shawnb576

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by shawnb576 24d ago
Because LLMs don't understand anything. That's the tech. They can only predict what they have been trained with and fail daily at the most basic tasks. Granted they can do amazing things, no question there. But they are not &quo
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by shawnb576 10mo ago
No definitely not true. It was in Source Depot if not SLM.
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by shawnb576 1y ago
Honestly sort of all of them. The Seal looks almost exactly like a Model 3 with better range Atto/Sealion are the SUV shapes that barely exist as EVs in US (Equinox maybe)
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by shawnb576 1y ago
100% this I noted below that I have recently moved from US to Australia The Chinese cars are taking over here: it’s a product people want at a price they like GM wants to monetize yesterday’s market, and are just going to fall farther behin
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by shawnb576 1y ago
I have recently moved from US to Australia and it is 100% clear to me the US automakers will get absolutely crushed by the Chinese companies if/when they are able to access US market. Especially EVs and PHEVs. This place is awash with
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by shawnb576 3y ago
This is the best comment I have ever seen on HN. Nailed it
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by shawnb576 3y ago
This has been a concern for me too. But the agent is just a statsd receiver with some extra magic, so this seems like a thing that could be solved with the collector sending traffic to an agent rather than the HTTP APIs? I looked at the OTe
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by shawnb576 3y ago
Temporal is designed for industrial strength flows and scale. For example an HTTP based push mechanism can overload workers hence the queue. And its jusr code so not sure about the DSL reference (of course thats common with other systems)?
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by shawnb576 3y ago
This seems very similar to Secret [1]? IIRC there were some competitive apps at the time, YikYak maybe? Secret sounded scandalous, and maybe that was the goal, but it actually did a really great job of anonymous Q&A, and was full of pos
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by shawnb576 4y ago
OK well then, we'd better not do anything about it! <s/> I don't think this is strictly true. Oil production is not fully fungible due to all kinds of issues including sanctions and production capacity. But this is als
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by shawnb576 4y ago
We followed the book The Contented Little Baby Book for our kids. Others recommended to us and sleep has never been a problem after a few months old. Kids thrive with structure but it takes discipline to maintain consistency. It’s not magic
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by shawnb576 4y ago
I worked at a large valley based company that had their own data centers and badly wanted to decrease infra spend. It's WAY harder than it sounds. Remember Twitter is not a profitable company which means the likelihood of a bunch of
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by shawnb576 4y ago
It's not a few people. Twitter runs their own data centers, which means they own all of the THOUSANDS of machines in them. These machines, and all of their parts, have shelf lives and CONSTANTLY need replacement. When they are replaced
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by shawnb576 4y ago
Remember that time FB was down because they had lost access to a core server and everyone was like "STAY DOWN"
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by shawnb576 4y ago
This is 1000% true and this thread really underscores now non parents simply cannot fathom parent behavior. I couldn’t, I had these same ignorant ideas based on my fleeting, non-accountable contact with small kids. Now let me tell you about
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by shawnb576 4y ago
I think the hydrogen-electric [1] development is more promising here because it has the potential to deliver long haul flights with no emissions or contrails. While H2 isn't great for decarbonization at scale, in specific industries li
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by shawnb576 4y ago
Tldr: solar engineering by blocking sun at L1 with big bubbles. This doesn’t reverse anything. It slows warming, but doesn’t de-acidify the oceans or decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere. Solar engineering is a radical, risky Hail Mary that
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by shawnb576 4y ago
Not having a replaceable battery is a real problem. I have a circa 2018 Xps13 9370 that I’ve used regularly for non-work coding it generally still works great. Recently it was only lasting 60 minutes on a charge, but $50 to Amazon got me a
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by shawnb576 4y ago
I really enjoyed The Long Dark. There is some violence and it has some adult (non sexual) themes, but it’s not primarily about fighting, it’s a wilderness survival game. I played it for months and am anxiously awaiting the last chapter. It
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by shawnb576 4y ago
This is exactly right. At the start of the pandemic, my company (a large well known Bay-Area tech company) saw improvements in our developer productivity metrics. Over 2020, they faded. I'm at a new company now, we have done a lot of h
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by shawnb576 4y ago
THIS Work that has low ambiguity and needs execution - awesome for remote work. Work that requires trust and deep collaboration - very difficult remotely. It doesn't it mean it can't be done but the communication fidelity is MUCH
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by shawnb576 4y ago
> I heard this from other engineers and from managers not directly in my chain. OK so this is hearsay, your original post did not frame it as such, and you walk it back further here. In addition other Amazon people seem to not agree, ma
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by shawnb576 4y ago
This is correct. And there will need to be some other mechanism to replace vested with payouts over time. Just saying “you’ll keep vesting” isn’t good enough. People will say ok I’ve got a good grant in 2023 and then my comp falls off a cli
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by shawnb576 4y ago
This is all theoretical tho. In a situation like this you likely won’t retain those 25%, assuming you can identify them (it’s not always clear who is really making things happen and why). Those are top performers used to equity based comp.
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by shawnb576 4y ago
Exactly this
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by shawnb576 5y ago
Every time I try this I go thru standard stages: 1. Ugh I want to run docker natively, Ubuntu looks good, I’ll do that 2. Install latest Ubuntu. It’s great! Love the shell. Hardware works. I can run Windows in Virtual Box for odd apps. 3.
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by shawnb576 5y ago
Same. I bought an XPS 15 last year and the thing didn't work that well with _windows_, let alone linux. All the same thigns, the touchpad clicked (I even had them come try to repair), it got so hot I couldn't put it in my lap, an
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by shawnb576 5y ago
The threshold is typically 106F "wet bulb", above which much exposure will kill people, literally begin to cook them. Many parts of the world are hitting this. Examples: [1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show&
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by shawnb576 5y ago
There is a pretty major flaw in this write up, which is the assumption that the changes we may see will be linear, be it sea level rise, temps, etc. There are at least 4 tipping points that could upend this. If the Gulf Stream fails, Europ
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by shawnb576 5y ago
As civilization begins to crumble due to extreme weather, rising seas, and refugee migrations, one thing we can say is “well, at least we kept our flight slots”

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