sanderjd

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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Nevertheless, inclusion would be a better default than exclusion in most use cases I've ever had for process spawning.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Aren't we discussing just such a primitive?
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Why not?
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
A process that shares nothing with the process that spawned it.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
A lot of times you actively don't want the parent environment or any of the memory or file descriptors. And then you have to actively do work to fix all that stuff up after the fork.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yeah this seems like a promising discussion.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
There are lots of reasons to want to spawn fresh processes, which aren't solved by linking a library.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I just ran into this recently, where I had an obscure bug caused by needing to close more file descriptors in the forked process. "I want a clone of the current process" is just way less common in my experience than "I want a
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I definitely think checking references should be more core to the process. I don't really understand why it isn't. Legal concerns? Or just because it takes a lot of time? I would personally feel way better about interviewing for j
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
What companies hire differently than them? Everyone seems to do the exact same thing.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yeah. This is why I really wish the job market were optimized to lower switching costs, rather than seemingly the exact opposite.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yep, it was totally worth it for me to subject myself to the big tech hiring process. I have no student loan debt and own a nice house now because I did that. (And I learned a lot and met a lot of great and unbelievably smart and talented p
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yes. Agreed.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
If someone has a multi-year stint where the last year was spent managing them out, I am not convinced that this demonstrates that they are an incompetent bullshit artist. Not every employee is valuable to every company forever. I've wr
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I'm certain that this is true. It certainly sounds true. But honestly, does anyone here have experience with doing this kind of interviewing at scale, for experienced software engineering roles? I've been in the industry for comin
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I hear this a lot, but man, I just really don't think so. First of all, 1-year stints come off very poorly in this kind of discussion. (I would say that a bias against people with a bunch of short stints would be a failure mode of &q
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yeah this is my "natural" interviewing style. Like, I have a resume, I'm talking to a person, my natural curiosity about the person and their work leads me to exactly the kind of conversation you're describing. Then my h
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I was really hoping for a conclusion section with pragmatic suggestions for how to apply these insights to a real hiring process. I'm left thinking "ok this all makes sense, but what do I do with it?".
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
On the bright side, burning calories!
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
What? It's just a clever homage.
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
Yep, fair enough. So pretty far from perfect still! But quite good. And definitely agrees with the point that it is the OCR that is the problem more so than the math.
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
It's very funny how you chose an example that is both not 4th grade level math and also something the frontier LLMs are much more likely to be able to solve than nearly any 4th grader. This is a counter example to your argument, not e
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
Again, I'm very interested in your methodology here. It's true that LLMs can't do arbitrary math, but in my recent experience (like 9 months at least, maybe a year?), the frontier models are very good at figuring out that the
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
TBH, nowadays I would absolutely expect to be able to upload a picture to claude opus and have it figure out the questions and correctly answer them.
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
Is it? I don't think it is...
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
I would genuinely be interested in knowing what you're doing that led you to this conclusion. I would be shocked if I was unable to solve 4th grade math homework with any of the contemporary frontier models. I spend most days using the
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
Are you confident in putting a timeline on this prediction? One of the reasons I'm increasingly skeptical of this prediction is that I've now lived past a few of the dates I heard people put on the achievement of this level of sup
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
Where will you?
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
Thank you for the explanation. I understand what you meant now.
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by sanderjd 5mo ago
Why wouldn't you just write the tests against the public api?

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