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crubier

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About crubier

Head of Engineering at Skydio for Drones as First Responders (DFR) Autonomous drones are becoming a crucial piece of infrastructure, just like wireless networks

https://www.skydio.com/

If you consider yourself a [Frontend|Backend|Infra|Robotics|Machine Learning|Computer Vision] Engineer please reach out!

https://twitter.com/crubier https://github.com/crubier

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49088936

    Longer to write: Don't care, that's kinda the point. I'd rather read a descriptive name in english than a greek letter with a tilda and a dot subscript. Generally a numerical rathe…

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    Comment #49087945

    This 1,000% Trying to read any math paper is basically like trying to read CodeGolf.

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    Comment #48987292

    Came here to say that, my bet is that in 3-4 years you'll be able to run Fable-level of intelligence models on your laptop or maybe even on you phone

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    Comment #48922508

    It’s simple, informing implies taking screen space, expressing consent implies user action. So overall it HAS to be similarly annoying to a cookie banner. Of course if your answer …

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    Comment #48908790

    > unless I get specific, informed, consent. Explain how you'd do that without a banner or similarly annoying UX

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    Comment #48900863

    > Just make people click something every once in a while But why? This is EU Cookies Banner level of state interference making UX worse for everyone just because some lawmaker does…

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    Comment #48664858

    How do you fix this for public transport? You transform it into Waymo / Robotaxi.

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    Comment #48505880

    Walking to the station isn't even the bad part. The bad part is then walking 3min in tunnels smelling like piss to get to the platform, then waiting 7min more for the train to arri…

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    Comment #48497415

    Does the Subway arrive at my door?

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    Comment #48497391

    Absolutely not. At the VERY least, the road blockers should be fined the cost they caused to society. Block Golden gate bridge for 1h30min for 10,000 people (Avg salary $50/h)? Tha…

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    Comment #48420858

    No one ever got fired for using UUIDs

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    Comment #48365654

    The hard part is not the CEO, it's the CISO

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    Comment #48358393

    Skydio | Robotics / Drones / Cloud / Web engineers | San Mateo CA, Zurich CH, or Hybrid | https://www.skydio.com/careers Skydio is the leading U.S. drone company and world leader i…

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    Comment #48015899

    The Bun DX is infinitely better than Node's, especially for Typescript projects

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    Comment #47872496

    Come on, do you actually think "corporate engineers" care about what you are doing individually? Do you think they look specifically for you and make fun at your individual usage p…

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    Comment #47760179

    Blame your engineering culture not AI if metrics such as Github stats, number of nitpick reviews and token usage is what is used to judge one's performance. In a sane engineering c…

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    Comment #47760154

    > somethings can be one-shotted and some things cant True but my point is that people vastly underestimate what is one-shottable. In my experience, 80% of the times an average "non…

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    Comment #47760130

    I'm not talking about coding in domains I know nothing about. I'm talking about coding in domains I've worked in for 15 years

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    Comment #47760121

    I see your point, but 1. I am also on the receiving end of this. My boss often codes and vibecodes, and no one feels like they have to merge their stuff. We only merge it if it mee…

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    Comment #47760098

    Are you European by any chance? I left Europe to avoid your mentality

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    Comment #47759077

    I get it, but as a "AI expert and senior leader" myself in my 1,000 people organization (in relative terms), the disconnect I have is: A lot of what non-believers say matches "enth…

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    Comment #47602743

    Skydio | Robotics / Drones / Cloud / Web engineers | San Mateo CA, Zurich CH, or Hybrid | https://www.skydio.com/careers Skydio is the leading U.S. drone company and world leader i…

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    Comment #47549557

    > If the clouds turns out to be a really bad storm, people will buckle down and sort it. 100% this. People need to understand this.

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    Comment #47462718

    In my experience Rust typically makes it a little bit harder to write the most efficient algo actually.