pvtmert

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by pvtmert 12d ago
When someone else -whether AI agent or a human- solves the recurring minor problems for you, those problems become non-issue, get swept under the rug, just to accumulate more dust. One day, those may become bigger as they are forgotten, cau
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by pvtmert 1mo ago
Meanwhile they keep making _mistakes_ and announcing global token resets for everyone. (Like ones for Pro and Max users). Making them happy although Claude Code made them consume tokens faster or more than necessary in the first place.
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by pvtmert 1mo ago
Internet being full of bots, I usually do the s/users/bots/ automatically in my mind. Even some users are just bots... (At least their behavior is/are)
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by pvtmert 1mo ago
Frugality at its best. Sometimes certain decisions prioritize frugality so much over anything else, the time lost fighting is more expensive than the savings. For example, the DevDesktop policy. My org had an Apollo/FMC fleet that onl
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by pvtmert 1mo ago
Anthropic is the new AWS. Amazon's first principle is the Customer Obsession. Making customers happy. Fun bit is that the human psychology rates personal looking fixes better than having no issues at all. For example, AWS overcharges y
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by pvtmert 1mo ago
Around 2020, I think tools like Notion (notion.so) made it popular. Even the Huggingface itself is an emoji...
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by pvtmert 1mo ago
I have sent several bugfixes to software I used as a "daily driver". I did the same when I was working at Amazon. While managers didn't usually understand the benefits of saving a minute or two from the test suite runner, at
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by pvtmert 1mo ago
Not an expert in this field, but the "expert" is consisting of multiple layers. To keep it small in terms of memory print, this project streams each layer (dividing even further). It also requires extra space because of decomposit
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by pvtmert 2mo ago
Content of my website (although I was lazy enough to not fill all sections) already markdown, rendered dynamically as html on client side. But I rather keep LLMs from scraping it... For other use cases like documentation, again the source (
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by pvtmert 2mo ago
The "macroeconomic" phrase sounds like $AMZN. Kept hearing this until the new buzzword showed up; AI.
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by pvtmert 2mo ago
> With only a couple of minutes experimentation I discovered that the app works by concatenating the username and password5 and using it in a URL of the form: In 2026, these terrible practices still common . Meanwhile we are dis
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by pvtmert 3mo ago
The comment from a 5-year old: But Google is doing that too! > The spokesperson added: "We remain concerned that ignoring the growing power of Google Cloud and Gemini will tilt the market in a harmful way."
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by pvtmert 3mo ago
I am 100% sure there will be a `defaults write ...` command and/or a policy setting via Apple Configurator (mobileconfig profile) to disable it completely. They will probably push hard on the "enabled by default" part. Since
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by pvtmert 3mo ago
Ryanair et.al. advertising minimums that are not including anything larger than a purse or a small laptop bag. When you go through the funnel, adding a cabin luggage (or anything basically) usually doubles/triples the price. Most of re
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by pvtmert 3mo ago
I guess the article is targeting regular people. However combining terms like "Linux distro" with other non technical explanations like "useless components such as screens, cameras, etc" sounded a bit weird to me. Also;
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by pvtmert 3mo ago
They need a distinction between pedal assist and fully electric (motor) bike. I live in Luxembourg and the infrastructure is not as good as the Netherlands. Majority of offenders (in my experience) are delivery guys and teenagers. Where tee
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Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)(jvns.ca)
117 points by pvtmert 4mo ago|58 comments
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
Given the advent of LLMs and agentic coding, I believe this article needs re-visiting as it makes it much more discoverable to compare individual files across commits.
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
...each PhoneTool profile contains relevant "awards" (titles) on people's profile. Things like "Blaze", "Thunderstorm", etc are awarded publicly. Any employee can also click to these awards, and see who el
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
I was working at Amazon until recently. Number of internal documents (PRFAQs, 1-pagers, etc) having these sort of proses boomed since 2024. Punchy titles are also part of the marketing speak. Before Claude or ChatGPT, it would be a deliciou
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
Absolutely lovely article. > Software development is about translating a problem into a solution that a computer can understand and automatically resolve. Preferably in a secure and scalable way. True, meanwhile software engineering puts
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
Although I agree with the sentiment in the article, it smells very LLM~y. Especially the sections and punchlines. Such as: `That is not a rounding error. That is a line item that needs its own budget code.`
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
Not a hack at all. In fact, this is how Kubernetes APIs work. Even the CLI asks YAML or JSON content type when `-o yaml` or `-o json` is specified. Also, some other sites (albeit sometimes looking at the User-Agent header, hence more hacky)
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
> But a representative for Amazon said that there is no such company-wide metric for AI usage, nor are there internal leaderboards where employees are measured against each other. Rather, employees are able to view their own AI usag
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
> But a representative for Amazon said that there is no such company-wide metric for AI usage, nor are there internal leaderboards where employees are measured against each other. Rather, employees are able to view their own AI usage on
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
https://archive.is/VLWWE
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
You don't need a (one huge) model to do everything. You need specialized & smaller models that are very good at specific tasks. Collaborating among themselves. The fact that we see stagnation in terms of billions of parameters show
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
I opened the article thinking that it's about the on-call scenario (paging). Something like, I got paged in the middle of the night and let the remediation/mitigation to the agent... Which makes a lot of sense. Especially non-Tier
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
> not affiliated with subq, i see in the linked post they mention O(n) not O(1). O(1) would basically be impossible and instant. Something like no compute required, constant results... The name subquadratic is actually good and makes sen
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by pvtmert 4mo ago
solution is simple: commits get shared privately. distros can build on these private patches. after some point those can be made public (ie commited at upstream)

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