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Tldr: managers should be in the code, but should not code themselves.

The article suggests managers should focus several tasks that depend on the ability to code, but not produce code themselves. I think that's not sustainable. When a manager stops producing code, their skills in that area begin to deteriorate. I've seen it happen several times. When you stop coding, you'll eventually start missing crucial things in code review, make very poor estimations of labour involved, and assign the wrong team members to tasks. It won't happen immediately, but it will happen within 5 years.

I think a better way is to keep producing code, but at a lower rate. If the project you're working down doesn't permit low-commitment development, start developing tooling or pick up a side project. A coach doesn't need to be a top-player in the coding field, but they do need to remain fit.
Creating looping sections with Sunauto is generally not very difficult as the model is overly consistent when extending, so all you have to do is extend without changing the prompt and you should get a loop point.

If you have lyrics in your conditioning then you usually can use a [Chorus] section as your loop point as most music AI models render chorus section in away that affords crossfades. THAT ASSUMES that you keep the chorus sections with a gap less than about 60 seconds with 30 seconds exention as it can only see 90 seconds of the music track (or something in that range)
In my experience, desperate people cut the cords off of perfectly good appliances to sell the copper as scrap. Copper wire fetches something like ~$1/lb as scrap. It's infuriating when they cut it right at the connection to the appliance, making it too time consuming to test.

A label of "Broken" or "Works" or "Missing X" is so much more helpful for appliances left out.
I've sort of been leaning towards Kobo already, primarily because of the recent Kindle changes. Koreader would be great so I think I'll keep looking there. Is it possible to read articles on Kobo devices? From what I understand there was Pocket integration, but that it was discontinued.
Middle management for software engineering has gone through a paradigm shift. The trend for businesses is flatter structures, manager roles with more responsibilities and this reality largely includes being as deep in the code as direct reports.

Since 2023, most roles I reviewed or interviewed for were player/coach roles, often close to 50/50 split. In my last EM role, I was hired for exactly this.

I found very few EM roles that are primarily managing with only "being in the code"; I can count on my hands out of hundreds of Engineering Manager roles. Probably closer to 95% or more EM roles require hands-on technical work similar to Tech Lead roles.
Brunei isn't on the Bertelsmann because it is small (<1 million people), not because of its political structure.

The EDI explicitly does not try to asses whether a country is democratic or not, but just allows relative comparisons. It also doesn't include smaller countries but doesn't have as clear of a cutoff.

If you are going to use inclusion on one or more of these lists as an argument, you'll have actually cite where those lists use status as a democracy as a criteria for inclusion and how that is assessed.
Some humans honestly enjoy automating stuff. We wouldn't want to be taking away something that humans enjoy, would we?

I'm a musician myself, but I sadly suspect that most music made today "benefits humanity" very little... Is music making always a net positive? If nothing else, these tools will allow more music will be made.
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I mean this is a long conversation but the major differences are: (1) agencies are mostly incentivized to do other stuff and (2) it's hard to objectively assess helpfulness per se rather than sales.
Ok so if I just want to watch movies and do a bunch of Procreate sketches with the pencil, is the new 13" Air sufficient, or will i regret not spending the extra $ for the pro?
>why did they vote against themselves

>they will keep losing votes out of sheer spite

Well, I guess that is the answer. You may not look good without a nose, but you sure taught your face a lesson.
I think ZMK (available on the Nice!Nano) does exactly that already?
Indeed, Windows or Android are a better example than Apple. Waymo only designs the systems added to the vehicle, but they do have input over some parts of the vehicle design. Geely (Zeekr) is building a purpose-built robotaxi for them that's based on their SEA-M platform, but with Waymo customizations.

I'm not sure Tesla level vertical integration is really necessary.
> Don't do this

What's wrong with that? Of course it will work fine; SQLite, with or without WAL, has a ton of protections against corruption from writes-in-progress, which is what makes hot backups work.
It seems that most tracks in the US allow EVs now. A handful of EVs regularly race in 24 hours of lemons which operates all over the US. They don't have charging infrastructure though, so there have been some...creative solutions.
My Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Nano gen 1 running KDE Plasma Arch Linux with an intel i5 meets your criteria.
I definitely saw a handful but I can't remember exactly which view it is
Unlike the author, I consider wireless to be a dealbreaker. Technology barely works, no way I am letting radio quality stand between me and the computer. Same reason I require a wired microphone.

