matteotom

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by matteotom 7mo ago
It seems the assumption you're making without justifying is LLMs will significantly reduce the cost of software development. Even if LLMs can reliably write new features (or even just fix bugs), the maintainer still needs to spend tim
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by matteotom 7mo ago
I did. Your argument seems to be that LLMs allow users who want specific features to direct a donation specifically towards the (token) costs of developing that feature. But I don't see how that's any different from just offerin
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by matteotom 7mo ago
Funding for open source projects has been a problem for about as long as open source projects have existed. I'm not sure I follow why you think specifying donations will go towards LLM tokens will suddenly open the floodgates.
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by matteotom 8mo ago
I've personally run Gentoo with OpenRC+glibc and OpenRC+musl on my laptop. I assure you ditching systemd was easier than ditching glibc. The OpenRC system mostly just works (tbh thanks to a lot of great work by Gentoo devs). The mus
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by matteotom 8mo ago
idk, the two finger "rolling" pixel-by-pixel scroll seems to work for me - Firefox (also foot terminal, Slack (xwayland), and Signal) on Scroll (a Sway fork) on Debian (testing) on a ~year old Thinkpad X11. I don't think I&#
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by matteotom 9mo ago
At least for Python (since I'm more familiar with Python code and the Python ecosystem): progressive typing lets you incrementally add typing to an existing Python codebase. So you can have at least some of the benefits of typing for
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by matteotom 11mo ago
Were the mappings only a subset of the obfuscated classes/methods/etc? Basically making the mapping a sort of public API
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by matteotom 11mo ago
My previous employer was about 1k engineers and elements of the interview process were research-backed, but it was mostly procedural (order of rounds, length of interviews, etc) and based on internal data. But I now work at a startup where
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by matteotom 11mo ago
I ask this out of genuine curiosity and not to try to start an argument: could you help point us towards this research? This point frequently comes up when discussing interviews, but I've never seen references to specific research and
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by matteotom 1y ago
What metric are you looking at when you say "the size of government has vastly and consistently outgrown the private sector" - AFAICT, excluding 2020 and 2021 (which I think is reasonable), the federal budget has been between 17%
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by matteotom 1y ago
I can't remember where I heard this but it stuck with me: Teslas are the new American muscle car - fast in a straight line, but otherwise poor build quality and lacking the attention to drivers' experience you get from European br
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by matteotom 1y ago
Kickback: usually refers to a company (or sales rep) giving a large "gift" to the individual at a company responsible for making a purchase decision (influencing that person to make a decision not in their company's best inte
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by matteotom 1y ago
to be fair, I replied that I live in the US and asked for more info and it gave a lot more detail
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by matteotom 1y ago
Can you provide more details about said "significant evidence"? This seems to be a pretty popular belief, despite being contrary to generally accepted economics, and I've yet to see good evidence for it.
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by matteotom 1y ago
This (continuing Francis' school of thought) should be rather predictable - Pope Francis appointed the majority of voting cardinals, so it's not a stretch to think this is generally his intended outcome.
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by matteotom 1y ago
Yeah republicans claim to want to run the government like a business, but the first thing a business should do when they have a deficit is raise revenue! And especially in the case of the US government, the the only barriers to doing that
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by matteotom 1y ago
The next test of this will be the WI Supreme Court election - if the Musk-backed candidate loses (after Musk spends millions of dollars on the campaign, possibly illegally), it might start to break the hold Musk+Trump have over Republican e
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by matteotom 2y ago
I thought about a cell modem, but I carry my phone 100% of the time and can just tether
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by matteotom 2y ago
I switched my personal laptop to a M1 Macbook Pro (from a Thinkpad running Linux, also after almost 10 years) in 2020, mostly because I had switched to an iPhone a few months prior and was using a Macbook for work. It was certainly convenie
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by matteotom 2y ago
You also need to consider Fica (social security and medicare) and state and local taxes. Personally, my partner and I made about $470k last year and (filing MFJ) our combined rate will end up being about 28% ($80k federal tax, $30k CA state
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by matteotom 2y ago
Were your Lenovo experiences with Thinkpads or something else? I've heard that their non-Thinkpad laptops are not up to the same quality as Thinkpads - personally except for a couple years using a MacBook Pro, I've had great expe
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by matteotom 2y ago
$300k income, MFJ, $46k 401k contribution, $8k HSA contribution After standard deduction ($29k), AGI is about $217k. That's the 24% bracket (barely), which adds up to $34,337 + 0.24*$16000 ~= $38,200 federal income tax $38,200/$3
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by matteotom 2y ago
It was a few years ago, but I ran OpenBSD for about a year in college (on a Thinkpad). It worked because I rarely needed anything more than Firefox, code editors, and a shell with ssh. Most of my time was spent reading, writing papers, wr
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by matteotom 2y ago
> being a white male also makes you statistically more likely to be qualified for the job in question Source?
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by matteotom 2y ago
No, it is obvious that there are not any qualified 14 year olds, and it is also obvious that there are qualified minorities - if you can't find qualified minorities, you should look more closely at your recruitment pipelines.
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by matteotom 2y ago
sure, replace building software with leading large teams. The general point still stands
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by matteotom 2y ago
well if a 14 year old has 10 years of (real) experience building software in an enterprise setting, of course they should be considered for a senior role
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by matteotom 2y ago
I’d read that as saying the data are insufficient to prove either way. Likely because there are so many fewer deaths and only 10% of the children used booster seats, so the error bars are too big.
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by matteotom 2y ago
"negligible" safety increase seems to be about 19% reduction in injury vs not using a booster seat: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5522634/ I would love any citation for "This shi
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by matteotom 3y ago
Surely any sophisticated ad buyer would understand how "audience" is calculated, and know to account for people who download but don't listen, right? Like isn't part of the reason to have per-podcast promo codes is to f

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