addisonj

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by addisonj 5mo ago
I will be the first to acknowledge that humans are a bad judge of performance and that some of the allegations are likely just hallucinations... But... Are you really going to completely rely on benchmarks that have time and time again be s
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by addisonj 8mo ago
IMO, this isn't entirely a "new world" either, it is just a new domain where the conversation amplifies the opinions even more (weird how that is happening in a lot of places) What I mean by that: you had compiled vs interpre
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by addisonj 10mo ago
I genuinely think systems like Unison are "the future of computing"... But the question is when that future will be. Part of the beauty of these sorts of systems is just that the context of what your system actually does is in o
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by addisonj 10mo ago
not disagreeing with your point here, or in the follow-ups of the pain of https for "local network" apps... but I really wish that we could get to a place where we could get away from this distinction. Obviously, ipv6 is not that
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by addisonj 11mo ago
My point is not that value extraction wouldn't happen, my point is simply that in addition to the value extraction we also made other huge shifts in economic policy that taken together really seem to put us on a path towards an &quot
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by addisonj 11mo ago
I will repeat my comment from 70 days ago: > I was discussing with a friend that my biggest concern with AI right now is not that it isn't capable of doing things... but that we switched from research/academic mode to full valu
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by addisonj 1y ago
I think the answer to that right now is highly workload dependent. From what I have seen, it is improving rapidly, but still very early days for the software stack compared to Nvidia
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by addisonj 1y ago
Really impressive... but wow this is light on details. While I don't fully align with the sentiment of other commenters that this is meaningless unless you can go hands on... it is crazy to think of how different this announcement is t
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by addisonj 1y ago
I had an ex90 on pre-order for a long time, placed it within the first ~30 days of it being open. It looked to be (and is!) an absolutely beautiful vehicle and also seemed to be making choices in the hardware (lidar) that I hoped, would, e
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by addisonj 1y ago
I am experiencing a strong sense of "why didn't I think of that" while also really hoping it isn't another strong, family friendly concept that gets quickly enshittified for profit. Seriously, kudos, for a great concep
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by addisonj 1y ago
seconded, I have never wanted a HN "follow" feature before, but this project sounds great
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by addisonj 1y ago
I absolutely sympathize with this and was/still is my opinion... but the only "evolution" of that is the hope that, while I don't think you can prevent the scams and short-term pain on labor markets... you maybe, actu
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by addisonj 1y ago
Oh my, these comments will be fun... What I find most interesting here is the explicit mention of using Socratic method and how, paired with it not being a human, seems to be what allowed for deeper introspection of one's own beliefs.
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by addisonj 1y ago
I hope this is more common knowledge these days... but this is good framing and makes really clear the costs. What this article doesn't cover... and where a good chunk of my career has been, is when companies are driven to break out in
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by addisonj 1y ago
I had the awesome, yet terrible experience to work on an obscure Nintendo feature. By networking, I am assuming you mean console stack... which I had experience with myself, and yeah... not great. But even more, their web services (more tha
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by addisonj 1y ago
Yeah, engineering high scale distributed data systems on top the cloud providers a very weird thing at times. But the reality is that as large enterprise move to the cloud, but still need lots of different data systems, it is really hard
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by addisonj 1y ago
S3 scale is quite massive with each object spread across a large number of nodes via erasure encoding. So while you could get unlucky and routed to same bad node / bad rack, the reality is that it is quite unlikely. And while the tes
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by addisonj 2y ago
But... isn't that a core ethos of open-source? That you won't ever come even close to capturing the full value provided by a piece of software... but the nature of the problem is such that the value could never be created unless
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by addisonj 2y ago
That does not match my experience. Engineers learn a new tool, that tool is successful in solving a problem. Whether it is recency bias, incorrect pattern matching, or simply laziness, the tool is used again but with reduced success. Repeat
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by addisonj 2y ago
Man... this stuff sucks. If I were panic, I would do the same... but I also wouldn't want to be the one at google to navigate this. With Google Drive now being at the center of so many companies for storing business data, I am certain
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by addisonj 2y ago
I want to make clear that I agree with the author that the current way in which AI is being used to make a 10x improvement in efficiency is NOT going to work, and it is for exactly reason stated: > 10x-ing requires deep conceptual unde
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by addisonj 2y ago
Like others, I empathize with this, but it got me wondering more what that difference is, because I have "achieved" a lot more in helping a group than I have as an individual. Over time I have learned for myself, at least part of
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by addisonj 2y ago
Do I think that we are likely to suddenly see a massive massive leap to AGI/ super AGI? Not really... But does it still seem like enough of a long tail risk in my/my kids lifetime that I hope someone is getting resources and ac
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by addisonj 2y ago
I mean... It seems really logical to me that one of the worst "staples of management" is simply that so many practices are applied without much thought in general. I don't disagree with the intent here... but I also am a bit
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by addisonj 2y ago
It is interesting seeing the comments here, the comments from adopters is there is a lot of value but it taking time to get up to speed. Those new to temporal a lot of questions seeking understanding. I have spent a lot of time in the adjac
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Did SpaceX copy NASA thermal tiles? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by addisonj 3y ago|1 comments
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by addisonj 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Utah, USA | Remote Engineer turned consultant for SaaS developer tools I have spent most of my 13+ year career working on building products for developers, both for platforms internal to companies and as well as startups buil
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The First Precision Lathe(youtube.com)
2 points by addisonj 3y ago|0 comments
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by addisonj 3y ago
I am using custom components for all data fetching which primarily wraps the supabase JS sdk. I have some issues I still need to make a bit more robust around caching and invalidation, but the Supabase JS sdk does help some. I do think that
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by addisonj 3y ago
I have been using Plasmic for the last 3 months as part of a contract app where the goal was to get the technical, but not frontend experienced client able to do a lot of the design. I did a lot of custom work on components (like integratin

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