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by ukoki 2y ago
> I’ve heard multiple times from execs in my company that “software” will have less value and that, in a few years, there won’t be as many developer jobs. If LLMs make average devs 10x more productive, Jevon's Paradox[1] suggests we
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by ukoki 2y ago
When building a spaced repetition toy, the most satisfying algorithm I found was: * Model the forgetting curve as p = 2 ^ (−∆/h) (p = probability of recall, ∆ = time since last review, h = forgetting half-life for a particular card and
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by ukoki 2y ago
That would be an interesting 'insider trading' work-around: use inside knowledge of a private, non-US company to trade correlated stocks in public US companies. If it was a public US company releasing Deepseek, and you shorted nvi
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by ukoki 2y ago
> My policy is to never let pipeline DSLs contain any actual logic outside orchestration for the task, I call this “isomorphic CI” — ie: as long as you set the correct env vars, it should run identically on GitHub actions, Jenkins, your
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by ukoki 2y ago
I've eaten this sausage in the (a?) Wolfsburg factory cafeteria -- it's a pretty good sausage! I remember the VW devs I was working with telling me it was the "most-manufactured" part VW produces
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by ukoki 2y ago
Are you sure? there are particular combinations of ethnicity and gender for which people seem to be quite convinced it's "malicious" when hirers stick to their own
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by ukoki 2y ago
> their goal isn't to work together to find a solution but to present roadblocks. The reasoning can be complicated.. Or as simple as “the less I appear to value this solution, the lower the supplier will estimate my maximum price fo
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by ukoki 2y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with performance. Apps make it far easier to advertise to users. You can send the users a notification even when they aren't using the app It's much harder or impossible for users to block
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by ukoki 2y ago
I notice the Chicago map has multiple stations with the same name -- is this not a problem when using Google Maps and other navigation apps? How would the app know which "Pulaski" I want to go to?
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by ukoki 2y ago
Yes but then the worker says to the police "my employer has stolen my passport" and the employer gets in trouble.
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by ukoki 2y ago
Simpler to make it the law that foreign workers need to have their passport with them at all times.
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by ukoki 2y ago
> it's pretty much guaranteed to be someone who isn't anywhere near leading on the type of metrics these discussions are talking about - that's making the biggest impact and amplifies _team_ productivity It would be great
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by ukoki 2y ago
> # This cop checks for `next` (and sometimes `break`) in loops. > ... > # - For small loops, you can just use normal conditions instead of `next`. This rule will just end up with devs writing this: array.each do |elem|
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by ukoki 2y ago
Indeed. What happens if you license the AI likeness of a George Clooney impersonator?
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by ukoki 2y ago
You know people can finance just about any purchase right? People buy cars on finance all the time without needing to buy their cars through BP and signing an exlusive gas purchasing agreement with them. There's no reason for the phone
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by ukoki 2y ago
Agreed. It's not as 'traditional Go' but I find there is way less interface boilerplate if you just pass functions around. ie instead of ``` type ThingDoer interface { DoThing() } func someFunction(thingDoer ThingDoer) { Th
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by ukoki 2y ago
If bike manufacturers can't use bike races to help them market and sell bikes, teams will lose a massive source of income.
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by ukoki 2y ago
The end game for ad blocking is to render each page in its own vm/container, have some AI blank out things that look like ads, and stream the transformed video to the user
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by ukoki 2y ago
How is it a scam? If it was that bad nearly all companies would just use in-house recruiters Someone has to do the work of pestering software developers on LinkedIn. If the external recruiters didn't do it, companies would just do it t
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by ukoki 2y ago
Nice, I did a similar thing in 2018 with linear programming: https://peterellisjones.com/posts/fantasy-machine-learning/ I didn't win my friends' league, but definitely got closer than previous years
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by ukoki 2y ago
Bet you could fit even more in if you blend them first
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by ukoki 2y ago
Employers don't reward long-term employees because they don't need to. Even though everyone knows you make more by job-hopping, companies are following a rational strategy because too few people "walk the walk" despite w
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by ukoki 2y ago
Sounds like MS Teams. One day it randomly starts opening PowerPoint presentations _in the damn app, obscuring the chat threads_ -- maybe I wanted to chat about the document while reading document? No, not allowed. Then it starts pestering m
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by ukoki 2y ago
don't forget autostash alias gupa="git pull --rebase --autostash"
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by ukoki 3y ago
As an adblock user, reduction of network traffic is of very minor benefit to me. I block ads because I find them annoying.
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by ukoki 3y ago
Pretty sure memcached don't want dozens of rushed implementations of a multiply command
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by ukoki 3y ago
Decreasing marginal rate thresholds on UK income tax (like going from 60% at 125,139 to 40% at 125,140) is insane and leads to wacky optimisations like the following: Suppose you predicably earn 150k a year. Taking 110k per year salary and
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by ukoki 3y ago
Working with a different statuses for the same client should definitely be avoided as HMRC will be sceptical that the working practices are actually different between contracts. Working differnent statuses for different clients shouldn&#x27
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by ukoki 3y ago
The benefit really depends on the rate. When you get near the 1000/day range outside becomes far more lucrative than inside due to the flexibility it gives you for tax planning, as you can defer personal income to a future date where i
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by ukoki 3y ago
The horror stories are from contractors who have attempted to cheat the tax system by eg making loans from their limited companies that they never intended to pay back, or who claim company expenses for personal benefit. You can stay well w

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