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> … they just make simple code which I can understand with a glance.

>> That locks the team into “as smart as me, but no smarter” and doesn’t really scale beyond very small teams and very rote work.

Complexity is the enemy.

Code that is easy to understand - for others, and for yourself in six months - pays huge dividends.
Send them to the Pelosi’s or Breed’s or Newsom’s home. “Leaders” should be leading by being in the thick off it, personally.
ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf]
> e.g. define a function called extract_data(name: string, birthday: string), or sql_query(query: string)

This section in OpenAI's product announcement really irritates me because it's so obvious that the model should have access to a subset of API calls that themselves fetch the data, as opposed to giving the model raw access to SQL. You could have the same capabilities while eliminating a huge amount of risk. And OpenAI just sticks this right in the announcement, they're encouraging it.

When I'm building a completely isolated backend with just regular code, I still usually put a data access layer in front of the database in most cases. I still don't want my REST endpoints directly building SQL queries or directly accessing the database, and that's without an LLM in the loop at all. It's just safer.

It's the same idea as using `innerHTML`; in general it's better when possible to have those kinds of calls extremely isolated and to go through functions that constrain what can go wrong. But no, OpenAI just straight up telling developers to do the wrong things and to give GPT unrestricted database access.
Makes me think of the Freud/Jungian notions of personas in us that are in various degrees semi-autonomously looking out for themselves. The “angry” agent, the “child” agent, so on.
For context, I was brought in with the knowledge he hadn't done anything meaningful since being hired some time before my arrival, and we did reach out and offer help or ask if he needed anything, which he refused, somewhat angrily.
It strikes me that that’s roughly 0.05% of the RAM on my desktop.
I think it really depends on the industry. If you're in a tech company with lots of experienced software people in charge then it's different. But the majority of projects I've worked on (and, I'd argue, the majority of projects) are about getting software into non-software businesses.

In that case, the problem is you need PMs who are well versed in the domain, software, AND project management. But typically, you get people who have done a PMI or Some Agile Framework™ course and think they know how to do it.
The only solution is, with sufficient bravado, you can refuse the meetings and risk getting fired if need be. If you are good and they ain’t struggling then they probably will work around your preference and keep you.

If you ain’t good work on that. If they are struggling then the decision is whether to stay (based on your ethics and situation)

Too many meetings indicates some issue with the division or prioritization at work.

Tell them if you do 2 unrelated tasks and switch between them then it is guaranteed they will get work product later than if you do one at a time. This is guaranteed.

If the tasks are related it might be OK but this is a rare exception in coding. Building sheds it may be ok (lay all the foundations first). But then laying all the foundations is the task unit so again this might apply.

Tell them that if management keep changing their mind, it is like calling the pizza restaurant and changing your order every 15 minutes. Food will come late.

Also context switching loses time. For non technicals that don’t understand this give them an IQ test, them every 10 minutes pull the sheet away from them and swap it for a reading comp. test and then every 5 minutes tap them on the shoulder and ask about their pets. Just describing that means they should get it as almost every person had been subjected to those tests in interviews at one point.
Can't afford tuition? Gamble with your life and see if you beat the odds!
maybe they can take a hybrid approach and have grid for favorites and a mile-long list for everything else (with just a plain alphabetical ordering or logical grouping perhaps)
Nah. It's not as "cool" as it used to be, but IMO Rails is still the best around at banging out a decent web app with a moderate amount of functionality and traffic. It still has better integration with front-end side than any other backend framework out there, including the ones in the cool new languages.
Hey! FYI, we are hoping to roll out a fix for the PyTorch issue tomorrow (I’m one of the founders of Lambda).

Also, that’s good feedback on the CPUs bottlenecking. I’ll let our HPC hardware team know about this.

We are also looking into GPU direct storage to help resolve this:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/
Given amount of the extensions that vscode has I feel that local customization is solved problem for it. But it is rather exception
Definitely not dead. But if were a new software engineer trying to work out what language I should pick up next Ruby would be pretty far down the list these days.
Where did you get this impression? That’s not how I understood the article; I thought it was good.
One has to try before failing
Did you seriously include "won't cheat" or did you plant that there to see if people read this?
LLMs for Software Portability
Gas stoves are furnishings that stick around for decades through owners that negatively affect the users, third parties, and the environment.

If the claims are true, it seems like gas stoves practice has negatively impacted the respiratory health of a substantial number of children who didn’t buy the stoves. If it was overwhelmingly adult purchasers and leaders being negatively affected, it would be one thing, but it seems like you would
have significantly less paediatric asthma patients community wide if gas stoves were just banned or at least more stringently regulated.
I think there’s a strong argument to be made that the exact opposite is happening, that the long tail has exploded and the most popular shows/movies/books/songs no longer have the same universal appeal. Mainstream culture is experiencing death by multiverse, where every genre and subgenre is filled with an endless supply of content and the shared media diet that defined American culture is for the most part dead.

