swiftcoder

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by swiftcoder 5d ago
> Sounds like the issue is you. Oh, c'mon. The entire services division exists to sell you things like this. And they are very good at it - 25% of Apple's total revenue
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
> I don't see how you could disappear when promoted A lot of your work at the senior level is harder to track. If a junior engineer stops pulling tickets off the queue, somebody is going to notice. If a senior spends a couple of wee
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by swiftcoder 5d ago
I don't think I've seen a French-Canadian keyboard before, that is so much less cursed than the AZERTY monstrosity I have from France (hold shift to type numbers! hold shift to type period and comma!)
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
I don't believe IDs are mandatory for children, though? School IDs, maybe, but processing/storing those is going to be a data handling nightmare
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
You aren't necessarily wrong, but the data also isn't there - one engineering hire bouncing per year is not really significant. I do think that startups are pretty rough when it comes hiring. We don't pay BigTech salaries, we
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
> I've been in software professionally for over 20 years and in that time I have only left 1 employer before 5+ years You've had a somewhat traditional career there by HN standards. Most of Silicon Valley was promo-hopping ever
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
> proper nouns, e.g., "Sunil" it's kind of rude not to capitalise people's names, regardless of ones' stylistic preferences
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
> and what happens is they start disappearing for longer periods of time... they quit their jobs because they think, “you know what, this is not salvageable.” I've interviewed several great senior engineer candidates over the last f
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
The best sc2 bots these days play in the ~50,000 APM range (they could mostly go higher as well, but the game client breaks somewhere around 100k APM). I don't see an LLM-based bot getting up to that sort of speed anytime soon. On the
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
> Re: La Liga's censorship, it isn't promoted by the government but by La Liga itself with the collaboration of the largest ISP, Telefónica/Movistar It is maybe worth looking at the overlap between La Liga / Movistar
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
It also doesn't seem to be enforced on my Movistar connection, which means the single biggest ISP is opting out?
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
Not universally. I've had a free dropbox account for nearly 2 decades, and never attached a payment method
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by swiftcoder 6d ago
I guess teenagers don't have any need to sync files, eh? Hate to see this gradual erosion of internet access for young people - I'd bet half the notable members of this very site started their career trajectory by learning how to
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by swiftcoder 7d ago
> The developer effort is not wasted because it's open source. Anyone can fork it at any time Assuming you can get a hardware vendor to support your fork. Android has always been a weird blend of proprietary BSPs wedged together wit
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by swiftcoder 7d ago
> Not even possible that it’s accidental. They have their own internal tools, all packets leaving the network will be interrogated, leaking data is a sackable offence This is a story that folks like to tell, but it's not really how
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by swiftcoder 8d ago
> Why doesnt Stream require their binaries to be compiled to some bytecode and transpiled during the install ? They still have to support the entire back-catalog. It's not reasonable to expect thousands of existing games to port to
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by swiftcoder 9d ago
> Under a comment that reads // Workaround for trailing slashes, my code tacks an “a” onto the path so there’s always a last segment to cut off, then cuts it off with a find-and-replace. When the path ends in a slash, that las
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by swiftcoder 9d ago
> I don’t really care about the CPU GHz and the memory bandwidth ... What I really want to know is how many tokens per second this will deliver There is a fairly direct link between the two numbers. You can predict the latter from former
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by swiftcoder 9d ago
> The GPU isn’t connected to the disk though. Usually. It can be. That was the big new innovation in video game load times
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by swiftcoder 9d ago
On this topic, as a service operator, it's really nice when you also own your SDKs, and have client-side telemetry about failed requests. Gives you a much clearer picture of end-to-end reliability (at least for the subset of customers
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> they were down for 7.5% of the time I needed them, or had business hours uptime of 92.5% You can obviously compute this for a particular customer, but being a global service, it's pretty much guaranteed that someone somewhere ex
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> It's a contract, you're free to negotiate? Well, someone on the business side of the house is free to negotiate. Whether engineering learns about the contract before sales has inked a 6-nines availability guarantee varies w
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> Also, is anyone else getting the bitter taste of AI writing from this page? Nah. Jim is just a decent writer (and historically has been fairly suspicious of AI)
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
Yeah, this is always fun. Logarithmic graphs of downtime, people.
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
The argument that models are conscious only during training, and not conscious during inference feels like a painful one to make. Are we killing models when they reach the training objective?
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
I remember a delightful trip to Canada, where I ordered a hamburger, and they'd only let me have it well-done. I asked why, and the waitress says "The beef comes from the US", with a grimace...
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
Valve-authored software running on Valve-built hardware collects the data, and in some cases, that data is transmitted to Valve's servers (per Valve's own privacy policy). I get that a lot of people have a hard-on for Valve, but w
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
That the fate of our entire democracy briefly rested in the hands of Mike Pence is bad enough in and of itself
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
At least in the 3rd case they definitely collect it over the internet (the steam store is pretty inherently an online system)
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
the uutils project bills themselves as a drop-in replacement for coreutils. sudo-rs does not bill itself as a drop-in replacement for sudo

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