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by codemac 1y ago
In my opinion, yes, it's a short book. A lot about how to actually change culture and habits of a team.
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by codemac 1y ago
A great book is "Strategy and the Fat Smoker". It's written by a consultant but points out an obvious point: the quality of the strategy itself is not nearly as impactful as the ability to execute. The author compares this to
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by codemac 2y ago
Good thinking - there are many projects around this. Ceramic, DNA, 3d glass, etc. They all run into the same IO problems tape has though.
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by codemac 2y ago
Yes, they all pay royalties, and all the drives pay licensing for read heads.
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by codemac 2y ago
The read failures are also attributed to other parts of the system, which for the end user still end up in failed reads. The author links to a sales PDF from Quantum. e.g. the robot dies, the drive dies, the cartridge dies, the library bend
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by codemac 2y ago
Another example is the cost of IO when your backups are not perfectly coalesced. If you're striping writes across datacenters, into objects which are sharded across clusters that encode across many drives - your backups get extremely f
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by codemac 2y ago
No, it's because of IBM's monopoly. It has little to do with it being enterprise.
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by codemac 2y ago
A lot of things are stated as conclusions in this article, where SOTA has reversed or in some cases invalidated the conclusions. Unfortunately they are not published, and will probably remain trade secrets for another decade. The biggest co
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by codemac 2y ago
You can tell Teams, gchat, discord, and other have taken away from Slack's dominance. This isn't even frontpage.
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by codemac 2y ago
The most offensive part of Tabs to me: > If you download or print from Google Docs, you'll only download or print the active tab. If you want to download or print all tabs at once, you can do it from Google Drive This is multiple
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by codemac 2y ago
o1 said: It appears the points have been deliberately arranged to form a stylized figure rather than showing a conventional trend. In other words, there is no obvious linear or monotonic relationship between steps and BMI, and the red‐blue
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by codemac 2y ago
In many cases maximizing profits increases supply through efficiency, especially in the case of things like food. Increased supply is usually considered a safer place than a lower supply if it's vital. Every step you take that makes fo
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by codemac 2y ago
$META is hitting 700, and RSU refresher price for 2022 performance was ~110. My bet, is Yann got a huge set of packages with the AI talent race, and what may have been a $10M/4yr package may now suddenly be 70M+. Unlikely any other AI
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by codemac 2y ago
ah you misunderstand me. I don't mean "do dumb stuff", I mean I've literally never seen anyone redefine the `define` keyword in any code. With javascript, I do see people use `===` frequently. It's a wart of the lan
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by codemac 2y ago
> in Scheme you can redefine `define` to be number 5. This is like asking "what if your coworker named all errs as `ok`" so everything was `if ok { return errors.New("Not ok!!"); }`. It's possible but no one does
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by codemac 2y ago
instructions on how? I need to walk through family members to do this.
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by codemac 2y ago
I'm very frustrated about this because for a lot of my family members, their phone is the only computing device they have. When they lose it, they lose access to email, and there is no backup plan here. Using bitwarden is far far sup
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by codemac 2y ago
I'd love actually an "app" that was just the bookmark manager for launching the browser. Chrome, firefox, etc on android all either push me to use piles of shortcut icons w/folders (cluttered and exhausting to manage), o
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by codemac 2y ago
i've physically visited a larger one, it is not even a well kept secret. we all see each other at the same airports and hotels.
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by codemac 2y ago
> biggest GPU compute cluster in the world right now This is wildly untrue, and most in industry know that. Unfortunately you won't have a source just like I won't, but just wanted to voice that you're way off here.
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by codemac 2y ago
Demand disappeared for good local reporting, long before any LLM. Even NYT & WSJ struggle with their subscriptions, and they have a huge addressable market. The "slop" is just a reflection of this bottom feeding attempt to get
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by codemac 2y ago
Learning to leverage AI as it exists today takes effort, but is usually worth it. However, ignoring the effort undercuts the distance these products have to go. Speech is great because there is just a single interface to integrate with. Obv
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by codemac 2y ago
You should check out Supernote. While still a bit closed, it's interop is far superior to Remarkable.
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by codemac 2y ago
org-review is interesting, but I just added another TODO state: DEFER Then projects, todos, agenda items etc can go from TODO -> DEFER and I know that they're "not now" items. That has seemed sufficient for me. Tracking ex
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by codemac 2y ago
Does anyone handle org-mode for attachments + mobile sync? I use Autosync on android and a script that runs on my laptop. This works great for the text files, but the attachments/data files (say like screenshots) are a pain to find and
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by codemac 2y ago
Just don't forget that IO matters. Drives do 140-220MB/s depending on the LBA distance of the readhead, and that's not really changing. 160MB/s is very common. So your 8TB drives, assuming 1MiB writes with a 20ms latency
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by codemac 2y ago
Let's also admit every language before Rust hasn't succeeded at out right replacing the vast majority of C/C++, so it becomes it's own form of conservatism/bias. This post is coming from one of the few companies tha
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by codemac 2y ago
> extremely late integration That's only late if there are other big changes going in at the same time. The vast majority of operational/ticketing issues have few code changes. I'm glad I had the experience of working on a
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by codemac 2y ago
> How long does an average hard drive last? This is a great question, and a state of the art kind of thing. HDDs are sold with a lifetime drive read/write amount and power cycle warranty, along with usually some environmental operat
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by codemac 2y ago
Nah, you're pretty far off in terms of population numbers at FAANG. Amazon's levels are largely L-1 most places in terms of comp (aka aws L7 gets paid G L6), and 7+ at Meta is ~1% of the company's employees, and even less of

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