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by hintymad 10mo ago
Maybe we can define what "mainstream" means? Maybe this is too anecdotal, but my personal experience is that most of the engineers are tweakers. They love building stuff and are good at it, but they simply are not into math-like r
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by hintymad 10mo ago
I'm not sure if people are playing innocent or are really this naive. AI can generate apps that are similar to what people have built multiple times. But it's still a far cry for an AI to generate a brand-new system that has new s
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by hintymad 10mo ago
I'd even go one step further: it does not have to be enforceable at all. This has to do with teen's psychology. For whatever reason, kids just fight their parents but listen to their schools and government a lot more. Of course, t
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by hintymad 11mo ago
> continuously trains their replacement, and > generally makes themselves redundant. This is the advice we get from many business books and leadership advices. However, I see more often than not leaders in a company do the opposite to
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by hintymad 11mo ago
I suspect that Clickhouse will go down the same path. They already changed their roadmap a bit two years ago[1], and had good reasons: if the open sourced version does too well, it will compete with their cloud business. [1] https:/&#
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by hintymad 11mo ago
> That’s not to say that there aren’t people within those companies who care about employee development, but the system isn’t set up for that to be the companies’ top priority. There has been a cultural shift too. I don't know when
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by hintymad 11mo ago
This works if all you need is OpenJDK. Per the article, sdkman allows one to install and switch between different versions and brands of JDKs.
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by hintymad 11mo ago
What is the definition of "soaring"? The charts in the article showed that the percentage of the companies that adopt AI for automation has increase 3X. At least 40% of the companies pay for GenAI, and at least 10% of the employee
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by hintymad 11mo ago
Honest question: In a city, we expect that the government does its job: catch the bad guys and prosecute them. Why is it not the same case when it comes to an online platform? The platforms, Roblox included, do invest millions a year to set
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by hintymad 11mo ago
> https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512 This is what https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512 advocates too: start small, modularize, and th
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by hintymad 11mo ago
Honest question: what kind of rigor and abstraction can help us apply maths to solve problems? Don't get me wrong: I enjoy studying abstract maths and was pretty good at it in school. It's just that when it comes to what to study
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by hintymad 11mo ago
absolutely
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by hintymad 11mo ago
Not to defend Epstein, of course, but just to comment on the power brokering side. My understanding is that a power broker gets power by staying close to the power and by connecting people. I don't understand why powerful people need s
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by hintymad 11mo ago
Epstein seemed to be a power broker and a political fixer. If so, naturally many high-profile people would have interacted with him and even have confided in him. It does not mean everyone associated with him knew or participated in his cri
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by hintymad 11mo ago
The difference is that Ponder This is harder than the average problems in Euler Project, and requires higher level of mathematical maturity.
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by hintymad 1y ago
> Python async sucks I always find this line of thought strange. It's as if the entire team hinges their technical decision on a single framework, when in reality it's relatively easy to overcome this level of difficulties. Thi
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by hintymad 1y ago
> Even today, at the best CS programs in the country, it's possible to get a degree and still not be better than a very junior engineer at a software company (and quite a few graduates are worse). I think it's important to diff
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by hintymad 1y ago
> This is why, across history, the tried and true method of learning a craft is an apprenticeship. And in our modern world, universities are still the best place for such apprenticeship. Not the ones per Mark Trevor's words ( https:
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by hintymad 1y ago
During the dot-com era, internet or IT in general accounted for a much smaller percentage of the GDP. So, I'm not sure how the percentage of GDP can help us gauge the scale of the bubble, if any.
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by hintymad 1y ago
This reminded me of an interview I listened to by a startup founder talking about how his company integrates AI into all of its workflows. During the Q&A, he said that they could tackle any challenge simply by iteratively constructing b
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by hintymad 1y ago
I don't doubt the concern or the observation of the author. I'm not sure if the phenomena observed by the author is any different, statistically, from before. If I look back, it was always a small percentage of people, driven by t
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by hintymad 1y ago
> Most of the metadata activity is contained within a single shard: > > - File creation, same-directory renames, and deletion. > - Listing directory contents. > - Getting attributes of files or directories. I guess t
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by hintymad 1y ago
> what we need in the United States is not hatred What saddens me is people take different political views as hatred, and medias run with it. I can't remember how many times a person is labeled fascist or communist just because thei
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by hintymad 1y ago
> There is more and cheaper education available than ever before. The real issue isn’t the availability of learning materials, but the healthy pressure and right push from experienced teachers. People tend to overestimate how self-driven
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by hintymad 1y ago
This is in a way like doing math. I can read a math book all day and even appreciate the ideas in the book, but I'd practically learn little if I don't actually attempt to work out examples for the definitions, the theorems, and s
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by hintymad 1y ago
> The whole LLM era is horrible. All the innovation is coming "top-down" from very well funded companies Wouldn't it be the same for the hardware companies? Not everyone could build CPUs as Intel/Motorola/IBM did
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by hintymad 1y ago
How would people cope with the demand that we need to spend increasingly more time exercising when we age? Mobility, strength, Vo2Max, power, endurance. It takes a long time to cover these five areas, and more if we desire to cover all the
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by hintymad 1y ago
There used to be a popular meme claiming that anything private tends to get cheaper over time, while anything regulated or run by the government keeps getting more expensive. But is that really true for all goods? If it is, then why do so m
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by hintymad 1y ago
Unless we consider JDK as external library. Speaking of library, Java's concurrency containers are truly powerful yet can be safely used by so many engineers. I don't think Go's ecosystem is even close.
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by hintymad 1y ago
Good point. I had the assumption that AWS EMR and Redshift had incentives to compete with Databricks. Another assumption was that someone in the AWS will eventually be ambitious enough to add offerings similar to Databrick's, like how

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