dmazzoni

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by dmazzoni 6d ago
No, most people don't cheat. The world would fall apart if they did. In a lot of occupations the skills you learn in college are real and meaningful. If you don't have the skills, you can't do the job. You can't fake it
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by dmazzoni 6d ago
When Chrome 1.0 came out in 2008, it only ran on Windows, and it couldn't do basic things like print or export to PDF, didn't have any accessibility, didn't work in RTL languages, and didn't have any graphics acceleratio
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by dmazzoni 6d ago
This is based on my understanding from several pilots who have weighted in. The cockpit voice recorder transcript has the copilot repeatedly saying "we're coming in too fast" but the pilot never clearly acknolwedges. The copi
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by dmazzoni 12d ago
In practice that’s a lot of the value MCPs are providing. Technically it’d work just as well to have a thin API wrapper or cli tool the agent is allowed to access.
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by dmazzoni 1mo ago
I think that’s true when you compare to the average white collar professional who does a lot of writing: better at writing, not better at communicating. But compared to the average adult? I think you forget just how bad at writing the avera
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by dmazzoni 1mo ago
As opposed to what? If you ask a non-programmer to install Claude Code, just installing it will be a challenge, then opening the shell and interacting with it. Things as simple as copying and pasting can present roadblocks if you've ne
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by dmazzoni 3mo ago
This feels like trying to rewrite history. Those of us who lived through that time know that it was real - Microsoft was extremely anti-Linux. That famous Ballmer quote wasn't taken out of context, it was one of many. Ballmer and Gates
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by dmazzoni 3mo ago
When has 20% projects ever been about bypassing every launch process and just posting your product publicly? Google may be a big bureaucracy now, but launch approvals and processes are there for a reason.
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by dmazzoni 3mo ago
My initial thought there is that you'd have an imbalance. Many token patterns would almost never come up with the assistant tag on them, for example words with typos in them.
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by dmazzoni 3mo ago
255 characters ought to be enough for everybody, right?
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by dmazzoni 3mo ago
Save As works fine for simple websites with static content. Let's say you have a site that fetches content from a database. If you Save As, then at best you'll get a local copy of an HTML page with JS that loads the content from t
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by dmazzoni 3mo ago
Not all JavaScript, but a lot of APIs are restricted
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by dmazzoni 4mo ago
Sure, but it used to be only a small fraction of students, not nearly half the entering class
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by dmazzoni 4mo ago
If only there was a national standardized test that assessed whether students are prepared for college or not. Oh, wait
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by dmazzoni 4mo ago
Why is that better than just requiring the SAT, which while imperfect does a great job at weeding out students who have A’s in math but can’t solve 8th grade algebra problems.
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by dmazzoni 4mo ago
I remember at Google at around 2007 - 2009, as Google was massively expanding its data centers, there was a lot of unused capacity, especially during off-hours. Any engineer could run as many jobs as they wanted at zero priority, which mean
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by dmazzoni 4mo ago
Do you really think this "works great"? I'm using a brand-new MacBook Pro with a high-end M5 processor, and this site is extremely unresponsive for me. Huge latency between clicking and getting feedback. It also breaks access
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by dmazzoni 4mo ago
There are periods of time where I might spend 80% of my time "coding", meaning I have minimal meetings and other responsibilities. However, even out of that 80% of my time, what fraction is actually spent "writing code"?
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by dmazzoni 6mo ago
Exactly. If you want Apple-quality headphones to go with your MacBook Neo, the USB-C Earpods are $19: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/myqy3am/a/earpods-usb-c
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by dmazzoni 6mo ago
I think mobile deposit by scanning a check with your smartphone camera is one piece of it? I've never seen a bank offer that feature via their website.
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by dmazzoni 7mo ago
Yeah, but there are dozens of AI coding assistants to choose from, and the cost to switch is very low, unlike switching operating systems. I've tried them all and I keep coming back to Claude Code because it's just so much more ca
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by dmazzoni 7mo ago
Also it's highly multithreaded / multiprocess - you can run subagents that can communicate with each other, you can interrupt it while it's in the middle of thinking and it handles it gracefully without forgetting what it was
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by dmazzoni 8mo ago
If you watch the climb you'll see that the skyscraper definitely wasn't quite so straightforward - there were some interesting challenges along the way. Of course, no question El Cap was technically far more challenging.
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by dmazzoni 9mo ago
Yes, in WebKit, SaferCPP guidelines are enforced by a static analysis tool.
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by dmazzoni 1y ago
I was at Google when the Flutter team started building Fuchsia. They had amazing talent. Seriously, some of the most brilliant engineers I've worked with. They had a huge team. Hundreds of people. It was so ambitious. But it seemed lik
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by dmazzoni 1y ago
Has it been good leadership, though? They invested BILLIONS of dollars on things like: * Firefox OS * Mozilla Persona * Mozilla VPN * Firefox for TV (e.g. Amazon Fire) * Lockwise * Mozilla Hubs Did anyone ask for those things? What a huge w
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by dmazzoni 1y ago
But if your goal is to be a musician, a music degree is basically useless. Whether you want to play in an orchestra, perform in a rock band, or compose video game soundtracks, nobody cares whether you have a degree or not - they want to hea
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by dmazzoni 1y ago
Consider that there is some in-between. Some college students may be genuinely interested in one particular subject, but they're required to take a bunch of other courses, and consider those to just be hurdles. I still think they'
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
The Grammy awards for music are the same thing. Members aren't required to listen to the nominated albums, and every member gets to vote in every category. I had a friend who was a Recording Academy member as a classical musician. He t
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
Ha ha, that's a great idea! I love the idea of embedding sensitive topics that ChatGPT and other LLMs will steer clear of, within the context of a coding question. Have you ever had any candidate laugh? Any candidates find it offensive

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