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by duggan 2y ago
> You're gonna get left in the dust by everyone else embracing LLMs. Probably not, there's a very long tail to this sort of stuff, and there's plenty of programming to go around. I'll chime in with your enthusiasm tho
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by duggan 2y ago
> Your comment makes no sense at all. You do not need to get a PR merged before you can use your changes. What you said was: > Wouldn't it have been far more efficient to contribute back to protoc? My point was about the bureaucr
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by duggan 2y ago
That's a fair point, particularly in the case of go. Be interested to understand the reasoning myself.
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by duggan 2y ago
Not speaking for Leland, and this is not a universal principle, but if you know what you're doing, you can write a solution and have it out of your way faster than going through the bureaucracy of trying to get some code merged upstrea
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by duggan 2y ago
> The benefit of frameworks is that they enable low-ability developers to create stuff without understanding the nuts-and-bolts of what they're doing. Eliminate the frameworks, and you eliminate probably 90% of the developers out th
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by duggan 2y ago
Just from the abstract it seems like this could be defeated by spy camera manufacturers by placing a Faraday cage around the camera components. It looks like they acknowledge that under Limitations : > The latest smartphones employ low
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by duggan 2y ago
Yeah, maybe it's one of those reading between the lines things, but I think anyone familiar with burnout would understand. There are few efforts as truly thankless in many organizations as fixing things.
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by duggan 2y ago
By 2012 the writing was already on the wall. This was already well into the first PaaS era with Heroku, Engine Yard, etc. Github was bootstrapped, and using git was a grassroots movement. It was just better than what most people had been us
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by duggan 2y ago
Related post on Mastodon from one of the project organizers: https://mastodon.social/@Chrislintott/112887574262558270 > New data up at Galaxy Zoo: we urgently need help to classify images of galaxies from ESA’s Eucl
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Help classify galaxies from the Euclid mission(zooniverse.org)
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by duggan 2y ago
As much as it's about winning the medals, this is about setting personal and world records, too.
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by duggan 2y ago
I misread some stats, thanks for the correction.
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by duggan 2y ago
In principle, for some other company, sure. Google makes ~$300b a year in profit . They could make a $10m mistake every day and barely make a dent in it.
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by duggan 2y ago
Europe has a lot of countries and cultures, might make sense to visit first, see if there’s anywhere in particular you like? English is the primary language in Ireland, and I think as a developer you’d qualify for a “critical skills” visa.
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by duggan 2y ago
Stealing ideas is a lot of work.
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by duggan 2y ago
It's clearly a tax credit. If you're running a company and not making use of the tax credits available to you, you're making a generous donation to the state.
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by duggan 2y ago
Life moves pretty fast. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the median age of Tailscale’s audience was 24.
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by duggan 2y ago
If one person learns this lesson it's good. If it's on the public Internet, best to expect it will be found. Stick it behind an auth wall of some sort. I've put internal sites behind AWS ALB's plugged into an OIDC provid
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by duggan 2y ago
That's a fair point! It definitely feels easier to make that mistake, and anything where context and discipline is required is a good candidate for making some horrifying blunders :)
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by duggan 2y ago
Next.js makes you prefix env vars with NEXT_PUBLIC_ if you want them to be available client side, and Vercel has warning flags around it when you paste in those keys. It's obviously not foolproof, but it's a good effort.
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by duggan 2y ago
> There is no chance of VR going mainstream until someone solves the fundamental human problem of people preferring to do things in real life. Ready Player One had a pretty good answer to this: dystopia. Once real life is miserable enoug
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by duggan 2y ago
No, you’re just meant not to assert that linear algebra is equivalent to any process in the human brain, when the human brain is not understood well enough to draw that conclusion.
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by duggan 2y ago
And was remarkably successful at it — the entire crew of the Endurance came back alive.
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by duggan 2y ago
It would at least make more sense to post the “gift”[1] version of the link, though that would require the submitter be an NYT subscriber. Be great if there were a way for NYT subscribers to edit these links, turn them into gift links. 1:
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by duggan 2y ago
All I'm saying is that a "screen out the bums" heuristic is also a "screen out some of the wealthiest companies to ever exist" heuristic then it's probably not rooted in anything other than vibes.
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by duggan 2y ago
If lack of punctuality being used as a signal causes these VCs to drop Steve Jobs or Travis Kalanick I think it's safe to say it doesn't speak volumes. Otherwise you're optimizing for criteria other than "selecting whe
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by duggan 2y ago
This is fascinating, and yeah, since I was a teenager around then, VHS probably just became ancient history as soon as I could play DVDs.
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by duggan 2y ago
Hardly, if done correctly, you're probably improving the CTR by reducing the number of ad impressions that would never result in a click.
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by duggan 2y ago
I’m slowly working my way through Scavengers Reign, it’s absolutely brilliant — somewhere between Alien and Stanislaw Lem’s The Invincible.
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by duggan 2y ago
Champloo came out in 2004, wasn’t VHS a distant memory by then, or was I just “living in the future”? :) Sure you’re not thinking of Cowboy Bebop?

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