kelseydh

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by kelseydh 1mo ago
A change in the direction of protobufs to reduce serialization and transfer costs of data exchange seems most likely the next trend.
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
Mostly the former, but occasionally it goes back and forth for awhile as alignment need ironing out. That's the other thing about engineering arguments: both people are aligned in seeing an end result. People in online arguments don
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
I used to work in politics, where sadly, the goal is to change people's opinions. At this level I did succeed in changing many opinions. The most effective way to change an individual's opinion is to calmly provide facts to them
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
I "argue" constantly with my coworkers: they are savage in PR reviews identifying mistakes/improvements, and I give it back the same. It's collegial, not hostile or insulting. Yet it's arguing nonetheless. We are e
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
But still, assuming California Pacific time, is that midnight, 9am, noon or ?
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
What time exactly tomorrow is Anthropic making Fable 5 available? (It's already July 1st in Australia!)
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
Oops my bad, HN won't let me edit the comment. Yes I meant eastern parts of British Columbia.
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
Because solar and wind are renewable, cheaper and cleaner than nuclear. They don't require destructive mining for enriched uranium or create the security implications of dealing with fissile material. Solar/wind do not create lon
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
Most electricity generation is handled by the government already, particularly in Canada. Worldwide approximately 88% of global electricity generation capacity is owned or controlled by national and local governments. Some Canadian province
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
Exciting development. I really wish somebody would nail a commercially viable Thorium reactor but it seems there are real engineering complications around scaling molten salt reactors.
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
Some storage can be had for cheap from existing capacity. Hydroelectric dams with reservoirs, abundant in Canada already, can function like a battery to cover times when solar/wind is low.
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
The East Kootenays still hasn't decided what timezone to align with. They used to align with Alberta (w/ daylight savings switching) as well. Then B.C. announced their change and the East Kootenays announced they were aligning t
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
Lesser known is that western parts of British Columbia are still debating what timezone to adopt. E.g. the East Kootenays which used to align with Alberta's mountain time w/ daylight savings is now debating whether to align wi
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
While you're not wrong the problem is they own the company or the board listens to them. They have power they can use to keep existing while you don't. This is why AI is so scary to working professionals.
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
Advice I would add: use a tire when splitting firewood to hold the logs together. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMv6-SYzv-Q Wood no longer goes flying. Much easier to chop quickly.
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
We have so many automated workflows and pipelines moving through Github Actions + other Github integrations it would be a giant headache to migrate. Not clear where we would go either. Gitlab??
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by kelseydh 3mo ago
Apparently Github is experiencing a huge increase in usage due to LLMs and this is the cause for a lot of their instability as of late.
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
Sorry this screams LLM voice in the way it was written that it was off putting to read. You might be right though.
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
Feels so insane reading those kind of numbers as a Canadian.
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
Enrolment in computer science skyrocketed five-fold from 2009 to 2024. Dropped 15% since, for obvious reasons.
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
Work will even flag you for you using a VPN on your phone, e.g. if you check the company Slack.
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
This flexibility can exist for office jobs, but customer-facing roles typically need somebody present for the whole shift.
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
It won't close the skill gap bump, but the more an AI aimbot degrades itself to mimic a human to beat cheat detection the less advantage it will give to the players using it. It is scary how nuanced the cheating tools already here. He
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
Chess anti-cheat now relies on looking at your moves and spotting mistakes. Not even grandmasters play tactically perfect games so this works pretty well for finding cheaters. In theory FPS games could do the same to detect aimbotting.
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
Feel the third so much with LLM's. But I get the sense younger generations aren't a fan of where it's moving the world either.
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
"Despite its failure, the Great Pigeon Census of 1887 is remembered as a cautionary tale..." This type of writing is considered non-encyclopedic by Wikipedia standards as it injects superficial analysis. The imitation articles wo
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
Does anybody have a demo of this technology in use? I'm very curious to see how it sounds in practice. Uncanny or hyperrealistic?
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by kelseydh 4mo ago
On the flip side there are people who believe that LLM-assisted coding changes require attribution in git history.
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by kelseydh 5mo ago
Really sucks we never got to see any of the prototypes or designs they built for it.
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by kelseydh 5mo ago
I needed a fuzzy string matching algorithm for finding best name matches among a candidate list. Considered Normalized Levenshtein Distance but ended up using Jaro-Winkler. I'm curious if anybody has good resources on when to use each

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