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by sethhochberg 3d ago
People tend to mix the terms around a lot, but generally you'll see the manufacturers use "ducted split system" or "mini split", where mini splits are the self-contained wall or ceiling mounted units. I live in an N
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by sethhochberg 2mo ago
I think there's an element of this which really breaks down to the type system being the part of formal verification that we've figured out how to do during the course of implementation. Software engineers (myself included, over t
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by sethhochberg 2mo ago
The details people gloss over when throwing SOC 2 or whatever other audit costs around are the complexity of the system being audited, the chosen criteria to audit (AICPA defines 5 families of criteria... Security is one, but you can option
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by sethhochberg 2mo ago
The real takeaway for projects and companies should be that someone having historically behaved in a logical and responsible way doesn’t guarantee that they’ll continue to do that for forever. Good security architecture has circuit breakers
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by sethhochberg 2mo ago
I’m one of those people. Wore watches regularly through my mid 20s, completely fell out of the habit as I spent more years working from home and my routine around “getting ready for the day” loosened, and the Apple Watch was the thing that
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by sethhochberg 2mo ago
The concept of "tool building" is one of the areas my team has spent the most time coaching our less-technical employees on since widespread LLM rollout in our company. Developers and developer-adjacent, technical people tend to t
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by sethhochberg 2mo ago
Honestly whipping up a lexer/parser and a REPL is one of my favorite ways to learn a new language. You can cover a lot of ground in a "real" language by just doing the frontend implementation of your own made-up language gram
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by sethhochberg 3mo ago
Whats implied there is that the "human touch" will become a luxury. I have a hard time seeing a future where retail doesn't bifurcate even further into ultra low margin, happy-path optimized megastores and concierge-style hig
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by sethhochberg 4mo ago
Even in a relatively open organization where conversations and work are public/discoverable by default, there's still a huuuge difference between the level of curiosity required to join a convo happening in the office kitchen whil
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by sethhochberg 5mo ago
Corporate software in general is often chosen based on the value returned simply being "good enough" most of the time, because the actual product being purchased is good controls for security, compliance, etc. A corporate purchase
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by sethhochberg 6mo ago
Manufacturers themselves generally don't want to sell directly to consumers: consumers are fickle and need support and have questions and sometimes want refunds or returns and if you sell directly to them, you need to have the staff an
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by sethhochberg 6mo ago
I think its at least as much of a working environment preference. Once I became experienced enough to have opinions about things like my editor and terminal emulator... suddenly the Visual Studio environment wasn't nearly as appealing.
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by sethhochberg 6mo ago
High-protein everything is riding the wave of GLP-1 popularity right now. Doctors are begging people on that class of drugs to chase protein targets more similar to what might have previously been reserved for heavy weightlifters just to pr
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by sethhochberg 6mo ago
I don't have many regrets about having spent my career in (relatively) tiny companies by comparison, but it sure does sound fun to be on the other side for this kind of thing - the scale where micro-optimizations have macro impact. In
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by sethhochberg 7mo ago
My debit card is a direct line to my primary bank account. If something goes wrong there and an attacker gains access, my cash is simply gone. Yes, the bank will perform an investigation and yes they may issue some provisional credits as a
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by sethhochberg 8mo ago
I've personally had a decent amount of luck with trying to reframe this sort of sentiment from "being useful" to "having purpose". Right now, yes, its true that a lot of my day to day purpose is driven by participat
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by sethhochberg 8mo ago
Its less about torrents being the delivery mechanism and more about bringing data from a potentially unknown source, under potentially unknown licensing, and distributed for a potentially unknown reason into the corporate computing environm
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by sethhochberg 8mo ago
The thing about trademarks is that, if you want to prevent other people from using them, you generally have to still be using it yourself and be able/willing to justify to a court that you're still using it. (At least in most lega
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by sethhochberg 8mo ago
I have no insider knowledge here but it doesn't seem outlandish to think that the negotiations would go a little differently for an established product vs a brand new one. Goldman may have simply been the only bank willing to work with
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by sethhochberg 9mo ago
Game mode being latency-optimized really is the saving grace in a market segment where the big brands try to keep hardware cost as cheap as possible. Sure, you _could_ have a game mode that does all of the fancy processing closer to real-ti
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by sethhochberg 9mo ago
I think there's some real sample bias in that definition of "the community" though, because people who are passionate Ruby programmers giving conference talks, running meetups, etc are often a distinctly different group than
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by sethhochberg 9mo ago
Shorter lifetimes means more renewal events, which means more individual occasions in which LE (or whatever other cert authority) simply must be available before sites start falling off the internet for lack of ability to renew in time. We&
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by sethhochberg 9mo ago
"Internal" is a blurry boundary, though - you pick integer sequence numbers and then years on an API gets bolted on to your purely internal database and now your system is vulnerable to enumeration attacks. Does a vendor system wh
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by sethhochberg 9mo ago
There are examples of the warehouse-based model working, but they clearly require both density _and_ mindshare. Its not clear Kroger had either based on the other comments in here. FreshDirect in NYC has been operating since the early 2000s
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by sethhochberg 10mo ago
Its hard to have good enough requirements gathering and documentation and product design practices to let an engineer really wrap their head around a problem well enough to come up with and then consistently follow a thoughtful, long-term-m
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by sethhochberg 10mo ago
We're just using Github Copilot as our primary entrypoint for all of the model families. Its the only way we can easily offer our devs some level of Claude, Gemini, and Codex all in one place.
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by sethhochberg 10mo ago
I always find the idea that there's something to navigate kind of curious - as you say, its lots of managed versions of open source tools and a mix of proprietary management frameworks on top. Some of what they offer are genuinely uniq
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by sethhochberg 10mo ago
They're quite popular for distributed audio systems in general (of which sound masking is one type). "Constant voltage audio" comes in a few flavors and 70v is very common in the US, other parts of the world often use 100v. B
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by sethhochberg 11mo ago
I know this is written to be tounge-in-cheek, but its really almost the exact same problem playing out on both sides. LLMs hallucinate because training on source material is a lossy process and bigger, heavier LLM-integrated systems that ca
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by sethhochberg 11mo ago
I think many people would suggest that this was more of an accident due to the ubiquity of the browser, though. The transition from "websites" to "web apps" was well underway by the time the dev tools became a built-in b

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