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by ghc 11mo ago
I'm just looking at the covers, listed by publication date. I'm not cherry picking from inside the magazines. I was too young to really remember the 80s or early 90s so I'm just surprised that people were worried about the sa
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by ghc 11mo ago
If you look at the first 10 years of Whole Earth Review, starting in 1985, it's startling to see the similarities to the issues of today. January 1985: Computers as Poison - "It is not our hand that we put into the computer, it is
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by ghc 11mo ago
I'll believe it when they ship.
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by ghc 1y ago
I just attended a DoD "Scrum of Scrums" meeting. > In my experience, the worst of software is written by teams with little experience improvising under Agile and taking on tech debt with no time/resources to get things don
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by ghc 1y ago
As someone who lives the DoD software delivery process on a day-to-day basis, it's too on the nose to not be satire. Everything is _exactly_ wrong, even the waterfall part (everything's "agile" now!). Edit: Never mind! I
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by ghc 1y ago
LOL
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by ghc 1y ago
I've only been through a few cycles, but there's three flavors I've seen: 1. Better query language: QUEL, LINQ, etc. 2. Better data model or performance: CouchDB, Mongo, Redis, etc. 3. Better abstraction: Zope, Active Record,
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by ghc 1y ago
If history is any indication, you've got it backwards: it's more likely that LLMs will be phased out for SQL.
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by ghc 1y ago
This reminded me of a particularly relevant Paul Graham essay: https://paulgraham.com/usa.html For what it's worth, it's not quite so bad everywhere. In New England infrastructure decays faster due to the weather,
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by ghc 1y ago
Kudos to the Globe/AP for getting it right: > An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The
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by ghc 1y ago
I mean, some drivers do drive dangerously, but that's not what I'm talking about. With the narrow network of one way roads, going down an alley or going the wrong way down an empty one way road for 20 feet can sometimes make a 15
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by ghc 1y ago
Even in America they've just chosen the easier cities. I would love it if Waymo came to Boston but until it learns to proactively break traffic laws like all the uber drivers I'm not sure it's going to be very competitive :&#
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by ghc 1y ago
M4 MBP and M4 iPad Pro only. And it might not even be available on the cheapest iPad Pro model.
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by ghc 1y ago
I struggled with this for years, until Apple released the iPad Pro with tandem OLED and nano-textured glass. With that I could comfortably program outside, even in direct sunlight. The only issue has been when too much sun hits the iPad for
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by ghc 1y ago
I think this is meant to be satire, but it's subtle enough that it went over a lot of heads here. Well, that or I'm reading too much into it, but... Everything the author said was just as true pre-GPT. He's imparting basic bu
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by ghc 1y ago
> Few studies use cross-attention to integrate time series into LLMs I mean, sure, but why would you need a study for that? There's plenty of prior work using cross-attention to integrate time series dynamics into non-LLM transforme
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by ghc 1y ago
Endeavor Robotics was recently sold for $382MM. So clearly it was actually valuable. Are you aware that from an investor perspective, creating a household brand and high IRR though IPO is considered a wild success? All companies eventually
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by ghc 1y ago
You say one hit wonder, but iRobot's PackBot and other gov-focused efforts were/are very profitable, though the company had to spin off the defense arm.
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by ghc 1y ago
A decade of profitability as a public company seems pretty successful to me. Brooks was long gone by the time iRobot started its decline.
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by ghc 1y ago
I admit thinking this way is tempting, but in your model the number represents some kind of language, whether human-readable or machine-readable. If we accept the number is a non-lossy encoding of some language, we reach an equivalency stat
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by ghc 1y ago
> The engineering tyrannical drive The critique you're dismissing is from an English professor who teaches argument, not "engineering." So your writing is in fact being criticized by both "CS" and "English&q
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by ghc 1y ago
Then you must be writing extremely fast to make so many basic punctuation and grammar errors consistently throughout your posts. If you wish to be understood, slow down and put more time into your writing. Writing on an internet forum is no
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by ghc 1y ago
While it could be a bot, I have a more charitable take. The comments mostly appear quite similar in structure to certain academic writing I've had to edit in the past -- specifically proposals written by non-native English speakers at
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by ghc 1y ago
There are still dozens of us!
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by ghc 1y ago
Logged in for the first time in a month to check out the quality issues people are talking about and of course it's down.
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by ghc 1y ago
Fantastic job! Great writeup too!
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by ghc 1y ago
> I think what pops is the false belief. Then you're inventing your own term. Bubble is shorthand for the Economics term "speculative bubble" or "economic bubble" and has described the behavior of many markets ov
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by ghc 1y ago
Typically $250K-500K checks as a follow on. From what I'm seeing, lots of companies are still out there raising sub-$3M pre-seeds and sub-$10M seed rounds. You might only get 1-2% of the company but you can always try to buy up in late
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by ghc 1y ago
That's only a problem in the base python interpreter. IPython has handled this well for over 20 years.
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by ghc 1y ago
I find that the IPython REPL has downright amazing multiline support. I've always been envious of it when using GHCI. But even the standard Python REPL supports multiline paste just fine. So what exactly are you talking about? Rolling

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