malux85

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by malux85 3mo ago
> I haven't once come across one of these mythical perfectionists that everyone is constantly retelling cautionary tales of, who endlessly rewrites perfectly serviceable software and never releases Oh, I have. A LOT! In my friend gr
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by malux85 3mo ago
Android was acquired, and it was java from the start in the source company.
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by malux85 3mo ago
Hacker news is a community of curious, technical people, the technical parts alone of getting this all working in the browser and maintaining compatibility with the binary formats, is pretty interesting and cool!
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by malux85 3mo ago
Typing speed only really matters for juniors and going into intermediate developers, after that point thinking methodology - abstraction design, data structures, system design, complexity isolation, matter way, WAY more. 50% because by the
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by malux85 3mo ago
After getting a tiny amount of traffic from HN, its now crashed. Beautifully poetic. I think theres still a lot of room for traditional engineering - methods that have been robust enough to stand the test of time are enduring because they w
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by malux85 3mo ago
I find it baffling when people complain about this like AI use is mandatory. You explored agentic coding, didn't like losing control to vibes, so stop doing it. The beauty of pet projects is that they are yours to define, you set the t
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by malux85 3mo ago
Strong (but polite) disagree. Domain knowledge is now commoditised more than ever, the only valuable employees are intellectually flexible ones with a can-do mindset, ideally more senior ones who will also take responsibility for the final
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by malux85 3mo ago
> I've also been in situations where the person claiming it simply refused to become competent in the language, framework, or persistence technology that the system was built on. To all managers out there, this is a strong negative
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by malux85 3mo ago
Pay for enterprise or use one of the guaranteed no data retention models (e.g. Bedrock)
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by malux85 3mo ago
Streets of Rage 2 Ghouls and Ghosts Radical Rex Jurassic Park These megadrive games had great art and music and are still really enjoyable today
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by malux85 4mo ago
When I was a teenager, I lived on a farm and our neighbour's were another adult couple. He was late 40s and she was late 50s, her name was Jane. Jane had an infectious laugh. She was always baking. She died her hair bright red. She dra
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by malux85 4mo ago
I completely disagree with you and it seems like your assumption is that the transition times are years. I've seen a B player on my team turn into an A player in just the last couple of months But I do agree with you about the C thing,
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by malux85 4mo ago
"Most of us think of espresso as a hot, high-pressure ritual." - No, most of us dont care how the sausage is made, and just want the end product. Sure theres lots of individual coffee enthusiasts who cares, but in % terms thats no
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by malux85 4mo ago
I would probably still pay if the cost doubled, but I would also look at competitors, offline solutions, etc We have benchmarks on our domain and it does there are models that are 2x to 10x cheaper for a small drop in percentage points in a
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by malux85 4mo ago
> Dependents of an AI-megacorp for our "facts"? Our software? Our work? It's worse than this, it's more like our thinking. There's already plummetting math grades [1], handing over our thinking to AI megacorps w
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by malux85 4mo ago
Accountability has to come internally, which will come through discipline. An external accountability force will only be short lived because once the novelty wears off, then you'll start making excuses and it will fail at that point. I
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by malux85 4mo ago
Compred to what? Datasets at this scale are rare. You're not comparing against another ideal dataset, you're comparing against having nothing.
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by malux85 4mo ago
They removed an important word in the quote from the original - the phrase isnt "do the hardest thing", the original quote was "do the hardest thing possible" The addition of that last word is the difference between the
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by malux85 4mo ago
Im on the hiring side, and I can tell you that these questions are there to serve one purpose only - to give the candidate a chance to stand out. We were getting some 30-40 applications a day when we were at peak search, and when you get so
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by malux85 4mo ago
If you're serious about building a business for this technology you need to realize that people who are interested in trust, data provenance, digital signatures and verification systems are looking for signals of credibility, trust and
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by malux85 4mo ago
Its scary because its so amateurish, unprofessional, out of tone with the rest of the site, but still has an underlying ominous tone. During the normal course of Whitehouse communication I would expect that a review of the visual style, the
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by malux85 5mo ago
Its classified, but the second hardest was simulating Dynamic nuclear polarization, ab initio.
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by malux85 5mo ago
I used the word "likely" meaning there is a chance, your re-phrasing of what I said into a certainty ... and then refuting that certainty, is another textbook strawman argument, you made the same logical fallacy again. Also I said
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by malux85 5mo ago
I was saying that an AI would more likely hallucinate an incorrect answer than correctly diagnose the root cause failure. At no time was I comparing an AI to a human, thats the bit you made up.
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by malux85 5mo ago
>That is an incorrect but plausible hypothesis. >Do you really think that people can't make such mistakes? Where did I say that? You just pulled that out of nowhere and then refuted it - strawman https://en.wikipedia.
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by malux85 5mo ago
Much more likely is that it would hallucinate a plausible sounding but incorrect answer and send intermediate and junior engineers on a wild goose chase
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by malux85 5mo ago
Rsync for my mum, rsync for my sister, rsync for my lawyer, my teacher, my plumber, rsync for people who just want a folder with an icon that says it's working. Rsync for people who just want a folder and it automatically shows up on a
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by malux85 5mo ago
Is that actually true in the real world? Or is that some comp sci algorithm dream? I suspect it might be an engineers fallacy where the romantic desire to reduce everything to an algorithm or scalar value that can then be maximized or minim
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by malux85 5mo ago
AI is a golem
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by malux85 5mo ago
Random sampling! Known by computer scientists everywhere to be the worst search strategy

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