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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Ok, if I notice other devs suddenly getting 5x as productive I'll give it a try, but so far no such effect has been demonstrated. It seems like a pretty straightforward research question, and you'd think if there was any demonstra
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Don't forget the electric air taxis!
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> We’re talking about each developer gradually boosting their productivity by a multiplier of ~5x by Q4 2025 (allowing for ramp-up time), for an additional amortized cost of only maybe $50k/year the first year. Who wouldn’t go for t
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
And somewhat paradoxically that decrepit 4runner has fewer rust issues
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I'm awful tempted to say no. If it's so complex it can't be made secure before shipping it, maybe that's just too much complexity. I could possibly be convinced otherwise, but it would have to be a compelling argument. E
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
If they have to update it after they shipped it, that means they shipped it before it was done. I don't get why we all put up with that. And before you say "but what about the complexity?!?" I'll respond with "why d
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
It's a wild world where "reading the documentation" or "researching a topic" has become a career superpower. I'm glad my education largely predated social media and cell phones, and that I learned to read and w
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The point of an atmospheric test wouldn't be to merely say "we have capability" it would be to say "we have capability and we're absolutely not afraid to use it, no matter what the cost." The idea is to demonst
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
It used to be that fascists and communists were our most hated enemies. How the tables have turned! EDIT: more seriously, though, throughout the 20th century America hewed much closer to fascism than communism. It's always been there,
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> small European countries do now have to consider nukes It wouldn't be all that surprising to see Poland and Finland doing atmospheric tests in the next few months. Given that Ukraine gave up their weapons for a totally vacuous sec
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He also may have killed US agriculture, we'll find out in the next few months.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> Do his supporters really want this? That's like asking whether a child wants the sugar crash that will come after eating the candy bar. They're not able to see that far ahead. They'll only "get it" when their l
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
This is a great strategic decision, because it puts Suleyman's head squarely on the chopping block. Either Microsoft will build some world dazzling AI whatsit or he'll have to answer, there's no "strategically blame the
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Reading back I see I came across as kind of an asshole, I'm sorry for that. I genuinely thought at the time you might be kidding but I wasn't sure--pretty sure I got it wrong. I've grown (probably too) cynical about ux tweak
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
No, it's just that I don't customize systems anymore. It's not worth the hassle of maintaining a bunch of extra stuff just to fix issues that shouldn't be there in the first place. All those extra ux tweak programs just
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Huh.. maybe that's why it always runs out of battery on the rare occasion I put it in a backpack and take it somewhere...
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Pluggable TBT3-UDC3, input freezes and screen goes all pschedelic with greens and violets and then patterns and lines as everything melts to white noise. Flipping the lid open and closed and/or unplugging the thunderbolt cable and plug
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
lmfao if you're joking, good one, if not... yikes
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I agree, but my M1 MacBook work laptop is by far the fastest dev machine I've ever laid hands on. It struggles a bit from the UX standpoint, two things: 1. I have the same desktop layout every time, from left to right: slack desktop ap
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
That sounds prudent. There's no reason for them to continue this embarrassment of cramming the product full of worse-than-useless "AI" features. Wait until you can separate the good from the bad from the ugly and choose to ju
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Experienced, good roofers and builders around here have enough new construction and full roof replacements that scheduling a small repair just isn't feasible. Those are not jobs they want, because they already have too many big jobs--s
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how good computer people are at solving problems which are not problems (readability of serialized representation) at the expense of multiple orders of magnitude more compute and storage.
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It's really shocking to see how wasteful a big blob of JSON is. This is such a great illustration of how much room there is for improvement.
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No, I'm definitely not! But I can't imagine the US defense sector doing anything sensible otherwise.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
There's things like the Anduril Bolt. They cost like 100x as much as devices the Ukranians are building from cardboard. Another major innovation is TOW style fiber optic control which is immune to electronic countermeasures. There&#x27
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Taking that lesson to its extreme you realize there's a rounding effect where seemingly no matter how carefully you hold the file, the edges of the face are cut down more than the center. To combat this you might discover you can use t
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
CNC is cool , and you can do some pretty amazing things e.g. with a 4 or 5 axis machine, but ultimately the value is in repeatably churning out the same part over and over again. The industrial utility is obvious, but there's not a lo
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I think there's another really important set of lessons available from basic tool use which translates directly to the software industry--intuitive understanding of what makes a tool good . Tools (as opposed to appliances) scale with
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> If you want shop to be relevant to modern industry you would need to teach robotics, CAD/CAM, CNC, 3D printing, etc. Uhh.. what? A CNC mill is, fundamentally, a mill. A CNC lathe is a lathe. You're not absolved from knowing h
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> and roofing.. well, let's be fair, most people won't be doing that themselves Do you have any idea how much it costs to get a roofer out to fix your roof? In my area if the job is less than $50k you can't find anyone who

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