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by jrjeksjd8d 7mo ago
I think the "elbows up" rhetoric among boomers is kind of stupid, but for safety reasons I have avoided going to the US. Otherwise I probably would have travelled 5-6 times in the past year.
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by jrjeksjd8d 7mo ago
You think somebody who wrote "nanoclaw" really doesn't care about getting industry famous and improving their career prospects?
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by jrjeksjd8d 7mo ago
Titles for ICs matter for two reasons: comp, and perf reviews. At bigger companies the amount of RSUs for Staff versus Senior can be substantial. At a startup where equity is worth nothing and salaries are in a tight band anyways it doesn&#
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by jrjeksjd8d 7mo ago
Love to see Gunnar continuing to produce great stuff!
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by jrjeksjd8d 7mo ago
Square is a great option for selling crafts at a market once a month. I tried to use it for a proper multi-channel retail store and it immediately fell apart: - the e-commerce integration (Weebly?) is very limited and the resulting sites ar
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
It seems like this is an approach that trades off scale and performance for operational simplicity. They say they only have 1GB of records and they can use a single committer to handle all requests. Failover happens by missing a compare-and
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
The average person does not know how to fly a plane or what a plane autopilot does. It's a ridiculous superficial comparison. Planes have professional pilots who understand the capabilities and limits of aviation autopilot technology.
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
I see you regret Datadog but there's no alternative - did you end up homebrewing metrics, or are you just living with their insane pricing model? In my experience they suck but not enough to leave.
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
I think the fundamental tension is that AI produces a high volume of low quality output, and the human in the loop hates reviewing all the slop. So people want to just let the AI interface directly, but when you let slop into the real world
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
FWIW I think a more precise word for what you're looking for is "fabricating". Covers machining, lasers, printing, etc.
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
Even if you don't believe in the capabilities of Israeli intelligence, it's well documented that Israel supported Hamas as a hard-line alternative to the PLO to avoid a two-state solution. The Israeli right has for decades intensi
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
For my entire career in tech (~20 years) I have been technically good but bad at identifying business trends. I left Shopify right before their stock 4xed during COVID because their technology was stagnating and the culture was toxic. The m
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
I've been in this situation before. Anthropic has a stupid business model but the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. If you get in there you will be aligned with people who structurally do not lose.
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
Matt Levine has put this forward in his newsletter - if you're moderately influential you can go on TV and tell people that "X industry will be dead in 10 years" because of AI and then profit from the inevitable stock dip. Be
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
> That said - we have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad Once again LLM defenders fall back on "lots of AI" as a success metric. Is the AI useful? No, but we
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
Do American right-wingers think "human life has value"? Why are they ok with people starving to death, or dying of preventable disease? Is human life valuable when they're an AIDS patient? Is it valuable when it's a chil
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
> Examples of such phrases might be encountered in political protests by activists. The phrases can be mainly for the members of the group particularly the call and response type. This feels like it's aimed at leftist activism, but
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
It feels like every cloud product I use is accumulating more of these peripheral features I don't want, while the core functionality is stagnant or even degrading. I'm assuming this is a Conway's Law situation where the compa
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by jrjeksjd8d 8mo ago
"The Left Hand of Darkness" was published in 1969 . I'm a transgender person in my 30s and Le Guin's writing makes me emotional every time I reread it. The ideas about gender and sexuality are more mainstream than they
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Ah yes, the mythical past when nobody did bad things because we punished them correctly.
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
NIMBYism is a very obvious form of "number go up". Boomers were promised endless property value growth, and they've destroyed city planning to make sure it happens. If there was a market correction retirees would be furious.
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Let me introduce you to... GoPro. An expensive action sports novelty.
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
My CEO sent a company-wide email this week saying "AI use is mandatory for all developers". Until this kind of mandatory bullshit stops I'm happy to see other people fighting the good fight and publicly saying that they want
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
As other people have pointed out, the trend towards "retro" tech is like vinyl being popular - it's a nostalgia throwback, not a massive wave of consumer preference. There's a small but profitable niche of enthusiasts wh
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Capitalism is destroying institutions. Any new technology must be employed in service of "number go up". In this system externalities have to be priced in with taxes, but it's cheaper to buy off legislators than to actually c
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
A key thing I noticed in sincere anecdotes about LLM code is that is always seems to be outside of the author's area of expertise. I work with an infrastructure team that are old school sysadmins, not really into coding. They are now p
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
When you're doing extra-legal military operations in a country that isn't at war, what choice do you have? There are civilian aircraft up in the sky. Having a fighter jet run into one and kill a bunch of civilians is a bad PR situ
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
This is the original source, linked on HN a couple months ago: https://christopherferan.com/2021/12/25/kenya-and-the-declin... It seems like the collective washing and grading system was effective at producin
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
I have been the first (and only) DevOps person at a couple startups. I'm usually pretty guilty of NIH and wanting to develop in-house tooling to improve productivity. But more and more in my career I try to make boring choices. Cost is
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
> We are teaching the sand to think and working on 3d printing organs and peering at the beginning of time with super-telescopes and landing rockets. There are a lot of smart and skilled people involved in making a cutting edge chip fab.

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