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by raldi 4y ago
I would consider banning implicit casting of floats to ints from the codebase: Nobody would have intentionally truncated in this HP conversion; they would’ve rounded.
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by raldi 4y ago
Can you post screenshots of these results?
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by raldi 4y ago
For decades, San Francisco hasn't been building enough new units to house even just the children of natives[1], to say nothing of those like you and I who were born elsewhere and dreamed of moving here. The people who "gave the po
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by raldi 4y ago
The first one is "p and q"; the negation of that is "(not p) or (not q)". Could you describe one of the scenarios you're envisioning?
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by raldi 4y ago
Another good piece about negotiating with Product is written up here: https://sre.google/sre-book/introduction/#:~:text=Pursuing%2... Ultimately, it's Product's job to decide how they want to balance rel
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by raldi 4y ago
Sure, just give your manager a copy of the bible: https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa...
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by raldi 4y ago
When the oncall gets paged, an SLO should be in jeopardy in a way that requires immediate measures to be taken by a well-trained human as described in actionable terms in a linked playbook. No SLO in jeopardy, or no immediate measure that n
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by raldi 4y ago
What do you mean by "this style of writing"? What aspects of the quote do you object to?
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by raldi 4y ago
Got a photo?
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by raldi 4y ago
> Each user-defined trigger for a user-defined parser log line event will generate a diagnosis file The README would benefit from an example of what one of these looks like, and an example of a line that would trigger it, and an example
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by raldi 4y ago
My awakening was the multiple times I've been talking with a startup and said, "I was surprised there's no self-guided demo or video tour available on your website; can you show me how the product works?" and had them
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by raldi 4y ago
This is apparently incorrect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35462655
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by raldi 4y ago
As long as YC cares about HN, I cannot imagine them allowing anyone to outbid them for his services.
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by raldi 4y ago
I would not have any fear of superintelligent AI if it were trained solely on dang's writing.
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by raldi 4y ago
I want to give your objection due respect, but I'm having trouble understanding it. I think it would be helpful to taboo[1] the squishy word "agency"; without using that word, could you define the quality that these systems l
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by raldi 4y ago
How does it decide whether to split "antid" into "ant" "id" or "anti" "d"?
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by raldi 4y ago
Penultimate means second-to-last; if that’s what you meant, what’s the ultimate solution to those business needs?
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by raldi 4y ago
My comment applies to each of these abnormalities.
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by raldi 4y ago
The key question is, are living people born in 1923 more or less likely to be born on the first of the month than dead people born in 1923?
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by raldi 4y ago
From the HN guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics [...] unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
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by raldi 4y ago
...but you have heard of it
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by raldi 4y ago
I'm talking about one of these things, which are often vibrate-only: https://www.google.com/search?q=restaurant+pager&tbm=isch Also, not a daycare center, but a babysitter. For many of the babysitters we get, we&#x
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by raldi 4y ago
Just add metrics for the number of times "ChatGPT" and "OpenAI" appeared in tweets, reddit posts, and HN comments in the last (rolling) five minutes, put them on a dashboard alongside all your other monitoring, and have
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by raldi 4y ago
Or have one of those pager systems some restaurants use to let you know your burger is ready. You don't need one for every attendee; just the ones who are parents, doctors, etc., and specifically come up to request one (and register it
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by raldi 4y ago
I personally don't go that far — for a long time before cell phones, people trusted babysitters with their children — but in that era, it was customary for the venue to have a phone number and the parents to write it down for the babys
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by raldi 4y ago
Searched the article and all HN comments for "parents", "kids", "babysitter", etc. No matches. If you want to be more inclusive, have a sign like, "Tell your cofounder/babysitter than in an actual eme
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by raldi 4y ago
> You know what kind of people create content of their own dreams? Every entrepreneur that ever existed.
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by raldi 4y ago
We don't need everyone to, though. If AI increases dev productivity X-fold, and this leads to an X-fold increase in entrepreneurship, then the junior devs who want to build someone else's dream will have more opportunities to do s
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by raldi 4y ago
Yes, I'm seriously asking. If a junior programmer wants to create a mobile app, or a desktop app, or a cloud service, what are the barriers? All the ones I can think of will get lower, not higher, as a result of the AI revolution. If I
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by raldi 4y ago
What are the barriers to a junior dev creating their own product?

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