projectileboy

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by projectileboy 14d ago
We keep expecting for-profit organizations to behave as governments. And this is an especially easy sell in the US, where government has been vilified for decades as part of a long propaganda game run by those who wish to privatize and stea
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by projectileboy 17d ago
A good book for appreciating the OO mindset is Object Thinking by David West.
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by projectileboy 2mo ago
Google has always been a technology company, never a product company. It’s very deep in their DNA.
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by projectileboy 2mo ago
Well… the system mostly worked for a pretty long time. As I used to tell my kids, if you try hard enough to break something, you’ll probably succeed.
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by projectileboy 2mo ago
It is impossible to overstate how utterly horrible and dystopian this is. I have not been one to reject AI, but they seem hell-bent on driving me to that conclusion.
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by projectileboy 2mo ago
For anyone interested in digging, check out Karatsuba's algorithm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm ), Strassen matrix multiplication ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_al
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by projectileboy 2mo ago
More enjoyable to read this within a broader context: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/
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by projectileboy 3mo ago
Congratulations! This is incredibly well done. Please consider creating a “part ii” that expands on the entire thread to one level of greater detail.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Frankly, this doesn’t matter. What matters is that an unofficial agency of the executive branch is deciding unilaterally - with no oversight - to stop payments that were voted on by Congress. Even if Musk and team were geniuses and doing br
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Hacker News tries to avoid political news in general, but it seems warranted in this case because Musk is a major figure in the tech industry, and also because it appears he’s using a small number of young engineers from his companies to ga
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I just picked this one at random today; took about a minute to find something: https://www.startribune.com/mom-ids-son-as-teen-left-with-br... I’m relieved to read that racism isn’t as bad as I think it is.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
This is a weird hill to die on for a billionaire. Is wokeness a problem? If I recast it as an assault on free speech, sure. But exactly how bad is this assault? I sure hear a lot of really rich people talk about wokeness, despite the procla
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I live in Minnesota. I hear what you’re saying, but I would say two things: in general, teenagers here are not being somehow denied farm work that they really want but is unavailable; and there’s a pretty big difference between Minnesota&#x
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I apologize in advance for not offering something constructive to say. I just wish anyone here who is younger could see the difference between what the promise of the web was in ‘95 and what it has become. Such a burning pile of trash, it’s
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Is there some reason why Edward Tufte isn’t being properly being credited anywhere? This is copyrighted material.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Hear, hear. The design subordinates to clear presentation of static content. Most newspapers and magazines would benefit from a similar approach.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Would you be willing to elaborate on the ways in which the $200/month subscription is better than the $20/month subscription? I’m genuinely curious - not averse to paying more, depending on the value.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
The difference between what cocoa farmers get paid vs what chocolate companies make selling their product is so enormous that I find this article incredibly offensive. But the chocolate industry has a very long history of this kind of shame
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I’d be surprised if they had, working on what you work on! I’ll bet you would find them interesting in other ways, though. I’ve had a ton of success using them as study guides in other areas (e.g., biology).
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I read most of them with my kids when they were little; I used to just gloss over certain panels…
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I can’t really be too specific. But I can say that at least one pattern of problem it tackles very effectively is: “we’re migrating from X to Y, and it’s going to touch a ton of files, and the nature of that migration is much more involved
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I understand why you would have that impression, but for what it's worth, my team has been helping other teams internally to use Devin, and we also did due diligence and experimented with OpenHands, as well as try rolling our own solut
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I work with a team at Nubank that has been using Devin. I would say that it doesn't quite make sense to compare it to Claude 3.5, because Devin isn't really like Copilot; it's more like an assistant to which you can assign a
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Thank you for this comment; articles on the rising costs of college almost always uncritically treat it like a law of nature, and rarely have I seen articles that attempt to study in-depth the extent to which college administrations have be
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I think this was mentioned in a Paul Graham essay from many years ago, but half the battle in tackling a new area of study is finding out what the best books (or papers) are. There aren’t that many, and yet it’s hard to know what they are i
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by projectileboy 2y ago
They express behaviors, yes, but they do not express intent, or any broader context. I’ve been on more than one project where well-meaning developers forbid comments and additional documentation because they felt that the only documentation
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by projectileboy 2y ago
As soon as they got bought out by a private equity firm (10 years back) it marked the beginning of a long, slow end.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I can’t say enough good things about The Craftsman Blog. Was my primary source for learning how to rebuild my 100-year-old double-hung windows. Lots of good stuff to explore.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
I feel like I’ve been looking at the same marketing slide deck for 10 years from these people. Wake me when they ship something.
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by projectileboy 2y ago
Fascinating, but I really wish this work was being published as a series of papers in peer-reviewed journals. Otherwise it’s hard to take the work seriously.

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