dovys

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by dovys 2mo ago
metric is base10. you'd want a to start with 1 day being a single earth revolution and scale it down. 1/10th of a day is a deciday (an hour) and so on. or start with a certain period of cesium decay as a second and scale up
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by dovys 10mo ago
In about a decade. UIs tend to linger for long
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by dovys 10mo ago
At least in UK we don't turn off half the internet when football matches are on. Looking at you, Spain
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by dovys 10mo ago
AI as a term is getting synonymous with low quality slop which is a shame since weather forecasts are almost certainly not done with LLMs and it's likely an improvement than slopification
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by dovys 10mo ago
You're either free OSS that gets flooded with AI slop PRs to overwhelm maintainers or you're a corporate OSS that uses AI slop to frustrate contributors. Are there any positive stories I've not seen?
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by dovys 1y ago
I'm hopeful. However so long Meta, Apple and Google use them for interviewing, new grads going to have to keep grinding for best odds of landing internships and offers
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by dovys 1y ago
It really bums me out that these mega corps can't spend a little to ensure nearby residents are not left worse off. Maybe you can't fix the water wells, but perhaps you can just pay for a filtration system for nearby residents. Al
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by dovys 1y ago
Is this just Elon shitposting through Grok's account
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by dovys 1y ago
Why do we still have SMS. It seems to be solely used for weak 2FA, account takeovers and scams.
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by dovys 1y ago
Majority of my phone usage outside of reading HN is through dedicated apps. News, social media, chats and even substack. If I was building a product today, web would be quite low on the priority list outside of SEO capture.
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by dovys 1y ago
If you want to climb the career ladder this is a good mindset to have. As someone who got into engineering cause I like to build neat products for people, it's a hard mindset to adopt. It switches your goals from what is the best for t
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by dovys 1y ago
From past experience, CloudFormation is full of footguns that if you don't take time to understand them, you'll loose a foot and often in production. Most notably, when a rollback kicks in there is no way to stop it. And it largel
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by dovys 1y ago
We need ratings for cooling, not just retaining heat. Houses in this country are still built like the winter is coming
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by dovys 1y ago
Ah, classic Forbes. Why having several jobs should be the norm since one is no longer enough to live
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by dovys 1y ago
I can't imagine trusting any LLM for private messaging that doesn't come as part of OS
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by dovys 1y ago
If your company is big enough to have a dedicated k8s team, chances are deleting an entire team won't directly boost your comp. Better to sell the entire endeavor as change of responsibilities - from a team that manages k8s to one th
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by dovys 1y ago
Do we have examples of unions in high-paying jobs? Even if so, with the market cooling off it would be a hard sell
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by dovys 1y ago
Eerily he formed a bond with a chatbot. Reminds me of Her movie
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by dovys 1y ago
You are trying to convince the team they don't need to exist while their livelihood depends on the opposite
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by dovys 1y ago
Speculation, get rich quick schemes and scams. They will exist no matter what. At least the barrier to entry to get scammed is higher with crypto than just online payments
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by dovys 2y ago
Handling durability for RPCs is a neat idea. Can you do chained rollbacks? ie an rpc down the call stack fails to revert the whole stack instead of retrying?