iepathos

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by iepathos 2y ago
I was in a similar position for the first half of my career. 1) Start contributing heavily to a popular open source project you're familiar with and use. Try to make your PRs as high quality as possible. You'll get free code rev
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by iepathos 2y ago
Yes, it lets you define custom chords to suit your needs and languages.
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by iepathos 2y ago
> Whoa, I better improve the documentation and share my knowledge so that I'm easier to fire I don't disagree that people react as you say and create knowledge silos with the misguided idea that it protects their job, but I do
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by iepathos 2y ago
I have a charachorder. It's similar to music theory where you can hit individual notes to make up a chord. With chording you hit multiple keys usually that are part of a larger word and it outputs the associated word. This means ins
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by iepathos 2y ago
For some perspective here, The US spends ~$90b on all higher education institution research combined each year with over half of that funding coming from the government. The 42 federally funded national research labs only had something lik
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by iepathos 2y ago
Ads are the most likely monetization path for openai. They want to capture as many users right now and can pull the trigger on ads whenever they want to start juicing users further. As long as the funding flows they can delay the ads. Goo
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by iepathos 2y ago
Over the last few months I built and am still adding onto https://www.promptcompress.com which is the best prompt compression tool in the market offering multiple compression techniques which can be used together or separately.
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by iepathos 2y ago
Treating workers terribly isn't considered good startup/innovation culture by the US. It is standard practice by large non-innovative corporations though which is what Twitter is. Twitter surpassed stats that would qualify it as
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by iepathos 3y ago
Oh a semantics argument, lovely. Let me ask you this, what percentage of US trade and industry isn't controlled by private owners for profit? Shareholders count as private owners in case that confuses you since it's public stock
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by iepathos 3y ago
These people actually do grow on a tree called Google. All the Google layoffs means there are more smart former google engineers than ever currently available for hire. More importantly, doesn't have to be a former google engineer, a
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by iepathos 3y ago
This article has some good points but suffers from rosy retrospection where it seems to think the Internet wasn't wildly full of misinformation before LLMs and AI articles. The sad fact is LLM's now are often more articulate and
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by iepathos 3y ago
ollamma https://ollama.ai/ is popular choice for running local llm models and should work fine on intel. It's just wrapping docker so shouldn't require m2/m3.
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by iepathos 3y ago
Getting to know your coworkers in more social environments eases interactions with them in the workplace. As a senior/staff level engineer working with and coordinating across teams, socializing to build repertoire and ease these inte
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by iepathos 3y ago
There are some that respond to easy to answer issues in projects like dosu.dev but they aren't at a level where they can actually create fixes or features to complex codebases without significant engineer review and changes which just
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by iepathos 3y ago
yes, showing up and doing nothing and getting paid for it. imo worse deal for the company than the employee but gives company opportunity for project handoffs.
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by iepathos 3y ago
Sure do, https://www.statista.com/outlook/mmo/passenger-cars/tesla/sw... sweden is $629m annually for tesla out of Tesla's $26b total annual revenue.
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by iepathos 3y ago
As far as their code search under the hood it's just Elasticsearch, nothing special. Github's explanation sounds like mostly bullshit. Forced authentication of public endpoints is not an appropriate solution for the issue they&#
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by iepathos 3y ago
Good point about timing of the leak. IMO the whole fiasco still reeks of incompetence and no PR move can wash that clean.
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by iepathos 3y ago
They aren't a non-profit, haven't been since 2019. They are a for-profit corporation with a 100x cap. Microsoft being their largest investor actually do have significant authority here. The board ultimately answers to their inv
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by iepathos 3y ago
They aren't a non-profit, haven't been since 2019. They may market themselves as non-profit but they are in fact a for-profit corporation with a 100x return cap. Microsoft is currently their largest investor. Profit capped at 1
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by iepathos 3y ago
If the board was in the wrong then they are already an enemy of the new CEO and he just doesn't know it yet. Investigation finds out if that's the case for the new CEO.
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by iepathos 3y ago
By definition, a startup is any newly established company. We can argue over how much time defines what is newly established, but can't argue that the size, revenue, or money raised define what is new.
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by iepathos 3y ago
If you search google for "how to list folder in linux" it immediately gives the correct answer in the top result in plain text, not even requiring you to click through to the site. Reddit isn't even in the first page of sear
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by iepathos 3y ago
Answered this in another comment here, but can repeat. Phone location is not a valid alibi in court. As you pointed out with your example here, it only proves your phone was at a location not that you were so it isn't accepted as an
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by iepathos 3y ago
Google phone location doesn't work as an alibi in court, you'd need people to verify your location. In court, it only proves your phone was there not that you were so it's thrown out as an alibi. For police, they use it to
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by iepathos 3y ago
Or you know... just the united states today. Gas station attendants get shot here without them even trying to play hero. At least a few every year.
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by iepathos 3y ago
Nice tool, only unfortunate name, consider changing it. Already very well know security tool named hydra https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra been around since 2001. Then facebook went ahead and named their con
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by iepathos 3y ago
Need to pay for those massive lawyer costs somehow.
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by iepathos 3y ago
Depends what profession you end up pursuing. If your son pursues computer science then likely never need to use handwriting ever again. As a 10+ year software engineer I've never needed to handwrite anything professionally, not once.
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by iepathos 3y ago
Not really bait just a fair deal. A free browser faster than the rest in exchange for some data on your browsing behavior that you can opt out of is a very good deal. Perhaps a competitor could arise but if they offered a comparable brows

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