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by sarchertech 1mo ago
Well historically the consensus was that it was harder to read code than to write it, but that leads to uncomfortable conclusions these days, so that bit of common wisdom has mostly been ejected. > I'm not a coder so I have zero ide
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by sarchertech 1mo ago
The only time I really heard the term load bearing in a software engineering context (pre LLM) was in the phrase “load-bearing bug”.
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by sarchertech 1mo ago
> building a feature that uses cryptography is going to have a better track record than the median human developer. Let’s say that’s true. That doesn’t mean that we won’t have a higher percentage of bad implementations because more peopl
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
There’s still browser/OS typo mitigation.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
You can’t always tell the difference, but you can filter out businesses that lasted less than a year, temporary businesses that were setup for real estate transactions, and business that never made a profit.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
Unless you get caught up in a big layoff where the people you have relationships with have zero input.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
I’m also confused.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
The difference was 3.6cm in the study that measured 10 more years 30-80. And 5cm in the study that measured 10 fewer years 40-80. The studies were conducted over different time periods when average nutrition changed, and demographics change
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
No that’s not what I was getting at. The post was edited and originally mentioned absolute amount of fat being bad for your heart.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
I mean median household income in 1999 was $40k and median household income now is $84k.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
Still doesn’t make sense if you believe that AI is making a meaningful boost to productivity. If you are the kind of person who thinks AI will drive down the wages of software engineers that much, you have to think that it is at least a 2x
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
I’m well aware of the history of the fed. Most small businesses fail because they were never serious businesses to begin with. A business closing down after running for a year with no profit isn’t relevant.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
That’s not the question I ask though. I asked about the specific claim that absolute fat was bad for your heart. But also short people living longer has so many more possible explanations than less overall fat.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
Short people have fewer incidences of cancer, so I don’t think you can say that lower overall risk of death implies lower risk of heart disease. As for 2, men in the US are getting shorter because of immigration which adds many confounders.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
Do short people have much lower risk of heart disease?
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
> Instead, I was responding to a very specific observation the gp made: he saw that both senior and junior devs were interchangeable when randomly assigning the next JIRA ticket. That can only happen in a situation where the JIRA tickets
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
All of those things are true. There are downsides to any of the levels they can adjust. I’d there weren’t, they’d already be doing it. But it’s wrong to model businesses as if they have no ability to increase profit per customer and predict
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
That’s not what I was saying. I’m saying that we have small downturns where consumer spending drops yet those drops don’t result in crisis levels of small businesses closing. Which it would if most of them were structured like that.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
Sure that’s one of the argument for why they do it but the money doesn’t directly to most small businesses, we do have small downturns, and they don’t result in the majority of small businesses going out of business.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
That assumes he has a fixed profit per person. In reality most business can do things like cut hours for staff, postpone upgrades or long term maintenance, cut amenities, raise prices etc… If most businesses were structured in a way that a
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
>This has traditionally been offloaded by having seniors do the hard thinking then distill it into a jira ticket which could be handed off to an engineer that'd actually write the code and punch every hiccup into google along the wa
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
I’ve worked at many startups and consulted at many more over the last 20 years. I’ve never seen 2 million lines of code happen that fast at a small startup. 15 devs putting out 400k LOC a year into the same codebase is not normal at all. I’
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
Definitely possible, but up thread they wrote: >”Have you worked at many startups?” In response to a question about a legacy codebase at a startup. That implies that they think whatever they are doing is common. And forking a multi milli
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
How long has your startup been around? I’ve worked at plenty of startups over the past 20 years. Including one that was still calling themselves a startup 10 years out. The org I work at now was a startup before my tech giant employer acqui
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
To continue the analogy, it’s like writing answers that are so convoluted that no one can understand them.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
> 1 day turnaround build permits, to any proposed off-the-grid data centers. Utility planning is one tiny part of approving a building permit. You still need to look at storm water runoff, fire safety, environmental impact etc… I’m also
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
That wasn’t the US supporting liberal democracies. A full 20% of Lend-Lease went to the Soviet Union, and the US provided plenty of support to Nationalist (and very authoritarian) China. We had friendly relations and supported many counties
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
> That's why we entered WWII The US entered World War II in the pacific after Pearl Harbor and in Europe after Germany declared war. Before those 2 events, there was still a strong isolationist contingent in the US.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
Yes they could starve them out and maybe they will. But China is certainly preparing for an amphibious invasion, so they think it might be necessary.
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by sarchertech 2mo ago
> is to just win Taiwan over politically over the long term. That was their plan until Xi became ruler for life and decided that he wanted Taiwan sooner rather than later.

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