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by sbrother 3y ago
I am still taken aback when they do these holiday layoffs. My employer (Nextdoor) cut 25% of the company in November, and it's hard not to see the timing as a particularly brutal power play.
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by sbrother 3y ago
Just commenting to say I really like your careers website and approach to running a consultancy.
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by sbrother 3y ago
Yeah, it’s an awful role basically by design. It reminds me of my uncle’s role as the safety/compliance lead at a manufacturing facility. He was just trying to do his job but constantly getting bullied, maneuvered around etc because hi
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by sbrother 3y ago
Google invented the core technology, and they had an internal version long before ChatGPT was released. I joined when it was already at the "accessible to all employees" stage and it absolutely blew my mind. They just hadn't
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by sbrother 3y ago
The assistants API is fantastic; I was just getting started with it. This news makes me reconsider -- but I also think it's inevitable that a compatible API will be released with open source underlying LLMs. I've deployed the Open
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by sbrother 3y ago
As will Lisa Su. This is going to be quite a ride.
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by sbrother 3y ago
I care. It's fucking annoying when someone joins a group chat on Android and all of a sudden I can no longer access it from my computer, iPad or over WiFi.
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by sbrother 3y ago
Are you talking about WhatsApp? Discord?
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by sbrother 3y ago
I find the tooling excellent. `mix` just works, and `alchemist` mode in emacs provides everything I could imagine needing. I've never heard of credo, but adding a call to `elixir-format` on save solves any linting needs I've had.
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by sbrother 3y ago
> vim over ssh is just awkward What's wrong with vim over ssh/mosh? I was taught emacs by a grad student back in college and the ability to be fully productive on any server where I can install emacs has been a huge benefit to
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by sbrother 3y ago
Not sure what you mean. Maybe it's just my biases, but I don't think most people would be against fake OnlyFans performers or AI porn with 100% fake personas. But generating porn of real people without their consent, let alone of
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by sbrother 3y ago
I might be (very) far behind the times, but does this have any relationship with Pregel?
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by sbrother 3y ago
Right that's what I thought, so how are they building a "near current generation flagship SoC"?
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by sbrother 3y ago
Does this mean that China is buying a bunch of ASML EUV machines?
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by sbrother 3y ago
Be careful with the satellite SOS feature. I accidentally left my 14 pro on the roof of my car when way outside of cell reception in rural Utah; it fell off and triggered the crash-triggered SOS feature. Wasted a bunch of emergency responde
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by sbrother 3y ago
That's an amazing name.
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by sbrother 3y ago
Thank you for explaining this; there are a lot of comments here suggesting trivial code style improvements for use cases where *kwargs wasn’t actually needed. The more interesting question is how to improve the use case you describe — which
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by sbrother 3y ago
emacs in a Blink terminal over mosh is still my goto; I haven't found a better solution yet. It's surprisingly effective, and being able to access it instantly over the cell network of my iPad Pro is awesome for dealing with emerg
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by sbrother 3y ago
Oh, 100%. But you can do some pretty amazing things with fine-tuning LLMs too, and that is very compute intensive. Not to mention it's ridiculously hard even getting access to a cloud GPU instance nowadays.
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by sbrother 3y ago
> Processing power is fine these days. I don't know, I've been working with LLMs a lot recently and for the first time in a while I am wishing I had access to much more compute than I do. Imagine having the power of a H100 loca
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by sbrother 3y ago
This is a really good idea, if time is not important. If you want someone experienced, in the US or Western Europe who does freelancing full time to prioritize your project, you should budget $100-$200/hr on the junior end, up to $300+
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by sbrother 3y ago
This looks awesome; I was a big fan of Keras back when it had pluggable backends and a much cleaner API than Tensorflow. Fast forward to now, and my biggest pain point is that all the new models are released on PyTorch, but the PyTorch serv
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by sbrother 3y ago
These look amazing, like they solve all the pain points I've had with car seats over the past five years. I'm a little past that stage now but wish these had been around when I had little babies.
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by sbrother 3y ago
At least in my little corner of that world, Unreal has been gaining mindshare and market share pretty aggressively for the last five years. This is forcing me to start thinking about Unity again.
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by sbrother 3y ago
I tend to agree with you, as I have spent many years in lessons myself and taught for a couple. But a) real lessons are expensive and difficult to access for a lot of people, and b) even for someone who has a teacher, most practice time is
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by sbrother 3y ago
Oh, this is awesome, and I hadn't heard of it. Thank you!
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by sbrother 3y ago
I'm working on AI piano lessons right now (extremely rough landing page at https://trebel.la/ while I work on the core tech). I am drooling at the idea of integrating with this thing one day...
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by sbrother 3y ago
Holy crap, I can't believe they're able to offer commercial BASE jumping to untrained customers. There's no way anyone would sell them liability insurance is there?
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by sbrother 3y ago
As someone who bought a deep learning rig for about $12k from lambdalabs years ago, I can't recommend them strongly enough. The support (and not having to deal with building it out myself) was well worth the markup. They're also j
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by sbrother 3y ago
The Roland A-88 is the closest I've found. It feels great, but it's expensive.

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