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jcheng

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About jcheng

work email: joe AT posit DOT co

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    Comment #48787556

    According to the article this is a closed loop cooling system, once it’s up and running it doesn’t use any water. They run water through it during installation and that’s the disch…

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    Comment #48712145

    Fun game! On iOS I frequently triggered a double-tap zoom accidentally, and it’s weirdly difficult to zoom back out once that happens (a second double-tap doesn’t work, and pinch t…

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    Comment #48667177

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key is all I can think of, but that was introduced in 1994...

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    Comment #48345858

    I'm curious if Quarto could coordinate all of that for you automatically. It supports both code execution via Jupyter, and output via Typst (including books). https://quarto.org/do…

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    Comment #48286936

    Poor Drew, if only he’d taken Steve’s advice! /s

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    Comment #48262255

    I think you make a good point but the use of samples in hip hop doesn’t support it; those samples need to be licensed.

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    Comment #48211353

    Here are some examples of the questions in the benchmark. If these are representative, they seem pretty cut and dry. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience#exampl...…

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    Comment #48200726

    "Sometimes you have to change things that are perfectly good just to make them your own." --Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock

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    Comment #48010146

    Former E36 owner here as well. What are "monkey pissers"?

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    Comment #47951381

    "Disingenuous?" Just because someone finds the style irksome, and chooses to share that here, they're deceptively, calculatingly trying to derail the conversation? That's an extrem…

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    Comment #47471583

    Open core can work, but you really have to find very strong product market fit on the proprietary side--ideally with features that discriminate between users who are relatively hap…

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    Comment #47425807

    Quaid Army?

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    Comment #47408179

    For that purpose I think most people are using bubblewrap or seatbelt/sandbox-exec with CPython.

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    Comment #47300812

    > A percentage taken from the increase of an amount every year, is more than the same percentage taken at the end It sounds like you're describing a hypothetical tax on unrealized …

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    Comment #47300749

    You're thinking of realized capital gains, not tax on the exercise/grant. I don't think there is a way to dodge the latter, and you can't take out a loan or pass down options you n…

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    Comment #47300050

    Details: $2MM/year in salary, the rest in performance based incentives. The $692MM figure is based on hitting all of the maximums (200% of a few different targets) and is the total…

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    Comment #47104095

    Can you say more? Why isn't it neutral or slightly positive? I would assume that a KYC provider would want to protect their reputation more than the average company. If I were choo…

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    Comment #47102469

    That’s what this is. It’s just defining two types of subagent relationship (spawned and forked) and providing the minimal MCP API for controlling them. It’s up to the LLMs when and…

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    Comment #47064775

    The revenue curves do indeed look a bit different: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=revenu... Even more so if you compare EBITDA: https://www.macrotrends.net/s…

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    Comment #46820545

    Would’ve been perfectly readable and no larger if they had used newline instead of pipe.

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    Comment #46591939

    Yeah... and besides managerial skills, also product (using the word loosely) sense, user empathy, clarity of vision, communication skills. They've always been multipliers for progr…

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    Comment #46583047

    > 95% of Claude and 5% of you, while still better than me (and your average Joe), is nowhere near the same jump from 95% Claude and 5% me. I see what you're saying, but I'm not sur…

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    Comment #46577715

    > For others, LLMs remove the core part of what makes programming fun for them. Anecdotally, I’ve had a few coworkers go from putting themselves firmly in this category to saying “…

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    Comment #46560875

    An engineer on my team who is working on TUI stuff said that avoiding the flicker is difficult without affecting the ability to copy/paste using the mouse (something to do with "al…