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by verst 5d ago
I met her once in the Bay Area on BART as she was going from the airport to Berkeley to give a lecture (I admit I did not know who she was at the time). We had a nice 1 hour conversation. She's incredibly smart and humble.
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by verst 7d ago
Agreed. And this tech demo was a day 1 purchase for me back in the day. While it has gotten better since then it just doesn't hold my interest. I do like using it whenever every few months I feel inclined to get my PC VR headset out (I
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by verst 2mo ago
As a fellow Ballard home owner I have to say that anyone who thinks Ballard is affordable to buy in is out of touch with reality.
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by verst 2mo ago
Unfortunately there are two sub groups of Iu Mien with somewhat different vocabulary as well - and my wife is from the other group. I had found this pdf document previously - thanks for the pointer! I'll see what I can do with it.
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by verst 2mo ago
I would love such a model. My wife's family is Iu Mien which is a sub group of the Dao/Yao Chinese ethnic minority. Mien is its own language but most speakers are essentially illiterate. I'm good with language but there simpl
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by verst 3mo ago
I saw this very banana car while I was having brunch Sunday morning in Ballard Seattle!
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by verst 3mo ago
Or the GitHub mobile app where I was using a remote copilot session.
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by verst 4mo ago
I can easily create a 1 hour track in Ableton and have some minor variations every say 48 measures. It's basically just copy paste with some parameter variation which can be scripted. So not everything like that is necessarily AI gener
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by verst 4mo ago
These were expert office hours for API modeling. The company has certain requirements and standards - this team is supposed to live and breathe them. The question wasn't that advanced. Performing a basic AI prompt in the authoritative
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by verst 4mo ago
They were speechless. Kind of shocked. It was hilarious. They then agreed to reach out to some colleagues / other teams to research and find the answer. After 20 min they followed up with an acceptable answer.
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by verst 4mo ago
Just yesterday I had to attend internal "office hours" of an expert team to get a question answered - I had done extensive research of my own, both manual and using AI leveraging internal resources. What did the "expert"
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by verst 4mo ago
They had a working PDP-10 at the Living Computers Museum (since shut down by Paul Allen's estate). Definitely a mainframe. That thing takes up an entire room.
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by verst 4mo ago
Most of us never had the option for work to pay for Claude Code -- some internal orgs did this. That being said I had a personal Claude Code subscription for a bit. Honestly I find GitHub Copilot CLI (and now also the new GitHub Copilot app
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by verst 4mo ago
Who is the best? Just curious.
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by verst 4mo ago
Pretty sure the parent comment is sarcastic.
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by verst 5mo ago
I was a GS-15 before (same level most CTOs in government have). Maybe senior executive service roles (SES) might not concern themselves with ethics violations. In any case the vast majority of government employees are on the general schedul
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by verst 5mo ago
In theory as a government employee you already fear getting in trouble with OGE (Office of Government Ethics) and in normal times this is truly enough. Nobody wants to have a conflict of interest or fail to disclose investments etc. However
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by verst 5mo ago
Agreed - I have been checking to verify whether this truly is a Google service or just something that links out to generic Google ToS and Support pages. It looks suspicious.
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by verst 5mo ago
Due to lots of long distance running my rest heart rate is below 40. I am highly skeptical I would experience a 3bpm lower heart rate after sauna. Maybe this benefit applies after infrequent activity or less intense activity only.
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by verst 5mo ago
But isn't that why you would squash before merging your PR? If you define a rule that PRs must be squashed you would still have the per commit build.
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by verst 6mo ago
Like Jensen Huang said the job of an engineer is to solve problems not writing code. The code is a means to an end. This is certainly true for me as an engineer and why I'm not worried about AI.
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by verst 7mo ago
Exactly - any USB mouse via the USB-C connector (or lightning camera adapter before that) works. External displays also work via USB-C.
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by verst 7mo ago
I use Opus 4.6 Fast-mode. It produces significantly better results in my work than any Codex 5.3 tier.
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by verst 7mo ago
I am one of the people who uninstalled ChatGPT and closed their account and installed Claude in the last 24 hours. I know plenty of others who did the same. I wonder whether this trend can be sustained.
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by verst 7mo ago
I have to defend the Googlers here (I work at a different hyperscaler). Teams / services need to optimize their COGS. That means optimizing infrastructure cost. A lot of pay as you go service may not have any base cost to customers but
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by verst 8mo ago
I second this. Not experiencing any Azure issues at this time.
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by verst 8mo ago
Speak for yourself :)
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by verst 9mo ago
How is this different from 18F (a group within GSA which Elon killed), US Digital Service (which Elon kind of converted to DOGE) or Defense Digital Service (DDS)? Is the only difference that the current government can claim they started thi
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by verst 9mo ago
That does not include the Copilot related APIs though.
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by verst 10mo ago
Very common. Every Autograph Collection, Luxury Collection, JW Marriott, Marriott, Westin, W, St Regis, Le Meridien, etc has daily housekeeping - and many of those brands / collections have turn down service too.

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