Transfinity

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by Transfinity 26d ago
The DOJ pays a lot of attention to elder abuse: https://www.justice.gov/elderjustice/about-elder-abuse I don't know that I would agree it's _worse_ than what FB does to children. But there's clearly a pa
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by Transfinity 26d ago
> Jail the C levels. Also the board and anyone who's ever held more than 1% of the stock.
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by Transfinity 3mo ago
I think interest rates have a lot to do with that mindset. If you view a Jr engineer as a long term investment (in 18 months you get an SDE 2 who knows your business), that's much easier to justify when borrowing money is close to free
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by Transfinity 1y ago
> LLMs get endlessly confused: they assume the code they wrote actually works; when test fail, they are left guessing as to whether to fix the code or the tests; and when it gets frustrating, they just delete the whole lot and start over
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by Transfinity 1y ago
I think Target isn't the right comparison here - the skills required for this project are worth much more than minimum wage bagging groceries. If you assume something like $50 an hour (on the low end for a skilled electrician), you get
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by Transfinity 3y ago
There's no incentive for an engineer to do that. Saying yes and delivering crap gets you a bonus, hard truths get you shuffled around or made redundant. There's no real consequence for delivering crap, so that's what happens.
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by Transfinity 3y ago
I don't usually write in fiction, but with nonfiction and especially technical writing (like O'Reilly books) I find taking notes helpful, and the book itself is the most convenient place up do so. I'll underline important wor
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by Transfinity 4y ago
I've heard that the Kanji make Japanese and Chinese much easier to scan quickly once you're fluent.
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by Transfinity 4y ago
Hi! I'm that person! Senior engineer, decade of experience. I've used debuggers in the past, both for running code and looking at core dumps, but I really don't find them to be cost effective for the vast majority of problems
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by Transfinity 4y ago
I agree. IMO, Java-style OOP conflates 2 different concepts, polymorphism and inheritance. Polymorphism (including dynamic dispatch and duck typing) is a game changer, in that it encourages simple, stable interfaces, enables testing, encour
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by Transfinity 4y ago
I saw a similar effect teaching at a coding school for adults: one of our strongest predictors for success was whether or not the student had someone close to them who was in tech. Having someone outside the system to practice lingo, talk a
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by Transfinity 4y ago
I will occasionally file bug reports or even submit fixes to open source projects as part of doing my job. As an engineer, one of my responsibilities is to maintain the commons - without it I would be much less productive. On the other hand
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by Transfinity 4y ago
> The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign against the Vietnam war. Excuse me? The "silent majority" was the set of Americans who were for the war, not (loudly) protesting
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by Transfinity 4y ago
That depends heavily on the shape of your data, what your workload looks like, what sort of consistency guarantees you need, etc. I recommend Designing Data Intensive Applications for getting a handle on this - it's the book I suggest
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by Transfinity 4y ago
I write software at a fintech, and the CFPB regulations are super important for protecting the customer. They also give important guidance on how the customer needs to be taken care of, which is important for a company that wants to do the
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by Transfinity 4y ago
I've seen variations in published cookbooks too! Maybe not this much, but easily in the 150-250 range. It's a real problem, not just a Google one.
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by Transfinity 4y ago
Semi professional musician here. Repetition goes way beyond what the author mentions: - Most music is highly repetitive, often recycling 2 or 3 short segments (chorus, verse) with minor variations to fill out a whole song. Coltrane is known
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by Transfinity 4y ago
The types of error made by the model in the article are exactly the sort of error that I (senior engineer / decade of experience) would make if asked to describe how something works and I didn't want to spend too much time on the
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by Transfinity 4y ago
A buddy of mine works at a startup doing exactly this: https://www.advocat.ai/ Unsure if they use GPT-3 specifically, but the core idea is the same.
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by Transfinity 4y ago
> But there's no way to train the transformer-based high-probability-next-word AIs to be superhumanly good at fooling you into doing something, on the grounds of lack of training data The conversations of all those human scammers wo
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by Transfinity 4y ago
I love this idea. I bet you could get surprisingly useful results just using a language model like GPT-3.
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by Transfinity 4y ago
Free except for you've written 3x as much code and it's 10x harder to understand.
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by Transfinity 4y ago
Perhaps "break up your book into chapters" is a better metaphor for microservices. Breaking a chapter into paragraphs makes me think more of OO design or functional decomposition.
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by Transfinity 4y ago
Maybe. 15% sounds about right to me. Back in 1990 computers were expensive, bulky devices, required specialized knowledge to operate (Apple's ad copy notwithstanding), and had limited use outside of a few specific domains.
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by Transfinity 4y ago
Rust is fantastic for some problems, poor for others. If your alternative is C++, or you're doing something where you need to compile high performance code to wasm, go for it. If your alternative is Java and you're writing high le
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by Transfinity 5y ago
I've heard that DLC has made this less of a problem in recent years. Since there's a stable, predictable revenue stream and delivery channel for new content, iit's much easier to justify keeping devs, designers and artists on
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by Transfinity 5y ago
IIRC the banks of the canal aren't very high above the water level.
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by Transfinity 5y ago
The author mentions in the post, and I think I agree, that Liskov substitution is the most "principle-like" of the principles in that it's pretty much always applicable. If the child object can't be substituted for he pa
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by Transfinity 6y ago
> At a million tonnes of mass driven out of the Earth's gravity well per second, this would take 189,000,000 years. I love how this takes an incomprehensibly large number (mass of the earth) and decomposes it into 3 exceptionally la
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by Transfinity 6y ago
Not technically forced since it's not mandatory that update, but not updating is not a viable strategy for most users. If you want new OS features or security patches, or apps that rely on those features, or if you buy a new device, th

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