metanonsense

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

I also had a frustrating but funny conversation today where I asked ChatGPT to make one document from the 10 or so sections that we had previously worked on. It always gave only brief summaries. After I repeated my request for the third time, it told me I should just concatenate the sections myself because it would cost too many tokens if it did it for me.

metanonsense

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

Impatient execs can also be painful. EDIT: Writing this while I am waiting for Codex to complete, so I may enjoy slow AI more than the usual developer ;-)

metanonsense

5 tháng trướcdiscuss

Tbf, if I did whay they do in this video, my battery life would more like a handful of seconds.

metanonsense

5 tháng trướcdiscuss

I think the issue it the (literal) "head-of-line blocking". Some requests can be processed either "concurrently" like tapping a beer from a keg or in parallel by having multiple bartenders, but having all people standing strictly in line makes this difficult.

metanonsense

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

only learned about SKIP LOCKED because ChatGPT suggested it to solve some concurrency problem I had. Great tool to learn such things.

metanonsense

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

Honestly a crappy situation. In Germany, Telekom is a monopolistic bully. In evening hours, any service behind Cloudflare more or less stops working (for instance, before I cancelled my subscription, chess.com web assets were delivered with neck-breaking 5kB/s, which made loading a 20MB wasm for stockfish analysis no fun).. but there are absolutely no viable alternatives that aren’t also crappy: Vodafone -> same peering idiocy, Starlink -> king Elon). VPNs make things complicated, but are often the only alternative.

metanonsense

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

I’ve seen this with some of my Indian colleagues, though definitely not all. In fact, most are more than eager to disagree with me :D (even though I’m their superior)

metanonsense

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

Spending months dealing with folks attempting to blackmail us over ridiculous non-issues has pretty much killed any sympathy I had for bug bounty hunters.

metanonsense

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

In my experience, this depends a lot on the subreddits you are subscribed to. Even in that set, the general mood sometimes changes significantly over time, e.g. because moderators change, a flood of new people is coming in because of some trends (AI), or some reddit meta events (eg a post being bestoffed). Generally speaking, a few vocal asshles can spoil your subreddit and drag the overall sentiment down.

metanonsense

8 tháng trướcdiscuss

Ironic that I switched to HN from chess.com because Deutsche Telekom‘s peering with Cloudflare (or more its lack of) made the site even more unusable than usual. 5 minutes ago I thought „Maybe it’s time to switch to Vodafone“

metanonsense

8 tháng trướcdiscuss

I remember back in 2000 or so when I declined the invitation to a party because I wanted to compile a new kernel in the evening.

metanonsense

10 tháng trướcdiscuss

But isn’t that exactly what GP meant? There is an original, very precise but also very abstract definition (and what is more abstract than category theory). Then people come along who give a different definition that matches the original one in their specific context („three laws in Haskell“). After that people take these three laws and apply them (sometimes overly simplistic) to other contexts („just give it a flatMap in Scala to get a monad“). And at some point the original meaning got lost, and there are competing definitions out.

metanonsense

11 tháng trướcdiscuss

I would be very cautious to give an advice like this to my team. Making a thing simple is actually very hard, and many, who hear the words, may just equate „simple thing“ with „first thing that comes to mind“, which may eventually turn into a nightmare of complexity.

metanonsense

năm ngoáidiscuss

In my opinion, there’s also a third (and certainly controversial) option: suicide is the ultimate expression of freedom, self actualization, and human dignity. I don’t plan to kill myself in the foreseeable future, but the thought that I could gives me hope, power, and removes any fear from my life. A friend of mine is 94 and lives in constant, non-treatable pain, and the thought that she can end her life when she decides to do so makes things bearable for her.

I know that this ultimate freedom is also ultimate selfishness, because the loss is felt by your close ones, not you. But this makes me perhaps an asshole, but not sick.

metanonsense

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Well said. I think this happens very naturally with every growing / successful company. Comparing my company of 30 or so with Google is like comparing a bacterium with a race horse, but even at our size being disruptive / staying innovative gets harder every month. Do you assign your best resources to the product that gets the money in? Or can you afford having capable people taking bets on new products, even when you know that such a product (if successful) is possibly years from making a dent in your revenue stream.

That decision is never easy and finding a product that creates a "dent in the revenue stream" at a company like Google with a once-in-a-lifetime product like Ads is probably not realistic even with their resources.

metanonsense

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Those fully trained networks are usually considered full-rank. At least that is what they say in the LoRA paper.

metanonsense

4 năm trướcdiscuss

I always liked the discussion "Is TDD dead" between David Heinemeier Hansson (of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp fame) and Kent Beck. DHH arguing against, Kent Beck obviously in favor of TDD. Martin Fowler is moderator and the discussion is very nuanced and slowly identifies areas where TDD has its benefits and where it should be rather avoided. https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/

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