stillworks

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by stillworks 4mo ago
I can't unsee those windscreen wipers :-/
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by stillworks 8mo ago
This makes sense and here is slightly different perspective to this. The company I was at had this haloed culture of promotions and I saw people sat on a certain IC level for over 5 years chasing the carrot. Some of them were close to a dec
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by stillworks 8mo ago
Do we (or someone better informed) understand the impact of re-shoring ? In my mind, the reason (or the original intent) for off-shoring was to reduce costs to be able to sell more X (because cheaper is easier to sell) and selling more X me
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by stillworks 9mo ago
And yet, they won't like it if aspiring SDEs use AI to "assist" when interviewing :D Just yesterday had a coding interview (not any FAANG) and the interviewer wanted a screen share and also checked my IDE settings to make sur
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by stillworks 10mo ago
I think better to put that someone extra further up in the pipeline who knows how to prompt the LLM correctly so that it doesn't generate the fluff to begin with. Or get software engineers to produce domain specific tooling rather than
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by stillworks 10mo ago
Honest question... would you rather not have the "peace and quiet" and go at it all on your own not having to go through the motions of a "real job" ? You bounce your ideas off someone clever enough only to see that idea
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by stillworks 10mo ago
I celebrate the guy's entire catalog.
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by stillworks 11mo ago
At companies where decimation is a given... IME 3 or variations of 3 predominantly are already in play. The most nefarious kind I saw was to use tenure capital towards influencing peers (above and below) into over-engineering complexity to
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by stillworks 11mo ago
Maybe. Was attempting to end this cliffhanger on a positive note without judgement. He had the means so he paid off his mortgage, invested in another property, took care of college fund. Decided he didn't want to spend rest of his days
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by stillworks 11mo ago
His TC/NW was sufficient enough for him to leave the toxicity behind and start living his life.
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by stillworks 11mo ago
Note taking and Reading are my primary use cases. Goes without saying YMMV but it works for me. I had to hand down my iPad Pro 3rd Gen (the one with A12x Bionic chip) to my daughter for her school use. I got myself a 13" iPad Air (M2 c
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by stillworks 11mo ago
Seems to have recovered now
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by stillworks 1y ago
Curious about the mechanics here — when you say the model was ‘trained on our code base’, was that an actual fine-tune of the weights (e.g. LoRA/adapter or full SFT), or more of a retrieval/indexing setup where the model sees code
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by stillworks 1y ago
Why is this a struct and not an array of ints ?
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by stillworks 1y ago
> It doesn’t have to be nice or pretty EVEN if it’s NOT for you. > There’s a lot of “theatre” in planning, writing endless tickets and refining them for WEEKS before actually starting to write code, in a way that’s actively harmful fo
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by stillworks 1y ago
The interesting phenomenon is the discovery of gamification of such metrics. I do see the value in breaking down larger chunks of work into logically smaller units of work and then produce multiple pull requests where needed. But some peopl
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by stillworks 1y ago
In some parts of the industry number of CRs and revisions-per-cr is tracked as a performance metric. Many people learn to game this to make their "numbers" appear good i.e. high number of CRs and low revisions per CR.
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by stillworks 1y ago
I wonder how these managers sleep at night. Anyways, people choose to do what they choose to do (me included). I simply wanted to understand how I should react and adapt (if I do end up taking my next job in tech) Any kind of brag is certai
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by stillworks 1y ago
And I say "I don't get that..." . I think I am saying I should find a way to learn to do that while masking my discomfort in doing that. It will be stressful though.
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by stillworks 1y ago
That is undeniably true. The difference is that in this case I will walk in knowing very well that I need to budget time/money/energy into marketing. Was going through some YT videos from someone claiming to have spent several yea
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by stillworks 1y ago
I believe most of FAANGs are indeed like that ? (I was in the stack-ranking kind) So more likely it is a requirement after all ? I say it to be a requirement because definitely not my personality trait or a skill... so something I need to f
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Ask HN: Proud-Brag, Humble-Brag or No-Brag?
1 points by stillworks 1y ago|11 comments
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by stillworks 1y ago
Is this downvoted because of the last line i.e. What's the purpose of RAW+jpg though? Seems rather redundant? Otherwise, it is wise to highlight that "delete after import" is not a good choice in general. I personally
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by stillworks 3y ago
Can this be used to setup a dev Linux VM ? Run Jetbrains IDEs etc on the VM ? And if I were to run PyTorch then will it have access to GPU / MPS ?
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by stillworks 3y ago
Haven’t been exposed to the rigorous competition of TechCrunch Disrupt as yet I guess ?
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by stillworks 4y ago
I am guessing the State of California is sitting locked and loaded waiting to sign this off as well.
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by stillworks 4y ago
The article doesn’t mention the cutoff speed for L3 though. I think in Germany it is limited to 60km/h or 40mi/h. Also, only certified in Nevada currently (but California to follow soon). And seems like available only in S class o
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by stillworks 4y ago
Just saying, what if this was an option in Uber Pool and one of the Uber Pool riders was to be an “Ad buddy” ? The “Ad buddy” gets to ride free and other riders get a discount. For context, “Ad Buddy” is a fictional creation introduced in N
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by stillworks 4y ago
You mean just for searching ? If you use IntelliJ, double press Shift key and search away… Tab to change search context.
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by stillworks 4y ago
Would recommend reading Chapter 3 "From Eternity to Here" by Sean Carroll (or maybe read the entire book) for a "light weight" introduction. If you don't have the time then TL;DR : universe is expanding means litera

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