kjellsbells

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by kjellsbells 3d ago
A few years into my career I realized that I was not cut out to code. Luckily I worked for a good employer and they told me that code was 5% of the business regardless of what the sign over the door said. Over the next 20 years I spent time
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by kjellsbells 14d ago
LLMs reflect the data in the corpus, and that corpus is essentially in American Business English, which has long been the lingua franca of the Internet. I bet a large %age of the HN readership are consuming the tech stack in their second or
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by kjellsbells 16d ago
Discussed in a 2017 National Geographic article[0], archived here[1]. Notice the article text's description of the honey being sold on the black market. Seems that now everyone is shopping there. [0] https://www.nationalgeog
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by kjellsbells 16d ago
Parse the question more closely: Has [early] Scratch [experience] [led to] [fulfilling] [careers]? All those modifiers create so much leeway that answering the question can be no more than a parlor game. How early? What kind of experience?
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by kjellsbells 20d ago
Enough of it happened that people felt it personally. Disney being a notorious example[0]. ConEd[1], AT&T[2], there are others. I generally discount the stories from anti-immigration sources like CIS because they dislike all immigration
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by kjellsbells 21d ago
Two things can be true at once, though. For every 10 diamonds, there are a hundred pebbles. Current administration policy thinks to shut the whole pipeline down. Missing diamonds? Tough. Previous US policy was to let in the whole set, hopin
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by kjellsbells 23d ago
Isn't "everything in a database" what AS/400 and PICK operating systems do? Then there was Microsoft WinFS, which promised much but got killed in ~2003. A shame.
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by kjellsbells 24d ago
Having WiFi 8 (or even 7) on your access point is only really useful if you have a population of clients that can use the features it offers. I regularly sample the devices attached to residential wifi routers and the facts are grim: in a h
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by kjellsbells 25d ago
It doesnt help that PowerPoint itself has a truly horrible templating system. Try building a template from scratch and you'll see the ur-template has about 8 styles which are themselves very fragile and whose objects carry different de
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by kjellsbells 25d ago
I sometimes wonder if the weird vibe (and magic) of New Orleans has something to do with the absolutely swampy conditions. NOLA is fungus central just because of the heat and moisture. Growth on every building, every tree, wall, etc. Can me
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by kjellsbells 25d ago
If Alice and Bob strike a deal then Alice must be confident that an acceptable subset of her interests are met and that Bob will stick to the deal. If Bob shows evidence of not sticking to deals, there's little point in Alice striking
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by kjellsbells 25d ago
That's an uncharitable take. Blog posts can and should exist at every level of expertise and depth. What's trivially easy and hardly worth blogging about to you might be the gateway/lightbulb moment to someone else, no?
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by kjellsbells 26d ago
If your enterprise is one of those corporate fortune 500 types that has Salesforce, you basically have to have Slack as it's the easiest, fastest, or at least the least miserable way of interacting with Salesforce. My friends in knowle
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by kjellsbells 26d ago
latexr below makes a good point why: > without breaking conversation I can figure out what day of the week it’ll be Being able to maintain the flow of a conversation because you are able to do things in your head is incredibly useful soc
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by kjellsbells 26d ago
I don't love it immediately, and yes, in fiberglass this chair doesnt sound too comfortable. But if it were made in leather, I could see it becoming very comfortable indeed, and the keather would also nod to the very obvious saddle sha
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by kjellsbells 27d ago
Ok, but there's no universe where a major Microsoft-owned property is not being forced to run on Azure. Just like AWS pushing to get off Oracle back in the day. It would be career-destroying to suggest otherwise regardless of technica
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by kjellsbells 1mo ago
love it. Would love to see the grey/orange/blue/dark pink of CDE from the late 90s. But I'd especially love the gray on mottled gray of 1995 vintage Sun OpenWindows!
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by kjellsbells 1mo ago
One thing that scares me a little is whether there are younger developers, say, 25-40, who can and want to pick up the mantle of Windows internals gurus. I mean, Chen has decades of winternals in his head. Microsoft has been gutting their s
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by kjellsbells 1mo ago
https://youtu.be/iB663aZJBjo
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by kjellsbells 1mo ago
Coders get a little sniffy about Excel sometimes, but it's so good at achieving 80%-ness across multiple axes that I can't see it being displaced. - the lowest barrier to entry for pretty much anyone in corporate life. Boot PC, th
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by kjellsbells 1mo ago
I used to wonder how likely it was that the printers made some typesetting errors. Who among us could, say, type a thousand pages of APL symbols without introducing a bug?
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by kjellsbells 1mo ago
This is a useful marker of progress in translation, not a replacement for literary translators. Six years ago I fed Dante's Inferno to AWS translation. It was...not good[1]. Maybe its time to try again and see how things have changed.
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by kjellsbells 1mo ago
Leaving aside one's opinion of Elon Musk: was the CT any good as a truck? I have never, /ever/ seen a truck-y business (plumber, contractor, etc) in a Cybertruck. This puzzles me. It's not cost since they are driving $90
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by kjellsbells 1mo ago
> I’m an asshole and possibly not fun at parties I got this vibe at AWS, interviewing in 2020. They asked me to design a stock price tracking webapp. I started asking questions and sketching things out and at each question (fairly basic
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by kjellsbells 1mo ago
Sadly this is the fate of many bulk carb foods. A loaf of generic bread from the supermarket is only slightly related to something you make yourself with flour yeast water and salt. Similarly if you grew up on dry pasta shells in a box then
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by kjellsbells 2mo ago
Yes, I think that is it. Thank you for finding it! AT&T took some bad press around that time, and in July 2016, the FCC, facing political pressure, and now sensing that the PR gods were now on their side, leaned on the major carriers to
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by kjellsbells 2mo ago
Jim is a good guy and ATIS tried real hard with STIR/SHAKEN, but technology cannot overcome the commercial incentives that carriers have to let this nonsense continue. I've written about this before too [0]. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by kjellsbells 2mo ago
In rural America, the major telcos choose not to help, and that is a big factor here. You can't do stir/shaken crypto attestation of calls over TDM, but the big guys refuse to sell SIP trunks to rural operators. see [1] for more o
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by kjellsbells 2mo ago
Two things. 1. If it's not written down, it does not exist. This needs to be a ruthlessly enforced rule. I know we all love those Mel the Programmer stories, but that's a story about fragility. Similarly if you are relying on SRE
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by kjellsbells 2mo ago
The UK power grid operators famously plan for massive demand surges at eg the end of major football matches. I cant imagine what their forecasters thought of the England-Mexico nail biter. Half the nation heading to put the kettle on, half

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