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by phuff 7d ago
It always boggles my mind that these core math libraries are still written in Fortran (same goes for some famous core matrix math libraries that still kick around). I have always presumed that it was because nobody knows Fortran well enough
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by phuff 2mo ago
I wondered about this because I used a keyboard to do it. But then I thought maybe krick used mobile and there's no onscreen keyboard. But then I realized that krick said mouse skills and so is probably on a desktop. I think maybe j
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by phuff 3mo ago
> I don't think this rule is universal. Counterpoint: Most workplaces would be best served by a team of developers who help up level each other without causing morale issues when knowledge gaps, which everyone has, inevitably show u
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by phuff 3mo ago
> [C]onsumers, on the other hand, are mostly looking to waste time, which is why attention- harvesting advertising is the only software business model that works at scale for consumer services. I came here to talk about this, like some
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by phuff 4mo ago
I think that this is an attack on the understanding of the LLM _potentially_ but it doesn't seem like it's likely to standup to legal scrutiny? Seems like this is pretty clearly a case of fraudulent misrepresentation ( https:&#x2F
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by phuff 4mo ago
This is a great bug report! I am not a kernel expert by any means even though I have read some about it... 10+ years ago. And I was able to follow along and see what was going on. It does make me scared for what other dangers lurk since t
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by phuff 1y ago
I present an alternate etymology for homelab. Instead of "lab" as experimentation space, think of it as lab: place for doing work. Away back in the day we didn't have laptops to work on university CS classes. So you had to
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by phuff 2y ago
The title of the original article is a little misleading. It's _website_ visitor tracking and it looks like it's really just advertising analytics... That's maybe bad but it's also the same as like... 98% of all other w
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by phuff 2y ago
ADHD (and many other psychological struggles) can be managed with practice and good habits and time. You seem to have a desire to change (evidenced by posting here) which is a great signal you are in a place to make changes in life. If you
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by phuff 3y ago
You can see it in cost explorer if you break down by one of the spend types. Went and checked it: group by usage type and then filter for service: RDS and you can see your io usage broken out in plain baa cost explorer.
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by phuff 3y ago
Regardless of the interpretation of these maps, these do seem to show the power of a good tool built for the free market. Here you have an app on everybody's phone that is such a useful tool that the government isn't even thinking
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by phuff 4y ago
I have been remote, working outside Silicon Valley for Silicon Valley companies for 16 years (4 companies). The difference in salary/cost-of-living was initially a greater part of my value prop to Silicon Valley companies than it is n
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by phuff 4y ago
I know this has been discussed and rediscussed but the notion of thinking about human organization blackboxes trading work with each other the same way we think about how distributed systems blackboxes trade work and communication with each
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by phuff 4y ago
I got a Fiio M7 for Christmas or my birthday a year ago. It's amazing how awesome it is to have a device that's dedicated to music and does a great job at it. There are side loadable apps like Musicolet that also do a great job
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by phuff 4y ago
Hey! I'm trying to plan out my career a bit and I was wondering if I could pick your brain a bit. There's an email that can get to me in my profile, if you're willing to give me some advice :)
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by phuff 4y ago
"This is the kind of magic that sometimes happens when an engineer gets to talk directly to the users to find out what they are doing" I think this is also the kind of magic that happens when a business is operating well and it&#x
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by phuff 5y ago
I think there are a lot of strategies for dealing with the kinds of issues you're working with, but a lot of them involve building a good engineering culture and building a disciplined engineering practice that can adapt and find best
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by phuff 5y ago
I got an Android DAP for Christmas last year and found that I really like musicolet: https://krosbits.in/musicolet/ It works really well. It has the playlisting/queueing metaphors that I prefer and it has a decen
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by phuff 5y ago
Having read some of Dan Luu's other prose I think this is a bit unfair. The sort of meta analysis of writing always comes off a bit navel gazy I suppose, but I don't think you have put his post in context with some of the other t
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by phuff 5y ago
`phone` and `talk` were two of my favorite things to do on the internet way back in the day. Almost better than IRC was starting up a chat with somebody on the local University VAX or Unix boxes that you had never met before. This and the
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by phuff 5y ago
What are you working on now that was different between the last one and this one?
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by phuff 5y ago
The US government provides this online for free. Only the edgiest of edge cases aren't supported. You can e-file your federal return with this regardless of how much money you make. You still have to do the calculations yourself. But
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by phuff 5y ago
Nextroll | Remote, various locations in the US | Senior + Staff Engineering, distributed systems, Erlang, Rust, etc. | Full-time I'm hiring for several senior/staff engineering positions working on distributed systems in Erlang wi
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by phuff 5y ago
I dunno -- if you work on software you get used to the fact that there's always something that could be better, something that could be fixed. Something that could have a smoother user experience. This is just part and parcel of the
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by phuff 5y ago
Empathy. A lot of these suggestions here don't show it. Sure, Notion should fix this feature. If your backlog is completely free of features that are no brainers, raise your hand. Anybody with your hand raised should be ashamed of y
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by phuff 5y ago
I found this link: https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/
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by phuff 5y ago
Dreamhost is also great for domain names.
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by phuff 5y ago
Hey I did this, too! I forgot until just now :) https://github.com/phuff/epub_builder I built it because I wanted to have something that made a daily brief news paper that was personalized and sent to my kindle. It ma
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by phuff 5y ago
The first thing I think I would say is: Hang in there. Regardless of your situation there's going to be a way out of it with the facts on hand -- you have a lot of the skills you need to do "Senior Software Engineer" type ro
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by phuff 6y ago
Most of the popular strategies for playing Diplomacy include telling people that the player is going to do one thing and then deliberately doing a different thing. Those strategies mean that essentially the player has to lie in order to be

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