gr3ml1n

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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
Oh yeah. My son started on one and used to make a game out of barreling down the driveway into the mailbox post across the street. Re: the article: he picked up riding a bike with pedals in <5 minutes after a summer of his balance bike.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
It's a business. The business perspective is what's relevant.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
> they also told a senior vice president that he had been saying "you guys" a lot and do you know what happened? He thanked them, apologized, and corrected himself. And you look back on this as a nostalgic memory? Something us
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
When I hear these sorts of arguments I'm reminded of this XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/808/
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
If you anonymize applications you don't hire the 'right' ratio.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
One of the solutions to the 'POC Pipeline Problem' was to overhire for non-technical roles that could be used to hit diversity goals.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
AMD thought the enthusiast side of things was a negligible side of the market.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
Whenever I have a chart in Grafana that isn't too dense, I almost always add a line for the 7d offset value. Super useful to tell what's normal and what isn't.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
This is an interesting argument for the (definitely common) pattern the author describes in the intro. A more cynical take (that I'm inclined towards is): the median software developer is simply not very good. X10 was a good developer
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
> I don't run dodgy software I was confident I didn't either, but Little Snitch has proven otherwise. The amount of 'instrumentation' in modern JS and Python libraries is insane.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
Do you have any useful search terms for them?
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
You're conflating some sort of heritage cow breed with raw milk. It's being intentionally misleading.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
LangChain was the first big attempt at a cohesive LLM application framework. As a result, it's terrible. If someone is seriously suggesting using it, they aren't keeping up.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
As someone with more-or-less the full Apple ecosystem in my home: I don't think it expresses any sort of individualism or artistic freedom. It just all works together really well without any nonsense. I understand that was Apple'
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
That's a good strategy, but you have to have the right case. One where OpenAI feels confident they can win and establish favorable precedent. If the facts of the case aren't advantageous, it's probably not worth the risk.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
> I can spin up effectively identical dev/ci/stg/prod clusters for a new project in an hour for a medium sized project, with CD in addition to everything GP mentioned. I can do the same thing with `make local` invoking a f
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
None of this is difficult to do or automate, and we've done it for years. Kubernetes simply makes it more complex by adding additional abstractions in the pursuit of pretending hardware doesn't exist. There are, maybe, a dozen co
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
3.5 Sonnet, ime, is dramatically better at coding than 4o. o1-preview may be better, but it's too slow.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
SBF was the first that popped into my mind.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
Every bookstore nowadays, front and center, has a 'banned book' section. It's practically a meme. In the article you linked, no books were removed from the shelves. It's the definition of an imaginary threat. The books
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
It was definitely changed.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
40-50 total. I agree it seems low, but for my sample size of ~3 companies it’s held.
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
I've definitely seen the same at other big companies. I've wondered where the line is; what's the point at which the company grows too much and regresses to this sort of mess of needing to get bureaucratic consensus? Purely
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by gr3ml1n 2y ago
I can't imagine it's actually illegal. Maybe cost-prohibitive and a bit noisy, but plenty of people have UPS systems for their local devices and backup generators.