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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
I used to be an Erlang engineer, and you would have needed very explicit security controls around being able to attach to an Erlang cluster to get the "insider your program" experience. This was in FinTech, so I'm familiar wi
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
> Why do print-line-debugging to find out what's happening at a location in code when you can just be inside your program and inspect everything live as it's running? Yes, that's because print-effing one's way to unde
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
I have one very nice 19" Dell CRT with one of the later stage Sony Trinitron setups (i.e. completely flat screen) that I use with my vintage computer collection (old SGI, Apple, NeXT, etc. systems). I don't use it often, but I hav
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Exactly. All the products we make are focused at the integration and system level because it's crystal clear that's where enormous amounts of issues arise and unbounded numbers of 11th hour fire drills occur. The various industrie
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
You're going to be very sad to discover the sentiments around software-intensive systems testing in a lot of places & industries that you'd rightfully assume should know better and do better. I had a safety critical embedded e
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
We used methods akin to this back in 2019 for creating low-level HALs for insanely complicated SoCs (think experimental switch fabric controllers). We wanted the compiler to reject any program that was attempting to access the hardware inco
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Save for perhaps the development of transporter technology or an unending deluge of viral pandemics, making airplanes for commercial aviation seems fairly predictable as to whether or not it'll exist in 25 years.
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
To be fair, the cannibal that ate his children looked up how to do it on Google.
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Force people who want to sell on Amazon Marketplace to dedicate product to and pay for placement within Twitch streams. Then identify those products in the streams and spam the viewers & chat with purchase links and content streams that
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
I’m straining to see the relevance of that, especially since at one point in my life I was a member of that statistic. One thing I definitely didn’t need any more of back then was glamorized systems of financial predation and exploitation t
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
The TAM on homeless friends who need fast cash internationally on Sundays is probably huge.
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
This is really interesting to see these two posts. I can now imagine where AI tools actually inhibit innovation in many domains simply because they’re optimized for things that are already entrenched and new entrants won’t be in the trainin
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Yes, this exactly.
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
My experience has been that it’s extremely difficult to get to great docs even when you do want to invest in them. I really value excellent documentation. I would absolutely kill for a quality overhaul of our various products’ documentation
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
I’ve had to buy a lot of furniture and other things for my new house this year, and one of the things that really sticks out to me is that practically every category of product seems to be split into a bimodal distribution: cheap crap &
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Hmmm. I tell people I work in "tech" and founded a "tech" company. We make software for testing complex systems (robots, cars, satellites, etc.) and constructing a model of their behavior to hunt for edge cases, help dia
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Sure, I can get behind that. However, it's the other side of the coin that I still don't get. What would count as a tech company? Even AWS is just a rental company or private utility when you strip away, "happens to need a lo
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Wait... if Garmin isn't a tech company... what is? I'm so confused.
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
The marketing focus and pitfalls of corporate "partnerships" and the destruction of momentum that comes from shifting focus to chasing VCs all resonate strongly. If I could go back in time, I'd have put 100% of the energy I p
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
I guess so, but that’s also how it’s always been. Not everyone was a hippie. Not everyone was a yuppie. Not everyone was grunge. Not everyone was Johnny Football. The prevailing zeitgeist narrative about any given era is all at once revisio
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
For the last ~7 years or so for me, the Internet has been specialty, curated online communities like Hacker News, Pinkbike, 68kMLA, /r/DestinyTheGame, and AudioScienceReview. It’s been absolutely great. It’s the real intersection
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
I’ve never seen this before, but having perused through it for a bit I’m convinced this is the absolute best blog on the entire internet.
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
I’m not sure how this would work practically in the US. A huge constituency of people has most of their finances centered around their home as minimally a value store and maximally a growth investment. Having homes go down in price or even
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
I don’t know about the human part, but we absolutely understand how LLMs do what they do. They’re not magic.
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
We have a use case for some of our stuff that's not too dissimilar to part of what you're talking about here. One of our products is basically a trace-based verification tool that consumes a bunch of different kinds of telemetry f
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Adults too. People’s hard earned money being funneled into self-styled “gurus”. That’s them spending their money on “education”, and it’s not to become a physicist or anthropologist.
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Society hasn’t done a particularly good job of establishing the value proposition of school. Very, very few of the US’s cultural icons embody the value of education. The American workplace doesn’t obviously, overtly value education outside
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
I’m sure they have a lot of rationalizations and just default inertia around various practices. Could the interviewer successfully answer a niche question proposed by the interviewee? If they can’t, should they forfeit their job to the pers
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Well, it’s a good thing Amazon’s hiring process managed to filter out someone who could do the job they were hiring for, but not the job they weren’t hiring for. That’s some top notch hiring practices right there.
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by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
The 9” B&W screen on my SE/30 with a 512x384 resolution is perfectly usable for Word, Excel, IRC, and code editing. Refreshingly so at times. Comparatively it’s very distraction free. Whenever I fire it up to journal or fiddle with

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