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rglynn
·18 dni temu·discuss
What do you mean by easy? Do you mean FAANG or equivalent salary? What level of seniority?

Can speak to my experience that if you are a senior engineer in London the market is relatively easy at the moment (or was at the beginning of the year) even with no connections.
rglynn
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I have no comment on sound mixing in general, but just to add context here, Chris Nolan intended[0] for the dialogue in some of the scenes to be inaudible over the score.

I think this is often difficult for people who treat films as logical instead of experiential.

Nonetheless, it is inaccurate to characterise it as poorly mixed, since the goal was for the score to somewhat drown out the dialogue, and the mixing achieves that goal. You can disagree that this is a desirable outcome for the viewer, but art is ultimately subjective.

0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cjtlzp/comment/evg2js...
rglynn
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
This is a US-centric take, in Europe, particularly in cities, we walk everywhere.

There is perhaps some relevance to the analogy however, because the US is designed in such a way that makes walking difficult to impossible. I am already seeing this pattern in vibe-coded areas where engineers will just use AI because it's too difficult to parse and edit by hand.
rglynn
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Depends on seniority and market, but my experience has not matched this. In my recent search I even had a company change their process at my request. Too many companies just copy the FAANG approach without considering if it suits their team(s).

We have some responsibility as candidates to tell HR departments and recruiters that some stuff doesn't fly.
rglynn
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I guess you can make the argument that legislating repairability will raise the price floor for devices because it increases the cost to the manufacturer. This isn't a problem for most of us in tech, but affordability can be an issue for many.
rglynn
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Imagining future possibilities and implementing software to account for them are two different things.

The argument here is to validate those possibilities before acting on them.
rglynn
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
IME tok/s is only useful with the additional context of ttft and total latency. At this point a given closed-model does not exist in a vaccuum but rather in a wider architecture that affects the actual performance profile for an API consumer.

This isn't usually an issue comparing models within the same provider, but it does mean cross-provider comparison using only tok/s is not apples-to-apples in terms of real-world performance.
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
More often than not I've seen this be the case. Refactoring as "rewrite using my idiomatic style, so that I can understand it", which does not scale across the team so the next engineer does the same thing.
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I like guns and cars, but not sports. How exactly is it performative? Both are engineering marvels and fascinating to watch videos about, and they also happen to be a load of fun.

I watch hours of videos on both with nobody else around and don't really talk about those topics with others much. So in the spirit of HN, I'm actually curious to know what about those interests is performative?
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
In reverse? What do you mean exactly?

As someone who is neither an Elon fan nor a hater, it irks me how deranged HN is about anything Musk-related.
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Other than the inconvenience, is there any privacy risk in just having a separate device purely for those apps and nothing else?

Or is it more of a principle to resist this being forced on us?
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I'm not sure where you live but a lot of countries don't have this (yet) or it is optional.
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I think it's beneficial to hear this, as I've definitely been on the other side of this before now. So, thanks for sharing.

As much as we can fault the technology and the hype around it, this as much a people problem as anything else. Before AI, this same problem happened with architecture/PoC to implementation hand-offs.

AI is a new tool that a lot of us are still figuring out, but that doesn't excuse poor communication.
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I mean to be fair, "Just use Postgres" will get 400 votes here without people even clicking TFA.
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Agree with this tactic, very useful when working in a team. I use a --dry-run=false approach.
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Capital, both social and economic.

Also data, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637328
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
"... how much ram has the system" is a typo or an ESL mistake, so not an LLM.
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
This is just for the web interface, the API is staying for now.
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
IME 5.2-codex (high) is not as good as Opus 4.5, xhigh is equivalent but also consumes quota at a higher rate (much like Opus).
rglynn
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
In the future?