helge9210

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by helge9210 1mo ago
Was it intentionally made difficult to communicate with the government and LLMs are just not sensitive to the artificial friction?
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by helge9210 2mo ago
No, action points I get either from parsing a video capture of a scoreboard or by pulling them over API, depending on which scoreboard/match management system is used. I do plan to have a front-end for manual annotation of referee perf
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by helge9210 2mo ago
Olympic wrestling education tool. Indexing multiple captured video streams with awarded action points and adding athlete/referee positions overlay. Stretch goal -- controlling PTZ camera for predictive capture of the high intensity act
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by helge9210 2mo ago
Cut the pace to 1 hour a week, than some bursts of two to four months of up to 4 hours a day two to three days a week -- that would be close to how I did it. 45 days 8 hours per day is beyond my brain ability to adapt.
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by helge9210 2mo ago
Perfection is not "perfectionism". Former is provable given set of constraint. Later is anxiety due to fear of criticism. "We don't want to build the perfect solution." Can both mean "no need to cover use cases
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by helge9210 3mo ago
Most Germans are not well-read/university educated.
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by helge9210 3mo ago
C1 can be achieved (I did it on 360 hours). C2 is academic level of language proficiency -- you have to either deliberately study for the difficult exam or get an university degree in German. Most of the Germans won't be able to pass a
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by helge9210 3mo ago
I didn't interpret it as "automation bad". The invisible value, cancelled by automation, can also be negative. Consider a doorman or a waiter in low-trust status based society: to get a service one must exaggerate status sign
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by helge9210 3mo ago
Depends on the organization and on the SWEs. I do share your understanding, which is making me unfit for organizations, where the authority over "what" is firmly held by POs and the whole vertical on top of them.
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by helge9210 3mo ago
CTOs noticed it. When product pipeline is empty, because engineers finished all the outstanding tasks, the engineers are awarded with more work: "The new software engineer is a product leader. Someone thinking about what the product is
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by helge9210 3mo ago
Considering all the possible levels of abstraction software can represent, I'm imagining it as a fractal. The worst case - a mistake can be introduced by generative AI at any of the abstraction levels at any moment. Meaning, at worst c
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by helge9210 4mo ago
Personal (as in, "for personal use, not a product") conversation partner -- I speak in German, one level is correcting the mistakes, allowing me to reformulate the statement, another level is responding to the intended idea. Rinse
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by helge9210 5mo ago
I did a project with Claude. With unit and integration tests, whole shebang. First in Python. Reached 25% of MVP and understood that I spend more time fixing subtle type mismatches (int/str, function signature vs call etc.), than addin
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by helge9210 5mo ago
Vacuuming working age population from Ukraine since 2014. Poland did everything right, while Ukrainian governments and businesses were smirking "What are you going to do?" during salary discussions.
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by helge9210 6mo ago
> you have to go to a school that costs around $2000 So cheap. Comparing to Germany.
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by helge9210 6mo ago
Sabra and Shatila all over again?
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by helge9210 6mo ago
From my experience greenfield /brownfield is not the best dichotomy here. I observed, how same tooling is generating meaningless slop on greenfield project and 10kLoC of change (leading to an outage) on existing project in one hands an
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by helge9210 7mo ago
These were not private individuals. This was an official cash/good transfer between Austrian bank and Ukrainian bank.
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by helge9210 7mo ago
> tight feedback loop between military intelligence, private startups It's just friends buying from friends.
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by helge9210 7mo ago
I would put the upper bound on the population relevant to _the_ tech sector at 28000.
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by helge9210 8mo ago
I remember GM cars in Herzliya, Israel with cables and cameras held by duct tape circa 2019 after Andrej Karpathy already presented end to end neural network training for Autopilot in Tesla. Looked like very late to the party.
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by helge9210 8mo ago
Long time ago when I was managing ISP email relay and customers asked "Where is the message I've sent?" seeing in the logs message accepted by receiving SMTP server was the end of the debug for me: I just handed the customer
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by helge9210 8mo ago
These reports are not for engineers, but for businesses. HR will point to the statistic and state "we are paying top of the market". In reality, trying to hire a senior engineer below EUR100k is like looking for a black cat in a d
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by helge9210 9mo ago
https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2006773495066464580 > Seeing as this has made the orange site, let it be known this person is a model security researcher. > The issue was not in any FFmpeg release, and a report
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by helge9210 1y ago
If we assume the company runs N projects with positive Net Present Value (NPV) at the start of the project and after re-evaluation some of the project NPV turned to be negative, closing the project and laying off the staff will actually mak
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by helge9210 1y ago
I would try to pass it between the wheels and would crash the same. At least for me there was nothing indicating there is not enough clearance.
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by helge9210 1y ago
Not if you consider all the modern negative connotations of being called "white". Eastern Europe was under colonial rule (of Russian empire) up until 1980-90s.
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by helge9210 1y ago
Reminds me of a joke: calling a Slav white is like buying a "made in Vietnam" Rolex.
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by helge9210 1y ago
Don't try to catch thieves. Go for the scrapyards/recycling companies buying the metal.
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by helge9210 1y ago
You can carefully pick an order of features to build in a way, that every new feature will invalidate an abstraction correctly implementing all the previous features.

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