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by ip26 10mo ago
Agreed, a direct metric of “promotion rate” is obviously flawed. I posed it more as a rhetorical question for reflection- at the limit, it’s clear that people with mentoring responsibilities should be accountable somehow for being good ment
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by ip26 10mo ago
Before LLMs, the use of parallelism on your typical laptop was limited to application level parallelism, e.g. one thread for Outlook and one for each tab in Chrome.
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by ip26 10mo ago
And what if no junior under a certain senior ever makes it past junior? Any mentor type figure is going to be at least partially evaluated by progress of the mentees against some benchmark.
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by ip26 10mo ago
It’s not like their wages will always go up exactly in proportion to your income. Goods and services that are afflicted will become less accessible if your own wages increase at a lower rate.
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by ip26 10mo ago
If someone generates a ten thousand word slop essay with AI, do I have a moral obligation to critique its reasoning step by step instead of merely pointing out its origin? If I do, it just so happens I have a ten thousand word rebuttal for
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by ip26 10mo ago
Not sure there's much market for quality plywood furniture. It's neither cheap nor fancy, just functional, which as a market segment has vanished. The price of today's plywood also seems to have closed a lot of the gap with h
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by ip26 10mo ago
My first exposure to this - tired of $40 particleboard bookshelves and tables, I went looking for solid wood furniture, reasoning it was fine to spend a little more for something that would last. I found it- and discovered humble, small tab
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by ip26 11mo ago
Bent over, as in reading, for long periods of time? (Admittedly it’s been a while)
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by ip26 11mo ago
Not sure it is, so I assume a lot of stretching of the truth is involved. Most twelve month olds struggle to support their head, are just learning to shape their mouths to form syllables, and have only had eyes capable of resolving letters
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by ip26 11mo ago
I imagine data centers make the best economic sense when they can run full tilt 24/7. You’ll double your payoff time if you can only run work when the sun shines.
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by ip26 11mo ago
Using a library keeps the context window smaller than writing it all yourself. I also suspect the whole vibe-coding thing works best when most of the total running code is NOT vibe-coded, and follows carefully defined behavior the fast-and-
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by ip26 11mo ago
Counterpoint: LLMs seem to depend on robust, stable, and easy to use libraries nearly as much as we do. Due to context limitations, vibe-coding a mega-monolithic project in one shot with zero dependencies would be a silly exercise. Therefor
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by ip26 11mo ago
I assume “daily tasks” has been defined before. Taking the trash to the curb or walking from bedroom to kitchen, daily task. Saving your client from drowning in dangerous rapids after they capsized, not daily task.
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by ip26 11mo ago
Indeed, competition is highly inefficient. It would be superior to eliminate it. (Signed, The Bourgeoisie)
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by ip26 1y ago
Intervening when they are merely far behind their ability!? Sounds like imposing adult anxieties onto the natural development path of a child!
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by ip26 1y ago
gets to -30f where I live (about once every 10 years) For this specific problem, I'm always inclined to just keep a 1800W space heater or two in the closet.
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by ip26 1y ago
Some heat pumps bottom out at 35F, some at -15F. It seems to be down to the breed of heat pump, and there isn't much in between.
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by ip26 1y ago
the aux heat comes in because their output is a multiplier. At 30F, perhaps they produce 4x the heat as the electricity put in. At 0F, perhaps they produce 1.8x the heat. This means the output declines with temperature, until eventually the
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by ip26 1y ago
Hypothetically, AI coding could completely absorb all that surface level iteration & posturing. If agentic coding of good quality becomes too cheap to meter, all that is left are the deep problems.
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by ip26 1y ago
If writing a good document and a strong API had to happen anyway, and now you can write just that and the rest will take care of itself, we may actually have progressed. Plus the documents would then have to be there, instead of skipped l
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by ip26 1y ago
The sales volumes of the 1TB+ models has got to be fairly low, which makes this fascinating. Since they are being somewhat quiet about it (rather than trumpeting "the 1TB+ models are even faster!") it suggests the P-cores don&#x27
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by ip26 1y ago
I mean to ask both: "checking whether X is true and crashing the program if not", like the assert macro , OR assert as in a weaker check that does not crash the program (such as generate a log event). When crashing the program i
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by ip26 1y ago
Nowhere does the article claim that: "formal verification of the code" -> "high integrity system" Formal verification is simply a method of ensuring your code behaves how you intend. Now, if you want to formal
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by ip26 1y ago
This becomes an interesting conversation then. First of all, it could mean "checking whether X is true and logging an error" instead of exiting the program. - But if you aren't comfortable crashing the program if the assumpti
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by ip26 1y ago
Is asserting the assumptions during code execution not standard practice for formally verified code?
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by ip26 1y ago
Away from home, I quickly find myself lamenting all the time I spend washing all my dishes, cookware, and laundry. Nothing is ever completely dry, and if you are tent camping you spend 30 minutes striking and 30 minutes pitching every day.
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by ip26 1y ago
Correct. Owners protested any time raising dues was proposed, and so the old board did not raise dues by any meaningful amount for a few decades while costs rose and the exteriors aged. Unfortunately, while this was clearly a mistake in ret
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by ip26 1y ago
Have you ever lived in a townhome or condo? I feel the need to note that those HOA are responsible for the maintenance, repair, and upkeep of everything outside the drywall. Owner overfills dumpster? HOA is fined by sanitation. Owner dumps
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by ip26 1y ago
Yeah restructuring for autovectorization with otherwise equivalent results would be a great example and step
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by ip26 1y ago
Optimizing for the hardware you are on is demonstrably an effort and skill issue. Everyone understands that with enough time and engineers, any piece of software could be optimized better. If only we had large volumes of inexpensive "i

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