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Is this written exactly for (1) people who implement/maintain this and, I say this with love, (2) nerds. Or will there be effects outside of a microscopic improvement on storage + latency.
He self-published a lot of material under various pseudonyms / sponsored others to write biographies that painted him as a Tony Stark adjacent character. A lot of Iron Man comics are based on exaggerated version of Feynman stories.
He was a truly brilliant "top 100 of all time" type physicist, but also had one of the biggest ego's I've ever looked into. Pair it with the misogyny, abuse of power, racism, etc... I'm not his biggest fan.
E: Why is my original comment being downvoted/flagged lmao. This site is odd sometimes.
People are catching on to that reality but at least WayMo offers something novel.
Let's assume this is a paradigm shift on the scale of Transformers / `Attention is all you need`. Companies build out new models and pump another $100 Billion through it. And then a year from now, another innovation comes out. Same circus. And again.
No one wants to be left behind but trying to keep up will sink smaller companies.
People think plastic is bad because it comes from oil, that's not the case. Plastic and the oil it comes from is a biproduct of the primary reason we drill for oil - which is energy. The generation of plastic isn't the problem per se, it's the existence of it from then on. So if you find some new zero emission way of making a plastic substitute that has all the same problems of plastic, you haven't really done anything.
The solution to plastic is a change in consumer spending, probably facilitated by national regulation. So... good luck.
This product seems to solve for a lot of things that have nothing to do with why we use plastic. Plastic is everywhere because it is durable & cheap, that's about it got 80% of applications. This misses the mark even more for the other 20% that cares about things like caustic resistance.
An expensive non-durable product will never replace it. It's nonsensical to say it's as durable as plastic, I assume that's referring to tensile strength, which is not the main property industry cares about. They want a material that will keep their product protected for months or years, it being able to lift a similar amount of weight is irrelevant when you're wrapping bread.
Scratch and the others in that style always felt like it went one step too far. It's designed for 5 yearolds, and 5 yearolds don't need to be learning about code.
This is a good sweetspot for a ~10 year old. Reasonably simple string manipulation , a couple of syntax tricks to learn, and not much else. Just to get a basic side scroller with some NPC's. Then they can incorporate control flow when they are ready.
Consider releasing a class for kids on this tool & investing in the playground. You could get some real sales.
A different angle, you could do some basic procgen game assets with this tool.
I guess aiming for blameless is as good as it gets sometimes.
Maybe make the string much longer, like 10 bits, and the game only matches on substrings longer than 3. 000...000 would generally return no matches.
That's still probably solvable with superpermutations but wordle is "solvable" with a dictionary, so don't let perfect be the enemy of "better than 2 guess bordle"
Yes, exactly. I'm not accusing them per se, I'm just saying the info you provided does not declare itself to not be a scam. It's like if you asked if killed someone and I replied "I don't own a gun" - it does not sufficiently answer the question
"We recover 80% of plastics" does not mean "We reduce the generation of new plastics by 80%", and the second one is the one that matters.
The existence of plastic being used in new products doesn't help anyone - it's only beneficial if it helps reduce the production of new plastic
By the definition, 75% seems very good. I'm not sure if that definition is a legally sanctioned term or if your municipality has some screwy definition of 'recovered'. But if it really translates to "If this service didn't exist, we would 4x our production of plastic" - then that does not seem like a scam at all.
With that definition, a plausible extreme is they take 75% of waste plastic to create one single plastic cup. Meaning the production of plastic would not change if this program did not exist. If that's the case - then yes scam.
TL;DR not enough info
The number of secretaries declines after answering machines became more prevalent.
You can keep throwing ad hominin if you think it's helping change reality. I wish we weren't headed this way, I really do, but we are. So we might as well confront reality. Catch you in 3 years when whatever happens - happens.
