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by hermitShell 4mo ago
I used to be a believer in daily standup plus bi-weekly sprint planning, but lost faith with the (possibly cargo cult) methodology I was trying to follow. Adding 1:1 in with that would be far too frequent, and probably far too little real c
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by hermitShell 4mo ago
Very good explanation and interesting take on the 'humanity scale' or internet scale significance. I work on a phased array system so significance of white rabbit for me was always sample alignment. Assumed CERN had a similar use
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
I have to admit, I feel the same envy about industry and economic growth. But there also seem to be many explanations of why Canada continually fails to attract large cap business other than resource extraction. The cost of living / sk
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
The sane thing would be to ban Excel and promote SQLite. Excel is often used for tabulated text (issue tracking) not calculations. Perfect use case for a relational db
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
If you like sci-fi takes on software systems, check out Vernor Vinge "A Fire upon the deep" and sequels. I recall ship systems software is something like all the code humanity has ever written, plus centuries of LLM churn. One of
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
Exactly, and how bright is your display compared to your surroundings at time of viewing?
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
I partially agree with this idea, but there will always be the Jeff Dean and Fabrice Bellard of the world... but 99% of companies won't ever get the chance to hire the top 1% of programmers. Therein is the problem. Maybe a better way t
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
This article touches on an extreme case "what if all your Sr. Engineers are financially independent?" but I think could do more to explore real world examples and address the elephant in the room, compensation through vested share
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
"Mom can we get some RAM?" "No dear, we have RAM at home." RAM at home...
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by hermitShell 6mo ago
What do you think of the pace of hardware level freedoms? My context is also from Corey Doctorow: https://youtu.be/3C1Gnxhfok0?si=RjmADE5pQ3s7fBIk For me the freedom to own my computer means I can run any software I want on
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by hermitShell 7mo ago
The Sammy Jankis link was certainly interesting. Thanks for sharing. Whether or not AGI is imminent, and whether or not Sammy Jankis is or will be conscious... it's going to become so close that for most people, there will be no differ
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by hermitShell 8mo ago
After looking for a top level comment pointing to why instead of how , I logged in just for this as I could not find one. Extremely bullish on this move, let me try to explain. As most engineers realize right away, it is not going to be
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by hermitShell 10mo ago
If you are interested in UX a youtube series I found enjoyable and thought provoking is "liber indigo" (sorry, on mobile) What comes after the desktop metaphor and mobile? There is VR but... no one is sure it will get anywhere. It
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by hermitShell 10mo ago
I think this is an excellent point. I believe the possibility of 'computing' a conscious mind is proportional to the capability of computing a meaningful reality for it to exist in. So you are begging the question: Is it possible
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by hermitShell 1y ago
This is very fascinating as a limit case, which always serve as a good example of the bound. I think it highlights that “efficiency isn’t everything” just like in so many other systems like healthcare and justice. In this case we could figu
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by hermitShell 1y ago
It would be great to put Carmack and Moxie in a room to discuss low level software.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
To do that we would need society to agree about what the emission cost is . Making electricity so abundant and efficient is probably more solvable. You can’t solve stu… society
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Yes, with pci-e fingers on the ‘motherboard’ of the daughter computer. Like a pci-e carrier for the RPI compute. Good point about high speed networking. I guess that’s a lot more straightforward.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I don’t know why there aren’t full fledged computers in a GPU sized package. Just run windows on your GPU, Linux on your main cpu. There’s some challenges to overcome but I think it would be nice to be able to extend your arm PC with an x86
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Very much agree, I first encountered the idea of an engineering team ‘diva’ or ‘prima donna’ on the zipcpu blog. The archetype immediately resonated with me because I could see it in myself and in others, especially the high potential, high
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Maybe orange man will abolish the FCC because rules are inefficient
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Suddenly, Microsoft makes perfect sense!
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Point 1 is why growth/debt is not a good economic model in the long run. We should have a care & maintenance focused economy and center our macro scale efforts on the overall good of the human race, not perceived wealth of the few.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Yeah we’re not likely to ever face such a situation and still even need that many computers. It’s an interesting project though in the sense that someone has a 32 bit OS running on every ISA out there (or even aims to). Interesting but not
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Coming at it the other way, someone is intellectually and philosophically free if they choose to be that way, full stop. They bend their neck to the yoke of an organization in order to gain what they could not gain themselves without access
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by hermitShell 1y ago
It makes sense that fundamental advances have become more rare as our cumulative scientific progress grows bigger. In order to contribute something fundamentally new, people have to travel further / climb higher in order to see past wh
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by hermitShell 1y ago
You know, I didn’t get the joke until you spelled it out so clearly. Thank you. Also I’ve heard comments to the effect that hyper loop and similar companies are basically performative art, a sort of protest against the heavy regulation req
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Is there any evidence towards this allegiance? Why should we attribute to malice what we could attribute to incompetence, or greed?
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by hermitShell 1y ago
As I understand the benefits of electric cars themselves, the burning of hydrocarbons at scale is more efficient than piecemeal. So if the ‘bus’ contained a turbine, there would probably be net benefit. Or a nuclear bus! Plus, even if it’s
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by hermitShell 1y ago
It's a great essay, and I came away with a similar thought. They mention Erdos and applaud his intensity, transparently mentioning that he was an addict to antidepressants and amphetamines, and without the substance abuse he wasn'

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