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by jp57 7d ago
We have a new senior engineer on my team who is from SF and was last at a big SF tech firm. Today I noticed him, in one conversation, describing something as "load-bearing" and also describing something as "trap-door-shaped&
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by jp57 8d ago
This is insulting to Shakespeare.
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by jp57 8d ago
But why did that style of writing get rewarded? The people at Anthropic are ultimately responsible for the reward signal and what it produced.
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by jp57 8d ago
Let's face it. Claude (in particular) is a terrible writer. There's a whole cottage industry of skills and CLAUDE.md instructions trying to push it toward writing better, but each new model iteration seems expressly designed to
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by jp57 23d ago
Boats didn't go away with the demise sailing as a commercially viable mode of transport.
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by jp57 23d ago
I fall into the category of senior engineers who benefit from LLMs for all the reasons mentioned in this post. I find it's possible to agree completely with sentiments like this and still feel as if this is all written in the sand bel
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by jp57 28d ago
Or you could use 1/360 of a turn.
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by jp57 28d ago
There is no mention of how many of the surveyed workers are even able to work remotely. A large healthcare organization is likely to employ many people who must be on-site in a hospital or clinic to even do their jobs, from doctors and n
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by jp57 29d ago
This. My wife and I both thought the low-rolling-resistance tires on our hybrids felt very unsafe in the rain. My Audi A3-etron's tires were also by far the least durable tires I have had on a car in my 40+ years of driving. I prema
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by jp57 1mo ago
The shrinking reservoirs are the immediate result of record-low snowpack this winter, which was erased by record heat in the spring. Melted snowpack creates most of the Colorado’s flow during the dry summer months. But as the Southwestern
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by jp57 1mo ago
Leaving aside the quibbling over the meaning of the word leadership, I'll say I personally agree with this sentiment. I returned to a senior IC role after six years managing a small team just as agentic coding was starting to happen.
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by jp57 1mo ago
While spitting out numbers, these machines generated exorbitant profits over decades for the company that would become known as IBM. Funny that IBM would describe its own profits as “exorbitant”. A little truth in advertising for once?
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by jp57 1mo ago
Having more old people is even more of a reason to make it easy to get air conditioning. I live in the USA, and there are certainly many ways in which the USA is negligent on health care, but making sure people can stay cool in hot weather
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by jp57 1mo ago
Don't they have to heat them in the winter too? That also costs more and creates more emissions without insulation.
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by jp57 1mo ago
[H]ow do you propose Europe protect not only people from the heat, but [all these other things]? Why does it have to be framed as all-or-nothing? I agree that using air conditioning to reduce the number of people who die from the heat do
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by jp57 1mo ago
The warming is terrible and deadly, AND ALSO Europeans are negligent in not protecting themselves however they can. The idea that Europe could slow warming by not using air-conditioning is absurd, when the emissions mostly come from elsewhe
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by jp57 1mo ago
There are so many strange things about the original Dunning-Kruger plot. Why use quartiles for one axis and percentile for the other? Why use higher precision for the subject's estimate, which is by definition imprecise, and lower p
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by jp57 2mo ago
I don't think this is the death of creativity. It is just a new kind of non-creativity. He is comparing to a baseline of zero (or perhaps negative) creativity before AI. Without AI, it's likely that neither of these videos would
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by jp57 3mo ago
I think one of the saddest thing is that the kind of person who would recognize, "we can solve this seemingly complicated problem by just applying this formula", would often have trouble even getting recognized in many corporate e
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by jp57 3mo ago
What does it mean for an OS to be ported to another OS? Do they mean "ported to devices that support Android"?
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by jp57 3mo ago
I think this brings out the cognitive dissonance around "safety" regarding cyber security: a) In order to make us safe, the LLM should help us find (and fix) the vulnerabilities in our own code. b) In order for us to be safe, the
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by jp57 3mo ago
Not specifically about drinking water or jackets, but I've often wondered why air-conditioning condensate is plumbed into the sewer instead of someplace useful. An A/C is a water-from-air device, and they run in much of the year
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by jp57 3mo ago
I think he could have gotten away with naming his daughter Photophone, but he would have to pronounce it as if she were a character from an ancient greek epic: phoTOphoNEE.
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by jp57 3mo ago
It wasn’t wrong, though, in my case.
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by jp57 3mo ago
Actually seems absurdly simple now, but sometime last year I was trying to figure out what I'd need to tow my daughter's car cross country with my truck: what are the trailer/dolly options, what do they cost, can my truck act
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by jp57 4mo ago
Just recently it occurred to me that the sage parenting advice, "Don't try to make a happy baby happier," applies to so many other things. Once I had this idea, it seemed like everywhere I looked were people trying to make h
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by jp57 4mo ago
That’s far more believable than 10,000 elevator attendants. I was an adult in 1990 and used travel agents. But I can’t remember ever encountering an elevator attendant.
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by jp57 4mo ago
I really think a majority of NYTimes and ABCnews consumers don't know the difference between a 2/3 chance (super close) of winning and 2/3 of the vote (a landslide).
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by jp57 4mo ago
Wait. There were 10000 elevator attendants in the USA in 1990?
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by jp57 4mo ago
Well, he is standing still, the camera is stationary. For just that last segment, it is easy to answer "how did he do it?" Write out his remarks, rehearse with a timer, then figure out at what point in the countdown to begin sp

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