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by jpollock 10mo ago
It's also important to understand the makeup of the existing team, and headcount the team has. If the team is already full of lvl5's/6's, there's not going to be enough senior eng work for a new one, particularly wh
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by jpollock 10mo ago
Consider multinational orgs - "EU2", and collisions with English when speaking "you too".
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by jpollock 10mo ago
Probably the programming env, like SIM toolkit.
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by jpollock 10mo ago
There is a lot of fraud with UPI, specifically social engineering to obtain UPI OTP codes. Since the card and the account haven't been previously associated, that's probably a risk model saying a human needs to verify the account
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by jpollock 10mo ago
Not really, it's like asking which C compiler was best back in the 90s. You had Watcom, Intel, GCC, Borland, Microsoft, etc. They all had different optimizations and different target markets. Best to make your tooling model agnostic. I
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by jpollock 10mo ago
For example.... "Preliminary A330/A340 FCPC algorithm" "The algorithm did not effectively manage a specific situation where AOA 2 and AOA 3 on one side of the aircraft were temporarily incorrect and AOA 1 on the other si
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by jpollock 10mo ago
The design of the system is very interesting, particularly how it expects to handle errors. In 90's Telco, you used to have a pair of systems and if they disagreed, they would decide which side was bad and disable it. In modern cloud,
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by jpollock 11mo ago
Kaiser (Nor Cal), has been amazing. I highly recommend them. I hear lots of complaints from friends who have other providers, but Kaiser "just works". We've been through cancer and diabetes (so far).
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by jpollock 11mo ago
Your tests are either hermetic, or they're flaky. That means the test environment needs to be defined and versioned with the code.
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by jpollock 11mo ago
I'm not sure how that act would differentiate between hiring someone in India vs outsourcing to India. Also, how would it differentiate between outsourcing and SAAS? A _better_ solution would be to remove the H1-B cap and continue to s
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by jpollock 11mo ago
No, companies were already having trouble getting prospective staff H1Bs. Making them more expensive just increases the incentive to move the job offshore. Once the offshore team is large enough, companies stop hiring in the USA.
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by jpollock 11mo ago
The last time this hit the news, it was the dotcom bubble, and Nortel was in a similar position with startups, taking equity for equipment.
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by jpollock 11mo ago
I remember the Beagle project, which was attempting to do similar things to recall way back when. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_(software)
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by jpollock 1y ago
The last place I worked actively switched traffic over to the backup nodes regularly (at least monthly) to ensure we could do it when necessary. We learned that lesson by having to do emergency failovers and having some problems. :)
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by jpollock 1y ago
I had friends with nut allergies in the 80s. Before the epipen, I imagine the mortality rate would be pretty high, and it didn't arrive on the market until 1983.
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by jpollock 1y ago
I seem to remember reading somewhere that low walls like this weren't really about defense, they were about funneling travelers (with carts) to the tax collectors.
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by jpollock 1y ago
Power of attorney isn't unlimited These are untested treatments with unknown impacts. Consider playing Russian roulette with the patient. The risk isn't the same but the outcomes have the same range. From nothing to death.
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by jpollock 1y ago
If the disease is severe enough to justify an untested treatment with unknown toxicity they aren't aware enough to grant consent.
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by jpollock 1y ago
The form the documentation takes depends on the audience. If the audience is teammates, the _code_ itself is usually the best documentation. Tests lie about edge cases. A test _might_ be demonstrating an edge case, or the suite might ignore
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by jpollock 1y ago
Congratulations! Looks like an interesting project!
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by jpollock 1y ago
I'm wondering if in large projects, you want subagents to avoid having tasks flush out the main context? If you're working with large source files, you might want to do each piece of work in an independent context with the informa
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by jpollock 1y ago
Avoiding the boilerplate is part of the job as a software developer. Abstracting the boilerplate is how you make things easier for future you. Giving it to an AI to generate just makes the boilerplate more of a problem when there's a c
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by jpollock 1y ago
I gave it explicit ordering, instructions on what tools to _not_ use, and before/after examples from the codebase. A full page of instructions. After iterating on that for a while, I did a bunch manually (90) and then gave the LLM a li
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by jpollock 1y ago
That was the lesson I was learning. I should use the LLM to generate the tools that I use for consistently repeatable tasks. Then I can rinse and repeat using the tool, fixing the bugs in the tool myself instead of repeating the expensive (
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by jpollock 1y ago
I've just spent the better part of two weeks trying to convince a LLM to automate some programming for me. We use feature flags. However, cleaning them up is something rarely done. It typically takes me ~3minutes to clean one up. To cl
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by jpollock 1y ago
When cabinetry (custom or otherwise) is manufactured, it's done with large CNC machines and then assembled. Unless you were doing a _lot_ of cabinets, the labor cost of an idle cabinet maker overwhelms the shipping cost. On-site, you&#
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by jpollock 1y ago
Cool idea. I can see it being useful in a pipeline, where you mutate the image as you go. Losing referenced data can be a pain. Are you able to extract the original image?
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by jpollock 1y ago
Admiral Hopper[1] used to use string to demonstrate how long pieces of time are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
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by jpollock 1y ago
I've come across several of these that if you press them enough say "Change Password". I'm guessing they've never had their passwords changed from default.
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by jpollock 1y ago
The lifetime ROI of college is only 13%? https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/is-col... Doesn't that mean over the working life of the person (40 years), they spend (1-0.13) * 40 = 34.8yrs pa

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