I was going to write a counter-counter-culture bit eulogizing that shared media landscape, but the fact is media is not culture. Culture has existed long before media, and is much larger than that. Shallow similarities like watching the same shows cannot replace loving one another.
COVID is only BSL-3. China has over 100 of those, so the odds of a city center being near a lab is much higher.

If COVID had an incubation period of a 1-2 weeks, it's also possible for the outbreak to occur in a city center that is not a likely location for human/bat/animal interactions, so the percentage will increase further.
RISC-V would not add instructions w/o a strong justification, as simplicity has value in itself, and RISC-V is very RISC in recognizing that.

If it's not that frequent and it can be done with 2 instructions, it'd be quite hard to make the argument for a dedicated instruction.
> I cant just ignore it either because the little number of messages indicator on my taskbar pool me in

You can remove that number, and I highly recommend you do so (and, more, that you set your taskbar to auto-hide).
There are zero viable alternatives when you start talking TWh.

That’s simply the reality and why there isn’t any long term grid storage, nothing is even close to viable when compared to batteries and extra generation.

Pumped hydro simply doesn’t scale. You can look at topographic maps and do some basic math but the vast quantities of water you would need simply don’t have enough locations to be viable. Worse, the fewer times you use that infrastructure the larger the payback you need when it’s actually in use.

Hydrogen is expensive, has terrible round trip efficiencies, dangerous to store, etc etc.
I agree with this. SOPA, PIPA, Net Neutrality (RIP), Bernie Sanders gaining national recognition, and so many other positive Reddit things happened after his death.
Exactly, Luxottica is the worst: See this 60 min talk from a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM but that does not bother EC apparently.
While true, I think this has killed a lot of goodwill from moderators and power users who will just wait for a viable alternative then instantly jump ship

Alternatives that you just know are being worked on right now
I was the final two weeks of a long period of zero productivity, despite many offers of help and asking if he understood, needed help, etc. I never enjoy firing someone, even if they are downright awful or mean, and do my best to avoid it. My own involvement was late in the stage, and the thousand or so tabs that were left open I'm sure weren't 2 weeks worth of effort.

When I was hired I was told he was a problematic hire, that hadn't produced anything for long before my arrival. It was basically "We already know we're going to probably have to let him go but if you want to try to work around it, be my guest". I did try to go in with no judgments, as I always do, but he refused help, and refused to even let anyone look over his shoulder and find why this task was taking an order of magnitude too long.
> I bought a Macbook because I was excited by this idea, but I quickly realized it was not even surface deep.

same, in some ways macos (x) still hasn't caught up with next/openstep...
> but not changing = !improving

Correct, but vim is changing. Latest release happened 9 hours ago, and in the past week there have been 17 commits pushed to master by 7 authors[1].

Also, there are a dozens of high-quality plugins that are in constant development.

> (that's why you had to add the "substantially" qualifier)

I was quoting the parent comment in which you originally replied (quoting again):

I see very little reason the shell and vim will substantially change in the next 40 years…

[1] https://github.com/vim/vim/pulse
Three Mile Island however was probably in part caused by the operations team on duty at the time being former Navy nukes: their instincts for what they needed to prevent going wrong were completely mismatched to the difference of design and scale - a 50MW navy reactor has basically no decay heat, whereas a 1GW electricity station is still putting out about that much in thermal energy even after its "shutdown" - which is proposed as an explanation for why they were so willing to keep overriding various automatic reactor cooling systems, since they just didn't internalize how much heat was actually still being produced.
You can buy upvotes very cheap, and I know people who do it.
The cost of distributing information is basically free these days, so that's not the motivating factor. All the design information for e.g. a laptop will easily fit on a single DVD. Instead, it's because they simply don't want people to know too much.

You can find leaked laptop schematics. They are almost identical between manufacturers and models because they're based on Intel's reference schematics, and I suspect the latter wants to keep them under NDA (they were freely available on the site up until the ~Pentium 4 era.)
I cannot find any explicit statement that says something what the percentage of accuracy refers to.

96% accuracy to what? Can someone tell me what page, or the blurb around this?
I don't think this is particularly impressive. It'll mostly be interstate driving, which can be safely handled by most adaptive cruise control systems already. I wonder how they will handle charging along the way
Because you've missed the point here, if you read the link it will explain that reddit is killing 3rd party apps that are using the API now
Criticism? Maybe. Harassment from billions? No.
> Sometimes the problem is essentially "critical, proprietary chip/motherboard needs to be replaced" where the only option is to try to find another unit that's broken for different reason and do a transplant.

