davnicwil

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by davnicwil 4mo ago
This won't happen in most cases because the valuable thing is largely the knowledge encoded in the software, which the buyers of the software don't have and don't want to have since they're focused on their own business.
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
I agree and I think the most concrete demonstration of this for me is actually the current air. It's basically the idea of the pro of 10 years ago but realised flawlessly, and improved upon actually in most ways, for significantly chea
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
I think there's a ton of examples where this is true for lower level stuff like open source where you see the internals. For commerical products it certainly exists too, for example in those cases where you know the product is built by
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
> Most people I know cite +20%-40% velocity Seems roughly right, that does seem to be about the boost in the most well-suited cases where you essentially know exactly how to solve the problem, the problem won't change much, and it&#
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
I think unfortunately it's not about what seems obvious, or even what seems more likely, but about what seems retrospectively justifiable regardless of outcome. The incentive structure of this type of decision is 'absolutely under
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
I was just thinking how it'd be great if there were newer, modern things like this that had sprung up in response to newer technologies. I guess it's one downside of dematerialisation with digital tech - I can't think of a si
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
I think weirdly, ads embedded in AI search responses actually maybe do have a chance at being helpful (as long as it's clear from the context of the question that I may be willing to pay for a solution) just because they could potentia
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
is the point of doing it for the artistic value / challenge or are there other benefits of not using a mesh or physical model of the object?
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
interesting thing about the scoring effect narrowing the types of writing that generate the higher average ratings. I guess also there's something fundamental about next token prediction that is going to narrow in on 'stable'
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
it's almost certainly not true yet but at some point there might be an equilibrium reached of speed Vs quality (and let's not forget, cost) where it's true for most of what you do. Perhaps you'd still turn to hosted mode
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
I think this instinct is intrinsic, and comes from really caring about detail and wanting to fully understand it and own it. That's what drives it, and I don't really think the extrinsic things about the way you learned (while hel
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
> Especially with the advent of AI, it feels like the time I had left to learn and actually build something has run out. No, this is wrong. Get your head down. Learn fundamentals. Practice and develop real skills. Ignore anyone saying th
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
I think a tell that many of these deals likely aren't real and are basically just PR is the numbers are super round and digestable. That's a clear signal that little analysis has gone into the numbers and, most generously, there
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
a bit of an aside but what's amazing is that Docker's recent beta VM for Mac (I think released a couple of months ago now) has dramatically improved the performance you get out of your CPU. Using a macbook air, even a recent one
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
> Natural selection will take care of them in due course Wonderful articulation. There's a plethora of prognostication about how AI will change everything in software and beyond and the thing I keep thinking is, well, when will the
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
I just set this up for npm, here's the command that worked for me: npm config set min-release-age 7 The '7' is days. This is the only format that worked for me, just a single integer number of days. Confirmed by trying to ins
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
There's a lot of truth in what you say but I think the conclusion you landed on is too broad. There will exist people moving quickly who have failed to plan, but a lot also incorporate moving quickly as part of their plan, simply becau
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
this is so true and I think it's very instructive to have a regular look through this lens when thinking about building something. You've got to think and care deeply about what you're creating while at the same time unders
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
appreciate the response. I understand better now, and agree with a lot of what you've said about kinda the mechanics of scripting stuff 'by hand' being just quite fun and satisfying but maybe no longer the expected way to do
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
I completely understand the active/passive difference but I have a question for you that I think especially applies to sysadmin: isn't the knowledge you have and your continual learning just as important if what you're essent
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
In my experience the majority consensus is to maintain a quiet, generally polite environment on trains and buses. But that's precisely the problem, it only takes a very tiny minority to change this. If one group, one person sometim
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by davnicwil 5mo ago
I appreciate what you're saying and am a big fan of long distance train and bus journeys myself and have done a lot of both, sleeping and not. But one huge factor that you have to contend with is the randomness of the tragedy of the co
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by davnicwil 6mo ago
Did you consider IntelliJ, even just the community edition? If not you really should. IntelliJ with Java is one of the best dev experiences I've ever had. I'm a VSCode fan for most other things but for Java I wouldn't even re
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by davnicwil 6mo ago
My guess would be this is less driven by product philosophy, more driven by trying to maximise chances of a return on a very large amount of funding in an incredibly tough market up against formidable, absurdly well-funded competitors. It&#
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by davnicwil 6mo ago
With respect I'm not sure what you're saying follows as a challenge to what I've said. Perhaps because I didn't phrase clearly enough. I don't think that. In fact I spent years at a company whose product let people
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by davnicwil 6mo ago
I keep seeing this idea repeated, but I don't accept the dichotomy between those who care about 'crafting code' and those who care about 'building products' as though they are opposite points on a spectrum. To me, t
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by davnicwil 6mo ago
> if you don't already know what it means or how you should read or say it Google I'll grant you, though it's still pretty phonetic and easy to read. The other two not at all, they're incredibly well known instantaneo
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by davnicwil 6mo ago
Interesting, thanks for the context! Makes it more understandable as a choice.
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by davnicwil 6mo ago
everyone has a first time they see a thing and don't yet know what it is. Using a brand as a filter where you have to already know what it means to get it is exactly the opposite of what it's supposed to achieve. Consider the most
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by davnicwil 6mo ago
It's an opinion, and you feeling no particular way about it is equally valid. But I did justify and maybe to reword slightly, surely if one of the main drivers is opening up research, the brand name should be something that's less

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