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by tarr11 4y ago
Consider wearing a product hat as well; is doing undifferentiated work the best use of your very limited engineering resources? There are less expensive alternatives to PagerDuty that might have fit your budget, and wouldn't have put y
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The professor recommends across the board pay cuts as an alternative to layoffs. > One thing that Lincoln Electric, which is a famous manufacturer of arc welding equipment, did well is instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they h
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See also Magic3D from Nvidia, which generates mesh models. https://deepimagination.cc/Magic3D/
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I asked chatGPT to respond as me (tarr11) to your comment: I too have thought about the implications of AI models on online discourse. It's a worrying thought that we may not be able to distinguish between a human and a model on forums
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you prompt with “rewrite this code, but use React Hooks”
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This is overly simplistic. Some hype cycles are real, and drive real long term value, like mobile and cloud. These technologies rendered many businesses obsolete and created many new opportunities. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a
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Clara.io Shutting Down
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The kind of work solved by leetcode will be solved by AI. Testing for it interviews in a few years will make no more sense than testing for people to generate optimized machine code. (Unless you are a super specialized systems developer wh
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by tarr11 4y ago
you aren’t immune from these problems just because you aren’t taking VC funding. Most bootstrapped companies need some initial funding which usually comes from the founders bank account, with the idea being that’s it. But it can be tempting
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TouchDesigner is very popular in this space. https://derivative.ca/
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I’d really like to understand how people managers who work on teams / corporate environments use Obsidian. I find that most of my work meetings are shared docs. It often feels like double work to put some things in Obsidian and move t
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The birth replacement rate in the United States isn’t sufficient to fill all the jobs, and automation is still decades (or more) away from replacing them as well. I suppose when the pain gets too great than we will consider expanding our im
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If you are going to join a big tech company but still have interest in startups on the side, consider doing it from a state that has strong IP/Noncompete protections for employees, such as California.
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Are you upset by the profit margin, or something else?
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I just searched on LinkedIn. 52k people whose status has “career break” in it. So, you aren’t alone. As a principal SRE at a FAANG you are highly desirable. I can’t imagine that would change too much in a single year. Take a break for yo
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by tarr11 4y ago
Curious about your project - you have some claims that your engine is multiple times faster than Postgres. You also mention that you are “using all the cores” in your system. Is it correct to assume that the core innovation here that you a
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by tarr11 4y ago
SOLR is using Lucene’s approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) implementation. This site has some nice information on how ANN performs for vector search. http://ann-benchmarks.com/
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Can someone explain to a lay person what they accomplished and what it means for nuclear fusion as an energy source?
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Why do you need a creative director? Just let viewers create their own movies to suit their tastes.
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There is a guide for "macOS integration" https://minimal.guide/Guides/macOS+configuration
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Curious what was stopping you from writing more notes in Obsidian? I use a daily note as a starting point and then extract those into lots of other notes - maybe 20-30 each day.
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Amazon recently lost a lawsuit on counterfeit products in the US. https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/articles/maglula-beats-...
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Not quite a blog, but Obsidian Publish has been scratching the “easy publish” itch for me. https://obsidian.md/publish
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It also means Amazon increases spending on automation. https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/22/amazon-debuts-a-fully-auto...
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argument by analogy is so frustrating. Half of the comments here are about bus drivers and cliffs.
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> You won’t read my code because reading code takes 10x more time and effort than writing it. > Particularly in DevOps, my specialism. There is no test for debugging SSL certificate chains in production at 3am. > We can’t replicate
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His brothers are doing the programming and music.
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I spent a lot of time during COVID learning Houdini as a hobbyist, because I really liked the concept of procedural modeling and node based development. However, with the continued iterations on Geometry nodes, it feels like a foregone con
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“We don't just release publicly available bands. The transparency continues internally; every employee knows how much everyone is getting paid, including equity.” Can someone provide a link to these publicly available bands?
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I'm having trouble understanding what the author means by "context" in this article. It seems to mean "your location within your network of people"?

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