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enthalpyx

112 karma · joined May 25, 2009

Software developer living in Seattle.
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enthalpyx··on Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider
If these were tickets generated internally (like monitors, alarms), why not deterministically tag them at the source and only invoke the LLM when it's ambiguous? The Amazon I knew had an appetite for efficiency that seems to have been blinded by AI euphoria.
enthalpyx··on Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?
"stress"

Being the engineer on-call when the website/service/app is down and the company is losing $xMM/minute while you debug the problem is the very definition of stress.

Some companies like Google cordon this responsibility off to SREs. While Amazon has started developing a similar job family, the burden of supporting critical services still largely falls to software engineers.

While software engineering is certainly not the worst job from a stress perspective, my experience (particularly with operations at Amazon) is far from the zen-like state the author describes. It can also be pretty exciting.

enthalpyx··on Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”
The CYP1A2 gene affects how quickly you metabolize caffeine. Stopping at 3pm may not be enough.
enthalpyx··on To Stay in Love, Sign on the Dotted Line
Better title: "To stay in love, communicate honestly and openly" | these guys just happened to find a way to do that in writing
enthalpyx··on Ask HN: Hands hurts from coding too long?
If you're experiencing any sort of pain, do not attempt to power through it. It's your body trying to tell you something's wrong. Step away from the keyboard and get some rest.
enthalpyx··on The 800 Pound Gorilla Amazon Tried to Kill is Google's Trojan Horse
Especially when the author could actually do an apple-to-apples comparison. The shoe organizer that cost $18 at Google (with shipping) is $16 at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001M2D9D0
enthalpyx··on Passport ownership in America, by state. Let’s play "Correlations"
Wealthier states do more global travel? It's expensive.
enthalpyx··on Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson
Similar idea: http://code.google.com/p/recordstream/
enthalpyx··on The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore
"If you live in Cambridge and neighboring communities, you can order online and get any book delivered the same day by an eco-friendly Metroped “pedal-truck,” or a bicycle, as I like to call them. Beat that Amazon."

Here's how: any book, ever published, in 60 seconds or less. Kindle.

enthalpyx··on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot
I love that this is on the front page of HN -- which is to me, what Slashdot was 10 years ago.
enthalpyx··on Cheap and fast hydrogen for fuel
Wondering how much cheaper this makes hydrogen relative to traditional fossil fuels...
enthalpyx··on Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
... and what does not come up as the first result for "decision"?
enthalpyx··on College is a waste of time
"We can be productive members of society without submitting to academic or corporate institutions." -- says the guy writing for .... CNN.com
enthalpyx··on Angry Birds for Chrome in Canvas and WebGL
With a 2006 MBP, it works in FF4, but not in Chrome 11 (just a blank screen). Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
enthalpyx··on From Redmond with Love - IE team sends cake for FF4
I wonder if Google gets a cake too...
enthalpyx··on SourceForge.net Gets A Makeover
Too little, too late. Github has won.
enthalpyx··on Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
"so Google set up a honeypot – some made up words like [hiybbprqag] linking to random unrelated sites."

That's not my understanding of what Google did at all. Google fed back search results for keywords that didn't exist on the Internet -- period, and they started eventually showing up in Bing.

enthalpyx··on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries release version 1.0
I'd love to see some demo apps.
enthalpyx··on Weekly free delivery service from Amazon.com: AmazonTote
eco-consciousness
enthalpyx··on Are 80% of Harvard Students First Borns?
These descriptions reminded me of horoscopes... I saw characteristics of myself in each one.
enthalpyx··on Choosing Consistency - Strong consistency options for SimpleDB
No, it's Jeff Barr - AWS evangelist type person.
enthalpyx··on The Fallacy of Gray
If science gets credit for healing the sick, does it also take the blame for deaths caused by nuclear weapons? Blatant, public, and verifiable. Praise worthy? Not in my book.
enthalpyx··on Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows
I'm a fan of Programmer's Notepad. http://www.pnotepad.org/
enthalpyx··on Education Inflation
"As a side note, I am in no way bashing the cs program at UNCW... and the CS program is awesome."

At a top 10 CS school, your experience would probably have been very, very different.

enthalpyx··on Amazon.com Introduces Same-Day Delivery
The distribution of Amazon web sites seem to be heavily weighted towards those countries with the highest GDP. Maybe not a coincidence.

1. www.amazon.com 2. www.amazon.co.jp 3. www.joyo.com 4. www.amazon.de 5. www.amazon.fr 6. www.amazon.co.uk

enthalpyx··on On Elitism
Wouldn't it be great if we could get to the point where the opinion of others didn't matter so much?
enthalpyx··on See Randomness
This article is random, I don't see any purpose
enthalpyx··on Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious
But it is more tasty.
enthalpyx··on C# is now a better language than Java
When you move to Mono, many of the auxiliary arguments for C# fall apart. (no VS.NET on Linux, "enterprise support," yadda yadda)