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by jldugger 3mo ago
After the third !, the probability of a fourth probably skyrockets =)
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by jldugger 3mo ago
There's a difference between how you describe using "honestly" and how claude seems to prefer tokens like "honest" and "load-bearing." An example from some coworkers attempting to replace product managers
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by jldugger 3mo ago
One hopes that "you cant ship any more features until your test suite stops failing due to timeouts" would motivate them.
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by jldugger 3mo ago
I think the request here is not about sounding like Majel Barrett but in keeping the output extremely terse and unobtrusive. There's been a few studys showing that novices love LLM output that's long, but experts hate it. As an ex
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by jldugger 3mo ago
I was just wondering if there was a postgresql specific version of https://use-the-index-luke.com i could send a coworker who seems oblivious to the perf penalties of missing indicies. Certainly a good start!
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by jldugger 3mo ago
> Sure but why pussyfoot around the issue? We should be actively encouraging each other to punish misbehaving companies. It's the right thing to do. Probably because doing what you suggest would not look great in court: "Dear J
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by jldugger 3mo ago
but what if i learned to type Colemak?
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by jldugger 3mo ago
Paging Vernor Vinge to the white courtesy phone.
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by jldugger 3mo ago
Would 1.0 have fixed the wide variance in scoring?
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by jldugger 3mo ago
TIL someone took over the now defunct jcmit dataset[1] (archive[2]). I expected his dataset to die off when his website did, but I guess someone found the data dump on archive.org and revived it. Which raises a question: how will this datas
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by jldugger 4mo ago
Project Euler is like this a lot -- it's presented as a coding challenge but half the problems can be optimized to return 5 # because math
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by jldugger 4mo ago
I'm mostly just surprised the graph starts at 5 seconds for a mean value for all datapoints. I would have assumed it starts much closer to 1s. Which just makes the poll responses even crazier. Who is picking B when you have 25% more ca
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by jldugger 4mo ago
I mean, it's the rest of the subway line thats the problem -- how many ancient sites do you tunnel through to reach the next stop?
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by jldugger 4mo ago
Is it? I'm pretty sure oncologists will say "you have stage 2 breast cancer," but I wasn't in the room at the time.
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by jldugger 4mo ago
Who among us has not launched a nuke in Civilization just for the spectacle?
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by jldugger 4mo ago
My last promotion from level 3 to level 4 was a 50% increase in pay basically, with no change in responsibilities or scope.
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by jldugger 4mo ago
> performance reviews are scheduled separately from 1:1s The performative annual review meetings can be separate, sure. But managers should be discussing with their directs in 1:1s sufficiently that no criticism or praise contained withi
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by jldugger 4mo ago
Thats fine, though if you do that forever you'll probably harm your promotion chances. Which, if your goal is just to get by, sounds fine? But generally speaking, it's a chance for you to speak about your work to the person writin
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by jldugger 4mo ago
>AI Exponential How much of the policy prescription changes if the exponential is actually just a series of sigmoids[1]? [1]: https://x.com/ylecun/status/1799064075487572133
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by jldugger 4mo ago
> Because they have so many 1:1 recurring meetings scheduled each week that they don’t have time for anything else. Dude, a a weekly 1:1 should be 30 minutes long. And managers should have at most 10 directs, so 5 hours total out of a 40
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by jldugger 4mo ago
Took me a minute to parse the headline -- Sanctioned as as in "imposed penalty" (ie "sanctions"), not as in dictionary definition #2 "official permission or approval". Perhaps because "US territories"
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by jldugger 4mo ago
Are you familiar with the Search Engine podcast?
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by jldugger 4mo ago
Wish I could recall the podcast I listened to a few years ago that was telling the history of robo-dialers and caller ID spoofing. The general gist was that AT&T was making money off it from 1-900 operators so they weren't eager to
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by jldugger 4mo ago
By who? The only US people who seem to like the tarrifs are the ones front running trades on their announcement.
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by jldugger 4mo ago
The reasons we have Google in the index and not Anthropic are many: 1. Google has a history of profits. Their move into AI isn't coming at the expense of Search Ad revenue, and can be seen as defending it for the future. Their last ann
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by jldugger 4mo ago
> But then I told it that I wanted to leave, got to an inn, where I flirted with the bar waitress, and soon we were watching the sunset in some meadow. Immediate Silicon Valley vibes: https://youtu.be/S8MAV9jhf04?t=18
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by jldugger 4mo ago
But it's also not really plausibly deniable if there's only one actor with the means and motive to do it.
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by jldugger 4mo ago
And worse, everyone had their memory of it wiped in 1946.
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by jldugger 5mo ago
I mean, America had agriculture[1] before Columbus showed up. Cahokia[2] came and went (and then other people moved in). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture) [2]: https://en.wikiped
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by jldugger 5mo ago
See also a famous rebuttal https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

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