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by wanderr 1mo ago
Yes of course I mean the tailscale team. Having an independent way to repro the bug besides waiting for it to happen in prod seems pretty basic eng best practice.
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by wanderr 1mo ago
This was a great technical writeup and very interesting to read, but it's not clear to me why once the suspected source of the bug was identified, they seemingly didn't build a automated way to trigger the condition? It seems like
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by wanderr 6mo ago
Example of how iNaturalist can be used for science https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/danielatha/43123-the-cas...
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by wanderr 6mo ago
Ah, you are right, I've been misinformed this whole time! Not created by Cal Academy. I am a little unclear on what you mean by not science. The secrecy around their models certainly makes them not open, but are you saying that any res
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by wanderr 6mo ago
I am a huge fan of iNaturalist and the concept of citizen science. I am into herping, birding and scuba diving and I post pretty much all of my photos there. I have about 5000 observations and am approaching 2000 species. I have a private &
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by wanderr 7mo ago
This is the norm at large tech companies and, IMO, a huge problem and major detriment to productivity within organizations as the cost of that added complexity is paid by everyone. BUT, at least very occasionally I have seen people get prom
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by wanderr 7mo ago
0 mention of rav4 in this article which seems to be about European cars.
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by wanderr 8mo ago
I had a neighbor who mounted his TV directly on the shared wall to my bedroom in violation of the lease terms. The wall was hollow and seemed to not only conduct the sound into my bedroom but act as a natural amplifier. I offered him a nice
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by wanderr 8mo ago
My hot take is that AI is shaping up to be a tax on big tech. Yet another round of layoffs being blamed on AI. As with last time, this is not due to productivity gains from AI, rather it's due to wanting to reallocate budget towards in
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by wanderr 10mo ago
https://www.writenow.care/ Completely bootstrapped online counseling platform focused on affordability ($25/week!), accessibility and doing the right thing by clients and therapists. Currently only available in NY, FL,
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by wanderr 1y ago
The UCSF "you need a referral but we can't find it, and we can't be bothered to figure out why" experience matches my own. Infuriating.
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by wanderr 1y ago
Gemini has the annoying habit of delegating tasks to me. Most recently I was trying to find out how to do something in FastRawViewer that I couldn't find a straightforward answer on. After hallucinating a bunch of settings and menus th
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by wanderr 1y ago
I wish articles like this would engage in a bit of critical analysis of the studies they are reporting on. It's no wonder people are confused as hell about the latest science about what foods are healthy when there are seemingly new co
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by wanderr 2y ago
I think every team needs a TL. If the EM isn't filling that role, then another team member should be, and most of what you're talking about falls on the TL (with some sanity checking from the EM by talking to other team members ab
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by wanderr 2y ago
Ex-Dropbox manager here. I also built BetterHelp (sorry) and I was the VP of Engineering Grooveshark. Dropbox was the first job I've had where managers are not expected to code although they still go through a small ramp up where they
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Forget What You Know about LLMs Evaluations – LLMs Are Like a Chameleon(huggingface.co)
2 points by wanderr 2y ago|0 comments
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by wanderr 2y ago
I had a desktop that would so something similar occasionally ~15 years ago. I am impatient, so rather than leaving it off for a while I would unplug, hit the power button, plug it back in and turn it on. Usually the fans would even spin for
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by wanderr 2y ago
I was on Gabapentin for a long while after a tendon surgery. It made me feel dumb as hell. Worse, the effects took over a month to wear off after I stopped taking it. One dose occasionally for insomnia is probably not bad but I personally w
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by wanderr 2y ago
Oh wow, I had never heard of that. I already have a CU on the other side of the country that I still use for loans because they've always had the lowest rates. I'll have to see if they participate.
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by wanderr 2y ago
Is there a bank you recommend? Mostly I use online banks but every now and then you just need to go to a physical bank. I am a bit nomadic so one with branches all over the country would be good, although I know those are the most likely to
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by wanderr 2y ago
Does anybody remember Eudora? Not the Thunderbird version, the one before that. It was fast as hell with cool shortcuts (eg Alt-clicking on from groups all the emails from that sender) and therefore super easy to find stuff and organize yo
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by wanderr 3y ago
IIRC, they did not even bother to align the dates when comparing hashtags, i.e. this includes many instagram posts from before TikTok existed.
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by wanderr 3y ago
Ponta De Ferraria was such a unique experience. Clinging tightly to the chains/ropes crossing the channel waiting for a wave to come in. The water coming in from the open ocean is so cold. Just when it starts to feel like you're a
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by wanderr 3y ago
I hate this for developers. I got to experience this first hand because I had a boss who thought like you. Developers generally need to run a bunch of resource intensive tools to build the application in the first place, so an underpowered
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by wanderr 3y ago
I recently switched an old PHP project from sending me emails directly via SMTP to using mailgun. At first I tried to use their SDK. It pulled in like a dozen dependencies. I gave up on that idea and replaced it with a simple curl call.
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by wanderr 3y ago
Find a 4 hour block of time that works well for folks in the various locations you will be collaborating with and make yourself available during that time. I work with folks on the east coast and west coast. I was able to live in Hawaii and
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by wanderr 3y ago
This article seems to be more making the case that features are technical debt, sort of. And that's a valid point too. But it is so so easy for useless code to accumulate. At every company where I've worked as an engineer, I'
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by wanderr 3y ago
We built Grooveshark with an extremely small team and grew it to a massive scale. We re built Grooveshark multiple times (moving from flash-based to HTML5, several major design overhauls, adding collaborative listening, etc). It absolutel
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by wanderr 3y ago
That confused me as well, I never made the connection to 0 and 1 until someone told me
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Lanzhou University: Oxygen Is Key for LK99 Superconductivity(nextbigfuture.com)
11 points by wanderr 3y ago|0 comments

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