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djb_hackernews
·przedwczoraj·discuss
are these human actors or are is the whole demo AI generated?
djb_hackernews
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
the trend is AI also does the code review. Too many anecdotes and studies showing AI is a better code review that a human and the models are just going to get better.

Whether we get better results if AI reviews Python or Rust I'm not sure. But I suspect Rust will win out as the training data likely has more content around Rust correctness and language usage than Python does.
djb_hackernews
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Can't the same be said for the AI?
djb_hackernews
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
err, this is an odd response given that this assessment has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked every time it is offered up.
djb_hackernews
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
When an SVP asks you to do something in a mass email, it's very much optional. Dave Treadwell is an SVP, his org is likely in the 10's of thousands, there is no way to even have a mandatory meeting for that many people.

My SVP asks me to do things all the time, indirectly. I do probably 5% of them.
djb_hackernews
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I live in an old house.

The front bump out leaks when we get driving rain. I installed some flashing but that wasn't enough, it's still leaking. So I'm working on that so I can close up the big hole in the ceiling some day.

The prior owners filled in the old coal chute with literal bags of cement sort of artistically placed in the hole in the brick foundation. So I'm trying to figure out what masonry tools and skills I'll need to close it up proper.

I'd like to build my kids a playhouse of some sort, sketching out some designs for that.
djb_hackernews
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Curious if your mental model is similar or how you see them being different.
djb_hackernews
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Are you familiar with the cathedral vs the bazaar?
djb_hackernews
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
You have a misunderstanding of what LLMs are good at.
djb_hackernews
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
It's a call to have his ICE goons (armed to the teeth and trained to escalate to violence of course) operate voting stations because of all of the "illegal" voters and for DHS to administer elections instead of leaving it to the states.
djb_hackernews
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
you don't think that's where we are headed?
djb_hackernews
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
I work at a large software company, senior engineers here are essentially technical leads for a team or a subsystem. They are my equals when it comes to level, often getting paid a lot more than me for high performers.

I'm here to help the team make decisions, but I delegate as much of the opinion having to my senior engineers. To have an opinion they need a bunch of inputs, sometimes getting those inputs isn't as natural as the technical inputs, that's where I come in.

Senior engineers are still involved in cross cutting technical concerns but for any work that is bounded by our team I'd be working with them scope out the work as requirements or use cases we give to mid level or early career engineers on the team to disambiguate with the senior engineer as a consult/negotiate.
djb_hackernews
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
I am an EM that manages several senior engineers currently. I find it super common for senior engineers to get promoted mostly on technical merit, we end up thinking the rest "can be coached". Or it's coaching to the next level. Here are some areas I coach them on:

- influencing without authority. Managing up. Leadership.

- getting work prioritized

- providing useful performance feedback (promos etc)

- coaching and giving feedback to early career engineers

- communicating ideas effectively

- developing 1YP+ plans for their areas.

- idk, there are a lot, senior engineers are rarely "complete"
djb_hackernews
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
for the record, cpuguy83 was in the trenches at docker circa 2013, it was like him a handful of other people working on docker when it went viral, he has an extremely insiders perspective, I'd trust what he says.
djb_hackernews
·9 lat temu·discuss
We frequently request account limit increases to 1000-2000 instance limits and get the same canned response. Though I bet in the earlier days capacity allowances for GPUs was probably more sensitive.
djb_hackernews
·13 lat temu·discuss
I've done a bit of advertising on reddit (though it was a few years ago), and my one take away is don't target specific subreddits.

I think a general pattern is people subscribe to subreddits and just let reddit do it's thing to populate their front page, never actually visiting the specific subreddit. I do this myself for a lot of subreddits I subscribe to.

I wonder if reddit has any plans to modify the ad display logic to display ads on the front page that are targeted to specific subreddits if the user is subscribed to the same subreddit. I think that'd be interesting.
djb_hackernews
·14 lat temu·discuss
This is extremely interesting.

Whats the best case scenario for your son? Suppose everything works out perfectly with the treatment/therapy, is it expected he'll start to develop normally?