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by dehrmann 7mo ago
> Late in the night most problems were fixed and I wrote a script that found everyone whose payment got stuck. I sent them money back (+ extra $1 as a ‘thank you for your patience’ note), and let them know via DMs. (emphasis added) Not
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
Isn't the AI sales pitch that you can do both?
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
> Why pay a subscription for a product that I can get something Claude to build it for me. We've already seen this with OSS. Even with free software, support, self-hosting, and quirky behavior have proven to be enough to keep most p
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
> pom.xml loading two versions of the same library Just checking that you're using maven-enforcer-plugin
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
I tested with a Macbook, so I'm a little surprised Apple didn't do proprietary magic to fix it.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
We're getting some moderately expensive and painful lessons about how hard it would be to deglobalize.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
CPI is personal (renting vs home ownership), very hard to have a good definition for (expenses tracked and weights), and more useful over short windows because the standard of living changes.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
I compared the mic quality of Airpods Pro 2, Airpods 4 ANC (similar), and freebie Apple 3.5mm wired earbuds. The earbuds won. My limited research suggested either 1) compression and transmission take a lot of power, so the Airpods don'
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
I was doing something involving API keys and I realized Junie (backed by Sonnet) likes too write helper scripts to try things. And who knows where those scripts look or if they honor .aiignore. Agentic development is a real test of internal
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
> The programmer needs to understand this implementation detail instead of pretending that async functions work the same way as sync functions. Async is telling the OS "I'll do it myself" to threading and context switches.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
What if millennials are good at both and are choosing the right too for the job?
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
I know this is true, but for serious tasks, I need the screen real estate. I'm amazed at what some people can do from a phone, but also wonder if they're missing things, of if it's actually inefficient.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
I didn't get the quantum hype last year. At least with AI, you can see it do some impressive things with caveats, and there are bull and bear cases that are both reasonable. The quantum hype training is promising the world, but compare
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
> flakiness of real fish It was in sushi. They're halfway cheating because it's not cooked, but getting the look right is very impressive compared to ground meat.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
Oysters don't have a central nervous system.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
In Swedish, it's "green things."
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
I actually had some this weekend. If you support this, visit one of the handful of restaurants selling it to show interest and support the companies. The salmon I had was ready for prime time in the right context, and if you didn't kno
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
20 years ago (so very outdated), I TAed an introductory CS class for engineers who weren't going to be majoring in CS. We used MOSS [1]. Maybe it was the threshold we picked, but the results were pretty blatant. People renamed variable
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
This is a desperate defense. They're making it because they have to try something, but I doubt the court will buy it. This is a class action brought by authors, so while Meta has deep pockets, I expect this will actually settle, with n
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
It's one of the challenges with data. It's technically accurate, and it's useful for trends like productivity and output, but only marginally useful as a gauge of the health of the economy. You also have to remember it for th
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
That doesn't show up as unemployment, though. It might mean the economy is getting worse faster than that graph, but boomers retiring is dampening the increase.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
What are the current theories about why the perceived(?) healthy unemployment rate is lower post-covid? 4.4% is spectacularly good by historic standards. This has also been the slowest medium-term upswing in unemployment since WWII. https:
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
OCR as a use case for LLMs cracks me up because traditional NN OCR is probably more accurate, but significantly more efficient. I figured people would chain it with LLMs to fix misscans.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
There was a strike. That particular number is probably worth ignoring.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
Naive question, but could neural networks handle these use cases?
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
> I don't think there are any fundamental bottlenecks here. You memory only has so much bandwidth, but now it's shared by even more cores.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
Apps are a strange measure because there aren't really any new, groundbreaking ones. PCs and smartphones have mostly done what people have wanted them to do for a while.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
> I'll not soon forget when I plugged in a cable incorrectly I'm surprised this was a problem. Back in the day, there were things like making sure your two very similar AT power connectors had the black wires next to each other
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
Every time I visit the FT, the experience is reasonable enough.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
> I wish they would commit to doing a mini every x years The problem is all the tooling is pipelined for annual releases. You can't just find a team to do the mini; it has to always be there, and parts of it have to always be workin

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