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by snickell 2y ago
No, I wasn't planning to post this for a couple weeks, but I saw the comment and was like "eh, why not?". You can watch "sped up" past sessions by other people who used this demo here, which is kind of like a demo v
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by snickell 2y ago
> truly generative UI, where the model produces the next frame of the app I built this exact thing last month, demo: https://universal.oroborus.org (not viable on phone for this demo, fine on tablet or computer) Also see disc
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by snickell 2y ago
Simple variation to a hard shutoff: immediately page "significant risk a successful sql exploit was found", and then slow down attackers: If an SQL query requests an unknown table, log the error, but have that query time out inste
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by snickell 2y ago
I suspect long-term LLMs spell the end of typed language popularity in most application programming contexts. I agree with The Grug Brained Developer ( https://grugbrain.dev/ ) that “type systems most value when grug hit dot
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by snickell 2y ago
Fedora 22 (released 2015) switched default package managers from yum to dnf. dnf is faster, and better at resolving complex dependency chains. Additionally, its better at rollbacks on the rare occasions these are required. apt-get might sti
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by snickell 2y ago
M2 max with 64GB: 14 tokens/s running `ollama run mistral-small:24b --verbose`
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by snickell 2y ago
TL;DR: best case LLMs break algo-whiteboarding interviews so visibly we stop using them (they're already invisibly broken). Some engineers are genuinely better at using ChatGPT and friends to solve problems, and that's a skill wor
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by snickell 2y ago
I read that iPhone 12 & 13 minis had very low sales rates. Disappointing since I too am waiting for another mini to be released. I would have 100% bought an iPhone 16 mini.
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by snickell 2y ago
Yes, they are auto-completers, but they are auto-completers that are layered AND operate in higher dimensional spaces. This throws all intuitions off, and I think makes it misleading to think of them as "just" auto-completers. Tha
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by snickell 2y ago
They run cooled/heated water through them, the idea being that temperature can trigger / lengthen certain phases of sleep. Think getting into a warm bed that gets colder as you go into deep sleep, and then when the night is done w
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by snickell 2y ago
Code.org | Director of Engineering | Full-time | Seattle WA | Remote | code.org Code.org is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in K-12 schools and increasing participation by young women and students from other un
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by snickell 2y ago
Consuming Mercury would give you a 2x car sheet metal thick full dyson sphere made of iron. Earth, Mars and Venus each have about 10x the iron of Mercury. The asteroid belt is inconsequential. If you consume all the iron core planets, you h
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by snickell 3y ago
You can also run Mixtral, at a decent token rate, on a post-2020 Apple Macbook Pro M1/M2/M3 with 32GB+ of RAM. 16GB RAM also works, sort of ok, which I suspect is the same quantization a 3090 is using, but I do notice a difference
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by snickell 3y ago
Fascinating timing for this article, as a Boeing 737 Max 9 just experienced a catastrophic depressurization (sounds like everyone was ok) today: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/business/alaska-airlines
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by snickell 3y ago
I am curious what life experience or realization has led you to conclude "unearned trust isn't trust" as a basic life principle?
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by snickell 3y ago
I don't see why this is "by definition". I understand that "default to trust must be earned" is a common position in modernity, but that makes me sad. Even if this were a good life principle at the moment, I think t
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by snickell 3y ago
Sounds like SRE has afforded you a unique "who's writing what code small-org-wide" semi-impartial perspective. Thanks for sharing! I'm curious if the ~three devs that "wrote 80% of the codebase" mutually reco
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by snickell 3y ago
I would hazard a guess that if we first encountered a ChatGPT-4 level LLM* as radio signals from Mars we would baseline assume it was "intelligent alien life". * assuming its instruction tuned: - in terms of self-disclosure (no &q
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by snickell 3y ago
This is particularly hard for LLMs because they don't have words input as characters but rather as tokens (1-N characters). I haven't tested this, but they might do better at counting words?
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by snickell 5y ago
Curiously, I have a cat Brownie who grew up feral in the high sierras and appears to have subsisted on snakes as food/prey. They're still his favorite prey. Instead of startling, Brownie the mighty snake hunter reacts to cucumbers
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by snickell 6y ago
Ceres Imaging | Lead Software Engineer | Full Time | Remote (onsite ok too, we're in oakland) | GMT-4 to GMT-8 ok, EST / GMT-5 ideal VueJS and other hackers, we’re looking for a UX-savvy software engineer to lead dev for our prima
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by snickell 6y ago
I agree with the assertion that the core "hard tech" in K8S, docker, Ansible, etc has been with us a long time, and some of us did indeed use it. That said, knowing what to mix and match to create a "pattern that you can lear
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by snickell 6y ago
We're working on a community-driven fork of mapbox-gl-js here: https://github.com/maps-gl/maps-gl Our initial primary goal is to avoid fragmentation, and thereby support a healthy OSGeo community. Updating from ma
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by snickell 6y ago
A perfect fifth is the only chord in the equal tempered scale which is very close to a simple (small prime factors in the ratio) just intonation, they're only like 0.25% different. Not surprisingly, its one of the most common chord com
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by snickell 6y ago
Tuning (at least in our universe, due to the distribution of the prime numbers) is an exercise in tradeoffs. Indian classical music makes a different tradeoff than western classical (or its direct and indirect descendants), which gives it G
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by snickell 6y ago
Hi GarethX, would you ping me re: head of eng? I might be interested, but had a few questions about where ya'll are wanting to head as a company! snickell __at__ alumni.stanford.edu
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by snickell 6y ago
In my experience, both personally and as a mentor to a number of "jack of all trades", (1) is good practical advice for jr generalists. The OP appears to have significant experience already, and it does seem suboptimal to masquera
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by snickell 6y ago
A thing I try to do in interviews is ask people to help me see their strengths... rather than trying to catch them out, I want to know which style of interview (there's so many....) will convince me of their strengths. Some styles of i
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by snickell 6y ago
I'm in the same boat, inside any given org I can tangibly feel that "jack of all trades" is in huge demand... and I find myself working long hours due to internal demand for this role inside companies. Like you, in my 20 year
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by snickell 6y ago
A 50 year transition to 50% of the current population would be difficult to manage, but if you could skip ahead another 50 years, I believe everyone would have a higher quality of life: cheaper housing, less crowded nature and more of it, l

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