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pdhborges

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    Comment #49225588

    Even if you get a crispy set of requirements from all parties you are still responsible for implementing all of then while making sense of the existing system (and from my experien…

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    Comment #49224815

    I'm also surprised. In Portugal primary, middle and high school tests and exams are all proctored and the vast majority of them written by hand.

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    Comment #49224611

    Touch billing, touch medical data, be at a B2B company that needs to catch all the ISOs to have a chance to land bigger contracts. I don't think it's uncommon.

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    Comment #49224575

    Are you willing to pay to learn remotely from a university with crappy reputation?

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    Comment #49216103

    I have a hard time believe their time is worth less than $75/hr or so. In many places in Europe it is.

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    Comment #49180782

    Can you imagine scenarios that would make it less silly? I will give an example: - The AI researcher might be working for a lab or company with much less funds than the top dogs. A…

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    Comment #49161752

    To be honest none of these problems feels remotely "solvable" beyond having a ton of knobs and engineering tradeoffs like we already have now. In a sense they don't seem very excit…

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    Comment #49124288

    At least in europe you can do a 3 year Eng Phys BSc and if it doesn't pan out you can do a master in EE or MEng.

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    Comment #49083617

    Maybe people believe that the process complexity is not symetric. I don't blame them. Building an house is more complex than destroying it.

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    Comment #49062703

    Well whether it's better or worse depends on your specific situation. What I'm facing right now is a 10 year monolith modularized with applications. Like a sibling comment already …

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    Comment #49062582

    You don't have to put all your modules into a single file. You can break them into multiple files and the import them into a model file just so that Django loads it from the expect…

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    Comment #49059382

    - Django apps are an anitipattern for large internal / single purpose products due to migration overhead as FKs cross application boundaries Totally agree with this. Now we have th…

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    Comment #48779036

    I think the mindset is usefull personally. When large complex systems are required and economic pressure is applied it can rapidly turn into an dangerous strategy. You will quickly…

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    Comment #48610766

    How come I have never seen this tradeoff work in practice?

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    Comment #48556266

    https://www.unicorn-engine.org/docs/beyond_qemu.html

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    Comment #48531925

    If you have an int32 or less you can!

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    Comment #48493864

    Sure. But I'm trying to connect what you said: > you'll come out with superpowers you didn't have before. with the impressions from the reviewers. I don't think they got super powe…

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    Comment #48492325

    This review is not so nice: https://emptysqua.re/blog/review-queue-theory-book/

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    Comment #48481257

    What will be Amodei's job after we have AIs that are better at evrything than humans? Is the AI going to care about our stock exchange playgrounds that reward the future Antropic s…

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    Comment #48353304

    Could be boot locked to the original owner Apple account.

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    Comment #48180342

    How about answering the question and then add details later? IME that tends do work better.

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    Comment #48091938

    At least if you a test suite that doesn't have to be migrated. I too would like to migrate some services from Python to Rust but my test suite is written in Python so I would have …

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    Comment #48077446

    Curious how the test suite was applied. Was it ported from Zig to Rust beforehand?

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    Comment #47999450

    Works great. No wonder China is eating our lunch.

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    Comment #47899743

    Can you share that document?