kudokatz

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by kudokatz 5d ago
> Agents can make code changes in seconds, but it takes them several minutes to test the output. This makes iterating extremely slow and manual ... We’re fixing this by designing our app architecture to work for both humans and agents. T
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by kudokatz 3mo ago
As an example of this ... At LT1 (via lactate measurements) at peak 100k fitness with elite economy (n=1) ratios were roughly 23% fat, 77% carb. FATMAX was near 28% at slower speed. This is via training using the now-standard (at elite le
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by kudokatz 3mo ago
some maybe-biased data for a steel man in [1]: "The Census Bureau measure overstates current income inequality between the highest and lowest 20% of earners by more than 300% and claims that income inequality has risen by 21% since 196
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by kudokatz 3mo ago
> I can't see any realistic way that the ergonomics would be better than your haphazard hotel room setup Looking down onto your lap sucks over time. Resting your head (pillow or other head support) while wearing AVP vs. holding it
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by kudokatz 4mo ago
2 anecdotes ... 1) The worst interview I ever had (BY FAR) was at Google--disrespectful people, no respect for time, I could go on and on. And I went back to try again to get that money showered on me. Worth it in the long run. 2) Their n
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by kudokatz 6mo ago
> when you have enough money to not worry. Unfortunately for most people ... paycheck to paycheck This is some truth to this argument, but the frequency with which it's brought out as an excuse to just dismiss any argument one doesn
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by kudokatz 7mo ago
In about 1930, Keynes wrote "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" [1] wherein he wrote: "I believe that this is a wildly mistaken interpretation of what is happening to us. We are suffering, not from the rheumatics o
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by kudokatz 2y ago
I heard they did this for the Amazon Fire Phone, too
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by kudokatz 2y ago
> It is true that working for free is bonkers. Priority number 1 is always rent, at minimum cover that so that business is priority 1. You can work "for free" if investments cover all your basics ... so only bonkers under the a
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by kudokatz 2y ago
At $45,000/yr of expenses (do-able in SF), it'll take 7 years to have passive income from a stock+bond portfolio cover those expenses. https://ibb.co/qyFz1C3 Of course, a bad market makes it longer, but the conver
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by kudokatz 2y ago
> But that actually creates a deferred tax obligation. Let’s say the tax rate you pay that at is 20% (very optimistic There are also ways to get at this money with almost no taxes paid later IF you are not working--look for "Roth IR
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by kudokatz 2y ago
> If you save a third of that (which is not easy) This is very easy, actually. You just happen to like fancy things and houses, probably. > Now if you’re dual cogs with no kids, maybe. If you do have kids, you’re not retiring until l
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by kudokatz 2y ago
expected time to retirement is MUCH, MUCH higher at FAANG if you can save 50%+ of take-home pay after taxes.
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by kudokatz 2y ago
> You also can’t withdraw at as high a “safe rate” as people planning for an ordinary retirement at ~65 do Solvable, including consideration of valuations via CAPE PE 10. Based on past data, the safe withdrawal rate (SWR) happens to be
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by kudokatz 3y ago
tl;dr: "You can't raise the bar if you can't pick the bar raisers. " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729619#21732841
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by kudokatz 3y ago
> if this is the case, it doesn't feel like they tried very hard? I don't think you get it. The way this stuff is done is just as described - totally blindsiding, and potentially flat-out gaslighting. There's no actual m
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by kudokatz 3y ago
> If you actually want to control the hardware you own, install Linux. It's not as if the alternatives to corporate control didn't exist. They exist, but break my touchpad upgrading to kernel 5.19 from 5.15. I'd rather pa
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by kudokatz 3y ago
> What can we reasonably expect the level of our economic life to be a hundred years hence? What are the economic possibilities for our grandchildren? > ... for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his pe
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by kudokatz 3y ago
> never bothered to tell the part of Microsoft that writes the generic Windows UI code no, they just don't care.
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by kudokatz 3y ago
> Android (and I believe iOS does too) enforce that. This is absolutely not true. Android simply detects that there has been no progress on the UI thread "for a few seconds" before force-closing the app [1]. By this time, the
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by kudokatz 3y ago
> Are there some fundamental aspects of git that would make it either very difficult to improve that, or that would sacrifice some important benefits if they were made? I can't speak to improving git, but I think some light on thi
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by kudokatz 3y ago
> I found myself spending time debugging basic issues like passing the wrong number or wrong kinds of arguments to functions You'll get over that pretty fast. The bigger issue is looking at some code and wondering "just what i
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by kudokatz 3y ago
same here - didn't realize it was the chair! Too lazy to have tried debugging it.
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by kudokatz 4y ago
> How much of your unhappiness is your job, or more so a function of having a continually growing list of responsibilities I have none of the other, suggested, confounding factors. Quitting my last job was fantastic and 100% the best th
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by kudokatz 4y ago
It's my understanding that firecalc uses only US data. Japan has "lost decades" of price-weighted, non-dividend returns that are flat since 1988 (Nikkei 225). Seems worth considering that some version of this has some future
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by kudokatz 4y ago
> People should have contingencies ready in case something unprecedented happens. > What kind of contingencies? Money in mattress? The right to live in multiple countries on a permanent basis (foreign permanent residence and/or p
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by kudokatz 4y ago
> Google's engineering culture, at least a few years back, was insanely good given that reality. If by "a few years" you mean 4-5, I have to strongly disagree. I witnessed extremely sloppy and incorrect general logic, eve
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by kudokatz 4y ago
> As I've became more experienced what impresses me is how iD was able to crank out so much software so quickly > usually have multiple dead-ends where it isn't until after I've tried using a technique with real data t
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by kudokatz 4y ago
> The fixed logic, at least judging by the commit message, still feels very shaky on correctness grounds This was my experience as a dev on a team at Google for a few years. I saw a LOT of exceedingly lax treatment of correctness in the
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by kudokatz 4y ago
It might help to consider this irony: * point 4 from the post is "Most people don’t want to go to work. They just don’t know what else to do." * your question above is "what should one do other than work?" One interpreta

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