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by loeg 5mo ago
I wouldn't read it too literally. I read it as jokingly rationalizing an obviously overkill self-indulgent purchase.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Maybe firefox could self-adjust, as a policy?
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by loeg 5mo ago
I thought 4.7 was noticeably better than 4.6.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Could be an extremely high angle stem that just happens to match the downtube angle.
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by loeg 5mo ago
I disagree with you on both counts. > [Technical employees] are so hungry to get stuff done that you have to hold them back from adopting new tools Technical employees are also hesitant to waste time learning new tools if their existing
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by loeg 5mo ago
My employer's website is higher traffic than both Amazon and Wikipedia, if that assuages your concerns about my ability to judge scale.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Yeah, I was going to remark that tech beat journalists are also suffering from a kind of AI psychosis.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Those stories were fanciful at the time, too.
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by loeg 5mo ago
There's no discussion there.
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by loeg 5mo ago
I don't think that's true at all. I have to go pretty far up the Org tree at my corporate job to get to 300 engineers and that encompasses functionality easily broader than "running Wikipedia" in scope and scale.
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by loeg 5mo ago
> Having half of the company’s engineers enmeshed in an endless loop of proposing changes and being told no was totally fine - they didn’t need to be productive anyway, and this way they weren’t impacting business-critical systems. Well,
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by loeg 5mo ago
It is not a lie. Wikipedia does not need 300-325 engineers to run the website.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Police, fire, schools.
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by loeg 5mo ago
It's $515/mo on a $757,000 house. This comes out to 0.82%/year, which is pretty typical by US standards.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Sure, I'm not a fan of prediction markets in general either. Just responding to GP's specific claim about death incentives.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Some of the prediction markets explicitly forbid payouts based on death. E.g., Kalshi refused to pay out "leaves office" when Khamenei was killed.
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by loeg 5mo ago
If you did the numbers, would you share them with the rest of us instead of just alleging secret facts?
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by loeg 5mo ago
Right. I'm mostly addressing GP's first question about C and C++.
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by loeg 5mo ago
> in practice no one really does with C because macros [and codegen] suck too much
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by loeg 5mo ago
C++ you get templated generic algorithms that in practice no one really does with C because macros suck too much. So in C typically you'd have a runtime generic routine that doesn't inline. A classic example here is qsort() vs s
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by loeg 5mo ago
Safety should probably also be considered.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Without any evidence, I would be shocked if performance rating wasn't a factor in the layoffs. But performance rating is not the same thing as AI tool use.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Sure; I described it that way deliberately. I think you can reasonably disagree with whether or not AI improves efficiency, but regardless, you can agree that if a business believes AI does, it will logically conclude that it should ince
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by loeg 5mo ago
You can believe whatever conspiracy theories you want, of course, but the most straightforward explanation is that when you lay off X,000 or XX,000 people, some number of them will be on leave.
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by loeg 5mo ago
2^30 tokens costs something like 2^10 dollars, order of magnitude, if that helps ballpark.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Yes. Executives think, correctly , that employees are resistant to change.
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by loeg 5mo ago
Meta tracks token consumption, but has explicitly stated that it is not a primary performance metric. Instead, employees are evaluated on "impact."
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by loeg 5mo ago
The business. Employees are hesitant to learn new tools that are very different from what they are used to, so if your business believes that AI is a productivity multiplier, it behooves it to incentivize individual employees to learn to us
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by loeg 5mo ago
Anything other than panic/abort on allocation failure is outside the scope of the vast majority of programs, including anything using the standard library in Rust. I wouldn't worry about Box<dyn Error>.
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by loeg 5mo ago
There is nothing new under the sun.

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