cronin101

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by cronin101 17d ago
Really (in your example) the timeframe is the only difference. You can endure as long as you want to, but we're all going to erode eventually.
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by cronin101 20d ago
is 200 a lot of concurrent people? What is required from the server in order to render the demo, can't most of the work be pushed to the edge devices?
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by cronin101 29d ago
Can you “just do this” or is there some preapproval you’re meant to get beforehand? Presumably the answer varies wildly by jurisdiction.
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by cronin101 1mo ago
To me, working with AI feels a lot like the previous experiences of “working in a sprawling enterprise codebase spanning multiple systems each with emergent behavior”, except now I can outsource the introspection and validation loops to som
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by cronin101 1mo ago
Irony of Manchurian Candidate models not lost here
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by cronin101 1mo ago
I’ve specifically used Opus to diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks in parallel Rust code on multiple occasions (e.g improving NPS for a chess engine) and it works well. I’ve done plenty of performance architecting in my day-job and rul
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by cronin101 1mo ago
Have you actually tried performance optimisation using an agent? With any programming language/framework that has quality profiling tooling (which is a prerequisite for most projects) I have had huge success with automated hotspot prof
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by cronin101 1mo ago
At the risk of sharing an unpopular take, this reads a lot like someone who decided how they feel about LLM-driven engineering ~5 months ago and doesn’t seem to reflect the current reality. (Or they’re working in an organization with lower
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by cronin101 1mo ago
My favourite interview question that I received was when I was asked to write code that would serialize/deserialize a binary tree and was told it was fine to use "any programming language". They received a crash course in the
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by cronin101 2mo ago
Net worth or net income? Being 40yo with only 200k of worth between two when you’re halfway through your working life and have had 10y of appreciation of assets isn’t very much to go forward with.
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by cronin101 2mo ago
Running with your ankle at an angle occasionally gives great strength/mobility benefits. You'd need to be putting out some serious racer pace for curb cuts to be impacting your experience in any way. Just make sure you alternate w
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by cronin101 3mo ago
Off topic (but helpfully hopeful to someone!): In the rare cases where I get motion sick I can usually "hack" my way out of it by closing my eyes and imagining myself skiing down a mountain avoiding obstacles in an erratic path th
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by cronin101 3mo ago
Not doubting this at all but could you (or someone else) break this down for the sake of my curiosity? I understand pension contributions, but what are the other "hidden" costs that could equal the net salary?
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by cronin101 4mo ago
Except you can actually “scan” a digital photo with a Polaroid quite effectively and it will look pretty much identical to a real Polaroid, so even that is security theatre.
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by cronin101 4mo ago
Nitpicking, but the worst case of spending $25k is unforeseen circumstances that write off the entire asset. I don’t think -$2000 is a conservative enough figure for standard depreciation either (a lot can happen in a year)
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by cronin101 4mo ago
I'm not sure you are arguing against the point that the above poster is making. They aren't saying "giving money to foreign companies is bad". It's "in order to have a healthy domestic service economy, we shoul
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by cronin101 4mo ago
It’s still Orleans! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/overview?pi...
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by cronin101 6mo ago
With the exception of 3 (How to survive in the world of AI: use AI!), these have all been par for the course all along if you wish to succeed at senior+ level. With the current surge, everyone is (expected to act as) a senior/mentor to
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by cronin101 6mo ago
Unfounded speculation but it's curious that it's soon after enabling 1M context tokens on the default plan. I wonder if there are some long-tail load ramifications of this pricing change.
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by cronin101 7mo ago
You don't need to be rich to get a working visa (assuming you are a competent software engineer -- plenty of places in Europe will hire you, and there is a path to citizenship). You'll have to reassess what a "software engine
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by cronin101 7mo ago
Serious (but not easy) answer: You can move to a different country that more aligns with your moral standings or interests. You're (presumably) a valuable asset that will provide a net-positive contribution wherever you move, and a lo
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by cronin101 7mo ago
Look into git worktrees and thank me later!
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by cronin101 7mo ago
Not trying to pick apart your point but I rotate a small set of staple clothes and they’re in fine condition after two years (haven’t had much time for clothes shopping since toddler arrived), despite me abusing “quick wash” and “drycare 40
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by cronin101 7mo ago
This obviously depends on what you are trying to achieve but it’s worth mentioning that there are languages designed for formal proofs and static analysis against a spec, and I have suspicions we are currently underutilizing them (because h
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by cronin101 10mo ago
Depending on the application, I think “without preprocessing” is a huge assumption here. LLMs typically do a terrible job of weighting poor quality context vs high quality context and filling an XL context with unstructured junk and expecti
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by cronin101 1y ago
As a Brit that relocated to Norway a decade ago, trust me when I say you cannot fathom the lack of organization around identity that the UK (somewhat intentionally) has. (It’s constantly used for political Godwin’s-law fear-mongering) There
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by cronin101 2y ago
I think with the official deprecation of IE this is mostly a thing of the past since all major browsers are “evergreen” and support a pretty recent standard. This certainly was the case only a couple of years ago, and it’s almost always wis
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by cronin101 2y ago
> the execution of JS code it down to the browser rendering the page where it’s deployed. As such it’s practically impossible to get any code to run consistently Can you elaborate on this part? I would say one of the strengths of JS is
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by cronin101 2y ago
Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it with flexbox!
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by cronin101 2y ago
The day we have a “human free military” is the day that every human on earth wakes up to find they just got enlisted without notice. Game theory only works when you have skin in the game. You think the other nations’ machines are just going

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