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by herval 2y ago
your examples are all telltale signals an LLM DID NOT write this text, to be fair
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by herval 2y ago
you don't have to "prioritize logging" to have logs, calling this a "luxury" is quite bizarre. You can simply use tools that do bash history search, or one of the many copy-paste memorizer tools, and you'll sav
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by herval 2y ago
I don't see how that's the case at all. A sense of obligation (how much you value someone else) has nothing to do with self worth (how much you value yourself). If this was the case at all, a great treatment for low self esteem wo
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by herval 2y ago
how are schools any close to prisons, other than both involving humans?
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by herval 2y ago
> how would this be any different in a non-digital era? You’ll still have a market (albeit significantly smaller you answered it yourself. What's harder, to become the best tennis player of your neighborhood or the best tennis playe
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by herval 2y ago
my understanding of integrity means that you do things that are guided by a shared moral compass - keep your word, avoid cheating, etc. Those signals seem to be all external (you do them because you don't want to violate your contract
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by herval 2y ago
FB uses mercurial _for most things_, but like any company that size, there's teams that use git and even teams that use perforce
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by herval 2y ago
What I mean is that epiphany you went through is extremely common, and everyone goes through more or less at the same 5-10 years of experience. The difference is the people who didn’t spend that time focusing on technique before becoming se
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by herval 2y ago
> cause you're not developing software for your boss(es), remember? You are developing it for some poor humans called users You're developing for both. It's not a XOR situation.
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by herval 2y ago
Every developer must go through that phase. You can't do anything useful "for people" if you don't know how to use your tools correctly. Trying to make jr engineers realize this right away (or treat code as an afterthoug
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by herval 2y ago
If you say so
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by herval 2y ago
The code review process is quite literally “you need a stamp from anyone because of some regulations we follow”. Definitely nothing thorough.
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by herval 2y ago
> You can only operate in this mode for at best 2-3 months before your entire SDLC grinds to a halt because it's been the wild west in github FB is operating that way with tens of thousands of engineers. More approval layers don’t n
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by herval 2y ago
This is like saying chatgpt is “indirectly” made by Reddit…
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by herval 2y ago
a website that literally just hosts models with $5m in funding is plenty. It's not like they're doing foundation model research or anything novel, yet they nabbed a good amount of money for surfing the AI wave
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by herval 2y ago
how do those companies gauge that what those contractors are writing isnt AI-generated?
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by herval 2y ago
“Wanting” is almost entirely a hormonal response (to dopamine and a few other chemicals) - you don’t “want” much of anything if your dopamine levels are low. So “wanting” is an indicator, more than a driver. That said, “willpower” (whatever
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by herval 2y ago
yes, you need to be careful. Your brain evolved over ages to value certain things that are detrimental in high volumes: calories, rest and addicting substances, for instance. welcome to being human :-)
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by herval 2y ago
there's many ways the causality might be inversed. We tend to tell stories to justify what happened all the time, so the "strong wish" can always be a self-justification. You can also be tricked by your brain to wishing more
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by herval 2y ago
what were you diagnosed with, in the end? I always thought you'd need medications for life, for conditions like this - are you 100% off them?
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by herval 2y ago
what do you mark as the beginning of the boom?
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by herval 2y ago
that's expected behavior on any new wave right? I've seen the same with microservices, ORMs, SPAs, etc - "use this hammer any way you can!" - and with product trends (crypto, mobile apps, SoLoMo, etc). It's normal.
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by herval 2y ago
how's that distribution different from any new tech wave? (crypto, past AI waves, robotics, self-driving cars, mobile games...)
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by herval 2y ago
What “labor” does a “fancier version of Catan” eliminate?
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by herval 2y ago
No, I obviously don’t mean those, buddy
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by herval 2y ago
> The only purpose for software is automation, which is the elimination of labor. Getting that wrong directly influences your quality of product more than any other downstream factor. I take it you never played a game in your life?
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by herval 2y ago
They’re using them for everything from video streaming to training models. It’s probably one of the best utilized fleets out there, in terms of full utilization, and there’s direct correlation to revenue. So closer to a very tightly knit ch
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by herval 2y ago
These sound like $2m+ houses that’ll sell 50% over asking in two days, if they’re in the bay area!
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by herval 2y ago
Curious about the numbers - do index investors really do better than speculators? At what rate? Is it also true it nascent industries, like the AI one in this example?
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by herval 2y ago
It seems all their recent major have been waitlists: sora, the voice model, now this

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