alpha_squared

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by alpha_squared 6d ago
A lesson I've had to learn is that, for some people, ethics is a paycheck. It can be incomprehensible to imagine someone acting against their own paycheck as a result.
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by alpha_squared 15d ago
This should be a pretty simple 1-line CSS fix, just default to standard system fonts if the "dg" font isn't available.
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by alpha_squared 25d ago
As someone with a CS degree, most of the people I know with CS degrees are not very good developers. This is regardless of schools, as my anecdotal experience includes people from ivy leagues. The strongest developers I've met and work
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by alpha_squared 26d ago
It's only an acceptable answer when used sparingly. The more often it's used, the more questions arise about your role in that meeting.
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by alpha_squared 26d ago
> Fortune cookie ass statement. > The social aspects are more important than the exam sitting most of the time. To spell it out more clearly: every single aspect of your career is an exam. The interview is an exam, quite literally. Th
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by alpha_squared 26d ago
Your career is a continual exam and the assignments are just parts of it.
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by alpha_squared 29d ago
I think OPs question still applies. > What person that was even mildly satisfied with living their life would want this?
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by alpha_squared 1mo ago
Anecdotally, the essay is so spot-on. In my last job, I'd regularly have to review +20k-line change PRs from mid/junior devs only to reach a point where I'd have to just shut down the PR and ask for it to be broken apart. Som
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by alpha_squared 1mo ago
NIMBY is largely used for housing development discussions and to contort it in support of developing data centers is incredibly intellectually dishonest. If we're going to rebrand things to blur lines, I propose rebranding data centers
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by alpha_squared 1mo ago
The courts haven't turned against the administration, they just don't care to rubber-stamp things that don't advance their personal policy goals and only erode trust in the courts. This advances their policy goals and that&#x
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by alpha_squared 2mo ago
As another ethnic Copt, I'm also very fascinated by the language and history, particularly the differences between the Bohairic and Sahidic dialects. > Copts do also maintain a significant amount of syncretism with ancient Egyptian
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by alpha_squared 2mo ago
> next opportunity isn’t until 2028 There's an election every year (including special and midterms). The fight is annual and it's completely unfair to believe it's a quadrennial event and lead others to believe the same. P
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by alpha_squared 2mo ago
> Isn’t Apple potentially under a lot of pressure due to the DRAM prices as well as having to compete with AI for fab capacity? I'd qualify this with for now . It's not entirely clear what happens in the event the AI industry
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by alpha_squared 2mo ago
I don't think the parent is advocating adhering to their values, but instead just talking about the relativism of ethics and morality. Society broadly cannot function without a shared set of morals (e.g. stealing sows discord which l
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by alpha_squared 2mo ago
> I have more meaningful intellectual conversations with LLMs in a given day than in a month on social networks. This is kind of making the parent's argument for them about the dangers... > And the LLMs never try to make me feel
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by alpha_squared 2mo ago
I'm not surprised, but what is surprising is we're now in a period in which the mask is slipping and no one seems to care enough to try to put it back on. For all the hubris and arrogance of the tech scene, and especially the Bay
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Ryanair Passenger Partly Sucked Out of Jet as Window Breaks(seattletimes.com)
1 points by alpha_squared 2mo ago|1 comments
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by alpha_squared 3mo ago
While I agree that you don't want to punish people for making bad decisions, I do think there should be a carveout for when those decisions impact people's lives.
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by alpha_squared 3mo ago
> The media does have an interest in doing this—writers are fearful that they’ll be first on the chopping block. Maybe, but it's also pretty clear that the entire purpose and intent of delivering "AI" to the economy is to
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by alpha_squared 3mo ago
> xAI is making a killing on renting out its GPUs, way more than "just power" What's your evidence for this? Because from the S-1, SpaceX is largely an internet service provider that happens to launch rockets and own xAI.
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by alpha_squared 3mo ago
If I remember correctly, reporting at the time just after DC was selected was suggesting that it was always going to be DC to be in close proximity to government and that the whole fiasco was a way to extract as many concessions as possible
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by alpha_squared 4mo ago
> - Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer. This is exactly the point that keeps coming up that folks are struggling to grasp, myself included. How are you measuring this? It certainly makes me feel productive,
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by alpha_squared 4mo ago
Granted, I only skimmed some high-line numbers, but isn't their only profitable project Starlink? SpaceX is functionally a satellite internet company that happens to make rockets.
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by alpha_squared 4mo ago
> Because from where I'm sitting it seems like you're just operating on hopes and feels. I hate these flippant comments. Similarly, from where I'm sitting it seems you're struggling to disentangle revenue from profit.
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by alpha_squared 4mo ago
> Bad things happen. You have to be ready. You're not wrong, but also how "ready" is "ready enough"? What about things the US doesn't generally have access to? Rare earth minerals? Helium? Cobalt? Coffee? I
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by alpha_squared 5mo ago
You're mixing up the propaganda phrases, that's Russia's stance in Ukraine. Trump's is this is "an excursion", totally different things.
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by alpha_squared 5mo ago
All the time? This morning when I dreaded getting up so early for work. Last night when I showered. The day before after playing some board games with friends. Normal people do introspect, despite the current fad among a few oddball elites
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by alpha_squared 5mo ago
Because this is ultimately a beta service. The whole industry is.
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by alpha_squared 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure this is an attempt by both companies to shape a reasonable finance story for their eventual IPO. They need to make this look a lot better than a pump and dump (raising on wild valuations then offloading onto public inve
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by alpha_squared 5mo ago
This is addressed elsewhere in the comments, but it appears this is actually a direct comparison to how Anthropic got their Mythos headline results. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732322

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