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Trash ? The Diplomat has as good a production value as any.

So does Bridgerton. Adolescence is basically a single shot marvel.

Others - Stranger Things, Money Heist, Black Doves.

Not to mention their true crime documentaries.

Warner Brothers makes quality content. I think this is an almost perfect fit.

True no one involved in Scale AI right now is a kid. But, their expertise is in data labelling not cutting edge AI. Compare that to the Mistral team. They launched a new LLM within 6months of founding. They're also ex-Meta researchers. But they dont have the distribution coz europe. If we want to tout 13B acqusitions and 100m pay packages, Mistral is the perfect candidate. Its basically plug and play. Compare that to Scale and the shitshow that ensued. MSL lost talent and have to start from scratch given that their head knows nothing about LLMs.

Ads have a very high profit margin. Ultimately we all get to cool shit because some consumer somehwere is buying something. Depending on whether you work in B2B or consumer software you are just a step closer or farther from the consumer. But ultimately its people who dont write code who decide the fate of the software industry.

I am not sure why Meta paid 13B+ to hire some kid vs just hiring back or acquiring these folks. They'll easily catch up.

"The results of this quarter were already baked in a couple of quarters ago"

- Jeff Bezos

Quite right tbh.

If there's no monetization, the industry will just collapse. Not a good thing to aspire to. I hope they make money whilst doing these improvements.

100% this. The architecture is what slows things down (or speeds them up), the code quality, variable naming, all that bs just does nothing.

Dont know why employers do this. Why pay for shitty tools your employees hate ?

That blog post is a poor example. It replaced a simple straightforward if-else loop with a hard to understand abstraction spaghetti. A few unit tests and you'd be well on your way to shipping rather than messing around with beautiful patterns.

IntelliJ completes the format for me. I never write it by hand. Also I have never coded in something other than an IDE.

Sounds like a source of bugs. Basically this means the grids can be nested to no end. It breaks locality in that now I have to understand what the parent would do before I can make sense of a component.

The one I stayed at in France had this shit. Annoyed me to no end and plus I got sick on the trip.

I think its a bit unfair. Its good that the government spent some money in good old cybersecurity. Maybe 96M is a bit much, but it includes a full rebuild of the system. There should be an audit on where all that money went. Having said that, its quite possible they limited certain query patterns to protect against DDoS attacks. No excuses for messing up a website though. The change should have been gradual with secruity holes being plugged first.

This theme is covered in the book How Big Things Get Done and the shocking revelation was IT projects have the worst history in terms of cost overruns and missed deadlines. Not this specific case iirc.

I think TypeScript will shine here. Especially for data output pipelines so we can emit strongly typed datasets.

Also add to the fact that TS based exploratory code can potentially plot SVG via d3 and maybe even exported to a webpage.

I will pay for this. Thank you.

The bad convert is actually wrong. It should be refactored to an equality check and throw an error if account kind is not "dc". The compiler is correct and its not a good idea to work around this issue.

This thread is weird, also spot on, not sure why its downvoted. I am happy when the IDE spots my dufusness.

I think this is spot on. TS goes very very far without the gymnastics. Its good to know these things, but not even close to necessary to be productive. Not to mention IDE support for TS is on a very different level conpared to the shitshow that is Javascript.

Also, Angular dev spotted :)

Misses the point. Both these languages have their place. Besides there's no benchmarks beyond developers personal opinions that tells us whether a language is browser ready or not.

I disagree. The speed with which Typescript replaced JS as the default is testament to its strength. I remember back is the good old JS only days you had to assume that all the form values we passed and read were strings and not an integer account number for example. Typescript solves these challenges and that alone eliminates a large class of frankly nonsensical bugs.

The reason it is being rewritten in Go is so the compiler can be run at native speeds which is a good thing. Otherwise the only runtime we have available is NodeJS which has its fair share of problems. You can go far with TS with just interface definitions and some generics peppered in for common utilities. The places where all the type gymnastics is necessary are cases I frankly havent encountered in the usual course of development.

Docs of java.util.concurrent would be my suggestion. And go straight into the wild and try to build a system that solves the billion rows challenge. You might want to truncate the input and start with a million row challenge first.

The cool stuff in concurrency is not having to deal with it imoand recognizing when its not essential. Also I hope you mean concurrency not parallelism. The second one is a bit more manageable.

Tacked on was my first impression as well. But I am glad that they just shipped a feature and are measuring adoption in the wild. So refreshing.

Eerily maps to my experience almost word for word. I had codex write a chunk of code step by step with guidance and whatnot. Had to spend days cleaning up the mess.

These guys should launch a coin and pay the fact checkers. The coin itself would probably be worth more than Kagi.

I understand interacting with other engineers right in the editor but I dont get why so many collab tools need to be bolted on to what is basically a text editor. This will only fragment communications since its not just engineers that work in any company. Meaning you'll now have communication spread out in Slack and Zed making collaboration difficult, not easy.

I dont honestly dont get the allure of pair programming. My pair programs are the unit tests which I run as often as I can and limit discussions to Gitlab/Slack. I have worked ag FAANGs and large companies and never once pair programmed anything.

I honestly cannot think of a single software or process problem that requires real time collab in the editor. Having said that it is a cool feature and I quite like Zed as an editor.

I dont understand some of the cynicism in this thread. This is a bold move and I support. It is impossible to not have incidents like this and until theres a proper post mortem we wont really know how much of it can be attributed to carelessness. They could have just kept is hush hush but I appreciate that they came forward with it and also donated money to academia. The research will be open and everybody benefits.

Me: ~10 years so not as senior but senior still.

When you are senior you know that reality is messy. Things break, networks fail, people push bugs and we are supposed to know how to get on with the chaos and keep pushing forward since solving the business problem is more important than anything else. I'd argue that you take a similar view to people management, its also a part of engineering just not the one you like. But its important if it helps solve the business problem. The other view would be managing folks is part of your career, so do your job.

Also I question that you've never seen anything new in the past 5-10 years (not being rude here, I understand that someone with 20years experience has seen plenty already but definitely not everything). For example, how much do you know about deep learning ? Are you on track with the latest trends in our inudstry ? Can you make a list of best practices to follow when building AI systems ? Maybe try looking into new areas for growth. It will be uncomfortable but worth it I think.

Please dont go into gaming. Dont do it to yourself and your family.

You would be missing out. Its a very well written blog post from a project that is solving a really important problem.

I wish I was in the Ruby camp. Unfortunately the learning curve is quite high, you kinda have to know what you are doing from a language standpoint. I am more of a Java nerd myself and for me the cost of switching to any other language is simply not justified. But every now and then, I do get fomo.