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by brd529 2mo ago
As the article says, the problem with destination dispatch is that it 'locks in' an elevator. The passenger gets told at call time what elevator to go to, and it can't change that mid flight. RSR has the advantage that the pa
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by brd529 4mo ago
100% agree with this. The irony of this article critical of AI development culture is that the author used AI to write it. The 'not a, not b, but c' writing style used to be _effective_. If someone wrote that way I paid attention
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by brd529 5mo ago
We (in the tech industry) did this to ourselves. The internet my kids have is very different than the internet I had in the 90s. Algorithmically optimized short form video or other content in an infinite scroll is hurting children so much i
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Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week(medium.com)
32 points by brd529 5mo ago|24 comments
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by brd529 5mo ago
Isn’t there a strong argument that we put too many students in debt with a partially completed or useless degree in a well meaning push for “college for all”? The triumph the author describes - an increase in colleges - came at the expense
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by brd529 7mo ago
This is amazing
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by brd529 8mo ago
Overview energy has done interesting work in this area.
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by brd529 3y ago
I recently rented a tesla from hertz - I had made sure my hotel had charging in it's parking lot. I arrive at the hotel to find that the tesla was missing it's j1772 adapter, which is what the hotel charger required. I had to hunt
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by brd529 3y ago
the board was about to vaporize employee equity overnight - the secondary was days away and would have been life changing for many employees and significant for all of them. SA is probably a great a leader but the financial incentives for t
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by brd529 3y ago
That’s a great story! Do you know why your friend was willing to sell below market? Was it just 6% below market - what they would have spent on fees anyway?
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by brd529 3y ago
How did you market it and do you think listing on mls, having an agent show the house, or paying a buyers broker fee would have gotten you more and higher offers?
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by brd529 3y ago
Reading higher in the thread, some Elixir folks are saying that the techempower benchmarks used the wrong settings (debug mode, etc) for their Elixir benchmark.
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by brd529 3y ago
Remember this is from 2016
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by brd529 3y ago
https://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator $6.50 one way from downtown SF to somewhere like concord
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by brd529 3y ago
Talk to your manager or find a mentor within the company and ask for advice. Rather than framing it as “my colleges are all slackers” frame it as “what am I missing?” At big tech orgs success can mean a lot more than coding. It’s possible y
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by brd529 3y ago
Google pays for on call but it is absolutely the exception in the US. Most Silicon Valley tech companies do not - it’s considered part of the job. Paying for a call is an elegant solution when you have a massively profitable business. Comp
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by brd529 3y ago
This has been our experience
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by brd529 3y ago
Monthly train pass on New Jersey Transit, LIRR and Metro North can get to above $300 once you are 20 miles from NYC.
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by brd529 4y ago
I think it’s great. SingleStore and any database company that ships binaries and supports customers managing their own clusters running those binaries requires a very different programming environment and culture from your typical saas or c
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by brd529 4y ago
A lot of the comments make this mistake, but the article clearly talks about both. It snarkily says the Ivy League graduates end up doing strategy and everyone else ends up doing software implementations.
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by brd529 4y ago
Super 8 has a coherent reveal of the mystery box. Lost did not and disappointed at the end. The kelvin timeline from when he rebooted Star Trek is sort of mystery box but then we learn who Nero is in a coherent way early on as well. I did n
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by brd529 4y ago
Right now developers say it’s too expensive. Some data and a potential path forward: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/empty-offices-housing...
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by brd529 4y ago
In England “public schools” are what they call elite privately run schools. Edit: interesting history on why: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdo... the schools “were "public" in the
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by brd529 4y ago
That’s right it was a Vista LBO
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by brd529 4y ago
For those of you that think you've seen this before, MemSQL was rebranded to SingleStore, and this was the first blog post MemSQL made - skip list indexes were always a fundamental performance innovation of MemSQL. I am not sure if Mem
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by brd529 4y ago
These are the rates that the agencies certified by salesforce as “platinum” “gold” etc charge their customers. One idea is to start by working for one of those agencies, figure out how the system works, how salesforce refers them to their c
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by brd529 4y ago
Salesforce is an interesting one - many eng leaders don’t consider it “engineering” because they aren’t that familiar with the platform (often the salesforce devs are grouped in the the salesforce admins in their minds, and organizationally
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by brd529 4y ago
Great points but scary. If training ML models on copyrighted data becomes illegal in the US but remains legal in say China or Russia then the US will quickly fall Behind on ML capabilities - major national security implications at the very
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by brd529 4y ago
I’m not sure where this movement went but efforts like SSPL [1] and similar aim to make it hard for cloud providers to resell an open source product as a service. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/29/the-crus
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by brd529 4y ago
You were downvoted but this is a legit point - people like the ones in this article on “effective altruism” made this decision: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/09/23/effective... If you can

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