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by leoqa 4mo ago
The cynical take is that with US companies expecting productivity increases via AI, they need to protect the US workers from competition via foreign labor. The current administration was voted in with an anti-immigration mandate so this is
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by leoqa 4mo ago
Unfortunately the benefit of TLA+ is the act of modeling your system painstakingly. The actual checker helps confirm your hypothesis, etc. But skipping the modeling and outsourcing it is not ideal. I’ve always struggled reasoning about mode
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by leoqa 7mo ago
The higher velocity ends up bottlenecking on actual product decisions, deployments, testing etc. Before AI was generally blocked on the design approval, PR cycles, flaking tests etc. AI just helps me endure the pain of legacy code easier. I
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by leoqa 7mo ago
People are arguing about the role of these HFTs being a net good etc. They’re missing the point, these bright kids are trading something more profound- a sense of purpose, a higher calling or passion- to simply run adversarial arbitrage and
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by leoqa 7mo ago
I’m in big tech and use AI extensively, namely to do the same amount of output but in 1-2 hours a day. Been spending a ton of time on my side projects though.
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by leoqa 7mo ago
Seems like a lot of energy dissecting C-suite news clippings. The reality is that no one cares about alignment and it’s only controversial for the naive or the dramatic among us. Claude is useful for software engineers. It’ll be useful unti
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by leoqa 7mo ago
He’s wrapped his identity in being a founder so can’t see the sacrifice/meaningless of it all.
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by leoqa 7mo ago
Is the stakes and the ownership. 5 people in a coffee shop working on a 0-1 problem is a lot more stimulating than 90 people on a team shipping incremental updates to a legacy system.
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by leoqa 7mo ago
This was always my least favorite part about being a software engineer (and the downfall of many): being a software engineer has become an identity crutch for many. I’ve see so many kids whose whole identity is being good at computers; they
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by leoqa 7mo ago
My hot take: reviewing code is boring, harder than writing code, and less fun (no dopamine loop). People don’t want to do it, they want to build whatever they’re tasked with. Making reviewing code easier (human in the loop etc) is probably
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by leoqa 7mo ago
HSI was primarily the main investigative body responsible for human traffic and crimes against children prior to this administration. The second largest federal investigative agency behind the FBI (6k agents). Now doing immigration enforcem
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by leoqa 9mo ago
This is clearly another LLM response bud. Stop using it to communicate it’s too obvious.
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by leoqa 10mo ago
Durable workflows are just distributed state machines. The complexity is there because guaranteeing a machine will always be available is impossible .
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by leoqa 10mo ago
What’s up with all these bots posting 3-4 sentence summaries in the comment section?
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by leoqa 11mo ago
Yeah I get the sense that terraform change application is solved by just serializing all changes? The concurrent applies isn’t that big of a deal?
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by leoqa 1y ago
I’m also fine with git, and have used mercurial and p4 before. I think simplicity is better in this case. I do think with more and more generated code inflating the codebase with high velocity, we need to find a better way to merge conflict
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by leoqa 1y ago
I was entertaining an offer from Discord and also stumbled upon the founder’s former company debacle. The platform vision pitched to me in the interview seemed similar and seeing as how he started to implement spyware I decided to bail.
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by leoqa 1y ago
You’re probably correct (I’m 30 and don’t have a policy) but I can’t think of any financial instrument that would guarantee skilled nursing ($4-8k/month in MCoL) for 10-20 years. No one in the bottom 90% of American earners can afford
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by leoqa 1y ago
I’m not particularly sympathetic to retirement home narratives that paint each person as a lonely, incompetent senior wasting away. I witnessed first hand how my mother spent her adulthood partying instead of providing and now it’s become a
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by leoqa 1y ago
Wait until you hear about Gummy Bears.
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by leoqa 1y ago
I quite frankly will just read the code. Go generally discourages abstractions so any code you jump into is fairly straightforward (compared to a hierarchy of abstract classes, dependency injected implementations, nested pattern matching wi
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by leoqa 1y ago
I really disagree. I think hentai is a flimsy wrapper around child fetishization and needs to be heavily regulated. I think having rape or torture simulators are extremely harmful in multiple ways. Really would prefer the government outlaw
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by leoqa 1y ago
Usually this is the “leads the function but we’re not going let them into the c-suite”. The head of engineering gets usurped by the outside cto hire and put out to pasture.
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by leoqa 1y ago
The use was audited and is now being investigated. The claims were for various local and federal investigations. ICE also contains HSI, the second largest federal law enforcement agency, which prior to their recent mandate has been tasked t
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by leoqa 1y ago
Yeah people fail to provide examples but continue to be doomers about how easy it is.
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by leoqa 1y ago
Absolutely agree. I think the tactics and strategy are to blame here but ultimately I don’t think the administration is doing anything illegal. All cases I’ve seen where there was an alleged violation of due process were simply accelerated
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by leoqa 1y ago
I always like to frame it this way: ask someone what a reasonable response would be if they flew to Paris and then decided they didn’t want to leave. What is the French government allowed to do in their moral framework to enforce their immi
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by leoqa 1y ago
Why is this better than the other one?
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by leoqa 1y ago
Aside: I learned the Sep Axis Theorem in school and often use it for interviews when asked about interesting algorithms. It's simple enough that you can explain it to non-technical folks. "If I have a flashlight and two objects, I
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by leoqa 1y ago
I actually modified SpiceDB to inject a groupcache and Redis cache implementation. My PoC was trying to build a leopard index that could materialize tuples into Redis and then serve them via the dispatch API. I found it easier to just use t

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