japhyr

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by japhyr 9d ago
Are you seeing companies that are in over their heads because they don't have enough domain knowledge? I think that's always been an issue in tech, but it feels like AI exacerbates the issue. I see people starting companies and se
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by japhyr 19d ago
For a bit of context, Juneau Alaska deals with a smaller scale version of this most years. There's a bowl off of the Mendenhall Glacier named Suicide Basin. Each summer that basin gets filled with meltwater, which forms a lake because
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by japhyr 29d ago
> I did a full (human) blank page rewrite three days ago You did a "blank page rewrite" of a 576 page book "three days ago"?
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by japhyr 1mo ago
Of course everyone hates AI. For most people, it's actively making their lives worse, not better. AI is a really effective technology when used with restraint, in appropriate places. But it's rarely being used with restraint, and
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by japhyr 2mo ago
Where are you located? Around 2020 I put together a landslide risk monitoring site that's entirely based on stream gauges: https://khmpsitka.org It's an interesting approach that's way simpler than relying on soil
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by japhyr 2mo ago
I didn't see this until this morning, and the continuing through for the whole 18 words was a really good experience. I got 14/18, and that was much more satisfying than ending at my first failure.
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by japhyr 2mo ago
Growing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today: https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart... I believe that'
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by japhyr 3mo ago
When vehicles were starting to get noticeably bigger about 20 years ago, I asked some family members why they were buying vehicles they had to climb up into. "On the highway, I'd rather kill someone than be killed in a wreck.&quot
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by japhyr 3mo ago
> In fact, I think Guido himself resigned due to the experience he had trying to get a PEP through the committee. If you're referring to the steering council, that group was created in response to Guido stepping down. He stepped dow
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by japhyr 3mo ago
> But adoption is the starting line, not the scoreboard. Yes yes, shout it from the rooftops! Over the next few years I think we're going to see that companies that get this point will keep doing meaningful things, and stand a chanc
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by japhyr 3mo ago
It depends on your definition of "threaten", but the short answer is yes. I live in a mountainous area that's a destination for road bikers and mountain bikers. There's lots of sources of tension between cyclists and dri
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by japhyr 3mo ago
So many areas in the US are much less walkable and bikeable than they used to be. I say that as someone who bicycle commuted for years. When I rode my bike to school as a kid I dealt with 25-35 mph traffic. The traffic was much lighter, the
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by japhyr 3mo ago
This is great, but it's also easy to go too far in this direction. This can work through elementary school and into middle school, but I don't think it works in high school. It's really hard to be a high school student withou
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by japhyr 4mo ago
Have you ever met Chad? I have no doubt this is sincere.
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by japhyr 4mo ago
I met Chad during the gittip years, and one of my life goals now is to go find him in the offline world some day and sit around an open fire at night to share stories. :) I wish I still had my gittip penny, but I seem to have lost it in sev
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by japhyr 4mo ago
Anecdotal data point: My son is finishing 9th grade, and he's taking 10th grade math because he got ahead a year when he was younger. At his school, you're exempted from having to take the final exam if you're passing with a
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by japhyr 4mo ago
I'm partway through Anthony Shaw's NDC talk, "Are LLMs good software engineers?" One of the realizations he shares is that he found himself treating AI assistants like junior engineers. Then he realized they're like
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by japhyr 5mo ago
People are talking about Covid, smartphones/screens, social media, and AI. No one has mentioned defunding public education yet. In Alaska, where I lived most of the last 20 years, education has been largely flat funded for about a deca
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by japhyr 5mo ago
> With most parks the crowds quickly disappear once you are 2 miles in. And those crowds just aren't present in the early morning. Nobody gets up early enough to be out at sunrise. I'm not worried about saying this out loud and
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by japhyr 6mo ago
From my understanding there are a lot of companies that need their own package repositories, for a variety of reasons. I listened to a couple podcasts where Charlie Marsh outlined their plans for pyx, and why they felt their entry into that
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by japhyr 6mo ago
This has me thinking about VS Code and VS Codium. I've used VS Code for a while now, but recently grew annoyed at the increasingly prevalent prompts to subscribe to various Microsoft AI tools. I know you can make them go away, but if y
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by japhyr 6mo ago
Astral was building a private package hosting system for enterprise customers. That was their stated approach to becoming profitable, while continuing to fund their open source work.
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by japhyr 6mo ago
The last section focuses on how to use LLMs to make contributions: > Use an LLM to develop your comprehension. I really like that, because it gets past the simpler version that we usually see, "You need to understand your PR."
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by japhyr 6mo ago
> One of the main issues is that pointing to your GitHub contributions and activity is now part of the hiring process. If I were hiring at this moment, I'd look at the ratio of accepted to rejected PRs from any potential candidate.
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by japhyr 6mo ago
I'd be curious to know what portion of that 40% makes any meaningful income from their open source work. I would guess that most of those people are being paid a small appreciation amount for the work they're doing, not something
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by japhyr 7mo ago
I have a friend who's fond of saying, "GitHub stars are great for measuring the number of GitHub stars a project has."
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by japhyr 7mo ago
That's part of why they are trying to take control of elections, which have (I believe) historically been the responsibility of each state.
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by japhyr 7mo ago
I think you are right. I'll edit my comment to point to this.
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by japhyr 7mo ago
You're absolutely right that some individuals will be able to sign up for this program, and remember to cancel at the end of the six months. However, when companies choose to implement a policy like this they're acting on well-est

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