Also add the atrocious security record of HID, and I assume wireless typing is easily intercepted.
From the article:

> It depends on the manager, the team, and the organization. As a senior leader, I would rather my managers be in the code as per the above list, but not necessarily putting themselves in the critical path by writing code, given that they are likely to be interrupted more often, have more meetings, and be pulled in more directions than their reports.
Oooh, that's an interesting question. So, normally I'd reject the hypothetical here, and say war is bad, so "should" doesn't apply. But instead, if I can assume it's required for existence, society should define the minimum age as high as possible to ensure victory. Fighting in a war is actively harmful to feeling safe. Feeling safe is required for individuals to grow at the maximum rate. Growing as a child has the same effects as compounding interest, so the absolute best growth possible should be the target for everyone, as early as possible.

If you're talking about joining a standing army without consideration for combat. I don't think there's any minimum age. I used to teach a "combat sport" to children as young as 4. Then, for the US army, which I know about, I think 18 is perfectly reasonable, where many people could gain very useful skills/education from the training that joining the US military entails.
Browser is such a critical piece of software that it has to be established, with a large and accomplished dev team. Which practically means a budget in the millions at least.

Anything smaller I could use myself, but would absolutely never recommend to others. As I said, current mainstream enough options are only Firefox or Chrome.
I'm not talking "past 3 years", I'm talking "past 50 years": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

And really, there was a version of what I'm talking about in the shorter timespan with LLMs - OpenAI's GPT models existed for several years before someone got the idea to put it behind a chat interface and the popularity / apparent capability exploded a few years ago.
>> Meant - by who? The technology itself doesn’t want anything.

> The people who created the project and who are writing the code, obviously. This is clear from the context; you don't need to nitpick stuff like this.

This isn't a nitpick, it's an important point.

Even on a small project, but especially at a huge company, there will be different ambitions and motivations for doing things.

ie, one person wants Fuchsia to eventually take over all of Google's OSes, another wants a secure IoT OS, another just wants a cool research project to pursue ideas about OSes they've had since grad school, etc...
Someone should tell her that the US could shut down the UK’s nukes within two years if it wanted.

(We bought them cheap and are reliant on the US for maintenance.)
I think it's odd to make a whole video about a DIY rear-projection television without using the phrase 'rear-projection television'. It's novel to bounce it off the ceiling, and it repurposes e-waste so it's a great project.
It really wasnt very close. Trump won 58% of the electoral college. Most since obama. You can disagree with how presidential elections are run but until that changes electoral college margin is all that matters
People that never considered the value of artistic process until it was the topic du jour unilaterally decided that it was inefficient, oppressive, complex, frivolous, and unfairly inaccessible to those that hadn't put any sustained effort into developing theirs. If you didn't understand what they don't, you'd realize that companies spending billions of dollars to create tools that make cheap simulacra of artists' work to sell them at a loss to crush them in their own markets was merely the natural progression of artistic praxis. Despite it being economically unsustainable and clearly only cheap until it craters the value of artistic skill, these tools have democratized creativity. Instead of creation only being available to those with the interest and willingness to practice and develop their artistic sense, process, and skill, they're now broadly available to anyone willing to pay money for a subscription service that will obviously soon be a hell of a lot more expensive, or shell out a few thousands dollars for a top-tier video card that you almost certainly already have in your gaming rig, anyway. This is silicon valley progress and if you don't like it, you're a communist.
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That would have been DirectX 8, which predates XBox 360 by five years.
The PS3 system design was radically different. We considering porting the same PC game we (relatively) easily ported to 360 to that platform, but rejected it because it would be months of work, at least. Didn't matter that it was a similar CPU (technically) to the 360.
I'm using it under Wayland right now. Though you are right that there are apps that don't populate it.
> I really don't know what the modern day equivalent is

This comes up on HN quite a bit, without a universal answer. I suspect that each respondent answers through the lens of what they remembered, or liked, about the platforms that were formative for them.

Example: 1980s kids seem to have had formative computer experience where the computer was a self contained thing: no understanding of electronics needed, instant on, built in programming environment. Also there was a rich ecosystem of accompanying offline media, eg books on BASIC, magazines with program listings, etc. They gave their full attention to the machine.

I also see people who grew up on Raspberry Pi and they have a different view, much more about hardware and pins and voltage. Equally valid but much more electronics-y. Also has a rich offline ecosystem.

Of course modern hardware and OSes dont get close to either and so the closest experience is probably python in a browser, which really feels more like Learning for a Job than Fun with implicit Learning. The browser itself is an attention suck too - all too easy to switch away as soon as a little boredom sets in, and, as we know, boredom spurs creativity.

