tomtheelder

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by tomtheelder 28d ago
The site linked to is a blog post about the app. The actual site is linked in there, and if you follow that link there are examples. OP probably should have put an example in this post. That said they look like... syntax highlighted code.
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by tomtheelder 29d ago
Then compare, say, Massachusetts to high functioning north Europe systems. You will shrink the lifestyle and climate factors down to a pretty minuscule difference, but you will still find that the spending is dramatically higher. You'r
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by tomtheelder 1mo ago
On the basis that public corporations are exclusively a legal construct which can, and indeed already do, have arbitrary rules. Should the individual wish to maintain control over their company they can simply keep it private indefinitely.
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by tomtheelder 2mo ago
100%, I thought about writing that out explicitly. I really feel like we are extremely close to reaching that kind of breaking point for most folks LLM use cases.
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by tomtheelder 2mo ago
> Fable is probably at least as good as the average software engineer and costs $50/wk on the max plan vs a software engineer who would cost closer to $4000 a week. That's because the max plans are _massively_ subsidized. At AP
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by tomtheelder 2mo ago
I think the question is even a bit more nuanced than that. Even if frontier models can maintain a big gap that gap has to actually _matter_. If a local model satisfies my everyday use cases adequately then I may not really care that a front
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by tomtheelder 2mo ago
Zoom out and you'll see the hidden message
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by tomtheelder 2mo ago
You know sorta feels to me like some new physical tech would be warranted here. Something with a good amount of storage, very quick I/O, and read/writable. More like a fancy thumb drive than a disk. Let the version on it be update
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by tomtheelder 2mo ago
Xbox makes an enormous amount of money from a few long running properties (the letter in question mentions Mojang and King), but basically every big move and acquisition they have made for the past 10 years has been catastrophic.
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by tomtheelder 2mo ago
I don't really have an opinion on Sharma since she's very green, but Phil Spencer's tenure was an unmitigated disaster. The strategy of rolling up studios and trying to grow through GamePass both completely backfired, with th
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by tomtheelder 2mo ago
Well it was Phil Spencer, who got fired. They basically cleaned house in management already.
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
Gleam and Rust are really not alike at all aside from the most superficial ways. A couple bits of syntax, and the use of toml are about all I can come up with.
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
I'm an American and it definitely seems like we are in a significant and worsening loneliness crisis. I have no idea to what degree any of it is unique to Americans. Social connectedness, socialization rates, and companionship have all
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
The Northeast doesn't have a dry season, and I don't think anyone seriously thinks it's going to develop one. It just has occasional dry periods because precipitation is pretty chaotic, and is getting more chaotic due to clim
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
Local grocery stores have basically been extinct for decades- and realistically that isn't that surprising given they mostly sell commodity products. We don't need to let restaurants suffer the same fate.
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
The dependency graph is no different for a monorepo vs a polyrepo. It's just a question of how those dependencies get resolved.
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
I mean it works for Google. Not saying that's a reason to go monorepo, but it at least suggests that it can work for a very large org with very diverse software. I really don't see why anything you describe would be an issue at al
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
I still have a cast iron skillet, but I mostly stopped using it once I got some carbon steel pans. In my experience they beat cast iron in nearly every way. I only use my cast iron now if I need a huge amount of thermal capacity (like pre-h
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
I like OCaml a lot as a language, but the tooling is very, very poor by modern standards. Poor enough that I think it’s a total blocker on wider adoption.
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
For sure- it's just that YC didn't used to operate like that. They have morphed from an interesting higher-touch incubator whose involvement was a strong positive signal into a scattershot VC, but not everyone realizes that so bei
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
JVM is a hard dealbreaker for a scripting/glue language.
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
Of course, but I think it's worth seriously evaluating the subset of those activities that have an especially large propensity for harm.
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
JIRA is a little overbuilt and overconfigurable, and I think that leads to it often being used in confusing ways. I don’t think it’s a bad product or anything, but my experiences on teams that use something simpler like Linear because the t
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
I mean starting a component library by building your own from the ground up is an absurd thing to even attempt. IMO the only really sane approach is to start with a facade around an existing library. This way you get your single interface a
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
I personally can't really imagine anything less inspiring than repeating a feat we managed over 50 years ago.
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
Honestly I used to feel this way, but ended up using Helix for a few months mostly as an experiment. Now the selection-action version feels just as natural as action-selection used to. I’m sure I could flip it back if I wanted to. I’m prett
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
My biggest tip would just be to make it abundantly clear in your interview that this is a goal of yours. Some jobs will bounce you for that, but that’s good- you want to filter those out. Others will see it as a positive and you’ll come in
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
Honestly this is such an interesting question. Conventional wisdom would definitely say C#, but I’ve always wondered if that’s because imperative programming is easier than functional for a beginner, or because basically everyone starts wit
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
Exercise is a fantastic idea, and the cardioprotective benefits are doubly important for those of us with hypertension, but it’s probably not going to lower your BP by more than a few points.
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by tomtheelder 2y ago
True, but I would have to categorize that as an unacceptable workaround haha

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