kristianc

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by kristianc 3mo ago
They're all based in Poland, so it's probably fairly generous compared to European market.
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by kristianc 3mo ago
It's kind of ironic, if this article was written about programming, it would be immediately flagged as being too thin and written almost completely with AI.
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by kristianc 3mo ago
They didn't apparently cancel it, they did cancel it. I'm still using a third party harness absolutely fine.
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Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access(theregister.com)
3 points by kristianc 4mo ago|0 comments
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by kristianc 4mo ago
People are doing what they've always done with any other new technology, and sharing what, personally, works for them. People can take or leave the advice.
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by kristianc 4mo ago
In my experience it, or something close to it, is the only way. AI needs good code to be beaten out of it.
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by kristianc 4mo ago
There's two classes of models now - the cybersecurity ones that none of us are getting, and the 'safe' models released for general consumption. This is letting us know which side of the divide it sits on.
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by kristianc 4mo ago
Sovereignty is mostly just a protectionist racket. European firms struggle to compete with dominant US platforms, framing industrial policy as "sovereignty" rather than protectionism just sounds more strategic and security-oriente
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by kristianc 4mo ago
An enormous amount of LinkedIn appears to be more about gatekeeping what other people can do than doing anything yourself.
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by kristianc 4mo ago
It's ad hoc / my own framework, just found something which works for me. The exact structure is - Work Mode - HITL/AFK - Problem Statement - Who It Affects - Primary / Secondary User - User Stories - Business Case - Why
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by kristianc 4mo ago
I'm getting a lot of mileage out of basically acting like the AI's Product Manager, and insisting that it writes up short PRDs for every feature we propose to build. That gives it a reference over time of everything that has been
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by kristianc 4mo ago
Seems they've done a good job of mimicking the old timey dial up connection speed as well.
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by kristianc 4mo ago
If the UK were a US state, its GDP per capita would rank it roughly on par with or just below Mississippi, making it the poorest state in the union.
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by kristianc 4mo ago
Inquality has barely moved per Gini in the last thirty years, and GDP is very misleading. https://ifs.org.uk/data-items/gini-coefficient
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by kristianc 4mo ago
This, shockingly, is actually quite well paid considering for the UK. Lead Data Scientist for the UK Government is currently advertising for a salary of £57,670 - £67,500. https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr&#x2F
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by kristianc 4mo ago
An alien landing on earth consuming Apple marketing content would be under the impression that humans did nothing but organise hikes to Big Sur with their friends.
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by kristianc 4mo ago
Should have been a calendar item..
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by kristianc 5mo ago
> everyone knows it's gamed anyway, so why not? Arbitrage. Devs know its gamed. VCs less so.
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by kristianc 5mo ago
It won't happen, for two reasons. One is that great deal of open-source software and hobbyist knowledge sharing has never been driven by financial reward anyway and people will continue to do it anyway. Finer grained controls over opt-
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by kristianc 5mo ago
That's not what I said, I said I likely understand it less than a 635B parameter LLM, and that using the LLM as a shortcut to that knowledge is something I'd consider perfectly acceptable. I might even become better at it through
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by kristianc 5mo ago
I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling the "deep expertise" OP laments was actually deeply inconvenient to many people. I understand that there's a good living to be made from knowing browser quirks, hand-rolling accessi
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by kristianc 5mo ago
That's the one, I couldn't find the original
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by kristianc 5mo ago
Reminds me of this classic war story: https://medium.com/@amanat361/shamir-secret-sharing-the-stor...
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by kristianc 5mo ago
There is probably something here about human psychology where we underestimate the switching costs of things we have already, and are wired to look at things through the lens of the world we have now. Absolutely no-one is concerned today ab
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by kristianc 5mo ago
I feel like we are at peak "this is the new normal" now. If the last time we did this (less than five years ago) is anything to go by, the lesson to learn is that while a lot of things do change, a lot remains disarmingly similar
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Railway Currently Down(twitter.com)
8 points by kristianc 5mo ago|1 comments
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by kristianc 5mo ago
They're having quite the day for devrel..
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by kristianc 5mo ago
trading their goods and services for money brought nearly a billion Chinese out of extreme poverty so I'm not sure they'd agree
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by kristianc 5mo ago
Because "money and physical things are conflated in our thinking" is simple enough to sound trite.
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by kristianc 5mo ago
This hasn't been my experience. I'm finding that I'm spending less time on maintenance precisely because it's less tedious to maintain as I go now, and because the "make a small change across 400 files" type th

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