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by lesam 16d ago
Why do you need jj for this? I'd usually make incremental commits with git, and I'm wondering how jj levels it up.
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by lesam 1mo ago
It's really useful to have a chat app that is gatekept behind a 20k/year+ subscription. It's a particularly useful signal if someone is offering you a million+ dollar asset for sale.
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by lesam 2mo ago
Early in my career, I had to babysit our FX quoting app through the July 2015 leap second. And some things do trade 24/7 (though I wish they wouldn't, one auction per minute during US east coast business hours would be totally suf
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by lesam 2mo ago
Until you work in financial markets and you want to measure latency vs a bunch of other servers you don't own, all of whom pick different smears (and some of whom aren't sure in advance which smears).
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by lesam 3mo ago
Assuming your labour contribution to these agents is 'minimal': Why would you own them, instead of some well capitalized billionaire? To the extent that you do have capital, why do you assume that your 'minimal direction and
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by lesam 3mo ago
'can damage' means 'sometimes causal'. If there's no causal link, they should say 'associated with' or 'correlated with'.
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by lesam 3mo ago
Poetic that the most recent update is 6 months ago, a one line change adding a 'Lifecycle: Active' emoji to the Readme.
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by lesam 3mo ago
I'm pretty skeptical of the market argument - reading the linked article, it seems low granularity subsidizes market makers when there are many small orders (which often get worse prices than they would otherwise) and this subsidy allo
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by lesam 3mo ago
'tech' in speed running is a reference to "technique" rather than "technology". https://glossary.infil.net/?t=Tech
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by lesam 4mo ago
Why would you design a hiring process that scores unprofessional people (by your own definition) higher than professional ones?
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by lesam 4mo ago
If you run an interview process where candidates who take 6-8 hours and claim to have taken 4 hours score highest, those are the candidates you will hire.
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by lesam 4mo ago
This is capitalism working as intended. Only the best run airlines can survive, and investors are collectively subsidizing air travel for non-investors.
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by lesam 5mo ago
I think AST aware code reading is criminally underused by agents - you don't need a header file if you can see a listing of all the functions in a library. Similarly, I don't read the whole file a function is in while editing it i
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by lesam 5mo ago
Except this isn't 'an app from a spec', it's the potemkin village of an app whose goal is to get ad impressions and a credit card number.
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by lesam 6mo ago
When your bridge falls down, you don't call an incident and ask your engineer to fix it, you sue them. In software there's a lot more emphasis on post-hoc fixes rather than up front validation, in my experience.
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by lesam 6mo ago
I think Adams was prescient, since in his story the all powerful computer reaches the answer '42' via incorrect arithmetic.
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by lesam 6mo ago
This is interesting, but doesn't have to be correct. If Blockbuster had kept pouring money into the new service, maybe it would have lost it all - I see no reason to think Blockbuster's movie rental franchise business would have &
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by lesam 7mo ago
If it's lasted 10 years and someone is still using it after all that time, that seems like a pretty good signal there's a lot of value in the 'garbage'? I've seen a lot of 'fixes' for 10 year old 'gar
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by lesam 7mo ago
If markets were regulated to trade in coordinated 1s auctions, instead of nanosecond precision first-come-first-served matching of orders, markets would function just as well without needing a ton of what the HFT crowd does. It's a mas
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by lesam 7mo ago
That seems like a legal question - if the model weights contain an encoded copy of the copyrighted material, is that a 'copy' for the purpose of copyright law?
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by lesam 8mo ago
Before photography, we knew something was truthful because someone trustworthy vouched for it. Now that photos and videos can be faked, we'll have to go back to the older system.
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by lesam 8mo ago
Depends. When millions are on the line between companies, people are surprisingly willing to take a hand-created excel file as 'proof'. For example: https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/tricolors-ex
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by lesam 9mo ago
If there’s anything I would want to run to verify, I ask the author to add a unit test. Generally, the existing CI test + new tests in the PR having run successfully is enough. I might pull and run it if I am not sure whether a particular e
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by lesam 10mo ago
In fact ‘computer’ used to be a job description: a person who computes.
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by lesam 1y ago
Aren’t “Big Life Insurance” and “Big Annuity” pretty much the same companies?
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by lesam 1y ago
A quick search says Hinge charges a monthly subscription, is that not correct?
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by lesam 2y ago
The NDP party does not want a Conservative landslide government either, regardless of Mr. Singh’s pension.
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by lesam 2y ago
This still leaves open ‘buy, don’t borrow, die’ as a way for the dynastically wealthy to opt out of paying capital gains tax. I think the sensible option is making death a taxable event, rather than borrowing (with perhaps exceptions for th
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by lesam 2y ago
C++ gives both ‘map’ and ‘unordered_map’, and in my experience idiomatic C++ uses unordered_map unless you actually need a tree.
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by lesam 2y ago
Actually generally the legal system would decide that, not “the market”. I.e. investors have assigned roughly zero probability to CrowdStrike bearing the full cost of this incident, and set the market price accordingly.

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