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by ebiester 10mo ago
There are a wide number of small problems for which we do not need bridges. As a stupid example, I hate the functionality that YouTube has to maintain playlists. However, I don't have the time to build something by hand. It turns out t
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by ebiester 11mo ago
Why? It turns out that I try to read people who have a different perspective than I do. Why am I trying to read everything that just confirms my current biases? (Unless those writings are looking to dehumanize or strip people of rights or i
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by ebiester 11mo ago
I really enjoyed the garden there - we spent hours happily. And we don't have a lot of palaces where I'm from. And I didn't really enjoy the Louvre, especially compared to Musée d'Orsay and Centre Pompidou.
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by ebiester 11mo ago
CTOs are the original vibe coders.
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by ebiester 11mo ago
> Can "AI" in its current form deliver value? Sure, and it absolutely does but it's more in the form of "several hours saved per FTE per week" than "several FTEs saved per week". Yes but... First, what
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by ebiester 11mo ago
It's more nuanced. If I even have a few lines I can prove are mine, those parts are copywritable in the same way Pride and Prejudice is public domain but pride and prejudice and zombies is copyrighted.
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by ebiester 11mo ago
It's much harder on many surgeries. They come in with "it depends" and completely avoid discussing it. The doctors often do not even know, and those who know will refuse to discuss. On top of that, consultations are not free
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by ebiester 11mo ago
We have a price for the total infrastructure spend per dev, and that includes things like AWS prices and all of the tooling like jira and github. But you absolutely shouldn't have to pay for your own tools. (That said, blue collar peop
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by ebiester 11mo ago
We are getting to storage solutions already. But I think many of us think nuclear for base load and massively overbuilt solar and wind so that we can handle the full electrification of our system would be a net economic win as well as an en
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by ebiester 11mo ago
That was my first thought as well, but interfaces that take care of pluralization with an i18n framework can handle all of these. It just takes longer and is at the expense of another feature. In truth, it mostly takes more skill - once you
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by ebiester 11mo ago
Since when did Google pay attention to implementation bugs?
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by ebiester 1y ago
If you are large enough, you will need an ops team to manage allowing your developers to write terraform and manage AWS costs already. If you are small enough, you are not going to be truly affected by downtime. If you are just a little big
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by ebiester 1y ago
They're put in git. You treat it like any other source. You might even have them as a set of shell scripts.
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by ebiester 1y ago
I know Workday is working overtime on this. I’m sure Oracle and others are too. SAP is giving companies a reason to switch and that’s always a scary moment.
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by ebiester 1y ago
It helps that you can have the "free" labor document the processes and build the plan.
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by ebiester 1y ago
You ask the people who you have sold to if they have recommendations.
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by ebiester 1y ago
I've seen Gleam and Onyx, and I think the real problem is that there is a lot of garbage coming in. If you want to solve the problem, you need to find a way to clean the information coming in. And if you've cleaned the information
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by ebiester 1y ago
They could as easily put the video on some of the OSS solutions as that. Or they could self host. They do not value effective advocacy for their ideas. I do not see the FSF as an effective organization today.
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by ebiester 1y ago
You are thinking too small. AI should be able to determine what my thoughts should be and execute them so I don't have to spend my precious time actually thinking.
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by ebiester 1y ago
Where are these non-technical engineering managers and how did they stay in the business? I haven't seen a truly non-technical manager in over 15 years.
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by ebiester 1y ago
If you cook it in a lot less water, and add a quarter teaspoon of corn starch, you can get the same effect. Play with the ratios to taste.
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by ebiester 1y ago
1. It's a very small community and peer review is even hard. Think about it this way: what do you think two physicist colleagues talk about at a conference? How do you know who to talk to to collaborate on a problem? (Yes, people still
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by ebiester 1y ago
Do you think that matters to them? They'll burn it all down if they think it scores a political point.
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by ebiester 1y ago
In one sense they won't - it will reduce the queue enormously. But you'll really need that person. It will also kill OPT in general.
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by ebiester 1y ago
That's hard on a fast deadline.
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by ebiester 1y ago
I think that's a bit misinformed. Churchgoers get connection to community and most active churchgoers have positive emotional connections to times associated with church. Now, those who go out of obligation and have negative experience
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by ebiester 1y ago
Super common patterns like dynamic programming?
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by ebiester 1y ago
Except that United is doing the same thing it was before, with only a few months where they dialed back the pressure until their stock price started lagging.
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by ebiester 1y ago
1975-1988 we lived in the Cold War and the potential of nuclear strikes. The African, gay and trans communities (in particular but not exclusively) dealt with the AIDS epidemic. Iran moved to theocracy. In the 90s, we had the Iraq war that
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by ebiester 1y ago
And the EU could have a thriving competitor to silicon valley that had US engineers falling over themselves to come. There are a lot like me who would love to do so (even giving up some salary) but the opportunities aren't there. And I

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