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by maccard 1mo ago
AWS has codecommit.
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by maccard 1mo ago
If you asked me for the definition of p value I could give it to you but if you asked me what it meant before this thread I would have said the same thing as you’ve said here.
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by maccard 2mo ago
Yeah I maybe should have ignored the Monty hall problem - although I’d guess if you’ve studied enough stats to know what a P value is, and how to measure it, you’ve come up against the Monty hall problem!
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by maccard 2mo ago
Fair play to you for answering, but that’s not what a P value is! A p value is the chance of getting a result greater than the result you actually got, _assuming you are testing a hypothesis_. I’m also pretty sure I would fall in the camp
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by maccard 2mo ago
> How much do you understand about statistics and p-values? I suspect that it’s far far less than 38% of people who actually understand statistics to this level. I suspect if someone on HN went around and asked their co workers to explai
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by maccard 2mo ago
There's nothing fun about burnout, and it's not a holiday.
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by maccard 2mo ago
My wife works in handling large grant applications for government. She works with the applicants through the process and then evaluates the app when it comes in. She guesses that about half of her work comes from 3 or 4 cases which are clea
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by maccard 2mo ago
Imagine if every time someone reached out to you to ask you a question they did a SAR for all of the information you had on them. They’re technically entitled to do that in many jurisdictions, but it probably won’t help with getting the ans
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by maccard 2mo ago
I disagree - this doesn’t make it more accessible for people who don’t have the means, it drowns the receivers in bureaucracy and forces them to do orders of magnitude more work out of a lack of understanding. It’s debatable whether or not
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by maccard 2mo ago
How often would you say step C happens and the agent stops when it can’t proceed?
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by maccard 2mo ago
Yep, and if this happens you need to get promoted quickly out of that or you’ll get stuck at it. It’s great fun, and you’ll learn about every project your company has going on by doing it.
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by maccard 2mo ago
I disagree. There’s absolutely diminishing returns above 120 or so, and at 120hz you’d do as well to remove input latency rather than output latency. On a non full screen app you’re pretty much guaranteed to have a full frame from the OS&#x
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by maccard 2mo ago
Thanks - I’ll try this. I have a problem where my kindle only downloads books in one room (but I can make purchases in any), and I’m pretty sure that it’s connecting to a different AP and doing something stupid in the process
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by maccard 2mo ago
I have a multi AP setup for the same reasons as the parent - large thick internal walls (and a “long” home instead of evenly shaped), and frustratingly more than I want to is the answer…
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by maccard 2mo ago
And actually debugging this unless you have a bunch of enterprise level kit, or know exactly what the failure you’re looking for is is absolutely impossible
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by maccard 2mo ago
That’s my point - the centre of that distribution is the same whether your came from Meta or the Podunk Times
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by maccard 2mo ago
> This creates a strong selection effect where the type of C.S. graduates you encounter is dictated by the strength and compensation level of your company. Top school CS grads can go straight into jobs that pay higher than Senior SWE com
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by maccard 2mo ago
The minute the entanglement happens the person on the receiving end’s life gets 1000x more complicated. It’s a hollow victory if you have to go to court and spend a year or more defending yourself
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by maccard 2mo ago
Are they? Because my experience is they’re really, really bad at following them and as context grows they get worse at following them.
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by maccard 2mo ago
I’m firmly in the camp of “something stinks at GitHub” but > It is unbelivable that aload of 2.8b commits was totally fine, and a load of 2.9b was a sitewide outage In my experience, there are hard thresholds that get passed that expose
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by maccard 2mo ago
For a very long time this year Claude was down multiple times a week. Can’t speak for OpenAI
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by maccard 2mo ago
GitHub’s reliability issues started earlier than the boom in agentic coding they talk about. I have comments on here from 2025 talking about massive outages with actions and issues.
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by maccard 2mo ago
I disagree. They’ve been struggling with up time for a long time, this seems more related to their move to azure than anything else. It also shows there’s a fundamental problem with their architecture or their development pattern to have th
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by maccard 2mo ago
I disagree. The integrated workflow of actions, issues, code review and source control is a huge productivity win. There’s a reason people chase a “single pane of glass”.
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by maccard 2mo ago
0.5% downtime is an hour a week. If that happens for 10 minutes a day at 11pm PT it doesn’t matter, if it happens for half a working day once a month, it’s a disaster.
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by maccard 2mo ago
That effectively means “stop using GitHub” though. Which is definitely worth considering but also kind of insane to think as the best option.
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by maccard 2mo ago
I’m not working for a small team anymore but I can say this would have gotten us to use Buildkite again. I think an in between tier would help, as it’s 4.5x the cost of GitHub per person, plus the cost of the runners. The idea of spending $
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by maccard 2mo ago
This is all well and good until you need a cache, or credentials, or to pass data between steps, or to parallelize across runners.
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by maccard 2mo ago
We ran a mirror of our git repo on codecommit when things started to get really hairy, and pointed out CI to that instead of GitHub. It’s still a moving target though as we were using GitHub releases to publish to. We replaced that with an
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by maccard 2mo ago
I want to second build kite - it’s an excellent piece of tech and is best described as “sane Jenkins” as a compliment. My only gripe is the pricing - it’s not designed for “small teams”. But I’d use it again in a heartbeat.

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