gspetr

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by gspetr 1mo ago
> Combine A + B Really, compress. Compression is a useful proxy for intelligence. To compress data efficiently, an entity must discover the underlying patterns, structures, and regularities within that data. Identifying these structures
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by gspetr 3mo ago
> Do the anti-DST people understand what they're advocating for? They do, which is why only 45 countries observe DST. 25 observe it partially. And the rest, roughly ~125 countries do not. Historically, ~140 countries did. To put thi
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by gspetr 3mo ago
The government? Or your government? Because there are countries where national or state governments do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_hours#Germany
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by gspetr 3mo ago
https://www.amarisoft.com/company/about-us
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by gspetr 3mo ago
> formalize these 20 pages of requirements, death by powerpoint style, and put it in our suggestion box - I just pass on that. Why pass on it now? There has never been a better time in history to deal with it than today: AI can oneshot m
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by gspetr 3mo ago
$20/kg is a wild claim. A typical American semi-truck (18-wheeler) can carry between 40,000 and 45,000 pounds (20 to 22.5 tons) can travel only 160k miles (2/3 distance to the Moon) on a budget of $400k (i.e. $20/kg). Do you
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by gspetr 3mo ago
You're right about reason #1. And you've probably heard about strong contenders for #2 and #3. There's a famous quote attributed to the Italian military commander Gian Giacomo Trivulzio in 1499. When asked by King Louis XII o
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by gspetr 4mo ago
You're thinking of a perfect world. We're not in it. In this one there are often thousands of applicants for a position, most of which can't pass FizzBuzz. Why would they (or anyone for that matter) choose a candidate who can
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by gspetr 4mo ago
No worries. My point is, if you get asked questions that seem simple to the point where you feel they're asking if "water is wet", then you need to keep your own thinking process extremely simple in response. The reason is
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by gspetr 4mo ago
It's simple, unless you're given a specific broader context (like we have an enterprise customer data pruning system that needs to handle a broad range of corner cases) then you must not resort to overengineering this early in a
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by gspetr 4mo ago
No, there's literally a "find" str method. str.find(sub[, start[, end]]) "Return the lowest index in the string where substring sub is found within the slice s[start:end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted
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by gspetr 4mo ago
I don't understand how you jumped to the membership test instead of literally the .find() method on a string? The interviewer is not asking to solve a problem here, they're asking for a simple ability to follow instructions, hence
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by gspetr 4mo ago
Step 1: https://www.google.com/search?q=list+python+string+methods Step 2: Parse the output with your eyes. The method is literally called "find". This one-trick pony failure mode could perhaps have been fine fo
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by gspetr 5mo ago
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QFHIoCo-Ko Also, check his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/
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by gspetr 5mo ago
You mean the same Anthropic, that wouldn't blink an eye at intentionally overcharging users hundreds of dollars just for having a HERMES.md file in a repo, would be above taking your data for... ethical reasons?
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by gspetr 5mo ago
What's stopping you from making the trivial adjustment to the original question: "Who is the next likely person after Satoshi Nakamoto to have authored this"?
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by gspetr 5mo ago
> Comma placement isn't really part of the language; it's part of the education system. Interestingly, LLMs disagree with you. Your statement is only accurate in an extremely narrow case, like if you were there to hear the pers
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by gspetr 5mo ago
The example you've provided just adds noise. sha256 is deterministic, LLMs are not, even at temperature set to 0.
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by gspetr 5mo ago
For Jevons paradox to be a win-win, you need these 3 statements to be true: 1)Workers get more productive thanks to AI. 2)Higher worker productivity translates into lower prices. 3)Most importantly, consumer demand needs to explode in react
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by gspetr 6mo ago
> Who even is the deep state any more? The same thing it's always been: The military-industrial complex. > MAGA was sure it was backroom democrats. It's not that hard to distinguish "them", just look at how fast th
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by gspetr 6mo ago
Yes, they do. OGs remember that Facebook circa 2012 had navigation take like 5-10 seconds. Ben Horowitz recalled asking Zuck what his engineer onboarding process was when the latter complained to him about how it took them very long to make
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by gspetr 6mo ago
The "very often" part is wild to me. You'd think being an engineer himself[0] he'd fix the root cause: the testing process, not work as an IC QA himself. [0] He holds the title of Chief Engineer at SpaceX.
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by gspetr 6mo ago
> anyone capable of using Linux is capable of hacking out that BS and getting a generally superior experience. Go ahead, try to delete the useless Microsoft Edge browser if you're not in a select few EU countries. In my experience,
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by gspetr 6mo ago
People will just forge IDs with LLMs. This measure is basically unenforceable, and wastes everyone's time and money.
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by gspetr 6mo ago
A), which is the status quo. I don't see any other option as realistic. B) makes things worse in several ways, but primarily by stifling innovation. Only large incumbents will have no trouble paying for the measures required to ensure
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by gspetr 6mo ago
It's because there's a built-in conflict of interest in most for-profit companies. It's in a business' best interest to maximize demand for its products. Which is mostly fine for society, country, and the world by large
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by gspetr 6mo ago
> many people lack any sense that they should be aware of others around them. It's not "people". One half of all people grows up playing contact sports or at least have some form of rough-and-tumble with their homies in sc
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by gspetr 6mo ago
Andreessen Horowitz was a major backer of Slack's predecessor, Tiny Speck, which was originally building a game called Glitch. When Glitch failed in 2012, founder Stewart Butterfield offered to return the remaining $6 million to invest
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by gspetr 6mo ago
> "average" developer is going to have an extremely hard time finding a position. As was foretold in the Tyler Cowen's eponymous 2013 book "Average Is Over". In it he argued that the modern economy will undergo a
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by gspetr 7mo ago
I have found a bigger context window qute useful when trying to make sense of larger codebases. Generating documentation on how different components interact is better than nothing, especially if the code has poor test coverage. I've a

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