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by harshaw 15d ago
if you use these things to generate design docs / text, it should be good news if it is actually better at prose as advertised. Some people like sol for prose better the anthropic models.
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by harshaw 19d ago
This is somewhat orthogonal to the article, but the whole bubble on AI data centers seems to presume that the need for compute is so massive that it far exceeds the expected optimizations we would expect with at scale inference (PIM, ASICs,
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by harshaw 21d ago
Some other commentators said this was AI slop. I don't have enough expertise to say if it really is, but it sure has the "claudish" cadence of AI generated text that makes it hard to take it seriously. The authoritative and
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by harshaw 24d ago
I've heard it's writing style referred to as "Claudish". I agree that it is very hard to read and creates work for me.
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by harshaw 4mo ago
I really wanted to stay in the google chromebook / googlebook echo system. But the hardware was expensive for what you get. Apple announced the macbook neo and I picked one up. Great hardware. can run light weight mac software. I
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by harshaw 5mo ago
this post will probably never be read but.. I was on the team that was trying to make the marriage of S3 and EFS work a year ago. it's a pretty hard problem. At one point we proposed this solution (which seems like a caching layer) b
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by harshaw 7mo ago
somewhat off topic, but I really am not sure that adding chromebooks to every school has made education better. hard to block youtube when they bring these home (I know you can, but the average person can't).
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by harshaw 7mo ago
If you don't want to go through your insurance company you can check out an app we built called RoadClub. You get points for safe driving behavior - and you can get the hard brake alerts. Is it a bit annoying? yes. You can't ju
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by harshaw 7mo ago
Nice research. This is fairly well known in insurance circles. Most auto insurers that do telematics consider hard braking the strongest indicator of risk. One of the things that we do at work (Cambridge Mobile Telematics) is build tools
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by harshaw 8mo ago
I am confused about what Tesla is doing. They have effectively two automobile products now with one failed product (cybertruck). reading various articles about this doesn't make it more clear. Do they not want to be a car company?
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by harshaw 9mo ago
Full disclosure: I am pretty sour on the current Amazon/AWS leadership as I think, well, they couldn't lead a company out of a paper bag (former manager at AWS). Is there data that Amazon/AWS is still hiring junior devs? I&#
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by harshaw 10mo ago
Why? I look at this. I want engineers to use the tools on the stuff that AI is good at so we can do more high value work.
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by harshaw 11mo ago
If I were to summarize how we attacked this when I was on AWS (different team) formal methods. Some of this started a long time ago so not sure if it was TLA, TLA+, or something else. (I am a useless manager type) fake clients / serv
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by harshaw 11mo ago
i'll bite. Please give me an example of questions that are scientifically validated.
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by harshaw 11mo ago
not quite true - there are some regions that have a different set of AWS users / credentials. I can't remember what this is called off the top of my head.
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by harshaw 1y ago
I think this is an astonishingly dumb take. Regardless of what you think of Musk, SpaceX is building a fundamentally important reusable lift technology that can be the underpinning of some many future developments. Who cares if China gets
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U.S. Is Losing Race to Return to Moon(nytimes.com)
5 points by harshaw 1y ago|6 comments
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by harshaw 1y ago
Sounds more like an object system (immutable) with the veneer of a file system for their use cases. I sort of read the doc - sounds like data is replicated and not erasure encoded (so perhaps more expensive?). I think many people have sai
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by harshaw 1y ago
I did Symbian programming back in the day. IIRC the Sony-Erricson P800. It was not developer friendly. The memory management model was hard to program and could crash easily. Also did some work with Nokia on the N60. I was working at Ora
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by harshaw 1y ago
My problem is that there is a reauth FOMA that gets copied with the most trivial of applications. A good example is the Electrify America charging app. It's job is to be available so you can charge. But they log you out frequently -
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by harshaw 1y ago
This isn't so much about the Author's story but the space. He is correct that marketplaces are hell, and especially auto repair market places. I was one of the several devs that went through trying to make Openbay work (a US bas
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by harshaw 2y ago
They should make anyone who denies anesthesia for a colonoscopy drink that awful orange flavored drink you take the night before. This is just like... basic care.
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by harshaw 2y ago
Random comment: slide 10 talks about using Twisted and then adding a twisted middle layer. 2010 me (or earlier) liked Twisted a ton but not sure I would have foisted this technology on a development team. As a single dev doing all kinds o
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by harshaw 2y ago
There is room in storage for many kind of products with different sets of tradeoffs. And don't underestimate the ability of a startup to move much faster than AWS.
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by harshaw 2y ago
What company?
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by harshaw 2y ago
As an amazonian, this has come up during the five day RTO discussion. As a manager, I can't imagine a more obvious way to destroy the service that I help run and then really risk losing customer trust. I we are all cogs at some point
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by harshaw 2y ago
maybe. In my case my big project was cancelled and my engineers borrowed to work on an away team. So yeah, not super productive after that. But other times it was very busy and rewarding.
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by harshaw 2y ago
we already do that on my team- you can hardly respond to a pager in 10 minutes if you commuting. I suppose it's an unofficial policy but we never got any pushback from it.
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by harshaw 2y ago
Money, but that has diminishing value. The quality of life I would lose by going into the office 5 days a week is too high.
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by harshaw 2y ago
Cool hack. Funny to see them drive onto RT 2 after alewife and have a 25 mph limit as everyone floors it. Also not sure where an mbta train ever hits 55.

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