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by pradn 2y ago
You're right that the roles are somewhat flexible: somewhere between raw technical output and technical/design leadership and "program/project management".
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by pradn 2y ago
These ceremonies are meaningful if you invest meaning into them. For my college graduation, the dean did something small to make the ceremony more meaningful. He asked us all to stand up, look back to our family, and applaud them for suppor
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by pradn 2y ago
Google changed their terminal level to L4, which is a level where you can be do designs with guidance, and implement big chunks of projects on your own. The previous terminal level was L5 ("senior"), where you're expected to
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by pradn 2y ago
I'm totally with this idea - use the language you know best for mundane tasks. I used to switch to shell or Python to do one-off scripts. But there's not a super great reason why I can't do the same in C++, which is what I kn
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It's really nice that Go and Rust have one standard package management system, and a built-in standard formatter. Both of these things seem obvious now, but they were innovative when they were introduced. They add a new set of "ba
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The AI boom is, in theory, a godsend for Intel and AMD. You can focus on creating good tensor computation hardware, without having to worry about getting gamers on board. No need for "Game ready drivers" or compatibility with comp
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by pradn 2y ago
Yes, there's humans in the loop for the knowledge graph. I'm unsure if snippets are reviewed in the same way.
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by pradn 2y ago
You are correct - if a workflow/agent company starts bundling data and API access - they'll multiplicatively increase the capability of their agents. LLMs themselves are becoming a commodity, plus or minus prompt-following/fo
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by pradn 2y ago
One sad part of the GenAI wave happening right now is that we're past the golden age of open APIs. It's hard to read data with widespread anti-abuse checks (CAPTCHAs), lack of open-format data (RSS support being spotty), and restr
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by pradn 2y ago
Friction is signal. I recall I used to individually send snaps to like 30 friends each time, back before Snapchat invented Stories. I had to think a tiny bit, and put a tiny bit of effort, for each person. We lost that when people started p
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by pradn 2y ago
If brands can be put on the balance sheet as "goodwill", how much money was burnt by obliterating this brand name - one almost as generic as Kleenex, for its product category (small streaming-first HDMI dongles)?
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by pradn 2y ago
Yes, totally. Automated, fallible systems. Ultimately it's a cost issue. If they wanted to, they could fact check the top million question queries - but they don't want to spend on that.
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It's certainly wrong, but its not out of place w/ the sheer number of recipes and blogs saying the same thing. It's parroting "common wisdom" which is wrong. It's not as egregious as some of the generative AI r
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by pradn 2y ago
The words "friend" (everyone knows how shallow a "Facebook friend" is), "share" ("ride-sharing" instead of calling a taxi), and "community" (is the entire customer base of Facebook really a
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by pradn 2y ago
That makes sense. The only reason to separate the metadata out is to avoid having to parse the main content files for front-matter. Plus the metadata files themselves could be in several formats, if necessary. I don't see a great need
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by pradn 2y ago
I was thinking of how to setup a simple static blog without the baggage of a full-blow framework. Of course, I'd be re-inventing the wheel, but at least it'll make sense to me, personally. What I came up with: * Each page gets its
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by pradn 2y ago
Quite helpful, thanks!
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Eventual consistency gives you more availability, at the cost of consistency. It's fine for financial institutions to prefer this trade-off, because the any over/under error is a likely a fraction of the cost of unavailability. Al
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by pradn 2y ago
The alternative is that everyone in the Microsoft security ecosystem gets off kernel-mode drivers. Once ebpf-for-windows lands, it should be possible for Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and everyone else to run their filters in user-land. That puts
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by pradn 2y ago
It is a bit odd how they do it in Docs. In Cloud, announcements happen when the feature has already fully rolled out. Note, this is separate from region expansion, which might be delayed for some heavy-weight features (like new categories o
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by pradn 2y ago
In Google Cloud at least, we're quite aware we're not the market leader, so there's a pervasive humbleness. We're proud of certain technical achievements (ie: Spanner), but the world can catch up quickly (ie: CockroachDB
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Beyond Euclid: An Illustrated Guide to Modern Machine Learning(arxiv.org)
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The NYC chapter of Papers We Love looks to be starting back up, after a gap of about a year and then two years before that. I think they're getting Datadog to host the events. They have a convenient office next to Penn Station. https:
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by pradn 2y ago
There are a few examples of oral cultures ensuring perfect transmission across a large expanse of time. One example is the several different recitation styles used to memorize Sanskrit verses. These methods give memorizers multiple ways to
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by pradn 2y ago
No, we’re quite aware the world outside has been catching up. There’s even a famous doc by a senior director about it…
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The very very important stuff is hidden, and the only two examples anyone ever gives are core search ranking algorithms and the self-driving car. Even the battle-tested hyper-optimized, debugged-over-15-years implementation of Paxos is acce
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by pradn 2y ago
OWNERS files rarely get in the way - you can always send a code change to an OWNER. They are also good for finding points of contact quickly, for files where the history is in the far past and changes haven't been made recently. Readab
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Yes, oops - fixed!
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Google's monorepo, and it's not even close - primarily for the tooling: * Creating a mutable snapshot of the entire codebase takes a second or two. * Builds are perfectly reproducible, and happen on build clusters. Entire C++ serv
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by pradn 2y ago
Andrew O’Hagan's article on Assange is rather famous, not only for its contents, but also for being 25,000+ words in a magazine that still pays per word. The LRB can pull it off because they're subsidized by the editor's fami

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