mavelikara

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by mavelikara 2mo ago
“I ask Claude only questions to which I don’t know answers to - which there are plenty of. That saves the company money by avoiding frivolous use of tokens.”
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by mavelikara 2mo ago
> The natural instinct is then to compromise on the "simpleness" of the first prototype and already try to anticipate all the scaling and nonfunctional requirements that might come later This is a form of Second System Effect B
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by mavelikara 2mo ago
> this is where software goes to die The ones that IBM passed up on, yes.
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by mavelikara 2mo ago
Definitely, no.
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by mavelikara 2mo ago
+1 - one of my favorite songs of all time. Rod Stewart-esque than Stewart himself on this one.
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by mavelikara 2mo ago
You are asking the wrong person.
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
> A law which will be used from the opposite side just as well, as soon as the power switches hands again. This is the real test. If these changes are so bad, will someone campaign bare on overturning these? Will the “other side” change
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
Adding “this is my opinion” to every post would be tedious, rt? :-)
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The principles of extreme fault tolerance(planetscale.com)
3 points by mavelikara 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
My understanding is that the EB green cards are for a job offer, and not the current job. In practice, though, almost all employers file EB GC petitions for only their current employees, not future ones.
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
Not the person you asked, but here are some real world examples: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/quint-co_community-spotlight-... (One of the entries cited is something I worked on).
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
Everything that can be expressed in TLA+ can’t be expressed in Quint. But everything useful for specifying programs, I believe, can be expressed in both languages.
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
I am guessing you were being snarky. Care to explain what about it you find about it objectionable?
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My Thoughts on AI, Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey(blog.isquaredsoftware.com)
1 points by mavelikara 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
> A real industry should be responsive to events of nature, or at least the market, not vibes. Market is vibes! The price of something at a moment is, for example, what market participants collectively agree what the price of it should
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
> He wants to push it just because he lost a bragging contest. That is an uncharitable interpretation, IMO. The CFO heard of a novel technique used by his peers in other companies, and they reported good results. He wants to try it withi
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
Polydactyly can be treated surgically! /s Jokes aside, if in 15 years you have worked with only few good Indian engineers, you probably have not yet worked at places with high talent density. I could understand if you had said you have
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
> This type of thing should come along with a reduction of allowed H-1bs. H-1Bs also lose jobs in these layoffs, so there is an implicit reduction.
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by mavelikara 4mo ago
How does the “flattening” affect equity grants. With fewer employees, does each get larger equity stakes?
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by mavelikara 5mo ago
A newspaper ran a contest to write prose in the style of Graham Greene. Greene sent in the opening two paragraphs of an unfinished work. He came in _second_ in the contest. Many years later, Greene sent in an entry to a similar contest. Thi
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by mavelikara 5mo ago
Love to see the evals on this one!
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by mavelikara 5mo ago
> I still remember the people arguing that lightning is just fine and we don't need usb-c. It's true, they existed. Before that, many of them argued that powerpcs were better than x86. :)
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The AI engineering stack we built internally – on the platform we ship(blog.cloudflare.com)
12 points by mavelikara 5mo ago|2 comments
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by mavelikara 5mo ago
What is meant by snapshot testing in this context?
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by mavelikara 6mo ago
That is an LCA requirement. The company did well to publish this at a place where employees frequent.
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by mavelikara 11mo ago
And Aung San Suu Kyi.
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by mavelikara 1y ago
>Why should that obligation be proportional (or progressively proportional) to the wealth you have and not to the resources you use (or wealth you have in that country). This is analogous to asking why should software be priced on value
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by mavelikara 1y ago
> It's something like 50k right now which is ridiculous It is ridiculous. Do you have a citation for the $50K number?
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by mavelikara 1y ago
Subsequent year, probably. In later years, no. Massachusetts is case study on this.
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The Diffusion Dilemma(arenamag.com)
29 points by mavelikara 1y ago|7 comments

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