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by chipdart 2y ago
> IIRC Amazon has sixteen leadership principles, and people are meant to know them. They even have their "bar raisers" who participate in recruitment and such to evangelize this. Not true. Everyone at Amazon is expected to know
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by chipdart 2y ago
> There is no upward mobility at the company, unless you have been in some org 5+ years. I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but if that's your take them either you haven't been paying attention or you're not in the company f
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I would slightly adjust the reasoning. It is not to reduce ambiguity. It is to drive progress despite ambiguity. Is why the "consensus" principal is the most frustrating for many people. Not true. The whole leadership princip
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by chipdart 2y ago
> That's the way Amazon works, it's like a theology debate club. I don't think you have a grasp on the subject. Leadership principles are decision-making guidelines. Instead of paralyzing teams because someone needs to ma
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by chipdart 2y ago
I don't think the people quoting leadership principles are coming from a place of knowledge or worse: honesty. Regardless of whether you think about the RTO mandate, internally Amazon leaves it quite clear that the whole point of these
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by chipdart 2y ago
> That's survivor bias. Fewer people blog about unsuccessful initiatives. I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Should we give equal credit to unsuccessful initiatives when their failure is due to screwing u
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Why wouldn't they work on improving NTFS performance instead? There are other old-school techniques which are far easier to implement and maintain, such as using RAM drives/partitions. Expensing 32GB of RAM is simpler than ma
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Turns out there was zero difference, or negligible (Windows won), between compilation times. I think there was something seriously flawed in your test. If you Google for a minute, you find multiple posts on how moving the same builds t
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Besides, as far as I know, Objective-C only ever gained traction within the very narrow realm of MacOS and iOS application development, and has since been mostly supplanted by Swift in both of those use cases. I would take a step furth
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Filesystems are DB like structures these days anyway. I think you're confusing the fact that an application uses data structures with that application being like a database.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> NTFS is really horrible handling many small files. To pile onto NTFS, it's performance is so notoriously bad that there are developer teams working on Windows projects that configure their build farm to do cross builds from Linux
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Why hasn’t someone made sqlitefs yet? What do you expect the value proposition of something loosely described as a sqlitefs to be? One of the main selling points of SQLite is that you can statically link it into a binary and no one nee
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by chipdart 2y ago
I think that humans indeed identify words as a whole and do not read letter by letter. However, this implies you need to know the word to begin with. I can write "asdf" and you might be oblivious to what I mean. I can mention &quo
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Just why. Both theirs and ChatGPTs UIs are hot garbage when it comes to performance (...) I have been using ChatGPT and Claude for a while and I never noticed anything resembling a performance issue. Can you elaborate on what you perce
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by chipdart 2y ago
> For example, has anyone ever attempted image -> html/css model? There are already companies selling services where they generate entire frontend applications from vague natural language inputs. https://vercel.com&#x2
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I think GPT5 will be the signal of whether or not we have hit a plateau. I think GPT5 will tell if OpenAI hit a plateau. Sam Altman has been quoted as claiming "GPT-3 had the intelligence of a toddler, GPT-4 was more similar to a
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It seems increasingly apparent that we are reaching the limits of throwing more data at more GPUs; I think you're just seeing the "make it work" stage of the combo "first make it work, then make it fast". Time
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by chipdart 2y ago
> How about "Musk asking his followers, not Tesla shareholders"? I guess that makes me one of the brigade. It's telling that he's directing that question to his fanboy choir and not to the actual shareholders, who are
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by chipdart 2y ago
> (...) but Elon's attention has definitely been more on xAI recently (...) I'm curious, why do you think this is relevant for the interests of all shareholders of a car company? Hasn't Tesla been for years failing to deli
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by chipdart 2y ago
> (...) the spirit of markdown would favor something that actually looked like a graph without needing to run it through a renderer, something more akin to ascii art, but (...) I completely disagree. The spirit of Markdown is to provide
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by chipdart 2y ago
> For people with family, I believe a good insurance plan and flexibility in hours also mean a lot. Healthcare is one of those things that's a perk in the US, but is not such a big deal in most western countries. Hopefully the US wi
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It’s not just salary. The "not just salary" bit is very often used as a mirage intended to fool employees to take a lower compensation than what they can get, and then tag a bunch of conditions that can't possibly or rea
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by chipdart 2y ago
> But actually there's nothing different about Telsa vs the other car manufacturers. Elon Musk has been pumping Tesla with never ending promises of full self driving cars arriving just next year but which never arrive. Elon Musk has
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Readers wouldn't have cared nearly as much. This bears repeating. If you complain about a risk before a disaster structs, you're fearmongerng. If you complain about a risk after disaster structs, you're flogging a dead h
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by chipdart 2y ago
> EU (Europe in general) has an enormous bureaucracy, that wants to know everything about its citizens e.g. you have to register after every move. You are painfully uninformed. In the most charitable interpretarion of what you're mi
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by chipdart 2y ago
> You are describing common procedures here. Welcome to EU. /s You are grossly uninformed. Some EU countries even encoded in their own constitution how the state neither has the right to gather specific types of data on their popula
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by chipdart 2y ago
OP made a great contribution to the discussion. Going off on a cynical tangent over protocols is just noise, and adds nothing of value to the discussion.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> if creating gazillion threads on modern hardware is super cheap why not? Virtual threads are a performance improvement over threads, no matter how cheap to create threads are. Virtual threads run on threads. If threads become cheaper t
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by chipdart 2y ago
> So... What is it seeking to optimize? The goal is to maximize the number of tasks you can run concurrently, while imposing on the developers a low cognitive load to write and maintain the code. > Why did you need a thread pool befor
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by chipdart 2y ago
> To put it shortly: Writing single-threaded blocking code is far easier for most people and has many other benefits, like more understandable and readable programs: I think you're missing the whole point. The reason why so many sma

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