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by samstokes 10d ago
Is that "difficult" quote from a separate source? I can't find it in the text of the linked report. Also, the report says that both red and blue states had both overcounts and undercounts, which is a different picture than &q
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by samstokes 14d ago
Oh, I see, you are posting the same misleading comment on multiple threads here. I'm sure you are doing so in good faith, so here is a link to my other comment explaining why it is misleading: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by samstokes 14d ago
This is misleading. It's true that you get a ballot, but it's a provisional ballot. Your eligibility to vote gets checked during the counting process. The process is described on the same website you linked to: https://
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by samstokes 16d ago
You might enjoy Spirit Island, a cooperative game designed explicitly to make that "quarterbacking" strategy infeasible and encourage more interesting player interaction. Players have asymmetrical abilities and power progression,
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by samstokes 2mo ago
However, companies have been using AI as an excuse for layoffs since well before January 2026, which corroborates the study's conclusion. (Source: https://layoffs.fyi/ai-layoffs/ ) There is certainly an uptick st
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by samstokes 3mo ago
Code being expensive would be one reason to plan, but hardly the only one. Some other reasons: cost of failure (don't leak customer PII), maintenance, unclear requirements, unclear success criteria.
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by samstokes 3mo ago
Most of the comments so far are responding to the first few paragraphs of this article. On reading further, I thought this was actually an unusually balanced take on how to use LLMs in a software org. I can't help but cringe at the &qu
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by samstokes 4mo ago
I don't have an MBA or anything but is it common practice to describe "revenue - capex" as "profit"?
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by samstokes 4mo ago
The post says they wrote a custom harness that orchestrates work between multiple separate model invocations. That is different from running Claude Code (which is a specific existing harness around the Claude models). The post takes a while
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by samstokes 5mo ago
I wouldn't agree that LLMs are a higher level of abstraction, but I've found they do help me think at a higher level of abstraction, by temporarily outsourcing cognitive load. With changes like substantial refactors or ambitio
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by samstokes 7mo ago
Does it? Claude the chatbot is available for free, and it can write code, but Claude Code is a separate product that as far as I know is only available on paid plans. Source: https://claude.com/product/claude-code
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by samstokes 8mo ago
Bit of a buried lede: > For a limited time we're including Codex with ChatGPT Free Is this the first free frontier coding agent? (I know there have been OSS coding agents for years, but not Codex/Claude Code.)
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by samstokes 8mo ago
https://five-eights.com
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by samstokes 1y ago
This seems lazy. It's ad hominem but not even, since you don't know what inept bureaucracy I am defending. Is there any argument that you couldn't level this accusation at?
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by samstokes 1y ago
One could interpret the title that way, but not consistently with the rest of the article, which includes assertions like "in the realm of societies, governments and economies, systems thinking becomes a liability". I think there&
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by samstokes 1y ago
The title of the article is an intentional conflation of "systems thinking" with "magical thinking", which is not a compliment.
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by samstokes 1y ago
What an interesting and strange article. The author barely offers a definition of "systems thinking", only names one person to represent it, and then claims to refute the whole discipline based on a single incorrect prediction and
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by samstokes 2y ago
You're right, you're not his caregiver, or obliged to be. Sorry if it sounded like I was suggesting that. I doubt the staff would expect or pressure you to take responsibility for him. If anything you might have trouble getting th
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by samstokes 2y ago
I'm sorry this is happening to you and to your friend. I have some similar experience and want to share some advice I wish I had heard earlier. It sounds to me like you did the right thing - situations like this can get worse if left u
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by samstokes 2y ago
The same artist has some excellent tutorials on how to implement a lot of those effects: https://bleuje.com/tutorials/
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by samstokes 6y ago
I wanted to see whether this sound could also be used to amuse my cat, and I can conclusively report that she is not amused.
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Pronounceable passwords now default in 1Password(blog.1password.com)
4 points by samstokes 6y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 6y ago
This makes some good points about misuses of these AWS services, but the title is misleading. The article is actually more like "tempting but inadvisable use cases for AWS services". My employer uses three of these heavily (Elasti
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by samstokes 7y ago
I may have lost people with lower confidence in their abilities and a greater fear of failure. That HBR article I linked in the other thread actually addresses that. Their survey indicates that people are deterred less by lack of confiden
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by samstokes 7y ago
And kudos for doing that - but what about candidates who don't read Hacker News (or happened not to see this exact thread)? HN isn't exactly the most welcoming environment for women either.
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by samstokes 7y ago
In case you're not aware, there is evidence [1] that this sort of "required but not really" job posting deters a lot of people, and especially women, from applying even if they would actually meet the (unstated) actual requir
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by samstokes 7y ago
That's the "monitor from the customer's point of view" approach the OP alludes to. If you use tools like Honeycomb [1] that can easily and routinely answer questions like "show me the 95th percentile latencies for
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by samstokes 8y ago
The glowing tower contains molten salt, used to store the focused solar energy. [1] I never knew that was a thing until I too drove past it. It was one of the more memorable sights on a 3000 mile road trip. [1] https://en.m.wikip
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by samstokes 8y ago
How about describing the intended use of the collections? E.g. var usersByUsername map[string]*User var usersToEmail []*User
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by samstokes 8y ago
Since this has become yet another discussion about "the pipeline problem" instead of a discussion about a tactic major tech companies are using to duck accountability, this Twitter thread might be informative: https://t

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