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by extr 3y ago
Twitter is full of interesting niche people talking about their favorite subjects. For example, there is no better way to follow the war in Ukraine.
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by extr 3y ago
I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that me
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by extr 3y ago
Big spreadsheet advocate. I use spreadsheets for everything, basically my entire life is organized in a big excel file. All my finances, to do lists, notes, calendars, etc. Excel is flexible enough you can build almost any "app" i
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by extr 3y ago
OS X not only uses a lame hack to scale, it completely muddles the issue by introducing the concept of "HiDPI" UI elements. Somehow I can set my 4K monitor to use "native resolution" at 3840 x 2160, and yet the UI and fo
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by extr 3y ago
Yes, I went ahead and got a 4K 120hz monitor even though my use-case is coding, because it was so jarring switching between my M1 ProMotion display and my main monitor. Just scrolling/cursor movement is so much smoother, 60hz vs 120hz
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by extr 3y ago
I remember signing up for Reddit as a college freshman. I was a digg user and joined Reddit in the aftermath of that fiasco. I sometimes laugh looking over my post history for the past decade plus. If you read the posts linearly, you can tr
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by extr 3y ago
Our system was super well received minus the stability issues. I think the UX of being able to "ship" code like this is a big leap over the alternatives - it actually gives me a lot of confidence in the approach seeing that someon
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by extr 3y ago
Very interesting. I just worked to implement a baby version of this kind of system at work. Similar to this project, our basic use case was allowing researchers to quickly/easily execute their arbitrary R&D code on cloud resources.
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by extr 3y ago
As a hiring manager, I'm not averse to hiring someone with non-domain experience for a domain-specific role with but I usually have a few apprehensions. You can make yourself a better candidate by pre-empting these questions: * Were yo
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by extr 3y ago
The problem is that you are using it for a "deceptively difficult task" and not "a task I know how to do, or could easily look up, but would prefer not to". Looking at my ChatGPT history, some things I've used it fo
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by extr 3y ago
Yes, identical story here. I was over the moon when I got the job. Within 6 months was basically just waiting until I had been there long enough that leaving wouldn't look bad.
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by extr 3y ago
Yeah, that's basically the case. They don't have a plugin system, afaik it's still in the planning phase. They have LSP support, but copilot is a non-standard kind of LSP, and last time I looked the devs weren't interest
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by extr 3y ago
Helix is awesome but have been disappointed by the core devs stance toward integrating some form of copilot. It's really difficult to use an editor that doesn't support it at this point.
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by extr 3y ago
They don't do containerized development well. VS Code + docker for development "just works", as of 2023 there is still no similar workflow in PyCharm. You have to start the container and treat it like an SSH target.
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by extr 3y ago
Not really. Tons of these preferences are gated behind SIP, something you can't turn off if it's a work laptop.
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by extr 3y ago
I think it's way more banal than that. Think someone in HR asking it for format a list of salaries. Boring stuff.
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by extr 3y ago
I don't really understand why it had to be this way. It's so easy to think of other ways this could have been handled. Even just announcing the same change with 6 months of lead time rather than 1 month would have gone over better
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by extr 3y ago
In VS Code I have an extension that allows me to highlight code and get immediate edits/advice from GPT-4. What's the VIM analogue there?
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by extr 3y ago
? It's not about encryption. These emails were subpoenaed.
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by extr 3y ago
No, but maybe I should start one.
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by extr 3y ago
I was a Data Scientist. Personally I found the autonomy immensely frustrating. Combined with the stack ranking performance review system, it was effectively a way of pushing the manager's job on to the employee and forcing them to hold
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by extr 3y ago
> What I found to be the best approach is one or two people already established a concept at what to make or at least the image of it, and the discussion can move to the details and implementation plan. This is exactly what I was getting
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by extr 3y ago
I agree. Research is ideal for remote work, since you are effectively your own manager and by definition there is no specific vision that needs to be worked toward - you are discovering that vision yourself. It's the literal ivory towe
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by extr 3y ago
Product Market Fit and Not Gonna Make It. The former is established startup product terminology, the latter is slang.
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by extr 3y ago
Yes, I am going through this right now as a new hire onboarding to a boutique codebase. As soon as you are 100% reliant on internal docs, you realize just how large the gap is between them and mainstream OSS libraries. I think a decent midd
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by extr 3y ago
I wouldn't call it brainstorming. More like "alignment". Fleshing out the vision you have for what you need to do, and putting that up against your coworkers vision, and figuring out where the disagreements/gaps are. You
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by extr 3y ago
Not everyone, but there would have been enough people around to have dramatically improved my experience. The problem there was Meta does not have a strong culture of documentation, and I didn't know what I didn't know. It was com
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by extr 3y ago
After going back and forth between in-person and remote jobs, my conclusion: * Remote work is much better if you know what you're building and "just" need to execute. * In-person is much better if you don't know what you
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by extr 3y ago
I first created a reddit account in November 2010. I've used sync for years. Pretty sad to see it go down this way. o7
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by extr 3y ago
Yeah 3.5 seems to have an complexity cap, where beyond a certain point it just won't be able to follow you. Easier to confuse it with misdirection. But GPT-4 has been shown to be much better at this exact thing. The appendix example is

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