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by klabb3 1y ago
If you work at FAANG and relocate from NYC/SF to a smaller satellite office within the US, you can take a large pay cut. Unless things have changed in the last few years, companies usually pay location-based market rate. The lines are
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by klabb3 1y ago
TIL. But what’s unfair with Valve or Steam?
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It’s not good for engineering with the dilution of the term. We don’t really have many backup terms to switch to. Maybe we should look to science and start using the term pseudo-engineering to dismiss the frivolous terms. I don’t really lik
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by klabb3 1y ago
This is pretty much Valve, no?
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by klabb3 1y ago
Note: the author means that caching can be used as an implementation detail in an (abstracted) storage access system, as opposed to a baseline of having multiple storage systems (fast, medium, slow) and managing them directly. This was conf
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by klabb3 1y ago
I know very little about cars but it seems to be on parity with the rest of the market. The days of Chinesium are over. Or rather, you’re seeing very similar quality no matter which country the product was ”designed” in, as they like to put
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by klabb3 1y ago
Interest rates matter, and having a global reserve currency helps capital markets that fund these things. I would suggest 3 other forces: - saturation: we don’t have any legacy fields left that aren’t yet digitized. If you I go from encyclo
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by klabb3 1y ago
No, things can change but we programmers tend to see everything as a technical problem, and assume that if only we can find a good technical solution we can fix it. But the problem isn’t technical – the APIs were shut down because consumer
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by klabb3 1y ago
And if it gets meaningful ”market share”, the business incentives are pulling in the direction of growth, which is the articles point.
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by klabb3 1y ago
> Which is why we need a social medium that is not controlled by anything more centralized than "all the users". Right, which is impractical, and after direct democracy comes representational democracy. Eventually you get thing
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by klabb3 1y ago
> One of the principles behind MCP is that "an MCP server should be very easy to implement". I’m not familiar with the details but I would imagine that it’s more like: ”An MCP server which re-exposes an existing public/sem
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by klabb3 1y ago
No. What they are saying is best said with a quote from Battlestar Galactica: > All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. ”It” here being the boom and inevitable bust of interop and open API access between produ
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by klabb3 1y ago
Not OP but in same situation. Not every platform can run gRPC over localhost easily or without extra privileges. I used to use protobuf but now I just use JSON, over stdin/stdout on desktop. It’s honestly quite good.
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by klabb3 1y ago
On LinkedIn. (Always remember to use eye protection.)
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> There's no reason to think AI will stop improving No, and there’s no reason to think cars will stop improving either, but that doesn’t mean they will start flying. The first error is in thinking that AI is converging towards a hum
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by klabb3 1y ago
What about transparency? That’s the main benefit of PNG imo.
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TIL, and hard agree (on face value). I’ve been struck by this with arbitrary rotation of images depending on application, very annoying. What are the arguments for this? It would seem easier for everyone to rotate and then store exif for th
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by klabb3 1y ago
> If I buy and read a book on software engineering You're comparing that you as an individual purchase one copy of a book to a multi-billion dollar company systematically ingesting them for profit without any compensation, let alone
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by klabb3 1y ago
It’s quite different from how I think about time, as a programmer. I treat human time and timezones as approximate. Fortunately I’ve been spared from working on calendar/scheduling for humans, which sounds awful for all the reasons men
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by klabb3 1y ago
> But those training the LLMs are still using the works, and not just to discuss them, which I think is the point of fair use doctrine. Worse, they’re using it for massive commercial gain, without paying a dime upstream to the supply cha
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by klabb3 1y ago
I won’t speak to the technical merits of MCP but I will say this: it doesn’t matter for many use cases, in particular consumer tech. The entire digital consumer economy is built around ownership of the screen real estate, due to a simple re
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by klabb3 1y ago
> AI is threatening to replace us (or, at least, the most joyful aspects of our craft) I don’t like this either but every time I use LLMs it feels like we’re talking about completely different things. It moves waaay to fast and makes bad
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by klabb3 1y ago
Agreed but I think it’s better to use streams and deliver messages reliably and in order today, despite the extra effort. For instance, TLS is stateful. If you want to deliver unannounced (stateless) datagrams to a server, you’d technically
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by klabb3 1y ago
You don’t even need an industry to convince you. Eg former Soviet countries were/are notorious for being obsessed with material luxury.
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This. If you’re poor and get money, there are all kinds of people interested in getting a slice, and if you’re a good person, you’ll probably have family members who genuinely could use it for necessities. Govt/creditors can also apply
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by klabb3 1y ago
Good analogy.
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> Assuming zero network latency and a bandwidth of 1 Gbps, this would still take around 16 seconds I’m not seeing how the new design affects the throughput needs, but I’ll say this: Except for highly controlled environments (OS, NICs etc
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This conversation is important, and weighing these aspects against each other is critical in order to form better opinions. We clearly both agree there are subtle and counter-intuitive effects at play. I don't think there's anythi
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> What parts of this do you think are missing from Signal? The social graph isn’t e2ee in any app that works because the server needs to route the message. And the social graph is metadata.
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> Forward secrecy and metadata privacy are table stakes in any modern secure messaging design I think this is counter-productive, limiting the adoption of meaningful security improvements. The engineering and UX implications of PFS and f

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