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by devbent 2y ago
My newest open source project[1] is ~90% written by LLM, but I work in the field so there is a chance my ability to manipulate LLMs is above average. It is also a tiny project, just a single microservice, although my upcoming open source pr
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by devbent 2y ago
It depends on the severity of the issue. If the issue impacts tens of millions of customers, then yes, get it fixed right now. Extended outages can be front page news. Too many in a row and people leave the service. Ideally monitoring catch
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by devbent 2y ago
> We should reduce the security of the entire healthcare system because you can't adult? I commented that my hospital network has the ability for me to see test results, communicate with medical providers asynchronously, and lets he
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by devbent 2y ago
That sounds like an absolute nightmare. I'd lose the pen and paper within 30 seconds. I much prefer being able to send a quick message to a healthcare provider on my phone and have them get back to me same or next day. Especially for t
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by devbent 2y ago
Doctors and nurses have always had large reference tomes that they refered to. List of medication side effects, dosing guidelines and so forth have been common throughout the industry almost since it's very inception. Indeed, there are
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by devbent 2y ago
> Hospital computers should not be connected to the internet. Scheduling an urgent care appointment is connected to my account at the hospital network. When I step into the hospital and get tests done, everything is automatically uploade
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by devbent 2y ago
Credit card companies and large banks each have call centers with multiple tens of thousands of employees. > The sad reality is that companies don't want easy and efficient customer service... As that would allow customers to cancel
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by devbent 2y ago
OpenAI is the platform everyone else is building on top of. Think Microsoft in the late 80s through the 90s. If you are charging for the platform, you can let thousands of other businesses try the risky hard to scale stuff and you'll g
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by devbent 2y ago
The tooling there was amazing so a barebones services could get deployed into prod in a couple days if needs be. That typically didn't happen because engineering reviews had to occur first. A single command created a new repo, setup in
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by devbent 2y ago
Thousands of call center employees are being replaced right now. You may not even notice the difference, tier 1 support is heavily scripted already. Outbound sales is being automated. Lots of very hum-drum stuff. Ordering room service at a
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by devbent 2y ago
Back in the days of dos, I use one of the disK compression utilities to store 20 MB on a regular 3.5-in floppy. The entire 20 MB consisted of metadata for the compression system!
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by devbent 2y ago
> Destructors with cascading deletions can take time bounded only by memory allocation, but you can solve that for instance by destroying them on a separate thread, or having a linked list of objects to be destroyed and destroying a cons
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by devbent 2y ago
> But I did work at a company that decided to implement microservices a la Amazon, even going so far as sharing Bezos' famous 2 pizza team memo. This effect essentially happened over night. As people spun up more and more microservi
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by devbent 2y ago
It works well of the company empowers engineers to write software that doesn't break all the time. At HBO Max every incident had a full writeup and then real solutions were put in place to make the service more stable. My team had ar
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by devbent 2y ago
People often forget that the runtime of free is not trivially calculatable! I've worked on tiny embedded systems (.net micro framework) where for a given usage pattern the GC was perfectly predictable, as it should be.
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by devbent 2y ago
Vultr does me cheaper than DO for a given amount of oomph.
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by devbent 2y ago
The file system is almost 30 years old. When NTFS came out it was way better than anything on Linux. Heck even in 2006 NTFS was better. But Linux keeps getting new file systems while Windows keeps NTFS.
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by devbent 2y ago
> If moar hardware is all you need, Nvidia would have the best models in every category right now. Nvidia is making boatloads of money right now selling GPUs to companies that think they will be making boatloads of money in the future. N
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by devbent 2y ago
One laptop per child is why there was a netbook craze! They basically showed it was possible to get a machine at that lower price point and then capitalism and mass market manufacturing did the rest. Is this so often the case innovation req
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by devbent 2y ago
Vaguely related: Rhino 3D has the best interface of any 3D modeling tool I've ever used and I'm sad it is not the norm. Is integration between command line and UI is absolutely amazing. I remember when I first tried to SketchUp I
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by devbent 2y ago
Phones used to have fm receivers! It was common in the early 2010s. They used the headphone cord as an antenna.
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by devbent 2y ago
This is how genes like that evolve. Keeps you alive at 30, kills you at 70. You got to reproduce so it counts as a win for evolution!
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by devbent 2y ago
Cursor is amazing, and you can now use Claude as the backing AI instead of OpenAI, if you so wish.
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by devbent 2y ago
Facebook marketplace is a better experience. CL had a miserable mobile experience up until a few years ago, no good mobile app, and spam has always been a problem on the platform.
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by devbent 2y ago
I've seen tons of American made apps from large companies that show bits of English here and there when switched to another language. Localization is hard , even for companies that spend a lot of time and effort on it. It isn't j
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by devbent 2y ago
> Therefore you can use that website to get approximate location for literally everyone. In America, before the Internet took off, every year everyone would get a book called the "white pages" that had the name, address, and ph
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by devbent 2y ago
IMHO it isn't an AMD or Intel problem, it is a "every driver and piece of hardware on the machine has to cooperate with low power modes" problem. Apple owns the stack and iterates slowly. Most laptops change to some of their
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by devbent 2y ago
> It's progress and efficiency. It's advantageous to the people with the purse strings and only hurts the people whose skills are no longer required. Until there is no one left to buy the actual product, at which point those on
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by devbent 2y ago
I can own at Tetris but I am miserable at chess. The types of visualization are completely different IMHO.
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by devbent 2y ago
Being able to do laundry makes Airbnb worth it almost every time. If I have a multi leg journey I'll make sure every other stop is at an Airbnb with a washing machine.

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