I dont know if this exists, but a Switch-like platform with HDMI to the TV plus built in screen, BT keyboard, and a minimal, barely there OS might be one path. But it might still fail without the offline media. Maybe you sell it with an accompanying book of games you have to type in.

Yeah, I know. Get off my lawn.
The province of Ontario is in the headline of this article.
Whether or not it's a misconception, and whether or not the US are faithful to the treaty while weaseling out of helping Ukraine, is irrelevant.

A treaty where the guarantor is known to give sketchy legal interpretations about why them backstabing you is actually faithful to the treaty they signed is barely more useful than a treaty where the guarantor won't honor their word.

The ripple effect is already there: many NATO country are now wondering whether the alliance is worth the paper it’s written on.
Yes. Agreed.
A new one just opened in Finland called FR8, saw Andreas Klinger share it on X, looks kinda neat.
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A new batch of 15 videos from the Spring 2024 term of "CS224N: Natural Language Processing with Deep" has dropped!
I think it's safe to say that the proper way to go about using Nim is to use macros only as a last resort. They're powerful and awesome when necessary, but obfuscate the code a lot, and the LSP can't really follow them either. They also make the code feel "fragile" in my opinion. I find that I rarely need to go further than templates, personally.
Microsoft was helped by PS 3 being a pain to program, given the Cell architecture, a mistake that Sony didn't repeat, and hence why the 360 was the only XBox that had an upper hand against Sony.
License could be an interesting challenge and compatibility.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE....
and
https://github.com/dnakov/anon-kode/blob/main/LICENSE.md
> The UHK supports holding a key down to select a different keymap layer, then using the other hand to tap a key in that layer.

How is that different to what QMK/ZMK offer?
The official strategy is for Taiwan to turtle in the mountains and wait for coalition aid. There is a shitload of bases and weaponary in the area to repel a china invasion and Korea and Japan both know they're next if they let Taiwan fall.

However I think Trump has basically given up the game and made it pretty plain that he has no desire to help Ukraine or Taiwan and will be happy to sign 'deals' giving them up, even if those deals basically give the autocrats everything they want - just enough vague 'rare earth'-style bullshit that he feels he can claim them as victories in the press.
There are like 6 core activities that bind humans together: shared creation of food, myth and music; co habitation, protection, child rearing.

We've done these things ourselves for hundreds of thousands of years. As we are increasingly convinced to buy them for convenience we loose the very things that make us know our connectedness.

So ya, there are real problems caused by the convenience of technology
Here comes the Russian propaganda... The nukes belonged to Ukraine. Just like Belarus nukes belonged to them.

What is said by Russian propagandists is that Ukraine didn't have the launch codes - like it was some magical barrier that would prevent Ukraine from deploying the nukes if they wanted to.

Like Ukrainian scientists didn't play a major a role in USSR nuclear development, and didn't have the know how to just use other system to deploy the nukes.

It's part of the Russian propaganda to make Ukrainians into incompetent inferior ethnic group - why do you think they address them by derogatory ethnic slurs like "little Russians"?
> You think random factoids are driving Trump’s viewpoint?

Very much so.

https://www.businessinsider.com/gary-cohn-stole-documents-of...

> According to the Washington Examiner, McMaster said on Tuesday that Gary Cohn, Trump's former top economic adviser, did steal documents off the president's desk to prevent Trump from pulling the US out of key trade deals.

> Cohn told colleagues at the time that the theft was necessary and that Trump would forget about the idea, according to the book, released earlier this month. Woodward reported that Cohn also snatched a document that would have pulled the US out of the North American Free Trade Agreement from the president's desk.

He has a long history of parroting the last thing someone said to him.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/04/14/want-chan...
While that is possible, I think a good manager recognizes these pitfalls. My philosophy is "everyone has to scrub toilets once in awhile - that includes me". You'd have to ask my direct reports but, I'd like to say I lean more toward taking the "grunt tasks" that I don't think are super helpful for my folks' career growth.

Then again, I've been called a bad manager on Hacker News so...
“language model trained on the internet not totally genuine”
People might compete for the work they view as relatively more attractive for a variety of reasons even when they are quite busy.
Same - any idea when we'll see this? Does LibreWolf typically adopt new Firefox features quickly, or do they prefer to hold off on new feature adoption for a few releases?
I don't expect the private sector to fix it spontaneously if left to it's own devices.

