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There is indirect exposure to Anthropic/OpenAI through all the incestuous partnerships between hyperscalers and NVDA

Hilarious how this guy treats the “confession” as some sort of smoking gun rather than the exact same stochastic slot machine that enabled him to score an own-goal on his prod database.

Not to well actually your well actually but they’re all anodized to prevent corrosion and scratches (the oxide layer is harder than the underlying aluminum) - the silver one is just undyed.

As much as I detest having to look at ads or being "influenced" in any way, shape or form, I think the opportunities for exploitation with what you just described is potentially orders of magnitude more harmful. Sure, let me just hand my wallet to a stochastic black box with god-knows-what RL'd biases and then hook it up to adversarial data sources all vying to extract the most money from me - what could possibly go wrong?

Okay, now _this_ is the cyberpunk future I asked for.

For the Java bit at least, this aligns with job descriptions I’ve seen and recruiter outreach I’ve received (long time ago though, maybe 5 years).

You can buy jigs to complete what are called 80% receivers with a drill press (and (optionally a router) - could do it on your kitchen table in an evening for a couple hundred bucks.

I hope cerebras figures out a way to be worth the premium - seeing two pages of written content output in the literal blink of an eye is magical.

Ignore the numbers - the gist is being good enough at the right two or three things can create similar value for you as being the best at one specific thing.

Everyone (for the sake of my argument) wants to be an engineer at a FAANG but there are tons of folks making more money with more autonomy because they've found a niche that combines their good-enough technical ability with an understanding or interest in an underserved market.

"If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths:

1. Become the best at one specific thing. 2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things."

I'm certain at least some small part of my own success can be attributed to my exposure to this idea, and for that I give my respects to Adams. As far as Adam's character (or lack thereof) is concerned, that's already being discussed elsewhere in this thread by others more eloquent than myself, so I'll leave that to them.

Options are just that - an option to transact at a certain price, if you choose not to you're just out the premium you pay. Short selling involves an obligation to return the shares, which has (theoretically) unlimited downside.

A small price to pay to make the Not Hotdog app from Silicon Valley a reality.

It seems like there are a bunch of tools more or less converging on this sort of workflow - see:

https://github.com/stravu/crystal

https://github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor

https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara

The back-to-back Robert Caro mention and unskippable ADHD Wikipedia popup hit too close to home.

Jackie Treehorn’s place is the Sheats-Goldstein residence. Both the residence and the owner are worth going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.

https://jamesfgoldstein.com/the-goldstein-residence/

Like anything you want to become proficient at, you need consistent practice. How many free throws do you think LeBron has practiced? Now imagine you die if you miss. Also it’s fun to blast stuff.

Try colima or rancher desktop

https://mise.jdx.dev/ and https://developer.1password.com/docs/cli/secrets-environment... + IaC tool of choice (terraform/ansible)

I'm going to dissent - The smaller/fewer screens you have and the more default your config, the more important, mysterious and highly paid you are. The guy with the tiny macbook that never bothered to remove any of the dock programs their machine shipped with (bro, why do still have Contacts in your dock?) and still has the terminal (terminal, not iTerm) background color set to the retina-searing default white will 9 times out of 10 be the smartest, humblest mf in the room. 100 percent chance they will show you the most devastatingly elegant solutions to problems that stumped your whole team for a week.

It depends on what type of transfer you're doing but it's way faster now: https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/current-processing-times

IMO - verbosity, typing and compilation all get in the way of teaching a lot of the basics (logic, control flow, scope, functions, objects). With JS/Python, I think students can make small wins faster which helps them stay motivated. I say this as someone who watched 3 people decide CS wasn't for them after taking intro classes that focused on Java.

Link to the primary source because the article is light on details and has a broken link:

https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powe...

There's some useful information buried in here and it boils down to "follow a program, follow a diet, be consistent". The last one is the most important - long term consistency beats short term intensity any day. I'd rather show up 100 percent of the time and put in 70 percent than put in 110 percent for a month and burn out or get injured.

The other thing to consider is a lot of the time these docs are sort of guidelines or wishlists for the way things ought to be - meanwhile an outside observer will assume these are the way things actually are.

I enjoy caffeine but also take some medications that exacerbate the feelings of irritability/jitteriness when combined with caffeine - anecdotally, extended release theanine taken with my coffee alleviates it.

Someone asked about resources and I ran into this while evaluating embedded db options for a golang project - it's a collection of db components implemented in golang:

https://github.com/thomasjungblut/go-sstables

Oh man this is exactly what I've been looking for, thanks!

Since Cursor has released composer I’ve found myself using it more primarily due to better editor integration and the fact that I’m already paying for the tokens as part of the subscription.

Aider has great docs and is more configurable but definitely has a steeper learning curve.

Highly recommend Diaspora by Greg Egan as well.

Not really, once you get past senior the “shape” of staff+ engineers varies greatly. At that level the scope is typically larger which can limit the usefulness of LLMs - I’d agree that the greatest value I’ve gotten is from being able to quickly get up to speed on something I’ve been asked to have an opinion on and sanity checking my work if I’m using an unfamiliar language or framework.

It also helps if you realize staff+ is just a way to financially reward people who don’t want to be managers so you end up with these unholy engineer/architect/project manager/product manager hybrids that have to influence without authority.