perrygeo

22 ms·

421.
by perrygeo 2y ago
Quarter million new technology jobs - is this the part where AI takes our jerbs?
422.
by perrygeo 2y ago
> less than x distance away zip codes don't even need to be contiguous. It's a mail delivery route, not a polygon. There are 5 cases where the assumption is violated: - Non-contiguous areas - Zip codes that are a single point (
423.
by perrygeo 2y ago
Everyone on my dad's side of the family gathered for xmas each year - maybe 20 of us. Full house. And everybody felt obliged to buy personal presents for everyone else. Finally someone stood up and said "Instead of everyone stress
424.
by perrygeo 2y ago
> mega banks have the sole power of creating credit out of thin air Amazing that more people don't know this. Most people will insist until their face is red that bank credit is a "loan" with equal debits and credits on bo
425.
by perrygeo 2y ago
I really like that paper's emphasis on overall throughput. KPIs used this way are effective. Measure what matters. Too often you get in a game of setting up metrics silos for everyone to operate independently, and there are non-linear,
426.
by perrygeo 2y ago
For one, I don't like the Lua language. This is just my opinion but I dislike the syntax and semantics. It's better than vimscript for configuring neovim but that's a pretty low bar. And if the argument is "pick a long-s
427.
by perrygeo 2y ago
The rise of complexity, and its collapse, defines every civilization for which we have historical records. Given that our society seem hell-bent on repeating the pattern, I question whether we ever had respect for it. It seems that we have
428.
by perrygeo 2y ago
Technological progress is a classic multipolar trap - an arms race where rational individuals take action that harms society as a whole. If you decide to not play in the game, you lose the game. There will always be "defectors" th
429.
by perrygeo 2y ago
I think we're headed for an industry where "everybody is above average". What we think of today as work for junior/mid level engineers will be completely done by AI agents (multiple), all under the direction of a few exp
430.
by perrygeo 2y ago
It's less about maintaining a personal blog than it is about regularly doing and writing about things that are "blog-worthy". There are many channels besides blogs - youtube, podcasts, social media, live feeds, github, huggin
431.
by perrygeo 2y ago
It's damn near a crime against humanity that so many talented people are forced to deal with garbage software. Given the orders of magnitude hardware advances of the last few decades, we should be that much faster and more capable. But
432.
by perrygeo 2y ago
There's a similar dynamic in building reliable distributed systems on top of an unreliable network. The parts are prone to failure but the system can keep on working. The tricky problem with LLMs is identifying failures - if you'r
433.
by perrygeo 2y ago
Mocking the database can be done, but only if you use the database as a generic storage layer. It's not trivial to keep the mocks updated in most applications. Some ORMs and frameworks provide magic to do this, but as soon as you devia
434.
by perrygeo 2y ago
One of my strongest memories of my childhood is meeting Jimmy Carter on a commercial flight, coming back from a family trip to Disneyworld. He walked back through the coach section and greet everyone personally. I got to shake his hand. He
435.
by perrygeo 2y ago
> In my experience, the real measure of talent is not the speed or volume of output, but the capability to do tasks that other engineers can’t. This is a great point. People hear "10x" and assume it's a multiplier for the
436.
by perrygeo 2y ago
I'm not sure Extroversion/Introversion is related to prosocial behavior in any direct way. Prosocial always refers to cooperation, fairness, and acting on behalf of society as a whole. IOW prosocial is the opposite of self-interes
437.
by perrygeo 2y ago
> make a seemingly small change, it balloons into a compile error that requires large refactoring to appease the borrow checker and type system Same experience, but this is actually why I like Rust. In other languages, the same seemingly
438.
by perrygeo 2y ago
There are multiple factors, all pointing in the direction of complexity. Avoiding the hard challenges of design at any cost is certainly a factor. I've seen design demonized as waterfall, and replaced by seat-of-the-pants planning almo
439.
by perrygeo 2y ago
As someone who started programming on Solaris UNIX, then Linux workstations, in the late 90s, there just wasn't an option. You used vi or emacs or you didn't work. I'm not saying it was the good old days but it was not a sign
440.
by perrygeo 2y ago
> what makes this so difficult to solve in Python? Python creates the perfect storm for package management hell: - Most the valuable libraries are natively compiled (so you get all the fun of distributing binaries for every platform with
441.
by perrygeo 2y ago
> "Lines of Code are Not a Measure of Productivity in an Isolated, Toy Example" Calling this phenomenon a toy example is a bit out of touch. I've seen this every single day of my 25 year career. Value is produced by solvin
442.
by perrygeo 2y ago
Notebooks are not about producing a report. I've worked with hundreds of notebooks and very few of them were intended as polished documents. Notebooks are literally for notes, for exploring new ideas - not creating production artifacts
443.
by perrygeo 2y ago
You'd be surprised how many AI programs from the 80s showed advanced logical reasoning, symbolic manipulation, text summarization, etc. Today's methods are sloppy brute force techniques in comparison - more useful but largely blac
444.
by perrygeo 2y ago
Paper and pencil or an air-gapped computer lab. This ain't rocket science.
445.
by perrygeo 2y ago
SVGs are just 2D geometries, and I can assure you that almost every GIS project in the world uses vector data to model the physical world. Whether it's a good model or a model that the LLMs can manipulate, I have no idea. But it&#x27
446.
by perrygeo 2y ago
Exactly. It's already bad, with seniors being pushed to 100% with 0% slack to train up the next generation. No time for that. LLMs will make this worse.
447.
by perrygeo 2y ago
> My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition to be more of a guiding hand to LLMs output This. Programming will become easier for everyone. But the emerge
448.
by perrygeo 2y ago
> > There's a Vim mode in every single mainstream code editor out there. Sadly, because of the unchecked proliferation of apps added to the software enterprise, this is not really true. A "modern" software organization
449.
by perrygeo 2y ago
Double-blind clinical trial. We can use elephants as a proxy.
450.
by perrygeo 2y ago
I can't find the chart but I remember seeing some demographic data from a rural part of India where, after a certain age, it started to look like stair steps with discontinuities every 5 years. Did they just have a huge (well-timed) ba

More ›