yallpendantools

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by yallpendantools 13d ago
I've been doing martial arts for more than 20 years, some in TMA, some in modern boxing/kickboxing. I have yet to meet an "out of touch Kung Fu master" in person. Nobody thinks they can clear the bar or win in a ruleset
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by yallpendantools 13d ago
> The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies. Eh? Martial arts has always been a mix of utility and cultura
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
[MIGHT HAVE INACCURATE IMPLICATIONS BUT PRESERVED FOR POSTERITY:] In Germany I don't think that counts. "Software Engineering" as a title isn't regulated (as kcexn is asking for). The German term "Softwareentwickler
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
I think we often don't realize how much performance is part of the user requirements (i.e., "the thing it was meant to do") because users don't specify that as a requirement. And when they do we get all engineer-y about
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
We have a partial list from https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/25/rare-book-dealers-fear-tech-fi... : > The attachment contained 3,000 English-language titles organized by ISBN number, including books such as Disti
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
I'm not really the most AI-friendly person around but this news cycle is just as equally annoying. "Rare and out-of-print" is fabricating a lot of aura here. It's technically correct (the best kind of correct) but I&#x27
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
> But fuzzy searches can be extremely useful. Most folks are "fuzzy." > > Google built a pretty huge empire, on simple, fuzzy search. I was considering whether OP's complaint is an engineer's thing. My conclusi
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
Amen! I hate this trend towards fuzzy-first for everything. Deterministic should be default, fuzzy should be a special toggle. I'd say close to 90% of my daily searches could be served with exact matching. The next 8-9% could be solved
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
I say let the coaches have the right to initiate a VAR review. They inform an official they want a certain moment/decision/action reviewed. As long as the review gets resolved in their favor, they can keep invoking VAR. This would
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
I'm almost too afraid to ask but what the hell...what makes a good half-time show? I ask in earnest. I'm not American. I know there's a huuugggee buzz on who gets to do the Superbowl half-time show. But they all look the same
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
That's really not a good comparison. When you screenshare, even when you forget, you are the one who initiated the action. You also have the power to stop it when you realize it. Neither is the case with these glasses. If everyone did
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
I think it has to do with how closely people think they are being recorded. Someone filming/shooting in a park with a kit 18-55mm lens is fine. Swap that with a bulky 300mm or more and you are bound to get some questions asked. A conte
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
Is https://didtheyghostyou.com/companies/robert-half an artifact of vibe coding you think? Robert Half is apparently an HR consulting firm but in TFA it links to a very sus ` https://www.google.com/aclk
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
All true what you say. My question is whether (a) AI models drew significant investor attention before GPT3 and (b) whether AI models at the time had any credibility to make the claim of being too powerful and needing control. Regarding (a)
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by yallpendantools 2mo ago
> Investors have rewarded every story of "our models are too powerful to be controlled" since before ChatGPT. Can you elaborate/refresh my memory? IIRC before ChatGPT 3 there wasn't really an investor market for AI mo
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
> Is that by weight? By volume? It's holding up 3300 pounds . Pounds is a unit of weight. > Even so, spaghetti strand is not known for strength or tension resistance even when considering the weight/size/volume. That&#
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
Reminds me of the tensest moment in my first month driving and with a brand new car too. I started driving and something beeped. I was in pretty thick traffic at the time so I nervously (I can't emphasize this enough) found a quieter
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
> It’s a pretty safe assumption that the people who worked on the codebase before were as smart as you. Amen! Code is never written in a vacuum. Code is never shaped only by engineering but by business and organizational compromises as w
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
Software engineering is much easier if you assume you have no users. Except for the part where you have to make money, that is.
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
My gut reaction to this was "Duh, the money is in AI now, leaving less for crypto". Then I looked at the numbers. TFA: $189M so far for 2026. CNBC: $119M so far for 2024. TFA has already surpassed the numbers for 2024! I don'
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
I agree with your sentiment and would advise the same. However, I would caution anyone sympathetic to the idea: we are probably at the stage where the current generation(s) who can make a difference have to plant trees whose fruit they will
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
There was a time when if your "boss" tells you to install a keylogger on your work machine, it's a black-teaming exercise. How the times have changed...
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
I've spoken about my troubles getting as much mileage out of LLMs as before while being vague about my industry and, well, this hits the nail in the head. > because the tooling used in the gaming industry is as unfriendly to LLM cod
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
> When in doubt, grab the RFC and figure it out. Back in the day, I was using Cloudhopper, a Twitter-developed library for the SMPP protocol (not to be confused with SMTP!). Protocols being protocols, there are strict limits on field siz
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
I could be wrong but, based on experience, the trick seems to be to give them a chance to prove you wrong. ;)
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
Huh? Anthropic bought the books it seems. They acquired the books fair and square. They ripped up their own books; I may hold that to be sacrilege but those aren't my books. They're not even library books. They're Anthropic&#
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
> Does Gitlab do better with this? Not exactly but if you're not obsessed with maintaining a monorepo, Gitlab allows you to organize your repos around organizations, which then has granular permissions. The underlying primitives is
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
This. People forget a lot of Git's design philosophy harks back to the ethos of open source development. Enterprise features have made it in over the years but still mostly with the FOSS development workflow/model in mind. Also wh
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
TFA: > Making matters worse, many datacenters now in the pipeline in the US are slated for areas already experiencing drought, according to analysis by The Guardian newspaper. If it's astroturfed it's only because the people co
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by yallpendantools 3mo ago
From the article, it seems to me they've been "relegated" to coming up with Leetcode problems for AI. Which, let's face it, a bunch of them probably already did before for their SWE interview circus. I can see why they m

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