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by cornel_io 2y ago
I don't think that's really true in practice, though at a competence level it absolutely is. Except at the biggest places, even low level programmers are both empowered and expected to make architectural decisions that have big im
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by cornel_io 2y ago
That sounds like the correct response if he knows anything about the field: shitty peripherals are an unsolvable problem from top to bottom. The hardware sucks, the software sucks more, there's absolutely nothing you can do to fix it a
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by cornel_io 2y ago
That reformulation doesn't let you avoid renormalization, does it?
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Sometimes the content of a cell in e.g. a CSV file will be another CSV file. This inevitably happens with pretty much every format, whether CSV, TSV, JSON, etc, so you'll need some sort of quoting rule no matter what you do.
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by cornel_io 2y ago
People have been convicted of hacking for merely editing URL strings, under the theory that were knowingly accessing systems in ways that they were not supposed to. This would be similar. Whether or not that seems reasonable to us is a diff
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Yes, Lina Khan has been very clear that she wants to abandon the previous guidelines that made consumer harm the focal point of anti-trust cases. I think that's pretty shady and in several of these cases she really just wants to spear
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Justice that is not bound by the letter of the law is not just at all.
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Leave. You can always hire them/work with them again later (chain hiring of teams is a very common thing even if you're not at a high level), but if you burn out while you're alongside them they might shift their opinion of
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by cornel_io 2y ago
9 years is a lot to expect it to be under warranty...
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by cornel_io 2y ago
I've actually had to fire a technically exceptional Haskell programmer because of the damage they did to our C# codebase (and arguably moreso, the team). Sometimes it's not a matter of talent or skill, but culture fit. In my exper
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Simple solution: if you ever run into this, blog about it and mark it as a freak occurrence, because it is. Don't ever in real work worry about stupid edge cases like this or you're wasting your employer's money. I'd rep
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by cornel_io 2y ago
It depends heavily on location. When I last ended up on Cobra in California it was a touch more expensive than the marketplace plan but my work plan was much better than the best available on the marketplace so it was worth it to go Cobra.
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Flagged because the link is wrong...
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Different strokes: I prefer it in the PR, with a lot of detail, with commits that are very granular and just explain what they do. PR descriptions should have all the why, test cases, pictures, etc.
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Fair enough. I'm never talking to anyone over insecure channels again.
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Google has great lawyers. They don't flinch or buckle.
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Yes. The DOJ sometimes (if not often) overreaches because they are taking a shot. These sorts of cases are often attempts to establish precedent that they can use to go after others under similar theories. Flipping this around, do you think
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Right, but I'm not clear, is that actually illegal? I've seen similar policies at many companies.
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by cornel_io 2y ago
I use Signal by default for every piece of communication that I can. Am I somehow held to a different standard just because I was paranoid about surveillance from the start? That seems wrong.
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Right on: I've used a single Postgres database on AWS to handle 1M+ concurrent users. If you're Google, sure, not gonna cut it, but for most people these things scale vertically a lot further than you'd expect (especially i
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Are you under the impression that he was talking about game clients doing this? That would be absurd, since no gamers (within epsilon of zero) use Linux, and you'd need a completely different bag of tricks on Windows. He's fully
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Most human authors are frankly far too stupid to be worth reading, even if they do put care into their work. This, IMO, is the actual biggest problem with LLMs training on whatever the biggest text corpus us that's available: they don&
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Game engines are a terrible business, so I don't know. I'm surprised investors were interested, TBH, as interesting a project as it is. The fundamental problem with game engines is that the bulk of the users are tiny to small in
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by cornel_io 3y ago
There are a few types of acquisition: - everyone gets rich (including employees with equity) - founders and investors get rich, nobody else gets shit - investors get good return, founders get a bit, nobody else gets shit - investors make me
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Yes, the GRE has been way ahead of the curve for a long time because it's an adaptive test: it actually adjusts the difficulty of the questions it presents you based on your performance up until that point in the test, as it tries to h
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by cornel_io 3y ago
"Next token predictor" isn't quite the burn that it seems like, because perfect next token prediction would require actual understanding. That's because you can almost always cast any question about understanding into a
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by cornel_io 3y ago
I think he's trying to bring up the racial image gen bias stuff that's going on with Gemini, but for some reason won't say it. He also doesn't appear to realize there is a difference between the two products/teams&#
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by cornel_io 3y ago
When I use the BQ interface, it estimates the bytes for each query in real time before I run it, does that turn off if the query is too big? I guess that isn't directly a cost estimate, but if I saw hundreds of TB I'd think twice
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Sure, but Google provides super helpful responses when doing the exact same search, and as an ex-sysadmin I know exactly what they're asking and could answer perfectly easily.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
A ton of us out here don't agree with your goals. I think these models are transformative enough that the value added by organizing and extracting patterns from the data outweighs the interests of the extremely diffuse set of copyright

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