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Svalka has been around from at least year 2000. Might even be one of the reasons for the current practice.

0.3% is definitely not a ”rounding error”. For Google it would mean roughly $650M drop in revenue.

In Finland, where you can easily get 30cm or more snow, all roofs are required to stand 100-300kg/m2 by law and most roofs are less than 30 degrees (e.g. 1:2 ratio).

A-frame or even 45degree angle roofs are very rare.

Agree on how the platform’s have changed.

However, I don’t think Reddit is an exception. Popular is often filled with content that is driven by the feelings of fear and hate. Not something I’d like to continually expose kids or teens to.

There are cases where I would start the coding process by copy-pasting existing code (e.g. test suites, new screens in the UI) and this is where LLMs work especially well and produce code that is majority of the time production-ready as-is.

A common prompt I use is approximately ”Write tests for file X, look at Y on how to setup mocks.”

This is probably not ”de novo” and in terms of writing is maybe closer to something like updating a case study powerpoint with the current customer’s data.

> An Engineer might get the jollies designing a bridge, but the workers who work on it dont.

What is this viewpoint based on?

The majority of blue collar workers I know get plenty of pleasure from their work and would absolutely hate sitting on a computer 8 hours per day.

Government pension funds are a part of it, but it’s a combination of many things, like:

- The US has been a single market for a much longer time than the EU, and the EU still is not a single market, primarily due to language barriers (Germany, France, and Italy are large enough markets to have their own localized, but slightly worse SaaS options)

- European societies are more arranged around the common good and have lower income differences between people and super-wealthy individuals by design. The US is built around being the place where talented people can make the most money out of their skills, which results in many people worldwide choosing it as the place to go to, as the talent market is a global one.

- European values tend to value making as much money as possible or competing and being the winner less, which results in people grinding less and being happy when they become rich enough to focus on other things.

Claude Code has worked well for me. It is easy to point it to the relevant parts of the codebase and see what it decides to read itself so you provide missing piece of code when necessary.

Most startups will use funds like in addition to VC funding. It allows you to increase your runway so you’re better positioned for your next funding round.

Funny how the overly positive writing style makes it feel like there’s something fishy happening and that they’re trying to give it a positive spin.

Haven’t used Upcloud for any larger workloads, but had a customer VPS there for multiple years. Worked well and the UI for managing servers was great.

All proprietary software that runs in the cloud would vanish.

I follow people mostly from the JS/TS web development community and have a pretty good balance of tech takes and some lighter life updates/humor in between. I mostly the "mutuals" and "popular with friends" tabs to check things out.

Every now and then there's too much US politics, but it's hard to escape nowadays.

At the same time, the two photographers in my neighbourhood are doing better than ever. When it comes to memories (like newborn photos) surprisingly many people are willing to pay a premium.

The ability to control your own experience via custom feeds makes Bluesky so delightful. The new X algo made it impossible to just follow the people I wanted to.

You can clone the repo and install pandoc. Then run "pandoc index.md *.md -o operating-system-in-1000-lines.epub" in "website/en/" folder and you will have a fully working ebook.

In my experience 80% plus is quite common in the models sold for colder environments. E.g. Mitsubishi electric Lossnay advertises 86%.

That sounds like a horrible environment to work in. How’s your senior dev retention?

It’s basically the same thing as wrapping the wood into a plastic bag. When water condenses inside the plastic it has no way of escaping and starts to rot/mold the wood.

When using any type of insulation in places where temperatures can vary and humidity can get high you should always ensure the wooden parts have enough room to breathe (e.g. 10cm of empty space above them if the insulation is at the bottom).

So for the real idea of how things are going, we would need a graph of also the total cruise miles (for FSD enabled Teslas). But this change was definitely done in order to get more easy miles for FSD testing, not UX.

It’s also not an accident that the trial went live shortly before Q2 numbers. Eager to see how the graph looks like in the next report (or if it is omitted completely).

Thanks for sharing! A great read indeed.

This was a great read from an industry insider.

The funny thing is that IKEA sawdust will most likely last longer than some more expensive ”drop-shipping luxury brand” described in the article.

For software orgs deploying web services, ”no deployments on Fridays” should be seen as a temporary workaround, not a best practice to follow. It is a symptom of poor automatic QA processes (linting, automatic tests, etc.) and lack of capabilities like feature flags.

The only exception is orgs that need manual QA for regulatory reasons and mobile development, where you follow a weekly/bi-weekly cadence because of external Apple/Google reviews.

There is a ”Fast AI” setting that does exactly this.

Adobe Premiere Rush

A lot of people are old enough to have lived when Bauhaus was ”the modern look.” Hence, it now looks just plain ”old” whereas Art Deco and Noveau look ”classic.”

No, it’s Google’s proprietary product meant to lock you into their Cloud offering.

Most likely they want cloud cloud providers (Google, AWS, and MS) to pay for selling this as a service.

Would really want to see some benchmarks against ChatGPT / GPT-4.

The improvements in the given benchmarks for the larger models (Llama v1 65B and Llama v2 70B) are not huge, but hard to know if still make a difference for many common use cases.