danielrmay

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by danielrmay 5d ago
I had an eerily similar experience interviewing at a similar public SaaS co recently.
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by danielrmay 6d ago
Ten years ago, maybe
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by danielrmay 6d ago
Wow, this might seal the deal for "SaaS-pocalypse". I imagine the upside is high for Spoons considering the wealth of data and a well-oiled product enshittification playbook.
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by danielrmay 1mo ago
"I hope our names are touching on the watchlist"
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by danielrmay 1mo ago
Choosing what to remember is my biggest challenge!
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by danielrmay 1mo ago
This is absurd and I love it.
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by danielrmay 1mo ago
As an example, webfonts can make rendered text differ from the underlying text that ends up on your clipboard.
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by danielrmay 1mo ago
Rendered text cannot be assumed to equal the underlying text, unfortunately
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
This, and some results smartly ignoring the selected sort order because gmail suggests you "follow up", both work together to paint a vivid picture of a disassociated product team who no longer understands their customer.
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
Fascinating, and arguably an illustration of why the bifurcation of responsibility is interesting in the first place.
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
I see. It still feels like a bit of an oddly solemn way of saying "this is the part we admit responsibility for"
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
I'm enjoying learning about these hard problems, but this line about credit made me chuckle: > We helped prepare the manuscripts and formalize the proofs in Lean, and we take responsibility for their correctness Offering to take res
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
Interesting to see they shipped an "anti-slop" taste skill: > description: Anti-slop frontend skill for landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. The agent reads the brief, infers the right design direction, and ships interface
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
I remember this behavior. I think it would be more historically accurate to omit pointer cursors on expandable treeview items, too
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
Neat project. I wonder how a small model could interpret movement data to provide personalized improvement suggestions e.g. "you're weaker targeting left than right, but only under these conditions"
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
I think as I've gotten older, the fear of expressing myself has increasingly turned into a sense of duty to do it anyway. The more people feel pressured into silence, the more important it seems not to be.
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
Have you tried asking for an SVG with the same level of detail you specified in that prompt, though? https://github.com/simonw/pedalican/blob/main/run/prompts/ro... I'd be interested to se
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
What does good look like?
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
Asylum-seekers, domestic abuse victims, sex trafficking victims, indentured servitude and modern slavery, etc. Access to guidance on government websites represents a way out of society's most dangerous situations for vulnerable people,
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
For all of the advertising of GPT 5.6 in this charming little game, the chatgpt.com UI has failed to load in the past several hours for me
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
A clean reading experience appears to be a unique selling point these days
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
Can you explain which benchmarking differences you'd expect to see from this hardware, considering?
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
Neopets just arrived in Fortnite, which felt like a good time to go public with some of my related but greyer engineering history. Happy to answer any questions anyone might have!
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Redistributing Billions in the Neopets Economy(danielmay.co.uk)
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
Perhaps if less spending went towards their private aviation interests LTT labs could review a piece of hardware that was released _this_ year, or maybe extend their narrow testing process to cover real-world use metrics like TTFT. Not to m
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by danielrmay 2mo ago
As someone who's self-taught, I find this argument tantalizingly validating, but I'm constantly reminded that universities offer more than just the material. Between peer networks and "alumni" connections or even just th
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by danielrmay 3mo ago
A good start. From 2024: "A company allegedly tracked people’s visits to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood locations across 48 states and provided that data for one of the largest anti-abortion ad campaigns in the nation, according to an i
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by danielrmay 3mo ago
Yes, this should be a monster machine. Ampere is an older generation, so I expect that's where some of your issues have been
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by danielrmay 3mo ago
> I am less worried about prompt injection now. Why? The exfiltration vector was known, the sample size was small, and the safety instructions were likely statically positioned. In regular operating practice, none of these three guarante
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by danielrmay 3mo ago
> The name is always lowercase: peerd. Gotta love it when agent instructions get blurted out in user-facing documentation

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