francoisdevlin

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by francoisdevlin 5d ago
Not the parent, but it's half joke half truth. Anyone who's done a lot of "first principles" work falls into this trap a bit, it's an issue across stem fields. Most grow out of it, or at least learn to qualify thei
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by francoisdevlin 1mo ago
Wait, are you talking about llms or people?
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by francoisdevlin 3mo ago
I use vi because I'm not a savage
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by francoisdevlin 5mo ago
As an old hand that's managed many people, I can tell you this is true.
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by francoisdevlin 2y ago
As a tech manager with twenty years experience, I can assure you, in fact, engineers are people. And they interact with those MBAs, project managers, etc. The really good product/project people understand this as well, and make a poin
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
Dude, that is sick.
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
As a father to both biological and adopted children, I couldn't agree more. I'm Dad to all of them.
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
The strength of unciv is how close it comes to civ 5, and for that I loved it.
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
I had a zip disk for all my work in college. It's completely impractical for anything these days, but it was so much fun. Having 100mb in your bag in the era of floppies made you feel like a king.
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
What makes you think the residuals would fare better than the options? The risk is about the same, yes?
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
There's a lot to belts https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-176
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
Not quite. It's simply an argument that the money will end up back in healthcare, just maybe further down the line, and maybe that's okay. Just remember that as everything else gets cheaper, the percentage that is spent on healthc
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
Would it, or would it simply delay the bill? Every one of us must pay the final price at some point.
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
A data point - the capital one AWS breach ended up costing $270M[1]. While they weren't destroyed, it wasn't cheap either. 1. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/capital-one-...
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
Smells like breakfast
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by francoisdevlin 3y ago
That's a nice tractor you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it. Can I interest you in some protection... Err, 3 year service plan?
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by francoisdevlin 4y ago
I once wrote a math library with using the letters delta and epsilon. It was cute, but I had to copy/paste every time. Never, ever again.
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by francoisdevlin 4y ago
What do you recommend instead?
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by francoisdevlin 4y ago
You need to start merchandising. Complexity very, very, bad.
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by francoisdevlin 4y ago
GRUG? Is that you?
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by francoisdevlin 4y ago
Dude, no. The sheet number of times I've seen candidates point blank lie to my face in a zoom is to high. Spend some time at the manager's side of the table in the interview process and you'll see this immediately. This is a
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by francoisdevlin 4y ago
Careful, you might turn into a Boggle-head if you follow that logic too far...
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by francoisdevlin 4y ago
Productivity 3 modules anyone?
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by francoisdevlin 4y ago
Anecdote not data Some of the grocery shops near me are known union shops. The prices are in fact higher than the non union shops.
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by francoisdevlin 4y ago
Right, but experience has taught me that construction equipment has nothing on my toddler...
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by francoisdevlin 5y ago
If you seriously need legal advice talk to an attorney, not HN.
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by francoisdevlin 5y ago
Gotta give patio11 some love here... https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/
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by francoisdevlin 5y ago
Honest question here, slightly of topic. How do you handle indexing a compressed column? Or is this considered an anti-pattern?
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by francoisdevlin 5y ago
So I just had a hit on a real word (pejorative), not sure if that's the plan or not https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/oLvV
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by francoisdevlin 5y ago
Here comes 1.1.42. I'd expect it cob Monday, even Wube would get the weekend

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