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helge9210

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    Comment #49248460

    No, action points I get either from parsing a video capture of a scoreboard or by pulling them over API, depending on which scoreboard/match management system is used. I do plan to…

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    Comment #49233884

    Olympic wrestling education tool. Indexing multiple captured video streams with awarded action points and adding athlete/referee positions overlay. Stretch goal -- controlling PTZ …

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    Comment #48980259

    Cut the pace to 1 hour a week, than some bursts of two to four months of up to 4 hours a day two to three days a week -- that would be close to how I did it. 45 days 8 hours per da…

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    Comment #48980210

    Perfection is not "perfectionism". Former is provable given set of constraint. Later is anxiety due to fear of criticism. "We don't want to build the perfect solution." Can both me…

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    Comment #48831381

    Most Germans are not well-read/university educated.

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    Comment #48823053

    C1 can be achieved (I did it on 360 hours). C2 is academic level of language proficiency -- you have to either deliberately study for the difficult exam or get an university degree…

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    Comment #48683156

    I didn't interpret it as "automation bad". The invisible value, cancelled by automation, can also be negative. Consider a doorman or a waiter in low-trust status based society: to …

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    Comment #48618311

    Depends on the organization and on the SWEs. I do share your understanding, which is making me unfit for organizations, where the authority over "what" is firmly held by POs and th…

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    Comment #48617866

    CTOs noticed it. When product pipeline is empty, because engineers finished all the outstanding tasks, the engineers are awarded with more work: "The new software engineer is a pro…

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    Comment #48617844

    Considering all the possible levels of abstraction software can represent, I'm imagining it as a fractal. The worst case - a mistake can be introduced by generative AI at any of th…

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    Comment #48530257

    Personal (as in, "for personal use, not a product") conversation partner -- I speak in German, one level is correcting the mistakes, allowing me to reformulate the statement, anoth…

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    Comment #48124758

    I did a project with Claude. With unit and integration tests, whole shebang. First in Python. Reached 25% of MVP and understood that I spend more time fixing subtle type mismatches…

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    Comment #48062290

    Vacuuming working age population from Ukraine since 2014. Poland did everything right, while Ukrainian governments and businesses were smirking "What are you going to do?" during s…

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    Comment #47636703

    > you have to go to a school that costs around $2000 So cheap. Comparing to Germany.

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    Comment #47604985

    Sabra and Shatila all over again?

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    Comment #47486609

    From my experience greenfield /brownfield is not the best dichotomy here. I observed, how same tooling is generating meaningless slop on greenfield project and 10kLoC of change (le…

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    Comment #47285432

    These were not private individuals. This was an official cash/good transfer between Austrian bank and Ukrainian bank.

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    Comment #47034978

    > tight feedback loop between military intelligence, private startups It's just friends buying from friends.

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    Comment #47034954

    I would put the upper bound on the population relevant to _the_ tech sector at 28000.

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    Comment #46992934

    I remember GM cars in Herzliya, Israel with cables and cameras held by duct tape circa 2019 after Andrej Karpathy already presented end to end neural network training for Autopilot…

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    Comment #46992679

    Long time ago when I was managing ISP email relay and customers asked "Where is the message I've sent?" seeing in the logs message accepted by receiving SMTP server was the end of …

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    Comment #46858307

    These reports are not for engineers, but for businesses. HR will point to the statistic and state "we are paying top of the market". In reality, trying to hire a senior engineer be…

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    Comment #46456518

    https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2006773495066464580 > Seeing as this has made the orange site, let it be known this person is a model security researcher. > The issue was not in any FF…

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    Comment #45607315

    If we assume the company runs N projects with positive Net Present Value (NPV) at the start of the project and after re-evaluation some of the project NPV turned to be negative, cl…

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    Comment #45332701

    I would try to pass it between the wheels and would crash the same. At least for me there was nothing indicating there is not enough clearance.