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by nzzn 6mo ago
It is not at all surprising that “The Soul of a New Machine” resonates with people in Hacker News. And it is a tremendous book. But for me, his book about Paul Farmer, “Mountains Beyond Mountains”, was even more meaningful. Tracy met Paul b
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by nzzn 8mo ago
If you’re only make on average 500k/year after 10y — you’re not really in the game at all
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by nzzn 1y ago
Lua uses the table type to represent both dictionaries (hash tables) and arrays of values. This seems to have been predicated on keeping the language “simple” with a minimal number of defined types. A laudable goal. However, arrays of a sin
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by nzzn 1y ago
For a more full featured Xoshiro/Xoroshiro implementation see https://github.com/nessan/xoshiro Documented at: https://nessan.github.io/xoshiro/ Handles the full family of these generators fe
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by nzzn 1y ago
Why are you doing numerical code in single precision? If no one in your group did a numerical analysis course at college it’s time you moved on to think about some other problem more suited to your experience set.
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by nzzn 1y ago
Just look at the work to date as a portfolio for your resume and go get a job with someone that will pay you and perhaps give you some small amount of equity. You don’t have the skills to sell. Move on
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by nzzn 2y ago
People are lazy. American students are mostly rich by any global standard and very, very lazy. Doesn’t matter a huge amount as they don’t matter — they will amount to nothing anyway. The States imports enough talent to make up for the lacun
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by nzzn 2y ago
The pricing of all these AI models is so opaque. Can’t they hire someone with common sense who realizes that $x/token is absurd!!! Totally brain-dead. Like pricing a car by the number of o-rings in the engine.
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by nzzn 2y ago
Jamie decided that he gets more out of his vast workforce if they are on site and, given his tenure, he has the data that backs that up.
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by nzzn 2y ago
As mentioned in the article all MD’s are back since mid 2023 so zero.
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by nzzn 2y ago
No
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by nzzn 2y ago
Very in-house definition of “better”. Better on paper and at producing paper but who cares? Typst is technically interesting but it doesn’t appear to have a driver (a person, a Zuck, a Bezos, a …) with a business/power-hungry brain at
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by nzzn 2y ago
Quanta is such a great resource! High value spend from Jim Simons vast pool of dollars. I came across MTW’s “Gravitation” as a student in the 70’s and it inspired a positively unreasonable desire to own a copy just because it looked so beau
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by nzzn 2y ago
VC’s, hedge funds, etc. all run lean—none have 10k+ employees or anything close. Employees are under a much brighter spotlight by the owners all the time. Groups might lose focus for an interval but once they their score is down it’s goodby
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by nzzn 3y ago
Buy a Ring doorbell? Just don’t. Ring requires a login AND enforces absolutely strict 2FA. You need to re-login periodically. It’s a doorbell! WTF. Doorbell rings, you are now fumbling to try and get a passcode—-delivery guy has given up.
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by nzzn 3y ago
Outstanding—compelling presentation loaded with data. Perhaps the conclusion should be that the world should move to efficient 75% or so apartment living. UK at 15% is a huge outlier for a top 10 economy.