roncesvalles

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by roncesvalles 4d ago
"Write a blog article about <topic prompt>. Keep rewriting it until it passes Pangram as 100% human-written. <pangram_tool.md>"
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by roncesvalles 5d ago
>And then you can get rid of... maybe 8 of them. Negative. I might need them all some day.
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by roncesvalles 10d ago
I thought the webpage was a good read.
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by roncesvalles 12d ago
I define market rate to be the best rate that somebody will pay for your talent (minus Faustian outliers). "Above-market rate" is an oxymoron. If someone is offering to pay you above the prevailing best rate then obviously you&#x2
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by roncesvalles 12d ago
I think it still depends. More test can also result in more estrogen. There is selection bias in athletes who dope because they're the ones who happen to respond positively to it. There must be a graveyard of athletes who tried doping
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by roncesvalles 12d ago
Darwin took 21 years to publish his findings on evolution. In fact he couldn't finish the actual book that he had set out to write and published a summarized abstract instead, which is what we know as On the Origin of Species .
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by roncesvalles 12d ago
I ran some rough numbers a while ago and I found single-region GCP Spanner to be the most cost-effective relational DB option (out of the ones I looked it) if you don't mind that it can't scale to zero (min $65/mo), if sync
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by roncesvalles 12d ago
Nothing coming out of IBM is worth any attention.
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by roncesvalles 18d ago
The real test of this is whether a manager can fire their single most productive employee because he/she is ruining the social harmony of the team. I've seen managers in my career bend over backward to protect people who were outr
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by roncesvalles 18d ago
>Org pays market rate and has good benefits. This is so important. One of the things that kills company culture before the company even takes off is getting a sense from the founders that they're just trying to fool desperate/c
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by roncesvalles 20d ago
Also, Trump just had to say "I'm not Biden".
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by roncesvalles 20d ago
He was just very entertaining. I don't think there's anything deeper than that.
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by roncesvalles 20d ago
I'm pretty sure mosquito populations in India have been evolving in response to those electrified tennis rackets. Mosquitos now are much faster, smaller, and have more evasive flying patterns.
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by roncesvalles 20d ago
I have a feeling this is exactly what happened in Frankfurt. It very glaringly points to some failure in the healthcare system. Healthy working adults with access to healthcare don't just die of malaria. Two deaths means it's not
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by roncesvalles 21d ago
>to what extent these machines can have an experience comparable to mine I think it would be reasonable to conclude none at all. I'm not even fully convinced all humans have a conscious experience similar to mine, even though they l
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by roncesvalles 21d ago
The problem is when you stuff your codebase with so much unreviewed vibecoded slop that engineers lose their grasp on how it all works.
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by roncesvalles 22d ago
I gave up on optimizing and just use the Robinhood Gold 3% cashback card everywhere (except Amazon/WF, where I use their 5% Chase card). I can probably get more than 3% cashback in some categories on other cards, or more ROI by switch
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by roncesvalles 22d ago
>Startups succeed or fail based on how much customers like the product. It's always been that simple yet founders these days tend to believe success is predicated on all the things but the product. "Build it and they will come&
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by roncesvalles 23d ago
>My actual job also included non-coding work: Does this attempted solution even work at all? Is this solving the right problem? Even if it's a valid solution to the right problem, is it the best solution given the time constraints?
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by roncesvalles 24d ago
The reason is cost savings. It's cheaper to modify software UI than it is to modify hardware UI.
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by roncesvalles 25d ago
Exactly. You can't assume it's a new normal until Trump is out of office.
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by roncesvalles 26d ago
>something I had purposefully written to be as fast as possible and then you threw it all away by adding transition animation
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by roncesvalles 26d ago
>SSR but in the browser We've come full circle.
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by roncesvalles 28d ago
My completely conjectural theory is that natural language is just a shitty medium for communicating knowledge and the idioms and motifs that the LLM uses are an emergent "code" or structured syntax that work better for communicati
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by roncesvalles 28d ago
I don't understand why one would let a router handle their LLM request (other than for routing it to the cheapest inference provider for open models). When I build an application that uses LLMs, it's tuned and tested for a specifi
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by roncesvalles 29d ago
My understanding is that there is no arrival time SLA when you buy a plane ticket (barring the compensation ladder set by EU regulators). All they owe you is getting you and your stuff to the destination.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
The problem is that most of the volume doesn't come from proprietary products, it comes from API use which has no stickiness. Claude already has a killer product (claude.ai/chat is a Swiss army knife) but just relying on people ty
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
Then you should consider emigrating to a country with universal healthcare such as Canada.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
This is broken window fallacy. The $1T not wasted on healthcare inefficiencies would be spent/invested on other things, creating jobs there. Yes, there would be churn because a good number of people involved in the bureaucracy of priva
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
Imagine what it's like without that line.

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