jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Upvoted. Only solid reason there is.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> Salt water is also quite a problem As a boat owner, I have had quite a time with salt water issues. Anything with an electrical current going through it exposed to salt and water is subject to serious, rapid corrosion. What you might i
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
I quite like welding. Every time a tech job has gotten to the point where it's like "fuck you, fire me or I'll quit" I always fall back on that. If nobody will hire me to program computers, I'm a pretty good fabrica
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Nothing wrong with that in principle, I just can't imagine it. I've never worked at FAANGs, but I have at some pretty closely adjacent outfits (swarming with ex-FAANGs) and 3-4yr is just about the most I can stand before I have to
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
For real, though. Why in the fuck do you still work at Facebook? Just quit.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Palpatine himself
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
I would probably only use these data if I had some script I could run in it for analysis, and even then optimizing my AI chats is probably pretty low value.. certainly not enough to justify the cost of analysis, unless there's somethin
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
OTOH polishing up the presentation can really improve the experience of a first-time reader of the work (e.g. your code reviewers). If the polishing is done with good intent and proficiency you can make something that was very convoluted
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Fully agree, very icky surveillance vibes. In particular: > DeltaDB breaks your work into a stream of fine-grained deltas. Where Git captures a snapshot at each commit, DeltaDB captures every operation in between and gives each one a sta
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
There's a simpler explanation that fits the data better: they're lying. Generally, in the past when tech companies have made outlandish claims that were not backed by evidence, they're later found out to have lied. This is an
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
But the things they say they believe are insane and totally unmoored from physical, societal, and economic reality. If they actually believe those things they're untrustworthy because they're delusional. If they don't, they&#
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
"crypto bros" to a first approximation
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
All I'm really saying is that if you want to try to automate a travel agency, LLMs ain't gonna get it done. They'll happily book you a really unsafe trip. So the technology doesn't work in this domain. The whole, empty p
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
A stored program computer, that is a device which can run arbitrary programs from storage, is a pretty rigorously defined thing. Like, we all have a pretty clear shared understanding that things like FPGAs and microcontrollers are computers
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
It should have flatly refused. If you gave a product like that to customers you'd be exposing yourself to unbounded downside liability risk. It's a completely nonviable technology for that kind of application, unless you can someh
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
To phrase it maybe a little more provocatively: how would you accomplish the precise timing necessary to achieve spherical implosion? This was possible with analog electronics in 1945. Surely in 2026 we can also build analog piezoelectric f
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> can't run a direct injection gas engine without a digital engine control unit, because the injection timings are much to precise to do mechanically. This is not accurate, the first production direct injection gasoline automotive e
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
It would be awesome if they would implement a crude rule: no computers. You can use a computer to design the car--CAD/CAM/CAE are all fine--but no stored program computers are allowed in the race car. I think that would improve F1
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
I was able to bully an LLM into giving me a 2wk travel itinerary to Somalia. My stipulations were that I wasn't interested in spending any money, so I'd walk everywhere and sleep outside. Getting there and back from Boston took so
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Man that's awesome. That's motivation to get one of my vehicles in good enough shape for a day trip (I'm about 3-4hr north depending on choice of route). I have fond memories of Worcester, and of all the places I've been
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Thank you for the link, and for sharing your story.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Those +P 185gr .45ACP hollow points with the nickel plated cases are pretty sweet. But it's a hell of a lot better to not have to do some kind of Old West standoff shootout shit whenever someone wants to rob something. That was my poin
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Or pay a guard a fair wage and comp them the $0.20 or whatever for each bullet.. EDIT: to be clear I'm not saying it should be that way, but there was a time not long ago when this was the normal way to handle the situation. I'd
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Wow! Great to see Coney Island is still there.. I was last there ca. 2007.. Also that's an awesome origin story for your internet handle.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Glad you're getting excellent care and on the mend. Your work is an inspiration, wishing you all the best.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
I agree the most interesting use cases I've heard of are about increasing the rigor of software development practices, but there's definitely a lack of coherence in methodology.. I believe that some users and companies are succ
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Yeah this seems to be a pretty widespread story, from what I've heard as well. The thing about those janky dashboards and spreadsheets though is that somebody understood them and built them with intent to solve a particular problem. De
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> WTF did Uber build with all of that spend? WTF did anyone build with all that spend? Despite all the feel-good anecdotes about how productive folks feel using ai coding tools there's a deafening silence when it comes to actual,
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Surely at least dozens of engineers knew about this vulnerability and were either told to shut up about it under pain of negative performance review or stayed quiet because they knew if they spoke up about it they'd be retaliated again
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
For a split second I thought there was an actual bug on my phone. It was an excellent article too!

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