sethhochberg

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by sethhochberg 11mo ago
I think many people would suggest that this was more of an accident due to the ubiquity of the browser, though. The transition from "websites" to "web apps" was well underway by the time the dev tools became a built-in b
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by sethhochberg 11mo ago
In the US, there's often a large labor/materials upcharge on anything that can be branded as "green" - you see a lot of the same thing with higher end heat pump systems and such, too. Efficiency is (for whatever reasons)
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by sethhochberg 11mo ago
The evolutionary force is really just "everyone else showed up at the party". The Internet has gone from a capital-I thing that was hard to access, to a little-i internet that was easier to access and well known but still largely
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
I don't know if they're available in other markets, but in the US I've been very happy with Lutron Caseta switches for that sort of "smart enough" use case. It generally all works like normal dumb switches if the hu
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
In our case, the files being processed are datasets that have already been normalized through another ETL tool. Since we're doing the preprocessing ourselves elsewhere, our Gleam parsers are set up to expect a pretty rigid set of input
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
I'm leading a team that is doing an incremental migration to Gleam by delegating specific parts - we're basically pushing the "functional core, imperative shell" pattern to its macro extreme and having Gleam pick up back
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
One of my previous employers only lost our east-coast colo facility twice in their couple decades of existence: - once when the DC ran out of diesel and couldn't get any more after Hurricane Sandy - once when the backup generators caug
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
I think you've actually buried a much broader commentary on tolerances and complexity and interoperability in here, too. The mechanical-averaging voltage regulator worked for the design because it only had to work in the context of the
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
Honestly, I just type out something by hand that is roughly like what I quoted above - I'm not big on keeping prompt libraries. I think the important part is to give it (in my case, these days "it" is gpt-5-codex) a target pe
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
I've had great luck with asking the current session to "summarize our goals, conversation, and other relevant details like git commits to this point in a compact but technically precise way that lets a new LLM pick up where we&#x2
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
What would you propose as an alternative? As a corporate purchaser, "bring your own key" is just about the only way we can allow our employees to stay close to the latest happenings in a rapidly moving corner of the industry. We n
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
10 years ago, I hated the idea of Google Glass, voice assistants, cloud doorbells, and their ilk. I thought the privacy zealots were reactionary but the general premise still was a bit icky - a little bit for the privacy, but mostly for the
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
I'm currently working on a prototype that does exactly this (in our case, the Gleam is essentially a typed calculation module wrapped in Elixir's great libraries for network and database interactions but its all net-new applicatio
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
This was my first thought. My iPhone 15 Pro is fine and hopefully has much more life left in it, and I've gotten used to the size in general over the years, but I like to wear pants that are reasonably fitted and the "pocket bulge
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
Years ago when I worked in live audio we had a similar setup. Zero tolerance for a performer's mic pack dying mid show because a low battery indicator wasn't calibrated right or someone incorrectly tracked how many hours a particu
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
Typically with this sort of thing the way it really works is that you, the startup, use a service provider (like OpenAI) who publish their own external audit reports (like a SOC 2 Type 2) and then the SOC 2 auditors will see that the servic
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
Frankly I think a lot of full-time-employed technical people are largely experimenting for fun in the context of things that might eventually be useful to their employer. AI is cool and fascinating stuff and when I have a few idle minutes a
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
If all of the trades were there on the same day and each could begin their work immediately after the prior specialist had finished it might have taken a day or a few, but it sounds like much of that month was simply waiting. If you're
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
Some less-common varieties of life insurance start to look a whole lot like investment products and are (sometimes controversially) sold as such for people in very specific financial situations - think like cash value and death benefit valu
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
With term life insurance specifically the lifetime policy premiums are typically so low relative to the value of the policy that there's a natural bias towards insuring generally healthy people. Its not uncommon to see policies that ar
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
The part I have a hard time with as a corporate purchaser is that the failure/repair/replacement rate on our small number of Dell machines is upwards of 50%. We've only got about a dozen in use, and less then half of them hav
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
When you work with Apex (or really any other technology bridge to the traditional financial world, Q2's Helix is common for traditional banking, Apex Clearing is common for stock trading, etc) they require you think about things like t
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
Regrettably the only source I can find hosting this video is a reddit post, but you might find the remarks by the MTA chair interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/nycrail/comments/1iyve4d/mta_buildi... In
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
You’re asking a fair question but I think you’re approaching it from a POV that’s maybe a bit more of an engineering mindset than the person you’re responding to is using A brilliant algorithm that filters out some huge amount of AI slop is
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
"Healthy" is a pretty loaded word. In the grand scheme of things apples and peanut butter is indeed a pretty healthy snack: good balance of fiber and protein and carbs and healthy fats, and nothing particularly bad like partially
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
FWIW: this might be a suggestion of the specific audit team you’re working with or a requirement of one of the “follow our playbook and you’ll pass” vendors if you’re using one of those, but the SOC 2 on its own doesn’t really impose specif
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
A use case where we reached for Clickhouse years ago at an old job was for streaming music royalty reporting. Days of runtime on our beefy MySQL cluster, minutes of runtime in a very naively optimized Clickhouse server. And sampling wasn&#x
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
In the US, buzzard is pretty much always slang for a turkey vulture. The common buzzard in Europe/Asia is a different bird entirely.
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
I'm curious though, what would she do with that crypto once she had it? Presumably she'd need to exchange it for cash since retail acceptance of crypto is pretty low, and the local exchange place that takes WhateverStablecoin and
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
The important detail there is doing it without the knowledge of the (former) spouse. You need both an insurable interest and consent of the insured in order to buy an insurance policy on someone else’s life. Couples separating and holding

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