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by morsecodist 2y ago
I am new to compliance but this seems super strange to me. Based on my cursory read of SOC2 you need a ton of evidence gathering for months leading up to your audit. How wold you know what to retroactively have if you didn't spend time
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by morsecodist 2y ago
It should be unsurprising that we don't really have a science of what company policies work best. There are a lot of variables at play and they likely interact with each other in non-linear ways. Outcomes are hard to measure and may lo
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by morsecodist 2y ago
This falls apart a bit if providing better food costs more. Restaurants with better food may earn more revenue all else being equal but their costs may be higher. People are willing to pay more for the same quality of food in a better locat
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by morsecodist 2y ago
Totally agree but I would expand location into convenience. For example, I find restaurants that don't take reservations or have limited hours are often better. In my head I have a category for reliable restaurants to go to when you ar
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by morsecodist 2y ago
It seems the answer in this article is reasoning models are expensive and they are becoming the norm. Reasoning/chain of thought seem like diminishing returns to me and I worry they are a bit of a dead end/local optimum. Reasoning
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by morsecodist 2y ago
The burden of proof is on the positive claim. Even if I were to make the claim that another human was reasoning I would need to provide justification for that claim. A lot of things look like something but that is not enough to shift the bu
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by morsecodist 2y ago
I was a bit broad here. I am sure certain projects get things better than others. When I said no place I was more referring to whole categories of development like, front-end, back-end, embedded, data pipelines, ect... I love types and advo
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by morsecodist 2y ago
There is really no place where updating dependencies is dramatically better. Back end frameworks and even whole languages have this problem. On the front end, I mostly use React and it has been fairly backwards compatible. It's a trade
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by morsecodist 2y ago
Weeks is the most terrifying unit of time to think in. Short enough so you have a good sense of how long it feels but long enough to add up quickly.
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by morsecodist 2y ago
I've set up and run my own physical Linux server as well as cloud ones and it may be easier to get a Linux box up and running with an application but to get it into a state I consider production ready it's much harder. With ECS (o
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by morsecodist 2y ago
As a user I like to pick models. Maybe I am using them wrong but I actually find reasoning/chain-of-thought models worse at some things, even things they are supposedly better at like coding. They are also buggier in my experience and
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by morsecodist 2y ago
Benchmarks are meaningless in and of themselves, they are supposed to be a proxy for usefulness. I have used Sonnet 3.5, ChatGPT-3, ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4, ChatGPT-4o, o1, o3-mini, o3-mini-high nearly daily for software development. I am no
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by morsecodist 2y ago
Even if the technology of AI ends up driving a huge economic value there is no guarantee that will translate into NVIDIA stock performance. The expectation that NVIDIA will capture a lot of this value is already priced in to the stock, whic
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by morsecodist 2y ago
I would say the more a given app/feature has network effects the more invested I am in it being cross-platform. For example, iMessage and Facetime are highly social. Apple was resistant to adopting the RCS protocol for iMessage, though
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by morsecodist 2y ago
I think that's preferable to them being totally unable to RSVP but you're still going to be the friend that can't make the invite. It's comparable to iMessage. You can still talk to Android users but it's a notably
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by morsecodist 2y ago
Unfortunately, I have to hope this doesn't see widespread adoption. If this becomes the standard it will just add to already existing social pressure to get an iPhone in the US.
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by morsecodist 2y ago
I appreciate posts that are about practical usage of AI and it's strengths/weaknesses and the kind of conversation it generates. Conversations about AI are tough for me to navigate because there are camps of people that seem very
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by morsecodist 2y ago
At least in my experience as soon as something goes a little wrong it just gets worse from there. The more of it's confusion and contradictory information are in the chat history the worse it gets. It also has to make changes to the co
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by morsecodist 2y ago
Designing the metric of success is the hard part. The magic of LLMs is that they can learn a lot with unlabeled data and a relatively simple cost function. They can be trained the mountains of data we just have lying around without a ton of
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by morsecodist 3y ago
IAC is one technology I will defend to the hilt. IAC is difficult because the underlying problem it is trying to solve is hard. Different people over time are making updates to a mission-critical, stateful, system that need to be coordinate
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by morsecodist 3y ago
My issue isn't just with the names themselves but they are emblematic of AWS's overall mentality. They want to have the AWS(TM) solution to X business case while other cloud providers feel more like utilities that give you buildin
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by morsecodist 3y ago
> Picking AWS over Google Cloud I know this is an unpopular opinion but I think google cloud is amazing compared to AWS. I use google cloud run and it works like a dream. I have never found an easier way to get a docker container running
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by morsecodist 3y ago
I agree that definitions are the problem. It seems the conscious term is overloaded and refers to a lot of concepts some of which are overlapping and some are totally different. People also want to define conscious in terms of the concept t
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by morsecodist 3y ago
I have always been pretty skeptical of the value proposition of these companies. We have had prefab construction for decades and you could buy kit homes from the Sear's catalog in 1908. These methods are definitely useful but construct
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by morsecodist 3y ago
Cool on the clojure API. Functional programing really fits with this sort of thing. Does your implementation limit you to the JVM?
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by morsecodist 3y ago
Discussing levels of complexity quickly gets pretty subjective. It is possible that Rama has found good abstractions that hide a lot of the complexity. It is also possible that taking on more complexity in this area saves you from other sor
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by morsecodist 3y ago
It seems like an event sourcing database. Basically, instead of writing you write a message, then you can make read-only tables that update based on those messages. People do this today in certain domains but it is definitely more complicat
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by morsecodist 3y ago
This is more an advertisement for a type of database than a statement that they are unnecessary. From what I can tell in the article it seems their differentiator is Event Sourcing and having arbitrary complex index builders on top of the e
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by morsecodist 3y ago
The whole EV experience seems tailored to suburbia where people can keep their car near their home and drive frequently on short trips. Many of them have the EV as a second car to circumvent the road trip issue. I live in a mildly dense cit
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by morsecodist 3y ago
> It’s possible that all physical processes involve a sensory component Sure it is possible but we have way more evidence neurons have a sensory component, or at least things made of neurons.

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