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by dilyevsky 4mo ago
Same reason - US had a lot of timber and Europe generally didn't by the time industrial revolution came. In addition, a lot of eastern europe had to be totally rebuilt from scratch after ww2 and especially soviets were never really goo
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by dilyevsky 4mo ago
Ive had people show up at onsites that were clearly not the same person I screened over the phone earlier as far back as 2013 at google. It’s real. Just ask any recruiters from well known companies and they’ll tell you. It’s happening to mo
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by dilyevsky 4mo ago
Ime take-homes was a good way to purge all the good candidates with options from your pipeline as they would simply not turn anything in and go with someone else. Maybe with AI and so many layoffs it’s better now I haven’t tried in last cou
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by dilyevsky 4mo ago
I started using Claude web with sonnet over chatgpt before any of the coding tools came out and noticed other founders were using it too and the reason was pretty simple - it was much less likely to hallucinate non existing APIs than ChatGP
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by dilyevsky 4mo ago
Most of the world doesnt have access to good/cheap canadian lumber and we do. It would make sfhs and even small multihome projects more expensive not less if you start building them from concrete and steel. Also at the risk of stating
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by dilyevsky 4mo ago
> friendly neighborhood murderers
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by dilyevsky 4mo ago
i mean it's durable as long as nothing crashes or litestream has a data corruption bug which only happens every other release...
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
> Under heavy allocation, P99 latency tails are noticeably worse than a Rust equivalent that simply doesn’t allocate on the hot path. Lmao so not an equivalent then? Standard glibc malloc, which is default in rust, will also similarly de
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
PERM doesn’t just apply to h1b, having to prove no qualified hires was never required for h1b, it’s green card requirement which also applies to o1 and bunch of others. PERM is the thing that is stupid - they should automatically grant yo
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
What’s different is in this case is applicants have years of status “runway” and can just sue or wait it out so to speak. I’m betting they will have to walk some of it back
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
They buy a lot of companies then restructure them and that causes these layoffs. I think it’s just normal way of doing business for them. And the stock is up 20% after hours =)
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
The credits you get from aws in their startup program are typically not spendable on marketplace. At least what we got through YC we could not spend there. Not sure how claude is integrating, maybe it’s different here
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
Their ACP integration with Claude agent is extremely broken to the point of being almost unusable. It desyncs and breaks in other ways constantly requiring frequent IDE relaunch. I get that they want you to use their built-in agent but $200
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
This analogy directly addresses spolsky’s botched argument. The point is devs went into this career to dev not read other people’s code whether it makes business sense or not. What you said applies to writing code just as well as reading it
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
The "It’s harder to read code than to write it" was always silly. The example spolsky gives to support it is basically "devs like to rewrite other devs code, therefore reading is hard" which is obviously bunch of nonsens
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
Gross margin doesn't include r&d and it looks like a bunch of engineering was laid off too
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
What you're describing is not innovation in the business sense but some kind of experimental art. Software engineering is not art as the name suggests - it's a craft, even though there's a self-expression component to it.
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
Number of people who i personally met and would entrust a crypto library to i can count on one hand. You're moving that goalpost at relativistic speeds now.
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
There’s someone in the sibling thread arguing claude is bad at using perf and tcpdump
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
> In my circles "debugging production issues" is running perf to diagnose memory allocation hot paths and tcpdump to figure out who is sending bad packets. Haha i got some news for you…
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
most people are around mid by definition. mid is good. a lot of companies pay good money to find mid devs.
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
I think it’s because most PEs are in general conservative (the whole “mr no” meme) and also have limited experience writing software so they will be slow to adapt to this paradigm shift
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
High quality c++ code today looks exactly same as it did six months, hell, six years ago. Innovation doesn’t come from code tricks
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
There was lot of lofty ideas around devops/pe and the like but ime the grim reality is that in most of managers’ heads it’s basically “tools that product engs don’t want to be concerned with” and like i said current models are really r
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
1. models are now extremely good at totally automating tedious tasks such as updating dependancies, build/deploys scripts, unit tests, etc what used to take days now can takes minutes. Easily 50x speedup on this. This was non-trivial p
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by dilyevsky 5mo ago
Respectfully, unless someone is really really bad at articulating what the quality standards are or works with a very niche stack that is definitely not the case anymore with SOTA models
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by dilyevsky 6mo ago
it sold like 7 mil copies in a month. yes 98 was much more polished overall but 95 revolutionized personal computing as it was much more accessible than NeXT stuff
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by dilyevsky 6mo ago
Missing some hn snobbery
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by dilyevsky 6mo ago
High dose aspirin (1000mg) + caffeine worked much better for me for migraines than paracetamol/ibuprofen/naproxen which did nothing. There're some studies supporting this too...
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by dilyevsky 6mo ago
Naproxen sodium has much higher risk of GI damage especially with long term use.

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