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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
This article lists the specific industries. Lumber is not one of them. It lists Motor Vehicles, Alcohol, and Dairy as the largest industries. https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-of-us-trade-tariffs-hitti...
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
These are preexisting trade issues that were being negotiated. The new 50% tariffs are on other industries. Lumber trade issues predate this administration, and aren’t involved in the new 50% that’s put on $20B on other industries. https:&
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
Lumber is not part of these tariffs. These are on a narrow set of products. Lumber is a different long standing trade dispute going back to the 80s unrelated to the industries targeted by the 50% tariffs. Trump created a 10% Lumber tariff i
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
This is true somewhat, but keep in mind the 50% tariffs aren’t on all goods. They’re on like 5% of exports. Plus when one side is an unreliable negotiator (the US) there’s not much rational behind continuing.
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Exactly. I support remote work, but purely as a question of science, it may not be a direct causal link between remote work -> happiness. There may be other factors at play.
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
This seems hard to prove a direct causal link. Remote employees are also in demand enough to negotiate / find a role with remote work. They probably then are experienced, senior, and better compensated than their peers. It could be th
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Namespace Branching(turbopuffer.com)
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
Exactly
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I had a similar experience in search and found even holdouts can be overfit to. IE through brute force, it may not see the holdout, but if you gate a change on holdout acceptance it will land on a solution that’s overfit to it by somewhat r
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AI slop is swamping a House office that drafts US laws(politico.com)
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
That 33%-39% goes back into stimulating the global economic system where America is at the center. To people like me that own US Treasuries. You’re not wrong. But it’s not as simple as 33-39% disappearing into a black hoe.
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Filtered Vector Search: What Acorn Fixes, and What Fixes Acorn(qdrant.tech)
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
I gave up "keeping up" years ago. I just follow my curiosity mostly. If something is truly transformational in technology, you'll be reminded of it a lot, and eventually you'll find time to learn about it.
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How Not To Program in C++ (2003) [pdf](uml.org.cn)
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The Qdrant Output Connector(opencrawling.org)
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
Yes absolutely that's another good trick. Even better is to search the corpus first with like naive BM25 / embedding search, aggregate over top N to get most representative categories, then have the LLM categorize in that set.
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
Yes what you're describing is a classic way of doing query understanding. I've found, though, getting it in the language of the vocabulary has generally improved performance. Further, when searching for "blue shoes" you
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
Using a Nano model, a tad worse than shipping a vocabulary to a larger OpenAI model. (And it’s an huge improvement on not classifying the queries at all). But no classification is perfect. In search in particular, you will also want to have
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
I use OpenCode and I like knowing the direct token spend for doing tasks. A healthy repo can get a lot done with Luna + fresh context. Then I can spend $1-$2 a day when I'm doing development, and costwise honestly it beats a $200 &#x2F
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Elasticsearch Hybrid Search Recipes – Benchmarked (2025)(softwaredoug.com)
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
Beyond Meat is one such product, and it generates a lot fewer greenhouse emissions. > Based on a comparative assessment of the current Beyond Burger production system with the 2017 beef LCA by Thoma et al, the Beyond Burger generates 90%
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
Why do people take this stuff so personally? Eat meat. Don't eat meat. Do whatever you want. It's somewhat revealing to me that whenever this comes up people feel personally attacked by people trying to make ethical choices using
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A couple of decades of not eating meat is a pretty significant improvement on you your carbon impact :)
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I would say it’s important to emphasize people don’t need to go complete vegan. Reducing consumption of animal products can be more realistic for most people.
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I don't know. Every big tech company I worked at has a lot of turnover. Then every Blind post says "its so over" or "everything is going to change" But that doesn't happen. It's hard to read anything into
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Don't classify, hallucinate(softwaredoug.com)
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by softwaredoug 2mo ago
Thanks for doing this benchmarking Dylan. I wanted to teach people PCA in my original article, but had no idea it would stack up this well against Matroyshka! Feels like a “just use logistic regression” moment :)
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If I ran a dev team, I’d spend a day a week on deliberately hand coding. Even if the clankers write most of the code, IMO we need deliberate practice to develop taste. There’s a side of taste that’s Rick Rubin, how the customer experiences
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There’s not going to be much of a price difference from Luna (Luna might be a bit cheaper too) And Luna has actually been my favorite coding model that predictably just works at boring dev tasks.
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To be clear, this isn’t wind power currently under construction. It’s proposed future wind power with leases being planned. Trump has largely failed to stop the nearly complete projects in New England, New York, and Virginia. Still short si

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