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by koliber 2y ago
Reduce how often something runs and the amount of work it does when it does run. Sometimes, things are done too often, or process unnecessary data. I once had a project where a SAP system was crawling and literally causing company-wide stop
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by koliber 2y ago
Can you share more about the hate against foreigners in Warsaw? I am surprised as I’ve heard mostly opposite opinions.
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by koliber 2y ago
Conceptually, a LLM is a lossy compression of all of the data it saw during training. If you feed it lossy data, at each iteration you will get poorer and poorer signal and more noise. Prior generations learned this by copying VHS tapes ove
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by koliber 2y ago
Don't forget heartbleed, a vulnerability in OpenSSL, the software that secures pretty much everything.
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by koliber 2y ago
Slow rollouts can be quite quick. We used to do 3-day rollouts. Day one was a tiny fraction. Day two was about 20%. Day three was a full rollout. It was ages ago, but from what I remember, the first day rollout did occasionally catch issues
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by koliber 2y ago
You’re right. Many people ppl e take a mental shortcut and assume that RAG is a vector DB search. Any kind of retrieval is retrieval. You can do keyword search. You can do a PageRank like query. You can sort content by date and send the mos
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by koliber 2y ago
I once sent a letter to the Polish embassy in New York City. I got the street number wrong. It came back many weeks later stamped as undeliverable because the address does not exist. I remember reading or watching something ages ago about h
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by koliber 2y ago
Out of the 200 or so people I interviewed where I posed this question, only one went with Multimap. You’re hired. :) Kidding aside, going with a map of string lists as a first iteration of a solution for this is perfectly fine. The followup
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by koliber 2y ago
You are correct. There is a need for that kind of work. I wish there was a way to differentiate these different kinds of develops. Perhaps “integrations developer” vs “software engineer.”
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by koliber 2y ago
Very competitive. In the top 10% of developer salaries. This is in Poland. Btw your question was fair. Thank you for asking to clarify the context.
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by koliber 2y ago
The job market is weird. It seems there are more and more candidates on the market. However, whenever I recruit for senior roles, it seems the candidates are less and less skilled. This is highly anecdotal. The job post is the same: sr. jav
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by koliber 2y ago
There is an important word in management: optics. It matters at all levels. It means "how things look from the outside to a person not familiar with what is happening inside." At one point, DEI was a high concern for the entire na
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by koliber 2y ago
I rarely see advice with which I wholly agree. This is one of those rare times that I fully agree with everything g. Good seasoned advice from someone that has been doing this fo r a while.
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by koliber 2y ago
Oscar! Thank you for the trip down the memory lane.
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by koliber 2y ago
You know what would be cool? If I could throw my ball into your dock. And then it's yours. You can throw it back to me.
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by koliber 2y ago
There were many reasons that this cycle unfolded how it did. Many of those reasons were good. It's only a problem when a company jumps on fad and uses technology in a way that is trendy, without understanding the why behind it.
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by koliber 2y ago
Fully agree regarding the motivations. The thing many young devs don't realize that there's a reason for doing things a certain way. It's not "just because this is the best way to build everything."
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by koliber 2y ago
First there were mainframes with thin dumb clients. Classic client-server. Then came thick clients, where some processing happened on the local terminal and some on the server. Technology advanced far enough to install programs locally and
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by koliber 2y ago
I think it depends on the region and just looking at salaries is too narrow. In the US, the salaries are high. I don't think the salaries will decrease. However, the number of jobs will. More companies will outsource to other countries
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by koliber 2y ago
There’s a recent episode of the Radiolab podcast about aphantasia. They specifically talk about a test for the condition. It’s worth the 30 minute listen.
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by koliber 2y ago
Someone once explained this to me in a very intuitive way. It goes like this: You’re sitting in the driver’s seat of a car. It is standing still. You push the gas pedal down 2 cm and hold it there. Your car begins accelerating. That’s the s
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by koliber 2y ago
Lot's of things are nice to have but are expensive. I'd love to have a private pool in my backyard. I don't, even though it's nice to have, because it is too expensive. We intuitively make cost-benefit choices in our pri
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by koliber 2y ago
It could. In those cases, you set up the guardrails to minimize the loss. In your typical seed, series A, or series B SaaS startup, this is most often not the case. At the same time, these are the companies that fueled the proliferation of
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by koliber 2y ago
Your monitoring system alerts you on your phone, and you fix the issue. When I worked with small firms who used kubernetes, we had more kubernetes code issues that machines failing. The solution to the theoretical problem was the cause of r
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by koliber 2y ago
This was true in the 2000's and 2010's as well. A lot of the work could be handled by a single monolithic app running on one or a small handful of servers. However, because of the microservices fad, people often created complicate
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by koliber 2y ago
Message queues are often chosen as a communication protocol in microservice-based architectures. Microservices were a fad and people have sobered up. People have learned when microservices deliver a benefit, and when they are unnecessary. I
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by koliber 2y ago
When it happens, it's catastrophic, and then it is not called a dutch roll.
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by koliber 2y ago
Maybe they made mammoth jerky.
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by koliber 2y ago
He is successful. His values don't align with my values. There are many others whose values Elon's values don't align with. Values are important. A business that is successful that embraces values which differ from those many
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by koliber 2y ago
It's a fair set of questions, posed fairly directly, without any sugarcoating. If you read it as a ruthless critique, it stings. If you read it as constructive feedback, it can bring the author a lot of value. If the author can clearly

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