hintymad

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   by hintymad 3y ago

   SmallTalk? Even though the language is mainstream, its many ideas, including implementation and design style using message passing, are embedded in many languages and software packages.
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   by hintymad 3y ago

   I guess luck plays a big role in one's success. That said, pg's points still hold, as he is telling us how to maximize our chance of success despite of what we are born with.
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   by hintymad 3y ago

   > Though coding all day sounds very appealing, most of software development time is spent on communicating with other people or other admin work instead of just writing code This sounds very...big corp, which inevitably needs many prof
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   by hintymad 3y ago

   I always thought Hashi's technologies would lose their lustres soon. My previous company used to use Terraform and Nomad. They are like Graphite 10 years ago: darling of the open source community, good for small companies, but eventual
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   by hintymad 3y ago

   And a lot of complexity comes from allowing a user or an external service to access some resources that my account owns. I remember inside AWS, an engineer who understands IAM thoroughly can have enormous influence because the engineer will
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   by hintymad 3y ago

   Worst may it be, AWS released each feature to address specific needs of their customers. Unfortunately it is hard to build a complex product with simple and consistent conceptual models as well as orthogonal product features. I'm sayin
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   by hintymad 3y ago

   But not necessarily true for software engineers. The so-called three romances of CS can all be attempted by anyone: compiler, operating systems, and computer graphics. And in the recent years, databases, distributed systems, and machine lea
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   by hintymad 3y ago

   > So many cool ideas are being developed by the community. Here are some of my favorites. > Batch inference optimization: FlexGen, llama.cpp > Faster decoder with techniques such as Medusa, LookaheadDecoding > Model merging: mer
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   by hintymad 3y ago

   Thanks. This is kinda of information I look for. Could you give more specifics? Why were they shit shows? If the tables are naturally shardable, say by user ID as described in the Figma's case, would the situation be different?
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    Given that sharding has become a pretty mature practice, is it still worth considering the NewSQL solutions like CRDB, Yugabyte, and TiDB for the sake of auto sharding, given that these NewSQL databases usually trade throughput and latency
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    Eh, how about firing 50% of the administrative staff from universities per this graph: https://philmagness.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/AdminGrow... , and definitely all the DEI staff and half the social
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    Take a Lexis Nexis as an example. They used to build sophisticated NLP pipelines to squeeze information out of legal documents: Part-of-Speech tagging, dependency parsing, NER, topic modeling, relation extraction, event extraction, summariz
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    > is that such weather is not survivable long term [1] without air conditioning I seriously doubt it. I grew up in an area that frequently hit 35C with close to 100% humidity, and I didn't even have an electronic fan before 9 years
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    The same lesson 30 years ago. WordPerfect insisted that their engineers write code in assembly to achieve maximum performance. Borland did not want to bet on Win32 because they wanted to have the maximum performance under DOS. Lotus-1-2-3 t
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    When I checked out an operator repo for some stateful services, say, elasticsearch, the repo most likely would contain 10s of thousands of lines of YAML and 10s of thousands lines of Go code. Is this due to essential complexity of implement
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    > the prevailing dogma within Google and at most other Big Tech companies was this spirit of "information libertarianism". I'm not sure if it is true. Google fired James Damore for his internal memo titled "Google&#x2
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    I was a subscriber of CACM for many years, but didn't renew my subscription this year because CACM had more and more content on social issues. The equity of this, the privacy of that. I find such contents incredibly boring and really h
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    I thought the end was to have everyone think in a very specific way, which by itself was pure evil.
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    Hit really hard on me too. I just can't fathom how the Google employees with all the righteousness in their blood would think that it's okay to control how people should think by altering truth.
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    It's rare that Stratechery would use such strong wording: quoting 1984 and calling for the exit of key company employees. Ben actually gave Google lots of credits in a previous article about Gemini's image generation. He attribute
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    My bad. I did a search before the submission, but somehow missed the dup.
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    Thanks! Unfortunately I can't edit the URL
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    It's rare that Stratechery would use such strong wording: quoting 1984 and calling for the exit of key company employees. Ben actually gave Google lots of credits in a previous article about Gemini's image generation. He attribute
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    > I want to understand how things work. AI feels like a black box to me. The amount of papers I’d have to read and mathematics that I’d have to ingest to really understand why a certain prompt X results in a certain output Y feels overwh
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    Wow, I thought it was just me: when learning a new language, I found that handwriting clearly enhanced my retention more than typing. I also noticed that when learning math, handwriting enhanced my understanding more than typing, but I thou
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    I really like antithesis' approach: it's non-intrusive as all the changes are on a VM so one can run deterministic simulation without changing their code. It's also technically challenging, as making a VM suitable for determi
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    What the end of ZIRP means for tech managers and leads(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

    2 points by hintymad 3y ago|1 comments
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    The biggest problem I see in this context is the promotion culture that people grew acustom to during the ZIRP era. Managers have to grow their headcount to advance their levels. Engineers expect to get promoted every two years if not less.
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    > EKS My contrarian view is that EC2 + ASG is so pleasant to use. It’s just conceptually simple: I launch an image into an ASG, and configure my autoscale policies. There are very few things to worry about. On the other hand, using k8s h
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    by hintymad 3y ago

    This is derivation, which is different from using momentum to define force. That definition actually has many benefits in Hamiltonian mechanics. The key challenge is to intuitively understand why such definition makes intuitive sense.