georgeburdell

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by georgeburdell 5d ago
Agreed, had a coworker come to this same conclusion and now only distributes CLIs. I think it’s solid as long as the decision tree of which tools do what is fairly simple. Perhaps MCPs were just overused before
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by georgeburdell 5d ago
I literally read this as human loop engineering. The next step would logically be to turn this into an agentic loop, and I imagine he does lots of that too.
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by georgeburdell 8d ago
MRAM is more like 100ns, but yeah Intel actually offers this as part of their 16nm foundry process
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by georgeburdell 10d ago
So you voted for Kodos instead of Kang [1]. Local models are the way out of the rug pulling [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BUAnyVAanac&ra=m
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by georgeburdell 10d ago
A lot of that is the lack of SRAM scaling. There’s still quite a bit of improvements in the back end (metal traces). That aside, if foundries adopted say a 1T-1C SRAM we’d see a pretty rapid density doubling
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by georgeburdell 11d ago
“Payments continued in large part due to the circulation of cheques based on mutual trust, effectively substituting them for cash” I doubt this would be possible in today’s lower trust societies
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by georgeburdell 11d ago
Not a paleontologist but my 2 sons went through a dinosaur phase not long ago. It seems like the vast majority of known dinosaur samples come from the northern rockies.
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by georgeburdell 16d ago
Do you support the status quo of millions of H1Bs? Those people I doubt can or will take such a principled stance, making collective action by tech workers impossible.
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by georgeburdell 17d ago
Apple has most likely stress tested its engineers to stress test this phone
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by georgeburdell 18d ago
No we are not hiring AI experts, just people we think can be trained to think AI-natively. It’s a different mindset that presumes whatever work you’re doing now is ultimately going to be used to train AI to do it later.
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by georgeburdell 19d ago
I can’t read the article but in my group, which is not terribly AI exposed due to its hands-on nature, we are in fact hiring extra people into next year to handle additional AI initiatives that I am confident will succeed. In subsequent ye
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by georgeburdell 21d ago
I unironically paraphrase this at work all the time when talking about ops concerns. That and “the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”
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by georgeburdell 25d ago
Guess it’s that time in my lifecycle, but when I was a kid it was possible, nay probable, to accidentally stumble on some really horrific things on the internet, particularly on p2p sharing, and I’m fine (married, 3 children, no medications
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by georgeburdell 26d ago
AlexNet was 2012 and they explicitly called out the use of NVidia GPUs
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by georgeburdell 28d ago
As an aside, this seems related to the Holographic Principle? It states that the content of a volume is encoded in its surface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
Some of the non native English speakers on my team have started to use “blast radius” and “shape of” in the course of casual conversation. It’s unnerving.
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
When they're on visa managers know you can work them harder, especially during the PERM process
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
Props to your coworker. In my office, they usually just work normal India hours and we have a 12+ hour delay for all communications.
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
Pauli Exclusion is just another “force” that can be overridden. Nature isn’t a list of rules
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
We can’t find seniors like that yet, even though our pay is nearly top tier, because hiring is so broken right now. Most hires come from referrals so it’s recycling the same people between different companies, and those people don’t have g
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
I didn’t say “most productive”, there was a qualifier attached. A person productive with AI is capable in a different way than the existing folks who are struggling to keep up with their jobs and retool to AI
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
I don’t understand this logic. If I’m being honest, the most productive people with AI on my team are the two youngest. They don’t have product wisdom, yes, but the gap is so noticeable that I pushed my manager to forego the full-time wor
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
My semi educated guess is because different kinds of people sit on the two different standards boards, so you get siloed specs with the cross sharing of some good ideas. You could ask a similar question about HDMI vs thunderbolt.
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
It gets complicated by the preponderance of French loan words, although they tend to be for newer concepts such as car, elevator, etc. There do also seem to be some genuine coincidences, such as sock it/saket, both being a somewhat for
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
China
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
You’re too kind. That’s how you end up with civil unrest. See: early Covid
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
No it isn’t. Malaysians commute across the river daily and then return at night, having provided their services in exchange for compensation. Singapore gets the work without many of the associated problems with housing those people long t
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
Just as an anecdote, I’m an older Millennial (1982) and since my late 30s I’ve been spending my HDHP cap in health services that my parents wouldn’t have bothered with, such as allergy shots and niche diagnostic blood tests based on the lat
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
Singapore is the beneficiary of a neighboring impoverished itinerant workforce to supplement its own collapsing demographics with artificially cheap services. It’s hardly replicable most places.
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
And here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192693

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