strgcmc

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by strgcmc 2mo ago
It's not really about the planets. It's about what other people believe about the planets. You could work for a boss that's a Leo, and he/she believes only Leos deserve to get promoted, or that Leos and Scorpios should n
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by strgcmc 4mo ago
The risks are asymmetric in real world terms. For the PE side, the worst-case outcome is bankruptcy of the company they bought via LBO, but because it was an LBO their own exposure is relatively minimal (the lender is the one with the one m
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by strgcmc 4mo ago
Ceteris paribus can be stretched to the point of absurdity though. A startup with $4.5b of qualified leads, vs one with zero? Come on now... For the sake of argument, we're imagining both startups have equal levels of investing/fu
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by strgcmc 4mo ago
Agree that this is interesting/impressive, and the demos are nice. But I completely cracked up at the unexpected physical comedy of the woman in the "slouching" demo, haha omg that was comedy gold, no notes... I do appreciate
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by strgcmc 4mo ago
From a software quality or software engineering POV --> this is clearly not building durable value, not scalable, etc. So I'd agree with you there. But from the POV of say, a young startup company looking for PMF and navigating the
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by strgcmc 4mo ago
Well, take any invention you like, and let's break it down. Somebody at some point, "invented" the idea that the earth was round. Before that, the obvious "just look around you" answer would've been, duh of cou
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by strgcmc 4mo ago
There are often little bits of Neal Stephenson or Andy Weir novels which sound a little like this, describing a technical fault in a plot-driven way (often as a cascade), and I do find those to be uniquely enjoyable. I'm sure there are
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by strgcmc 6mo ago
For anyone who doesn't know what you mean, here's an archived copy of Steve Yegge's post about this directive + other musings comparing Amazon vs Google (which is how a lot of us came to find out about this, via Yegge's
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by strgcmc 6mo ago
I think you might be over-fixated on a very prediction-market-esque framing of this plot device... if you broaden it slightly, the idea of someone in a fictional world manipulating the news reporting of an act or set of acts, rather than ca
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by strgcmc 9mo ago
This is why (flawed though the process may be in other ways), a company like Amazon asks "customer obsession" questions in engineering interviews. To gather data about whether the candidate appreciates this point about needing to
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Ask HN: Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)?
19 points by strgcmc 9mo ago|2 comments
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by strgcmc 10mo ago
I think it comes down to, having some insight about the customer need and how you would solve it. Having prior experience in the same domain is helpful but is neither a guarantee nor a blocker, towards having a customer insight (lots of peo
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by strgcmc 11mo ago
I'm sure nobody cares, but the data I can check shows a couple interesting observations (won't call them conclusions, that's too strong): - Yes, you can find certain slices of 1.8% of customers, that would represent 50%+ of r
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by strgcmc 11mo ago
I got curious and validated your source [1], to pull the exact quote: "The proportion of Connecticut gambling revenue from the 1.8% of people with gambling problems ranges from 12.4% for lottery products to 51.0% for sports betting, an
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by strgcmc 11mo ago
In such scenarios (data engineering / DS / analytics is my personal background), I have learned not to underestimate the value of, explicitly declaring within Team X, that person X1 is dedicated to line L1, person X2 is dedicated
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by strgcmc 11mo ago
The most apt way that I've read somewhere, to reason about AI, is to treat it like an extremely foreign, totally alien form of intelligence. Not necessarily that the models of today behave like this, but we're talking about the fu
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by strgcmc 1y ago
A purely technology-minded compromise to this question (aka how to support both the "good" and "bad" kinds of recording), is probably something along the lines of expiry and enforcing a lack of permanence as the default
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by strgcmc 1y ago
I think they just read my first sentence and decided to take offense immediately. Shrug. All I meant was, I didn't want to go down a path of talking about Trump... that's a very very dead horse to beat. I thought there were intere
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by strgcmc 1y ago
True of course that dollars is the end goal, but frankly it'd be better if they just took the dollars out of my pocket directly, instead of poisoning my brain first so that they can trick me into giving some dollars... Obviously I&#x27
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by strgcmc 1y ago
I think you're veering too far into politics on what was originally not a very political OP/thread, but I'll indulge you a tiny bit and also try to bring the thread back to the original theme. You said a lot of words that I b
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by strgcmc 1y ago
As a manager, I am considering to enforce a rule on my team that -- no README in any repo should ever go stale ever again --> it should be near-trivial for every dev to ask Claude Code to read the existing README, read/interpret the
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by strgcmc 1y ago
As a thought-exercise -- assume models continue to improve, whereas "using claude-code daily" is something you choose to do because it's useful, but is not yet at the level of "absolute necessity, can't imagine work
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by strgcmc 1y ago
To your last point -- I didn't say large number of junior contractors would write good code or whatever. The change that is happening in the startup scene now, as compared to say 10 years ago, is more about lowering the barrier to MVP
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by strgcmc 1y ago
I do agree that "unlimited interns who don't improve much" is less practically useful than it might seem at first, but OTOH "never improve much" seems unrealistic, given the insane progress of the field in the last
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by strgcmc 1y ago
Your comment somehow reminded me of this quote: "In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act." ( https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9371890-in-a-society-that-p... ) That&#x
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by strgcmc 1y ago
But this thread here has either misinterpreted or willingly ballooned the problem up, into this strawman of an unfixable culture or a terrible company which no one engineer could possibly fix... The OP here, basically has a simple (and comm
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by strgcmc 1y ago
Not mistaken at the time probably, assuming that was a few years ago. Now, today? Yes it would be a mistake to continue to believe that US is somehow immune to "this kind of bullshit". Decisions can only be judged relative to spec
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by strgcmc 1y ago
All good, v1.2.2 works fine, thank you!
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by strgcmc 1y ago
This is probably stupid, but at the hope of helping others through exposing my own ignorance -- I'm having trouble actually installing and running the preview... I've downloaded the preview release duckdb binary itself, then when
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by strgcmc 1y ago
Years ago back when there was no AI biasing your interactions with other children... The entire argument is that the new generations don't have the same opportunity to form friendships in an unfettered way like you did in your childhoo

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