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by chaboud 1y ago
Id probably stop the candidate, dig into how they’d using constraint based solvers, and how they might expect that to fall apart. Applicability and judgment is worth way more than raw algorithmic questions. One way to think about this is: I
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by chaboud 1y ago
When I interview with problem solving problems, the point is to understand how the candidate thinks, communicates, and decomposes problems. Critically, problem solving questions should have ways to progressively increase and decrease diffi
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by chaboud 1y ago
This is a “next time” recommendation. Short of a time machine, we can’t change published names. And, yes, I’d be down with going cryptographically secure (for now) with existing systems.
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by chaboud 1y ago
Perhaps put a warning in the name since the folks who don’t read the docs are the ones you’re trying to protect? For example: Math.RandomNotCrypto() When someone uses that in production for cryptographic purposes (and, yes someone is goin
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by chaboud 1y ago
I was prepared to straight up fight with this author until I actually read what they were saying: 1. Don't hold infeasibly high standards when you're starting up. Time is more precious than than anything (you can't spell &qu
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by chaboud 1y ago
Do you want obfuscated supply-chain state-actor vulnerabilities? Because this is how you get obfuscated supply-chain state-actor vulnerabilities! (Unless someone stays up all night to find the bugs....)
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by chaboud 1y ago
We hire folks who make slop so we can form them into folks who turn that energy into elevated output. However, I expect that the junior engineer crop will teach us a thing or two about assisting coding techniques, and we'll owe it to
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by chaboud 1y ago
The instinct to sort of slow t is right, as the governing functions are maintaining angular velocity with respect to t but scaling radius also with respect to t. It’s sort of like an Archimedean spiral. So, yeah, if you parameterize velo
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by chaboud 1y ago
I've been quite happy with thinking of agentic IDE operation as being akin to a highly energetic intern. It's prone to spiraling off into the weeds, makes silly mistakes, occasionally mangles whole repos (commit early, and often)
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by chaboud 1y ago
If only someone offered derivatives contracts that could be used to make money from destruction... https://www.kraken.com/en-ca/features/derivatives/monero
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by chaboud 1y ago
Mpact 2? If memory serves, I had a Creative Labs DXR2 that I almost immediately regretted. PDP-10 could do 9-bit (or 7, or 6) bytes into 36-bit words. It seems like something that would be fun for 1-2 days.
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by chaboud 1y ago
Amphetamine is an app that allows one to keep their device running, awake, unlocked, etc. I use Amphetamine all the time, especially with agentic coding, and it’s been an essential app for me for years for other reasons (live data processin
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by chaboud 1y ago
I think you want a push broom setup: https://www.adept.net.au/news/newsletter/202001-jan/pushbroo... Hyperspectral imaging is a really fun space. You can do a lot with some pretty basic filters and temporal t
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by chaboud 1y ago
Gold salts (e.g., old arthritis treatment) can lead to gold poisoning, but I was really just making a joke. If you have a gold chalice in your cupboard, I think you’ll be alright.
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by chaboud 1y ago
Actual industrial/product use of gold is less than 10%. A massive amount of gold is used for store of wealth. If gold became less scarce, it would be less expensive. The Washington monument capstone is aluminum because aluminum was
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by chaboud 1y ago
I ended up closer to python, but not totally delighted with it (still need to pass in a descriminator function/lambda, so it's more structurally verbose). I'd just recommend Linq, but I was writing for an old version of Unit
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by chaboud 1y ago
I had a smaller version of this when coding on a flight (with no WiFi! The horror!) over the Pacific. Llama hallucinated array-element operations and list-comprehension in C#. I liked the shape of the code otherwise, so, since I was using
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by chaboud 1y ago
AutoCAD is kind of a classic form of integration of text with GUI via a command window. In general, any GUI I build these days I build to be scriptable, if possible, and I look to translate as much as possible through that scriptable interf
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by chaboud 1y ago
I’m going to guess that they meant Directed Acyclic Graphs or DAGs, which is a useful way to represent data dependencies and transformations, allowing formulation for GPU, CPU, NNA, DSP, FPGA, etc. If the macrostructure of the operations ca
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by chaboud 1y ago
This is definitely the right pragmatic take. A lawyer friend of mine once laid it out for me: "in litigation, if you go to court, even if you win, you lose". The reality is that court sucks, and getting sued sucks for all but the
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by chaboud 1y ago
The caddies were just a simple loading mechanism, with a spring door like a floppy disc. I suspect they had the life they did because someone was hoping that we would all buy ultra-expensive caddies for our collections instead of moving dis
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by chaboud 1y ago
Having come from professional video/film tooling in the 90's to today, it's interesting to see the evolution of what "HDR" means. I used to be a purist in this space, where SDR meant ~8 stops (powers of two) or les
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by chaboud 1y ago
1. Yes. I've spent several late nights nudging Cline and Claude (and other systems) to the right answers. And being able to use AWS Bedrock to do this has been great (note: I work at Amazon). 2. I've had good fortunes keeping the
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by chaboud 1y ago
Absolutely, and this sort of thing happens in large companies as well. Software engineers are great at providing “well, why don’t you just..” answers to problems they don’t actually have their brains wrapped around. This often leads to att
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by chaboud 1y ago
Previous thread on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927010#
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by chaboud 1y ago
It’s almost like elections are held on Saturdays and participation is compulsory. Almost…
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by chaboud 1y ago
I recently exclaimed that “vibe coding is BS” to one of my coworkers before explaining that I’ve actually been using GPT, Claude, llama (for airplanes), Cline, Cursor, Windsurf, and more for coding for as long as they’ve been available (mor
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by chaboud 1y ago
There's an ambiguity here between palindromic words and palindromic sentences (where punctuation and spacing are non-breaking): "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog" or "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama" though i
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by chaboud 2y ago
I think that's fair, though "vibration is kind of like lubrication" is a solid move.
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by chaboud 2y ago
It’s actually just jargon-ified. When pressing a piece of sheet metal into a die (concave form) with a punch (convex form) to stretch and compress the metal into a deep shape (e.g., a cup, can, etc.), using ultrasound to induce some wiggle

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