rglynn

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by rglynn 2mo ago
Well put. After reading, I came here to say the same thing. The times that I "Claude said:" are almost always a case where Claude gave the correct answer. The real problem is if you paste "Claude said:" without reading w
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by rglynn 2mo ago
Thank you for this response. I do think this hits home as the most elegant and reasonable approach. For my teams currently, I can see us already moving toward this implicitly, but perhaps needing to take a more explicit approach. I think yo
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by rglynn 2mo ago
To me, the thing that stands out about the whole state we're in here is PR review. Yes, in an ideal world, PRs read well, are a joy to review, reflect what you discussed etc etc. We have to be real; there is only so much we can do to t
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by rglynn 2mo ago
Ah good point! Let me just– oh dear, everyone's already dead.
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by rglynn 2mo ago
It was posted in one of the other threads here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24873
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by rglynn 3mo ago
What do you mean by easy? Do you mean FAANG or equivalent salary? What level of seniority? Can speak to my experience that if you are a senior engineer in London the market is relatively easy at the moment (or was at the beginning of the ye
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by rglynn 4mo ago
I have no comment on sound mixing in general, but just to add context here, Chris Nolan intended[0] for the dialogue in some of the scenes to be inaudible over the score. I think this is often difficult for people who treat films as logical
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by rglynn 6mo ago
This is a US-centric take, in Europe, particularly in cities, we walk everywhere. There is perhaps some relevance to the analogy however, because the US is designed in such a way that makes walking difficult to impossible. I am already seei
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by rglynn 6mo ago
Depends on seniority and market, but my experience has not matched this. In my recent search I even had a company change their process at my request. Too many companies just copy the FAANG approach without considering if it suits their team
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by rglynn 6mo ago
I guess you can make the argument that legislating repairability will raise the price floor for devices because it increases the cost to the manufacturer. This isn't a problem for most of us in tech, but affordability can be an issue f
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by rglynn 6mo ago
Imagining future possibilities and implementing software to account for them are two different things. The argument here is to validate those possibilities before acting on them.
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by rglynn 6mo ago
IME tok/s is only useful with the additional context of ttft and total latency. At this point a given closed-model does not exist in a vaccuum but rather in a wider architecture that affects the actual performance profile for an API co
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by rglynn 7mo ago
More often than not I've seen this be the case. Refactoring as "rewrite using my idiomatic style, so that I can understand it", which does not scale across the team so the next engineer does the same thing.
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by rglynn 7mo ago
I like guns and cars, but not sports. How exactly is it performative? Both are engineering marvels and fascinating to watch videos about, and they also happen to be a load of fun. I watch hours of videos on both with nobody else around and
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by rglynn 7mo ago
In reverse? What do you mean exactly? As someone who is neither an Elon fan nor a hater, it irks me how deranged HN is about anything Musk-related.
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by rglynn 7mo ago
Other than the inconvenience, is there any privacy risk in just having a separate device purely for those apps and nothing else? Or is it more of a principle to resist this being forced on us?
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by rglynn 7mo ago
I'm not sure where you live but a lot of countries don't have this (yet) or it is optional.
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by rglynn 7mo ago
I think it's beneficial to hear this, as I've definitely been on the other side of this before now. So, thanks for sharing. As much as we can fault the technology and the hype around it, this as much a people problem as anything e
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by rglynn 7mo ago
I mean to be fair, "Just use Postgres" will get 400 votes here without people even clicking TFA.
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by rglynn 8mo ago
Agree with this tactic, very useful when working in a team. I use a --dry-run=false approach.
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by rglynn 8mo ago
Capital, both social and economic. Also data, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637328
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by rglynn 8mo ago
"... how much ram has the system" is a typo or an ESL mistake, so not an LLM.
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by rglynn 8mo ago
This is just for the web interface, the API is staying for now.
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by rglynn 8mo ago
IME 5.2-codex (high) is not as good as Opus 4.5, xhigh is equivalent but also consumes quota at a higher rate (much like Opus).
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by rglynn 8mo ago
In the future?
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by rglynn 8mo ago
I think of it this way: Is your goal for the software you write to need constant intervention, or would you say you'd aim for it to run smoothly with few bugs? The team is akin to a piece of software architecture, only much more comple
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by rglynn 9mo ago
They are basically the same, long black is water with espresso poured on top, americano is espresso with water poured on top.
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by rglynn 9mo ago
Assuming that your observation is true, I would guess the average age of HNers has increased YoY, which is likely to have something to do with it.
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by rglynn 9mo ago
Oh my god, I didn't even get to the bottom, I thought you were being hyperbolic with that quote. Insane.
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by rglynn 9mo ago
Yeah that really put me off the whole article. No problem with them having that sentiment, but keep it out of this topic.

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