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by djb_hackernews 2mo ago
are these human actors or are is the whole demo AI generated?
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by djb_hackernews 4mo ago
the trend is AI also does the code review. Too many anecdotes and studies showing AI is a better code review that a human and the models are just going to get better. Whether we get better results if AI reviews Python or Rust I'm not s
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by djb_hackernews 5mo ago
Can't the same be said for the AI?
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by djb_hackernews 6mo ago
err, this is an odd response given that this assessment has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked every time it is offered up.
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by djb_hackernews 6mo ago
When an SVP asks you to do something in a mass email, it's very much optional. Dave Treadwell is an SVP, his org is likely in the 10's of thousands, there is no way to even have a mandatory meeting for that many people. My SVP ask
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by djb_hackernews 6mo ago
I live in an old house. The front bump out leaks when we get driving rain. I installed some flashing but that wasn't enough, it's still leaking. So I'm working on that so I can close up the big hole in the ceiling some day. T
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by djb_hackernews 7mo ago
Curious if your mental model is similar or how you see them being different.
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by djb_hackernews 7mo ago
Are you familiar with the cathedral vs the bazaar?
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by djb_hackernews 7mo ago
You have a misunderstanding of what LLMs are good at.
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by djb_hackernews 8mo ago
It's a call to have his ICE goons (armed to the teeth and trained to escalate to violence of course) operate voting stations because of all of the "illegal" voters and for DHS to administer elections instead of leaving it to
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by djb_hackernews 8mo ago
you don't think that's where we are headed?
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by djb_hackernews 8mo ago
I work at a large software company, senior engineers here are essentially technical leads for a team or a subsystem. They are my equals when it comes to level, often getting paid a lot more than me for high performers. I'm here to help
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by djb_hackernews 8mo ago
I am an EM that manages several senior engineers currently. I find it super common for senior engineers to get promoted mostly on technical merit, we end up thinking the rest "can be coached". Or it's coaching to the next lev
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by djb_hackernews 8mo ago
for the record, cpuguy83 was in the trenches at docker circa 2013, it was like him a handful of other people working on docker when it went viral, he has an extremely insiders perspective, I'd trust what he says.
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by djb_hackernews 5y ago
Uh...What?
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by djb_hackernews 5y ago
This topic is interesting. I am on the condo board in a 20 unit association, mostly attached townhomes. The biggest issue is the person in the "owners" unit, the one with the most invested, not playing ball with the other units. T
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by djb_hackernews 5y ago
Interesting. Are you using it prophylactically? Is this common in The Netherlands?
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by djb_hackernews 5y ago
Tell that to the lawyers who are paid lots of money to be risk adverse. As others point out, the law operates on precedent, no lawyer wants their decision to be the one that makes their employer a test piece.
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by djb_hackernews 6y ago
I'm going to blow your mind... The "mastering" process of audio mixing historically starts with the input of "slave" tapes...
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by djb_hackernews 7y ago
I just assume someone with a water sports fetish is about to get a dick pic.
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by djb_hackernews 8y ago
Is anyone aware of a chaos tool that isn't a SaaS (free or not) and doesn't require using Spinnaker like the current Netflix chaos tool does?
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by djb_hackernews 8y ago
> Also it's frankly weird how the last capitalist era there is basically enshrined in their culture No, I think your first list perfectly enshrines the effects of modern day capitalism on modern day Cuba... > garbage EVERYWHERE,
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Ask HN: Best way to put a database on the web?
2 points by djb_hackernews 8y ago|5 comments
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by djb_hackernews 8y ago
> and we both release the funds before parting way. Doesn't that require you to trust that they release the funds? Do smart contracts have a way to dispute an outcome?
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by djb_hackernews 8y ago
I'm a paying customer but can anyone tell me why shuffle play is the default? If i'm listening to an album I typically want to listen to it from start to finish and the extra clicks to do that are annoying. But there must be a rea
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by djb_hackernews 8y ago
Can you expand on that? In my experience nothing about Docker implies a performance impact in terms of size or start time.
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by djb_hackernews 8y ago
The clustering story for etcd is pretty lacking in general. The discovery mechanisms are not built for cattle type infrastructure or public clouds. ie it is difficult to bootstrap a cluster on a public cloud without first knowing the networ
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by djb_hackernews 8y ago
This has a name! Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
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by djb_hackernews 8y ago
It's the same advantages as running anything else in a container, cgroups and namespaces.
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by djb_hackernews 8y ago
> Trump is a skilled negotiator I think this meme died 6 months ago. If /s, carry on.

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