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by dcminter 1y ago
Yeah, seems I was misremembering - looks like he just doesn't do talks any more.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm a bit too lazy to check, but didn't he leave thoughtworks? Apropos of nothing I saw him speak once at a corporate shindig and I didn't get the impression that he enjoyed it very much. Some of the engineering management
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by dcminter 1y ago
Oh, well that's super interesting, thanks; I guess some side effect of the high degree of parallelism? Anyway, I guess I need to do a bit more than dabble. > I think if you're a programmer or not matters less, more about unders
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by dcminter 1y ago
Hmm, I'm barely even a dabbler, but I'd assumed that the seed in question drove the (pseudo)randomness inherent in "temperature" - if not, what seed(s) do they use and why could one not set that/those too? To your s
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by dcminter 1y ago
Surely given an identical prompt with a clean context and the same seed the outputs will not vary?
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by dcminter 1y ago
There's definitely a zone of despair on most projects I've been on - particularly greenfield projects - the whole thing seems misguided, the codebase is no longer pristine, often I come up with some horrifying realisation of an ov
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by dcminter 1y ago
Landing and re-using their Falcon first stages was pretty radical though.
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by dcminter 1y ago
They're good on tech of course (technology quarterly in particular) but yes, I don't off hand remember them having a programming-language specific article!
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by dcminter 1y ago
Even in the UK it's not necessarily true. I wouldn't be surprised to hear it used that way, but I don't think my peer group in the UK would ever refer to NSAIDs as anything other than their brand or generic names. I particu
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by dcminter 1y ago
Epidural is surely just the method of administration (into the spinal fluid) where the actual painkiller administered is opioids, though, right? Meanwhile my understanding of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDS) was that they we
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by dcminter 1y ago
I too thought of it (in a good way) when "and an iron will" raised a chuckle from me. I second the recommendation and often nudge colleagues towards that article.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Yep, and they got very overexcited about "VisualAge" for this, that, and the other at one point. "VisualAge for C++ for OS/2" being one of the more coherent examples I guess...
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ah yes, I call this "brandfucking." IBM used to be a repeat offender. I recall trying to buy the WebSphere (Java) application server for a client and then finding out that IBM had slapped "WebSphere" on all their product
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm wary of a lot of AI stuff, but here: > What used to be lone wolves or small groups of humans working on bounties will become truckloads of AI generated “stuff” trying to maximize revenue. You're objecting to the wrong thi
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by dcminter 1y ago
Yes I know, I read it. I was responding to the parent "of course" insinuation that it was motivated by jealousy of the credit for the Mac. His established promotion of the identity of the contributors gives the lie to this view. I
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by dcminter 1y ago
It's also, I think, worth bearing in mind the extraordinary growth that the computer industry has had. To be CEO of a major computer company in the mid 80s versus the late 90s was a very different level of responsibility. What people w
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by dcminter 1y ago
You know I'm not a huge fan of Jobs, but I do think he was a lot more complicated than the pantomime villain he sometimes gets characterised as. On this particular topic he was, on the contrary, the progenitor of this: https:/&#x
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ah, I guess I see his point; I can't see the discussion being about use of metaphor in political fiction rather than whose team is worst. Still, I'm glad I now know the reference.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Extreme eagerness to disavow accusations of cultishness ... doth the lady protest too much perhaps? My hobby is occasionally compared to a cult. The typical reaction of an adherent to this accusation is generally "Heh, yeah, totally a
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by dcminter 1y ago
I (no expert, hopefully one will be along in a minute) have heard that in Swedish the letters äöå all evolved from corresponding diphthongs - so ae oe and ao respectively. Because the pronounciation changed from what one would assume from t
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by dcminter 1y ago
It's fairly clear that v2 has some problems and that SpaceX have not got to the bottom of them. It's not clear whether that's a series of small things of which this is (perhaps) the last, or something systemic where solving o
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by dcminter 1y ago
Upvote for the play link - that's interesting and I hadn't heard of it before. Worthy of a top-level post IMO.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Also... > they gave off some (not all) of the vibes of a cult ...after describing his visit with an atmosphere that sounds extremely cult-like.
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by dcminter 1y ago
At the risk of being a bit Polly-Anna-ish this might be a good thing in the medium term for the project. If this has the same root cause as the in-flight failures of v2, they at least have a chance to analyse the failed components directly
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by dcminter 1y ago
Oh, whoops, turns out this already got a discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44315529
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by dcminter 1y ago
DCT is explicitly "DRAM Controller" in the referenced "BIOS and Kernel Developer’s Guide" - see definitions table on p23 of https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/archiv
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by dcminter 1y ago
With respect to (1) I'd love to see more tooling like Rust's documentation tests where broken examples in the doocumentation can fail the build; it can't force the lazy to make good docs but it can make the well intentioned a
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by dcminter 1y ago
I did wonder if it was AI written or possibly AI "assisted" as it doesn't really say anything. It reads as if someone thought up the title and then asked Chat GPT to fill in the rest. Edit: Oh, and now the submission is flagg
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm on Signal ... somewhat. I like it in principle, but the usability is poor and my connections on it are people who are either already ideologically aligned with it or sympathetic to my reluctance to use the Meta stuff (so my wife an
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by dcminter 1y ago
I remember a skit in a (terrible) British sketch show a zillion years ago where Biro tells the details of his secret invention to someone with an aside that there was nobody else in the house except "the butler Bic, the housekeeper Pen

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