ZainRiz

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by ZainRiz 20d ago
I'd respectfully push back on the framing here. If you look at value as purely the LLM output, then there's a valid argument that the best frontier models will always be better than fine tuned specialists. (I'm not convinced
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by ZainRiz 5mo ago
If you're in finance, you earn enough to live in NYC > imagine what happens to NYC when all the people doing the menial work keeping the city alive (have to) move away? Whoops, now everyone is going to drown in trash and feces! That
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by ZainRiz 6mo ago
Maybe now someone will finally fix the bug that causes claude code to randomly scroll up all the way to the top!
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by ZainRiz 6mo ago
They also have a "keep going" keyword, literally just "continue" or "keep going", just for logging. I've been using "resume" this whole time
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by ZainRiz 2y ago
This is so cool! Now, I didn't notice anything about waterproofing on your website. Any plans to come out with a version I don't have to worry about getting wet?
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by ZainRiz 2y ago
Avoid casing entirely and use single letter function and variable names Case insensitive, of course
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by ZainRiz 2y ago
Same here. I found the biggest beneficiary of a design doc was my own thinking process (Xoogler here)
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by ZainRiz 2y ago
Google has the concept of a mini-design doc called a "One-pager" In 2018, the template for this "One-pager" was two pages long
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by ZainRiz 2y ago
With Microsoft they tell you years in advance when the product will reach EOL, so you have plenty of time to prepare On top of that, most of their products are software running on your desktop and will still keep working after EOL And if yo
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
I think the claim is that some other company in the robot vacuum business can buy iRobot instead of Amazon and get that sweet sweet IP
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
+1. At 22, working as a full time software engineer at a tech company, I still didn't think I knew how to do anything useful
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
Even though I've drawn pictures, built toys and contraptions contraptions out of wood, made a rube golderg machine Still... The thing I'm the proudest about... Is that time I opened a jammed coaxial cable with nothing but two but
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
The challenge with books like The God Delusion is that it's barely one step above strawman arguments. It attacks claims made by some simple lay people, based on their half-baked understanding of their own faiths (which they never reall
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
Kindly also report the usage of "Chai Tea" ('Chai' means 'Tea' in Pakistan/India, which is where that flavor originated from)
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
There's two aspects to value creation: 1. How much more value you can now create. E.g Moving from assembly to managed code was also a 1000x shift 2. How much of that value you actually capture, as opposed to it going to your CEO, custo
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
> but there is no known island within that lake. brb, I'm gonna go toss a big rock
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
No need to make every person categorize/rank their own content. But let them choose which of the 3rd party ranking algorithms they'd like to have serving them their feed today.
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
Good point. It doesn't necessarily have to be a paid membership, but it would need some type of reputation formation. Ability to pay money is one way to grant you a "prob not a bot" reputation. There's many other ways to
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
The tools for a community to self-moderate is the key here, along with communities being able to define their own boundaries. Reddit communities with active moderators are often great places to have respectful conversations. Twitter, on the
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
Trust-less information was the norm for most of history. The past century has really been an anomaly when it came to trusting news, with photos and videos seeming to be reliable proof. Before that, societies had to be structured very differ
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Cache Directory Tagging Specification (2004)(bford.info)
1 points by ZainRiz 3y ago|1 comments
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
Found this while exploring pytest's cache. For something so simple, they put a lot of thought into the spec
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by ZainRiz 3y ago
The past century has really been an anomaly when it came to trusting news, with photos and videos seeming to be reliable proof. Before that, societies had to be structured very differently to account for the lack of proof. You'd hear p
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by ZainRiz 4y ago
I'm surprised by the combination of "Writing a book + public speaking opportunities + (apparently public) twitter account" with not wanting to dox yourself in the blog post. Do you have two+ very different online personas? I
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by ZainRiz 4y ago
Is the claim here that the city's spending needs went up much faster than inflation? If so, why?
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by ZainRiz 4y ago
First I'm hearing about nerfed iphones, but if true this sounds like a reasonable decision from a business perspective. They wouldn't want customers worrying about whether they got the better qualcomm iPhone X or the slower intel
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by ZainRiz 4y ago
> Over 50 percent of Black children in the U.S. will experience a child welfare investigation before their eighteenth birthday (nearly double the rate of white children). Nearly 10 percent of Black children will be removed from their par
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by ZainRiz 4y ago
Today I realized how xkcd prob got it's name
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by ZainRiz 4y ago
Wow, these games would be impressive for a college kid to be making!
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by ZainRiz 4y ago
"problem" is a bit of a strong word, but when someone says "Cancer Death Rate Dropped" dropping people assume "Cancer Rate Dropped", which is not at all the same thing The article provides no numbers about canc

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