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gregoryl

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About gregoryl

   Engineer, People Lead
   Melbourne, Australia
Currently contracting for FoodStorm@Instacart.

(used to) Run Ultra Marathons in my spare time.

Feel free to email me on any topic.

   me@gregorylyons.dev

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49153795

    As with most things LLM, you can generally get what you want by asking for it (maybe not efficiently, but so it goes). "Once you have a answer, please summarize, and ask an agent t…

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    Comment #49133072

    Its a bit unkind to talk like this - the obvious and equally unproductive response is to question if you are really as good as you think you are. Are those junior developers not ma…

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    Comment #48957417

    Those SRE people live on excitement, its basically a gift ;)

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    Comment #48789798

    Its hard for native speakers. Information density makes for rough reading.

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    Comment #48774798

    The bullshit will continue until the grifters move on to something else. If you can figure out what that is, you'll make some serious bank!

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    Comment #48704579

    Indeed, here: https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/blob/...

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    Comment #48669312

    People who are voluntary philanthropists tend not to amass fortunes.

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    Comment #48245179

    Surely that reinforces the argument - there are now a million LOC in a different language, needing stunning amounts of work to validate it actually functions? Writing the code has …

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    Comment #48196166

    Ublock origin blocks the ads entirely on Firefox.

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    Comment #48169371

    Its the same people. They didn't just up and vanish, they just moved over to AI!

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    Comment #48169338

    I'm not aware of a limit in my current role. There is, however, a leaderboard.

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    Comment #48132585

    I used a tool called ArtMoney; apparently still actively developed and sold from an .ru domain.

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    Comment #48071967

    That seems to be correct. You can see the hours disclosure here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...

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    Comment #48071486

    *literacy is terribly low. Everyone using this site is blissfully inside a bubble of people who can at least read and write at a high school level.

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    Comment #48071402

    I agree, wholeheartedly - lets get a list of the google engineers who worked on this. What do you propose we do with it?

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    Comment #48064651

    Probably not hellbanned, maybe spam filters gone wrong. I vouched them back into the land of the living :)

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    Comment #48022611

    I doubt many people here download any ads in a day.

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    Comment #47813216

    The world? There is one country supplying the weapons and funding.

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    Comment #47758167

    If I'm following correctly, the conflicts arise from other commits made to main already - you've implicitly caught branch A up to main, and now you need catch branch B up to main, …

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    Comment #47497253

    We should return to the HN guidelines, and read it as charitably as possible. I'm interpreting it as closer to pity, rather than genuine criticism =)

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    Comment #47454188

    KCD2 works fine on Linux.

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    Comment #47450700

    Until you take your gear off, and it's in your pack. I'd much rather lose a kg of pack weight vs. a kg of body weight.

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    Comment #47294635

    Are you mistaking your interactions with low level trades roles (the guy who's making bank fixing power sockets on the weekend) with say, the people maintaining factory electrical …

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    Comment #47290464

    The key to every quick POC having a short life, is a reliance on manual work outside of the engineering team.