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> removing human cognitive friction is resulting in needless software complexity This is kind of a hilarious statement just on the surface. Isn't removing burden from humans the wh…

This was the first thing I noticed. The first sentence is not a grammatical or sensical sentence as far as I can tell. Also who are they expecting to get with a hiring window open …

client side of this kind of needs to be open source unless I'm running it on a dedicated machine and firewalling it from the rest of my network. Or the company needs to have a very…

And today in obvious headlines: "Game recognize game"

oh yeah, that's actually how I read it though now I realize it's nonsensical... like when someone says "I could care less" when they actually mean "couldn't"

> You installed Beads, completely oblivious to the fact that it's basically uninstallable malware. Did I miss something? I haven't used it in a minute, but why is the author claimi…

I was a big WFH proponent, but I found the thing that I hated the most was the commute. Actually being in the office is pretty nice (assuming you work w/ nice people, have good cul…

Yegge was an early employee at Amazon and has been writing influential blog posts and developing massive software projects since before this guy was born. But sure, in his retireme…

Internet -> Obvious value, more efficient communication, knowledge sharing, transactions etc. AI -> Value is very obvious to me as a developer. Blockchain -> ? What is the actual v…

What a joke this guy is. I can sit down and crank out a real, complex feature in a couple hours that would have previously taken days and ship it to the users of our AI platform wh…

1Password can be your 2fa and autofill those fields. It has a built in scanner which will look at your screen and read the QR code on the screen (no separate device needed).

> text to servo movement yeah this was super impressive. If this is at the point where you can put an arbitrary object in front of it and ask it to move it somewhere, that's going …

> embedding vectors you've calculated from the code? If so, those are likely quite easily reversible I don't think embeddings are generally reversible... you're usually projecting …

wait... but why did it work in the development environment?

Well... sure. But OpenAI and MSFT have gone to a lot of trouble to build up the mystique around GPT-4 by being secretive about its architecture and publishing papers with tantalizi…

This was my thought when we first wrote this back in... 2018 or whatever. The papers referenced sort of derive this technique in that way that feels rather roundabout. For the actu…

Depends what you want out of life and what career you're moving to... you can become pretty competent in a career in tech in just a few years and it will likely become lucrative pr…

That's Sir Arthur C. Clarke to you!

Andrew, see if anything here catches your eye... we've got a few openings. You can email me at my username at featurebase.com. https://www.featurebase.com/careers

Generally speaking, the nice thing about bitmap indexes is that you're able to access the data in a very granular way. If you have a WHERE clause that's calling out specific values…

wait I'm thinking of fgprof.... this looks awesome too though

this thing is awesome, have used it many times to quickly track down tricky performance issues.

I wish there was a comparison to how dangerous the same commute is by car. I feel like you should also factor in the benefits of getting extra exercise twice a day for 20 years vs …

many! It was originally developed for marketing use cases- helping marketers understand up-to-date use her behavior and find interesting segments. But really it's useful anytime yo…