This is (as you flag) a specifically political problem - not a commercial one. There are political fixes which are available, but have not been taken. There are planning reforms, and fiscal reforms, that could change the housing market very significantly - without enabling a free for all that would simply result in the creation of thousands of five bedroom des res's all over the home counties. This would not salve the real social ills that bad and limited housing have created, but it would destroy what's left of the countryside. England is as densely populated as India, and we need to manage what happens to land in our country in a way that Australia and the USA doesn't.
OLAP questions are usually out-of-band and preferably by a tool designed for it (like Clickhouse). Scanning all DB's is something that can be done in the background for most of these use cases.
One approach has huge systemic problems and the other has problems that seem exaggerated to prop up public opinion regarding the first system, but even if the criticisms of system 2 are entirely accurate, it seems like you can pretty much throw a tiny portion of the money required to run system 1 at the problem to fix it.
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The people writing the one-shot tools are living a pipe dream and are riding the hype wave. One-shot AI music will have a short amount of interest based on its novelty, but the very next generation of humans will revolt against it as a cringe decision of the old guard. Form there it might finally be applied more realistically as an aid to human expression instead of a replacement.
Nothing will happen unless China believes they can achieve a swift victory. It may turn out that they believe this, turn out to be wrong, and get themselves stuck in one of the other scenarios. As happened to Russia.
you think this is a Bertrand Serlet vs Craig Federighi style issue?
Just friction. All it takes is commitment to a particular keymap and few minutes on a laser engraver, but that commitment is not insignificant to builders.
Looks awesome! This with a small carrying case would be amazing. Maybe the space next to the keys could be a kind of small touch pad used for scrolling?
Agreed, or even just start with sqlite for your globals and then scale to those later.
Experimenting with DeepSeek, Backblaze B2, and Drive Stats
Academia runs more like a business and assesses itself and its people accordingly.

We’ve put a lot of private-sector expectations on people, but we sure don’t pay like the private sector.
One interesting thing about your archive is that I notice the site got hacked and used to distribute spam.

The line " A special shout to our limo service San Diego for that one! " is a spammer insertion in https://web.archive.org/web/20170430095756/http://www.leadho... which makes no sense, and indeed, if you jump back over the gap of a few months to https://web.archive.org/web/20170121041802/http://www.leadho... , it was the much more logical in context " For collectors it doesn’t take long to fill out your collection of them with..." preface.

I wonder if it went offline because they couldn't deal with the security and maintenance?
Knuth's tribute to his first love; a delightful article which I've read multiple times.

One thing that he wrote in this 1986 article about the 1950s has remained true for several decades since:

> During my student days I had never heard of the 701, and this, I think, leads to an important point: The IBM 650 was the first computer to be manufactured in really large quantities. Therefore the number of people in the world who knew about programming increased by an order of magnitude. Most of the world’s programmers at that particular time knew only about the 650, and were unaware of the already extensive history of computer developments in other countries and on other machines. We can still see this phenomenon occurring today, as the number of programmers continues to grow rapidly.

(BTW I wish someone would write an IBM 650 emulator on which we could try out the programs like his "Number Perverter Demonstration Card" in the appendix. Some of Knuth's early programs are also preserved and it would be wonderful to see them running.)
My belief doesn’t matter. Without proof that it is advantageous in a given scenario, I would never prefer to be overwhelmed in deadly combat. And I doubt you would either. If you believe you would, please present an example scenario.
The joke used to be that Perl code looked like an explosion in an apostrophe factory.
Now posting selling the game on a steam website just for fun .
For next iteration, consider integrating trackpads?

Moving to the mouse and back is pain enough that people go all-in on keyboard-only interfaces.

I velcroed a trackpad to the middle of a Kinesis Advantage. Now I use either hand for the mouse, and even stretch a finger or thumb to the pad without leaving the keys. The movement is little different from using the keyboard.

But for split keyboard, you'd need one trackpad for each side, and in dimensions not readily available. hmm.
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It certainly seems as though many people's opinion of FSD is very much out of date. I recall riding in a friend's M3 in 2020 when he attempted to demonstrate FSD (or whatever it was called at the time). We didn't make it more than a minute or so before he had to deactivate it. When I picked up my M3 years later, I assumed FSD would still be mostly vaporware.

I honestly can't believe how good is has gotten. It's not perfect and I maintain full awareness of what it's doing, but it performs incredibly well 95% of the time. It's really nice to feel like you're being driven by a mostly competent driver everywhere you go. Really, it makes about the same number (or less) of mistakes as other people I've driven with, but the mistakes are of a different sort, and after a while you develop an intuition of the situations that are going to challenge it.