cwp

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by cwp 3mo ago
He lost me at "our particular moment of dystopian late capitalism."
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by cwp 9mo ago
This article is drivel. If a supplier writes down the value of a contract with Tesla, they're saying Tesla is buying fewer batteries, or will in the near future. That is, there is a lack of demand for the batteries. If you're dete
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by cwp 11mo ago
The code example is very similar to Ray. Monarch: class Example(Actor): @endpoint def say_hello(self, txt): return f"hello {txt}" procs = this_host().spawn_procs({"gpus": 8}) actors = procs.
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by cwp 2y ago
Nice. Another aspect of the ternary operator is conditional evaluation. Beyond parenthesis, in a?b:c, only one of b and c get evaluated.
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by cwp 2y ago
Agreed. I was skeptical at first, but I've worked at several companies with unlimited PTO and they all specifically encouraged people to take time off. One place was explicit that the reason they switched to unlimited was to get people
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by cwp 2y ago
Sure. Everyone, including government employees, should be allowed to discuss anything with AI. The problem is actually doing illegal things, which is... already illegal.
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by cwp 2y ago
Reading a comment is exactly the same thing as scraping the internet, you just stop sooner.
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by cwp 2y ago
If I read your comment, then write a reply, is it a derivative work?
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by cwp 2y ago
I got a ZSA Voyager split keyboard and then spent weeks exploring custom layouts. The first question was QWERTY vs something better. Then there was layers and layer navigation. And should I swap out the key switches? And Keyboard Maestro. N
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by cwp 3y ago
Sure. There are undoubtedly a lot of config formats that are overly complex. But sometimes the complexity is irreducible. Kubernetes is one such case. The model is very well thought out, and just about as simple as it could get without remo
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by cwp 3y ago
/me sighs The board has not been consistently candid in its communications with... anyone.
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by cwp 3y ago
Yeah. This is how Squeak changed the license from SqueakL to Apache and MIT. That code has a lot of history, so it was a pretty big effort, but worth it in the end.
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by cwp 3y ago
The FSF disagrees with you on that.
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by cwp 3y ago
Also, potentially bad outcomes if a nuclear aircraft is shot down.
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by cwp 3y ago
Not the GP, but: Imagine you're sampling successful traces at, say, 1%, but sending all error traces. If your error rate is low, maybe also 1%, your trace volume will be about 2% of your overall request volume. Then you push an update
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by cwp 3y ago
It's subtle and so difficult to see the differences at smaller scales. If you're going to provision a handful of EC2 instances, all the tools work fine. I think HCL is an under appreciated aspect of Terraform. It was kinda awful f
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by cwp 3y ago
Right. Maybe buy a stake in ESPN and get them to run 3D livestreams of games, but even that probably doesn't go forward until the MLS deal is a success.
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by cwp 3y ago
San Francisco won't be satisfied until they've completely driven out all the tech companies and their employees.
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by cwp 3y ago
Eh, I'm not sure about that. Tesla started from scratch and developed large-scale manufacturing and logistics from first principles. It was hard, but it's put them in a hugely advantageous position today. It turns out old-school m
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by cwp 3y ago
No, because M&A isn't banned. I don't know how many car companies we have, but I do notice that there are a bunch of new ones recently. Just off the top of my head: Tesla, Lucid, Rivian, Cruise.
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by cwp 3y ago
It doesn't come at the expense of the employees of the acquired business. They often get rich, or at least land a well-paying and career-enhancing gig at the acquiring company. This is important, because it means that new companies tha
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by cwp 3y ago
I dig this too. It's what I loved about Quicksilver - it had simple grammar that went direct object, verb, (optionally) indirect object. That tied nicely into the plugin system, which gave it tremendous flexibility. Successors like Alf
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by cwp 3y ago
Yeah. Something like the federal highway system, or dams.
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by cwp 3y ago
California has an unlimited supply of water along its western border. We ought to tap that rather than the Colorado river.
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by cwp 3y ago
I don't know if scientists are studying this - given recent trends they ought to be. But if experience counts, then yeah, there is. I've done a lot of work remotely, in person and on teams where some people were remote and others
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by cwp 3y ago
Actually, Apple delayed stabilizing the ABI (which would be required for rewriting low-level libraries) in order to work on other features that the community (ie, non-Apple users of Swift) needed more. If Apple had prioritized the needs of
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by cwp 3y ago
Good. We really need to find a better model than "Ok, everybody move to NY/SF/LA". Yes, getting everybody in a room together is the best way to collaborate, but the cost of it is too high in just about every other dimen
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by cwp 3y ago
I guess what I'm saying is that I don't think American compensation will go down much, and the to extent that it does, it's because more people can work good jobs that were only available in the top-tier cities before. That i
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by cwp 3y ago
Yes and no. They tried that in the 90s and it didn't work out. It turns out timezones, language and culture matter. So yes, remote work will mean that US white collar workers will have to compete with workers in other countries, but th
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by cwp 3y ago
Yeah, definitely early days. But they're saying all the right things: fast code off the bat, easy to vectorize and parallelize, efficient use of memory, easy to create abstractions that execute efficiently on various architectures. The

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