grantsucceeded

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by grantsucceeded 6mo ago
Thanks! This challenged coincided with my first dabblings into agentic coding. I wrote all my attempts in hand coded assembly, without doing any basic research. but your site is very entertaining and is reminding me of why the connection of
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by grantsucceeded 6mo ago
Wow. thank you so much for the writeup. I'm just now (last few months) dabbling with agentic coding, but being an oldschool tech guy I had to dive straight into assembly. It was just too hard for me to level up my agentic skills given
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by grantsucceeded 6mo ago
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I'm absolutely having a great time immersing myself in this, but I'm super sad about the day it will be taken down and i cant play anymore. Maybe that day is when the contest is over? Will there be
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by grantsucceeded 8mo ago
bravo!
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by grantsucceeded 8mo ago
On the advice of a 19 year old (I'm 60) I tried using the polarized sunglasses i keep in my car, at night. I helped. Ida know, can someone comment on whether that actually does reduce noise in whatever information is needed to drive sa
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by grantsucceeded 9mo ago
yesss! this x 1000
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by grantsucceeded 1y ago
pretty sure there is no salt water in the central valley either.
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by grantsucceeded 2y ago
yesssss. 1993 is when linux found me. i loved alt-F[1-4] on a vga screen i somehow managed to get higher (character based) resolution. when i started runing xwindows, i still bounced out to the console with (afair) ctrl-alt-f2? and just a f
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by grantsucceeded 2y ago
probably anyone this far in the thread remenbers long term capital managment, I did, but couldnt remenber if it was in the 80's or 90's. (1998) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/longtermcapital.asp
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by grantsucceeded 2y ago
Blame for using comic sans ? :)
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by grantsucceeded 2y ago
haha .. but i did work at google before fb. my memory is hazy, but when i started i was called an sre. Then someone made up the term "app ops". then it was production engineering. then I called myself an SRE when i was intervi
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by grantsucceeded 2y ago
Few companies experienced the explosive growth fb did, though many will claim to have done so. Hack made the existing codebase of php scale to insane levels while reaching escape velocity for the overall company to even attempt to transiti
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by grantsucceeded 2y ago
haha the reason I stayed as long as i did
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by grantsucceeded 2y ago
Magical? the interruptiopn part is just flow control at the edge. control-s, control-c stuff, right? not AI? The sound of a female voice to an audience 85% composed of males between the ages of 14 and 55 is "magical", not this t
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by grantsucceeded 2y ago
it seems like the ability to interrupt is more like the interrupt in the computer sense ... A control-c (or control-s tty flow control for you old timers), not a cognitive evaluation followed by the "reasoned" decision to pause vo
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by grantsucceeded 3y ago
so nobody read Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson? Basically, nanotec bots that spin around on command are put into the bodies of people, so they can be made to spin around and dissolve them from the inside out.