mark242

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by mark242 9d ago
To the north is Santa Monica, its own city.
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by mark242 9d ago
The obvious next step here is to do LA county, since so much sits outside the city limits.
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by mark242 1mo ago
Github's Octoverse report kind of gives you that evidence, no? Pull requests landed in 2025 were up 30% over 2024. This year it's going to be much higher.
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by mark242 1mo ago
> Why do only the poor quality LLM code generation users make PRs to open source projects, and never the engineers that know how to really use it correctly? It could be that the engineers who are extremely productive with LLMs are landin
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by mark242 2mo ago
Your compiler created the bytecode that the CPU runs. How can you take pride in writing your Rust code?
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by mark242 3mo ago
When I'm building, and get approached by large customers who have specific needs for them, those needs go at the end of our backlog. There's a hard and fast rule that unless it's an issue with authentication or accepting mone
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by mark242 3mo ago
Toothpaste making did not completely take over the world's supply of plastic for caps.
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by mark242 3mo ago
Where were the shoes that you are currently wearing manufactured?
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by mark242 4mo ago
"If a local district starts losing funding, then it would have to close / shrink schools, and people from outside the educational system would be allowed to establish independent (secular) charter schools within the district.&quot
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by mark242 4mo ago
npm install
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by mark242 4mo ago
If "we will opt everyone in because otherwise we won't get enough data because we know users won't opt in" is your business model, maybe it's time for a rethink.
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by mark242 6mo ago
Except you kind of do -- understanding data structures, understanding software engineering concepts, all of the things that you learn as a good engineer, those are ways that you help guide the LLM in its work.
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by mark242 6mo ago
> Another way to look at this is that AI coding agents take the fun out of a software engineer's job. Completely backwards - the fun in the job should be to solve problems and come up with solutions. The fun in the job is not knowin
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by mark242 7mo ago
I love that "The Grandfathered In" section. Here's just one sample of a place that presumably this stupid website wants to keep up and running: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-04&#x
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by mark242 7mo ago
Title clickbait for sure, but the process has radically changed in the past 6 months due to this new generation of models. "Perfect code from the agent everytime" isn't really what the expectation is. Bugs are always going to
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by mark242 7mo ago
I would argue that it's going to be the opposite. At re:Invent, one of the popular sessions was in creating a trio of SRE agents, one of which did nothing but read logs and report errors, one of which did analysis of the errors and tri
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by mark242 8mo ago
Many years ago, java compilers, though billed out as a multiple-platform write-once-run-anywhere solution, those compilers would output different bytecode that would behave in interesting and sometimes unpredictable fashion. You would be in
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by mark242 9mo ago
Someone who makes horseshoes then learns how to make carburetors, because the demand is 10x. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by mark242 10mo ago
"You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI." That is just such a wildly cynical point of view, and it is incredibly depressing. There is a whole huge cohort of kids out there who genuinely want to learn a
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by mark242 1y ago
11% success rate for what is effectively a spear-phishing attempt isn't that terrible and tbh it'll be easier to train Claude not to get tricked than it is to train eg my parents.
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by mark242 1y ago
Go get yourself some home insurance on a single-family house in Miami.
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by mark242 1y ago
Roam has always felt like a bit of a chore -- while it's easy enough to set up backlinks, having to do that one step has always been like a waste of time to me. This is the kind of thing that imo an agentic workflow could do for you: -
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by mark242 1y ago
And what happens to these datacenters when the underlying GPU tech becomes obsolete within 2-3 years?
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by mark242 1y ago
Tesla is only in business today because it was able to sell carbon credits to other automakers. Take that government subsidy away and Tesla would have died in 2009.
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by mark242 1y ago
The bespoke UK/EU models are not the priority, again because they aren't being made in the US, so yes the quality drops. You cannot get, for example, a new Focus in the US market. When you could, they were much higher quality. The
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by mark242 1y ago
The real problem is that American consumers are demanding these gigantic monstrosity SUVs and trucks which literally cannot fit on European streets. When Ford et al were making hot hatchbacks, they were incredibly popular overseas. The inef
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by mark242 2y ago
This is absolutely spot on. What do you mean, I can't scale up because I've used my hardware capex budget for the year?
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by mark242 2y ago
I'm curious about what "reasonable amount of hosting" means to you, because from my experience, as your internal network's complexity goes up, it's far better for your to move systems to a hyperscaler. The current e
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by mark242 2y ago
The problem is not so much React as it is the JS ecosystem, but React is just very visible when you have these issues because there are so so so many packages being imported. And the root of the problem is peer dependencies and the JS commu
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by mark242 2y ago
There are entire categories of saas and enterprise vendors that are about to be completely blown away. For example -- not long ago, when you wanted to do l10n/i18n for your business, you'd have to go through a pretty painful proce

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