This is why we need right to repair laws. If the manufacturer's still making a part, you should be able to order it straight from them.
I would believe individual salespeople might do unscrupulous things like enlist their friends to leave bad reviews or make promises they can't keep about altering someone's score but that's a totally different accusation than saying Yelp as a company has a policy of doing this.
>> if China invades Taiwan, which appears increasingly likely, the availability of GPUs will plummet

If China invades Taiwan, GPUs will be the least of our concerns.

>> which appears increasingly likely

It's not likely. China gains from the sabre rattling and politicking. They've seen what happens when a bully country attacks a smaller country.

The leaders of the CCP have everything they could possibly want in this world. They won't risk it all for an uncertain outcome attacking Taiwan.
I am giving it the same treatment that facebook and twitter get. No more contributions, Redirector entry to a libreddit instance in case I land on a link.
https://archive.is/y28IG
I'm not "admitting" anything nobody claimed.

>The claim that the funding doesn't come from a "billionaire owned outlet" doesn't really track if you look at the investors[0] in Substack.

That's your claim to which I objected. It is nonsense. Your linked article above is ridiculous and has /nothing/ whatever to do with that claim. Don't admit it, just acknowledge you got it totally wrong. Easy.
Regardless of that, we already know they were doing related biological weapons research, as part of a cooperative program with the US.

Funny how congress isn’t focusing on the stuff they have direct jurisdiction over, like refusing to fund similar programs in the future unless there is additional oversight.
So here's the thing, whether covid came from an accident in gain of function research in Wuhan, or whether it's just totally plausible that it did, the correct response is basically the same:

Banning gain of function research everywhere. Yeah, including here. It's too dangerous, whatever scientific benefits to any positive thing that improves lives is not worth it, just stop doing it and demand that everyone else stop doing it.

So we pretty much already know enough to know that's what we should do, I wish more people could get interested in demanding it instead of talking about whether or not there's what kind of proof that it did come from that, and trying to sift through the multi-source competing disinformation. Plausible is enough, let's try to keep it from happening in the future whether it's for the first or second time who cares?
Who knows, but we live in a world where some people even consider “view source” to be hacking and attempt to prosecute them.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/15/missouri_html_hacking...
Coincidentally I just got a new work machine this week. The IT support staff replacing it scheduled an hour of time to transfer files, set up apps, etc. with me. I was done in 5 minutes. Once I logged in, logged into my cloud services, and verified my faulty port problem with my dock was resolved with new hardware, I was done and as productive in a few minutes as I was before. Install a few tools, copy my scripts from the cloud, make a new key pair for SCM, that's it.
https://archive.is/y28IG

I've been looking for a decent 1BR in Manhattan.

For something clean and decent, the floor is $4,500.

The 40x rent annual income requirement by many landlords, one needs to be making $180,000.

sigh.
why are LED lamp units failing way ahead of schedule?

Planned obsolescence. Because LEDs would otherwise last for decades, they deliberately drive them as hard as they can to get a little more light at the expense of decreased efficiency and massively decreased lifespan. YouTuber bigclivedotcom has made many videos about this.
I have a friend who plays the stock market by reading papers published by publicly traded biotech companies and shorting the ones that seem to be fabricating evidence. This works well enough that he doesn't need a job.
I'm in a similar boat. I worked in both CDO and AWS. I miss Brazil and Isengard every day
>>In office jobs, by contrast, productivity remains rooted in notions of busyness and multi-faceted activity. The most productive knowledge workers are those who stay on top of their inboxes and somehow juggle the dozens of obligations, from the small tasks to major projects, hurled in their direction every week.

The deal here is focus. You can focus on anything, anything. Even on emails. The real problem is most people aren't even doing that properly. People while away their time on Insta reels, Twitter, Facebook fighting etc etc.

The best productivity example I saw was when I was working with a Chinese colleague. He would have 2 monitors. One split, exclusively for Slack, Jira and Email. He would watch every issue, every communication, every PR, every darnest little thing going on in the project. He would review, it, or learn about it. He knew what code was going in, what was getting deleted, the pipeline of features, bugs and what not. The other monitor was for the terminal, coding and other work tools.

He would also find spare time in a day for TIL, and other long term learning. There was zero FB, Twitter, Insta, TikToK, whatever. There was lots of 'productive context switching'. Or in other words, the context switch was in the boundaries of work.

The biggest lesson is not to avoid context switching. But to not waste time. Wasting time is the biggest time drain here. I define wasting time as doing something that is not relevant to the thing you are trying to achieve. If you are trying to have fun, working in periods would be equally unproductive to having fun. Same with work.
Wow. The past 3 years I thought they had a lot more PPE than that. Not sure why anyone would be surprised about a leak when that's all they wore.
I perused this blog post and the sum total of the content appears to be "I filled out the Software Design Doc template from the "Software Engineering at Google" book I recently read" for a "mobile app using a custom blockchain".
Nobody is saying that China caused the pandemic intentionally.
Why aren't countries/people suing China in civil court for money? Isn't this going to happen? Has anyone tried?
This is an interesting piece.