A - normal, conventional senior dev work flow
B - A non-traditional but plausible senior dev workflow
C - Senior dev with LLM
I'm not claiming A = B = C, just that the step from one to another is relatively small when compared to something like a linter or other tool that accelerates development in some way.
> Which completely fails to address the point I am making.
If an LLM can do 20% more things than a junior dev can but also cannot do a different 20% of things a junior dev can, then the LLM is similar the a junior. And when comparing two juniors within a given field, it's entirely likely the above logic could apply. E.g. one junior may not be able to write SQL queries while the other does not understand the DOM. An LLM on the other hand is "kinda ok" at everything, but cannot engage in 'real' conversations about system architecture or reason through user experiences reliably. So it can do 20% more, and also 20% less. Just as a junior dev.
No one is claiming A = C, so don't keep punching the wind. They are claiming A ~= C.
The man is the economy, the dog is the market. Unless you have access to HFT systems & models, there is no point in trying to guess where the dog will go. You have to look at the man, which is the aggregate health of the economy. If I start to see the man walk backwards, I sell, and vis versa. But *mostly*, I just stick things in ETF's and don't worry about it unless I need the money in the near future.
What's left over is ETF's or luck.
You could not get X to be good at Y, but it's not impossible someone else can.
Imagine a senior IC staffed with 4 juniors, and they spend 2 hours with each every day. Then the junior is left with 6 hours to think through what they were taught/told. This is very similar to LLM development except instead of context switching 3 times each day, the senior can skip over the 6 hours of independent time the junior required to absorb the changes. But it still takes the same amount of time to deliver the 4 separate projects.
I find the existence of LLM development deeply troubling for a long list of reasons. But refuting the claim that an LLM is similar in many ways to a junior dev is unsubstantiated
>It also is completely useless to perform many tasks that a Junior developer can.
And there are many things one junior could be helpful with that a different junior would be useless at.
With that as a metric, 1 Senior + 4 juniors cannot build the company with the scope you are describing.
A 50-eng company might have 1 CTO, 5 staff, 15 Seniors, and 29 juniors. So the proposition is you could cut the company in ~half but would still require the most-expensive aspects of running a company.
2) Yes, which is a separate issue. 1) Nearly all IC's should have the option to at least work remotely on some days, 2) All management should allow for their reports to take the day off if the work is complete. The fact that I get away with working a 4 days a week is a loop hole not a solution.
3) Realities of paywall articles. I'm not paying for the top ~20 news sites individual $5/month subscription. Nothing wrong with disclaiming I haven't read it and providing my thoughts on the subject. I'm highly doubtful the article contains anything new anyways, just rehashing the same half dozen arguments that have been around for 20 years, plus 1 or 2 new ones sourced from 2020. Probably includes a link to some recent study about some group trying it out and finding some success, which the author extrapolate's to the rest of the corporate world, and probably commentary from some CEO. You've read it, let me know how far off I am.
What is it you think happens on Saturday? Do you think those baristas are working 7 days/week?
That said, I'm not sure why this is always so popularly discussed in Eng forums. The reality is, our work is inherently async, and 90% of IC's could work 1 days/week if we magically squished all our work in that time frame. Many in practice get away with a 4 day work week. My company has a no-meeting Friday and I'm full remote, if I've finished my work I just quietly take it off.
So the reality is this: a 4 day work week for IC's means either asking them to work less or forcing them into a schedule they already had access to but opted to not take.
Why would a business be incentivized to have their staff work less or force them into an uncomfortable schedule that doens't adhere as nicely to the realities of parenthood or other adult commitments.
This is static data that only needs to be updated once or twice a year. Why not just make this an npm or py module
You wrote me original message with less words
I joined google in 2022 (and have since left), even as a newcomer it was obvious that not only was the golden era over, but the era after the golden era was winding down too. The atmosphere wasn't "The reckless innovation is over but lets make the product as great as we can" - it was "Just don't break anything and squeeze out 1 or 2% improvements where possible"