboud 6mo ago
I think this is, more often, that we are spending too much time pretending to communicate. Far too often I've found myself in a meeting that doesn't have a quorum, but people try to have the meeting anyway. Even more often tha
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by chaboud 6mo ago
There's a huge difference between "most people I know have only been called once" (or, even, "I've only ever met people who have been called once") and "in this given country, it is only permissible to be
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by chaboud 6mo ago
Not quite. It's basically a combined mantissa and exponent test, so it can be thought of as functionally equivalent to scaling epsilon by a power of two (the shared exponent of the nearly equal floating point values) and then using
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by chaboud 6mo ago
The executive has the veto and a willingness to leave the government non-functional (funny how anti-government types are often okay with kneecapping government). They're not powerless.
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by chaboud 6mo ago
From my experience with modern software and services, the actual practice of QA has plainly atrophied. In my first gig (~30 years ago), QA could hold up a release even if our CTO and President were breathing down their necks, and every SDE
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by chaboud 6mo ago
Shooting down ideas is absolutely a skill, and it's essential to driving out the mountains of slop people throw out these days. However, the essential thing to do is to make sure that you're not shooting down the person. Better s
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by chaboud 7mo ago
I've joked that the 16oz US pint was a long-play metric-system scheme to drive adoption of 500ml (~16.9oz) as a measure, a Pavlovian mechanic to trick beer-drinking Americans that the metric system is actually better because it results
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by chaboud 7mo ago
Nerds solving interesting problems find a way. Folks (myself included) worked on Privacy Pass for verifiable ad attestation, but the power of blinded attestation is meaningful in ways beyond advertising authenticity validation. For folks a
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by chaboud 7mo ago
In a market with perfect price discovery, sure. However, over the years I have learned that even the best products for the job can (and will) lose without the right marketing, sales, distribution, etc. Sometimes the entrenched default that
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by chaboud 7mo ago
That's the polite version of "we know where you live". Telling someone you have their phone number is a way of saying "we'll call you and expect immediacy if you break something." Wanna be treated like an adul
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by chaboud 7mo ago
Awesome.... With Sonnet 4.5, I had Cline soft trigger compaction at 400k (it wandered off into the weeds at 500k). But the stability of the 4.6 models is notable. I still think it pays to structure systems to be comprehensible in smaller
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by chaboud 7mo ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Goodhart's law shows up with people, in system design, in processor design, in education... Models are going to be over-fit to the tests unless scruples or pr
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by chaboud 7mo ago
Three things: 1. Confirmable, predictable behavior (can we test it, can we make assurances to customers?). 2. Comparative performance (having an LLM call to extract from a list in 100s of ms instead of code in <10ms). 3. Operating costs.
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by chaboud 7mo ago
When I was a kid growing up in Texas, our ocean visits were to the Gulf of Mexico, off the Texas coast, and you would grab little alcohol wipes for when you got out of the ocean, to wipe the oil off. Years later, swimming in Hawaii, I found
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by chaboud 7mo ago
Why stop there? Just call the LLM with the data and function description and get it to return the result! (I'll admit that I've built a few "applications" exploring interaction descriptions with our Design team that do
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by chaboud 8mo ago
I use Claude Code quite a bit (one of my former interns noted that I crossed 1.8 Million lines of code submitted last year, which is... um... concerning), but I still steadfastly refuse to use AI to generate written content. There are mult
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by chaboud 8mo ago
It's this line that I'm bristling at: "...the workflow I’ve settled into is radically different from what most people do with AI coding tools..." Anyone who spends some time with these tools (and doesn't black out f
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by chaboud 8mo ago
The author seems to think they've hit upon something revolutionary... They've actually hit upon something that several of us have evolved to naturally. LLM's are like unreliable interns with boundless energy. They make silly
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by chaboud 8mo ago
Cool. Good for him. I've been building agentic and observational systems and have been working to make them safe and layered in defense. And, well, I probably should have just said "fuck it" and put a disclaimer sticker on
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by chaboud 8mo ago
Having ripcorded out after realizing the author was trying to prove that water was wet, I'll assume that it's "normalized entropy", in a range of 0-1, indicative of the distribution across the space.
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by chaboud 8mo ago
I had a TSA agent take my knife and hide it, carrying it over the X-ray belt and putting it in his bag in the secure area. It was a $13 knife, but he liked it. No doubt that was a security violation, but it's all security theatre.
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by chaboud 8mo ago
I used to have a Sikh manager who wore a turban. Whenever we traveled together, he would get "randomly" stopped. While they were patting him down, he would inevitably chuckle and say something like "So what are the odds of
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by chaboud 8mo ago
Awwwww. I was going to hijack this plane and use it as a weapon in a divide attack, but $45?! You got me, TSA! That's just too rich for my blood!
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by chaboud 8mo ago
That was Cruise, and that was fixed by Cruise ceasing operations.

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