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811.
by hobs 2y ago
A mistake is interesting if the mistake itself or the RCA is interesting - using sloppy methods isn't really that interesting on its face.
812.
by hobs 2y ago
Only on HN would I think this is a serious comment. "We have a problem with the system, that's why we need to apply more of the system as hard as possible!"
813.
by hobs 2y ago
2022 Stack discontinued their job posting options as it was not viable.
814.
by hobs 2y ago
I think generally a lot of these types of problems were actually had by folks who grew out of single node systems and had a lot of interesting ideas to solve problems that were new in those domains, GIVEN they've already solved the sta
815.
by hobs 2y ago
Sort of, I have way more experience with clients saying that an invoice is missing (which turned out to be a rolled back transaction) and then I get to explain how transactions work, and then if the customer is smart enough they'll say
816.
by hobs 2y ago
First thing I drilled into Apple phone support folks.
817.
by hobs 2y ago
The main thing is that the synthetic key should never leave the database and never be displayed in the app - if you want to have another key that represents the human oriented key do it, but it should be another field, an indexed field even
818.
by hobs 2y ago
There was a famous joke where someone pointed a subdomain to localhost and invited anyone to hack it.
819.
by hobs 2y ago
This is an interview style I do often. The first bit is just super basic shit (since I mostly do database stuff) and then a code review section. What's super interesting is I have actually had people pretty much fail the basic stuff (
820.
by hobs 2y ago
It's really not that rational unless you want someone only familiar with being the top code monkey. In all my years of sw dev the number of times that would have helped vs being able to communicate and manage expectations across a swat
821.
by hobs 2y ago
It also implies beef and bacon had to die every winter or something, which is obviously not the case.
822.
by hobs 2y ago
Expected Anti-Pattern #1 - Engineers will trivialize other's contributions to the process and consider it "trivially something."
823.
by hobs 2y ago
You can do this today, and this would only work on a roof in that context.
824.
by hobs 2y ago
It's actually much longer, I was implementing a javascript bookmarklet and the old published limitations are not respected by much anymore, so you can shove a LOT of data in there.
825.
by hobs 2y ago
Seems like the option is constantly retrain an LLM or give it enough tools to interact with new data as needed. For the foreseeable future LLM's are going to need RAG or huge context windows which are effectively equivalent to RAG beca
826.
by hobs 2y ago
It's really not, they are extremely complementary.
827.
by hobs 2y ago
Well, I was going to say "limited key size" but it looks like in current windows versions the size is "available memory" so... yeah.
828.
by hobs 2y ago
It's mostly right, but the problem lies in when the requests per second are not average. Even then most people just do some unscalable stuff on the cloud for minimum 10x the cost.
829.
by hobs 2y ago
It turns out if you help a company you find unethical its a transitive property. Generally if you find you are working at a company to undo what they've done to the world, you will find yourself changed before the company.
830.
by hobs 2y ago
The same America that's legalized hitting protestors with your car?
831.
by hobs 2y ago
They have? Do you play popular video games? Many of them have had to change their presentation or behavior based on regulation that's mostly sourced from the EU. Many games have region locks so they can perform more or less spying on
832.
by hobs 2y ago
If your strategy is successful 8/10 years and your lose enough money during the other 2 to be marked as unsuccessful, is that really a "successful model"?
833.
by hobs 2y ago
I begrudge no one their money, I would have paid 100 dollars for the good version of dominion, but I wont pay for a clearly inferior product that pushes out the good one, ever.
834.
by hobs 2y ago
And I will never be unsad about dominion.isotropic.org shutting down with its dead simple and fast dominion implementation, they promised to take it down if the company ever did its own thing and they did and you had to buy every expansion
835.
by hobs 2y ago
Right, and they are called the 1% for a reason, if the rich voted for the rich and the poor for the poor the overwhelming win would be for the poor. Many Americans believe they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
836.
by hobs 2y ago
The database is encrypted, and the password is right next to the database in a json file.
837.
by hobs 2y ago
Because the boss says they want to understand, drags you to endless meetings to understand, but then manages to makes arbitrary decisions based on none of that information.
838.
by hobs 2y ago
Most people who use an index wrong dont understand space and time tradeoffs at all, how to measure if there is a problem, or how to identify what a thing should be in the first place. Most people who at least think a bit get pretty far befo
839.
by hobs 2y ago
Yep I misread that.
840.
by hobs 2y ago
I don't know what you've heard, but HR is not police for the employer, they protect the employer from the employee 99% of the time.

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