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by senko 5mo ago
A few weeks ago I was co-hosting a live coding session (in front of a crowd, it was pretty collaborative, back-and-forth). I had to authorize something with Firebase, for which I had to auth with Google, for which I had to do a MFA with my
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by senko 5mo ago
> I want to use Obsidian... but I won't as long as it's not open source. Sooo... don't use it? There are plenty of open source alternatives, and I'm sure someone's going to mention org-mode.
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by senko 5mo ago
And a non-sequitur.
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by senko 5mo ago
If you're on the top, you probably aren't coding much. So you're more in management than getting your hands dirty.
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by senko 5mo ago
Hello from 23rd
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by senko 5mo ago
Mostly. Many of these companies do build up internal know-how. In case of big consulting companies, they have huge internal knowledge bases, decks, cases etc from previous engagements. In case of product companies with FDEs, the feedback fr
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by senko 5mo ago
I run a dev agency, and I can spot one when I see one. The trouble with dev agencies, "services companies", integration specialists and "forward deployed engineers" is that they scale lineraly with the number of people.
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Claude Mythos Opens the Cybersecurity Pandora's Box(shiftmag.dev)
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by senko 5mo ago
I love this line: > Stop shipping distributed systems when you meant to ship a feature. But not in the contex the author meant. Many people don't realize that when you have a frontend, a backend (several instances, for failover&#x
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by senko 5mo ago
If you want to design TV remotes, you better learn Blender. If you want to host something complex enough to warrant AWS, you should also understand how to run it yourself. These arguments for AWS are boring and sound like uninspired regurgi
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by senko 5mo ago
The 800 pound gorilla in the room being a $3T company that also happens to be one of the largest cloud providers? C'mon.
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by senko 5mo ago
Overnight success is often decades in the making.
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by senko 5mo ago
I agree with you on that, but that just holds true (we hope) for the OP. HN already editorializes the title, to help everyone other than the OP (not all people agree over what's interesting to them). Now we're just arguing over th
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by senko 5mo ago
To do that, you need to read the article first, which is the point of click-bait titles. The point of the defense is to avoid exposing your neurons to that stuff.
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by senko 5mo ago
You're absolutely right! (errm...oops....anyways...) The fact that LLMs usually generate anodyne summaries is actualy a benefit here. I used my website-to-markdown tool[0] to get the text, piped the output to claude -p and got a pretty
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by senko 5mo ago
It is telling that this piece of art (yes, it is art, and it is fun) is getting defaced by actual people , some metaphorically spraying the "fuck this AI slop" grafitti.
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by senko 5mo ago
Do not ignore the marketing and (especially) sales part. You're going to be running a business and just the fact that your software is genuinely useful and popular will not bring in the money. Don't shy away from pitching companie
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by senko 5mo ago
> Can agentic engineers adhere to a similar code of ethics that a professional engineer is sworn to uphold? Can software engineers?
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by senko 5mo ago
> If the problems didn’t revolve around load GitHub is not a mom&pop operation. I expect the $3T company to handle the load, or at least place a prominent "only for hobby use" warning on top.
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by senko 5mo ago
My understanding of the parent is more charitable: If your thinking process relies on being told only the truth, you are going to fare lousy in this world. LLMs are an example, but so are random pages on the internet, a buch of stuff we get
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by senko 5mo ago
> Humans WILL anthropomorphize the AI, humans WILL blindly trust their outputs, and humans WILL defer responsibility to them. Humans ARE doing this with classical computer software as well. It's impossible to make anything fool-proo
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by senko 6mo ago
> This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the same SDLC every functioning engineering organisation runs, just in different vocabulary. [...] Amazon calls it the working-backwards memo and the bar raiser. Every healthy team has some version of th
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by senko 6mo ago
The accidental vs essential difficulty argument ignores the fact that you can abstract away (some) essential difficulty if you're willing to take a performance hit. Design patterns in an older (programming) language become core langu
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by senko 6mo ago
> I constantly get contacted by recruiters > I got laid off recently and I had a new job within a week > Currently I’m waiting for a final decision from another fully remote company and I’m in midstage with 2 more. > How
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by senko 6mo ago
I'm old school - I tend not to blame people (or companies, for that matter) now for things they might do in the future .
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by senko 6mo ago
> And yet somehow TIDAL is able to between three and four times the royalties per stream that Spotify does. Looks like they do allocation differently between popular and indie artists, but the overall share, as percentage of revenue, is
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by senko 6mo ago
You're right on what they're doing, but not the why: 1. They're getting the short end of the deal with music licensing (as are artists, btw) 2. They can't pay the artists more: the vast majority of the money goes to labe
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by senko 6mo ago
There's a whole industry of "royalty-free music", full of songs you hadn't heard before (or if you had, you'd forget about it anyways), which you can license for a fixed fee that's much lower than either mandat
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by senko 6mo ago
Well, about that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan_(program)
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by senko 6mo ago
> tldr: chip immersion uses less water but is more expensive. Water evaporation is the opposite. Datacenters will use the cheapest they can get away wi This suggests a simple fix: charge more to the datacenters (not people) for the water

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