strix_varius

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by strix_varius 6mo ago
I partially agree with you, but additionally there's a whole set of employees who would be clearly redundant in any given company if that company decided to just use a simple, idiomatic, off the shelf UI system. Or even to implement on
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
I've heard exactly the same response before and I shared your reaction. The other thing that makes "dogfood" make sense is that sometimes you aren't the direct target audience of the product. So: would you feed this to y
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
> the proof is that LLMs _can_ reliably generate (relatively small amounts of) working code from relatively terse descriptions > Sometimes the interpolated detail is wrong (and indeterministic) ... You consider incorrect, non determin
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
> I feel like you can't really be considered a staff/principal if you can't already tell ahead of time where the perf bottleneck will be just on experience and intuition. /s right? What a red flag that would be!
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
> I guess that's not happening now. They're still going with their hybrids of course. I have a Honda Hybrid CR-V and love the drivetrain. We're waiting until Honda moves that drivetrain into the Odyssey (which is the van w
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
It's not though: https://www.wardsauto.com/news/consumers-turn-back-to-ice-EY...
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
> So an EV is not for you! You just might be one of the unlucky 1% for whom that is true. Given the data on the trend of EV sales ( https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/global... ) this is a pret
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
Try using them to play a twitchy game and you'll notice.
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
Probably an exaggeration? But I hope that tapping for pause isn't critical for anyone's daily life. I use wireless headphones and in fact never use this feature (I have it disabled). Too unreliable when there's a large screen
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
Urban fantasy is my jam, what's your book?
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
> Obsolete technologies don't usually get adopted as ways to display wealth. Is this really true? Mechanical watches. Sailing yachts. Fountain pens. Analog audio...
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
That sounds like good work & a good outcome. I think there may be one ingredient left though to this: > You have to write things up. ...and someone has to read it who understands the value you brought by deleting complexity.
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
It seems like the safety inspector might be closer to a SOX compliance auditor or something... in this metaphor, the engineer who doesn't build something that "catches fire" is just the one who uses sensible materials, includ
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
You can't. You can hypothesize about the counterfactual in which you shipped a "steaming pile of complexity," but you definitionally cannot measure something that does not exist.
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
To add to this, sometimes leadership will assume (or even imply) that there's some laziness involved in not wanting to jump immediately on-board with the complex proposal. I often end up saying, "I can build this, and I will build
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
The statistics suggest that being perpetually glued to a phone is negative for your life across essentially every dimension.
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
You're being pretty defensive / aggressive about what some might call a phone addiction. Most on HN know the data: healthier people tend to enforce boundaries with their devices. The average person is addicted, yes, but I'm n
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
Honestly it seems stupid but fine to me. Like if someone random comes up to me on the sidewalk and says hey if OpenAI announces a browser tomorrow, you give me $100. If not I'll give you $1000. Obviously I'm not going to take them
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by strix_varius 7mo ago
> They'll capitulate after the lawyers realize that option is on the table. Hopefully their lawyers read HN comments so they can negotiate with your deeper understanding of the legal landscape.
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by strix_varius 8mo ago
When our first child was born, we wanted to share photos with family. So I set up a Google photos album and shared it with parents, aunts, grandparents, etc. It supports general chat plus comments and reactions linked to posted media. It&#x
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by strix_varius 8mo ago
The baffling part of the article is all the assertions about how this is unique, novel, not the typical way people are doing this etc. There are whole products wrapped around this common workflow already (like Augment Intent).
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by strix_varius 8mo ago
Pop physics influences less of our day-to-day lives though.
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by strix_varius 8mo ago
Well, yes, definitionally they are doing exactly that. It just turns out that there's quite a bit of knowledge and understanding baked into the relationships of words to one another. LLMs are heavily influenced by preceding words. It&#
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by strix_varius 8mo ago
The fact that they tried other engines seems to imply that non Flutter options were... Options. If literally the only option was an embedded flutter view, then there was never more than one viable solution and looking into unity etc was was
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by strix_varius 8mo ago
I wonder if a slightly broader search for existing solutions - for instance, https://defold.com - would have shown that quick-startup, 3d-capable, c-integrable, low-end-hardware performant game engines could have been grabbed of
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by strix_varius 9mo ago
> I've never gotten one in my entire career, and I was hiring manager in multiple companies/roles. This may say more about how people interpret you, personally, than about the situation generally.
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by strix_varius 10mo ago
Also imagine that basic interactions were mediated by those monopolies: you had to print your bus ticket personally with software only available on your IBM.
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by strix_varius 10mo ago
The fact that the strategic wedge with which a successful, relatively socially-positive business manages to sustain itself isn't universally accessible doesn't negate its value. The Venn diagram between people who shop at dollar s
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
Absolutely. In areas where there are known quality options, people are clearly willing to pay more. Toyota for instance is a solid example of this. Automobiles are large, expensive purchases with a relatively small set of options though...
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
> Is that not also true of human written software that costs more per hour than the monthly cost of a coding agent? The difference is that a human can learn and grow. From your examples, it sounds like we're talking about completely

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