brendamn

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by brendamn 3mo ago
Great advice. One point I’d add is to just let yourself be nervous. Once I accept that my voice will wobble and my hands will shake then nervousness starts to feel a little more like excitement.
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by brendamn 4mo ago
I enjoy soldering. I enjoy using solder paste, being a human pick and place machine, and then putting boards in the oven. I enjoy building physical devices. But then I had a hardware startup and learnt something about myself. I enjoy build
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by brendamn 7mo ago
Hiding the scrollbar is the real crime here.
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by brendamn 11mo ago
If you’re going to write a post about why self-hosting is better than cloud*, then it’s probably a good idea to make sure your site loads in under a minute. * at least I assume what this post is; I’m still waiting for it to load.
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by brendamn 2y ago
I think this varies wildly depending on where you live. Where I live (Melbourne), just the cost of suitable housing (a/ near a school, b/ close to most jobs, and c/ with space for 1+ children) is so high that it makes it diff
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by brendamn 2y ago
> If she gets the most joy from Rust, that's what she should use! In the past I’d try to justify why I’d done something a certain way when another way would’ve been faster / better / cheaper, but I now realise that (at lea
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by brendamn 3y ago
> He says he is “not bad” at maths – by which he means he came top in the state of New South Wales in his year 12 maths exams As an Australian that has worked with American companies for a while, this is a behaviour I’ve had to overcome.
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by brendamn 3y ago
Offshoring has been around for decades, and if it produced the desired results at the desired price then employers would replace every expensive employee with a cheaper one (where possible). As it stands, offshoring is commonly used by larg
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by brendamn 3y ago
I have a theory that someone found a bunch of cheap generic toys (vehicles, dogs, etc) and realised they could sell a lot of them if they slapped a logo on the side and made a cheap, below average cartoon that showed them to kids. I’m almos
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by brendamn 3y ago
From W3Tech; > PHP is used by 77% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. I had a quick look at the methodology section, but it’s not clear to me how accurate this data is. Determining whether a site uses PHP
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by brendamn 3y ago
It’s been a few years since my last US visit, but my experience has been that Uber (and Lyft) are much better in the States than Uber in Australia. Frequent cancellations, or a driver just not moving until you cancel the ride, is a major is
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by brendamn 3y ago
How many people who have seen that data are acting as a service to share it, at scale?
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by brendamn 3y ago
> already replacing many people who write for a living Is this actually the case? Are there examples of professional writers/academics/etc who have lost their jobs to LLMs?
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by brendamn 3y ago
Is there a hardware platform better suited for these types of use cases? Not that long ago it seemed the tradeoff was either use a cheap but unreliable hobby platform (RPi or Arduino), or a stable but expensive (and usually somewhat custom)
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by brendamn 3y ago
> How many people died in car accidents the last few days? Car accidents (not involving anyone of note) sadly aren’t novel or newsworthy anymore. A submarine, with people potentially trapped onboard, with limited oxygen, as rescue teams
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by brendamn 3y ago
> I'd say with GPT4 they probably reached the limit of how big the dataset can be I’m curious about this too; not just on the dataset size, but also the model size. My hunch is that the rapid improvements of the underlying model by
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by brendamn 4y ago
Using WhatsApp as an example of a lean engineering org should almost be banned at this point. WhatsApp had a high performing engineering team that used basically the perfect set of tools to build their application (which also had a narrow f
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by brendamn 4y ago
Outsource to where? Outsourcing isn't exactly new and many large orgs already outsource as many activities/projects/roles as possible. Even with outsourcing there is still a skilled tech labor shortage.
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by brendamn 4y ago
I’d be careful making assumptions about a group of people like you’ve done here. I’m not quite old enough to be in the “dad professional class”, but I’ve been around long enough to have worked with plenty of people who are. In my experience
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by brendamn 4y ago
They use their own phone to order.
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by brendamn 4y ago
I’ve found myself in a similar position. I’ve often wondered whether the cause is one specific thing (eg my ideas seem small / less impactful than other projects I’ve worked on), or the culmination of several things. I suspect in my ca
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by brendamn 4y ago
Using WhatsApp as an example of a lean engineering org should almost be banned at this point. WhatsApp had a high performing engineering team that used basically the perfect set of tools to build their application (which also had a narrow f