I guess the programming equivalent of Reeves’s approach to John Wick would be a programmer spending a few weeks in simply becoming an expert in any new technologies they may have to adopt for a new project and then starting the project once they’re really good at the technologies, frameworks, etc concerned.
> You can't trust the hardware coherency protocol to do much for you until you follow the platform-specific rules to tell the CPU to make something act coherent.

If software has to perform some operation to maintain coherency then you hardware is not cache coherent. Which some aren't, and especially some sub-sets of operations aren't (instruction cache vs data ops, or CPU vs DMA). But for load/store operations by CPUs, they're all coherent.

Barrier/fence instructions are about enforcing ordering on when memory operations to more than one location can be performed or become visible, with respect to one another.
It’s really famous and has been discussed on HN in the past.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=knuth+email
Falcon 40B Working on Ggml
And Oregon didn't repeal its black exclusion laws until 2002.

And just over 20 years before that there were riots in Boston over desegregation of schools.

It's so funny, this romantic notion that many from the north have of how supposedly enlightened they are, while the south is a bunch of backwater hicks. I know, I used to have it too, as did my wife then, who was Canadian. People thought we were crazy when we moved to Texas.

I really had my eyes opened. I encountered far more tolerance in Texas than anything I'd ever experienced up north.

Try being black in some communities in Vermont. See how well you do. Compare it with New Orleans.

Of course you can find racism and racist enclaves anywhere, but this asinine idea that "the south" is some sort of backwater racist hole while the north is a pristine liberal utopia is nonsense.

Also, I hate to disabuse you further, but I should also point out that the population of the capital of Alabama, Montgomery, is 60% black and 30% white. Whites are firmly a minority in the capital.

Atlanta: 50% black, 40% white.
New Orleans: 60% black, 30% white.

I could go on, but it's boring. I'm not even listing any of the several large southern cities that are majority Hispanic.

The south has an incredibly diverse population. And sure, it had a dark history of racism (so does the north) but FFS it's not 1860 anymore.
I wish the government would do more to control this terrible situation. If you can't afford a home with a 40 hour job, something is sick in this country. Even an apartment is beyond reach.

Blackrock and Vanguard are blights on this planet.
It’s like the aristocrats joke but for learning.
> It sounds like we could fix basically all of this by having new plant approvals be "sticky", ie, once a project is approved, you can build and operate it with no additional regulatory-imposed changes.

Leaving aside Soviet-era propaganda and that contribution, this would lead to regular Chernobyl-style events if there was no requirement to implement reactively discovered safety processes.
Your price quotes for AWS support are wrong: Business support is 10% of your usage, or $100 USD whichever is higher. Enterprise support is 10% of your usage or $15k USD, whichever is higher. It's actually more complicated if your spend is high. Better point people to the info page here: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/
Number 1 and 2 are _so_ time consuming. The number of apps I’ve code completed, but not released, is too damn high.

I hate creating screenshots (and then get an error that I didn’t mean the exact size/ratio required), banner/store/promo graphics, icons, a short/long description, title/subtitle/promo title, and filling out all the questions the App Store/Play Store ask. I become so extremely lazy at that point.
> I have bindings that allow me to execute the current line or paragraph under the cursor in the underlying shell and then inject the result into the current buffer.

As @kps mentioned in a peer comment, using the built-in ex[0] '!' command can do what the vim script above does.

For example, to execute the line where the cursor is currently placed and replace the same line's content using POSIX shell:

:. !sh

To do the same with multiple lines I like to mark the first command, then the last, and run:

:'a,'b !sh

Where the "a" buffer is the first command and the "b" buffer is the last command in this example. There are many other ways to specify ranges too. I recommend beginning with vim's builtin help:

:help range

And going from there.

0 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ex&apropos=0&sekti...
stop wasting money on this. The Great Filter is real, yo
Yeah it seems that they could have been sick with anything. They could even have been sick because of what they were working on. There's no mention of how often people get sick in the lab. Like maybe people were sick in September and May and February with "covid like symptoms" because they do research on covid-like viruses.

It's a pretty specious line of reasoning to say that the fact some people were sick with "covid like symtpoms" (which are basically "flu like symptoms" for many) points to them being "patients zero".

Also the State Department release they link to is complaining about China's secrecy but leads by saying they don't know.
They have given us no reason to believe that their half-assed, last second, poorly defined exceptions will be honored in any meaningful and reasonable way.
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