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francoisdevlin

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I'm a Clojure guy that likes reading the news here.
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francoisdevlin··on The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
Not the parent, but it's half joke half truth. Anyone who's done a lot of "first principles" work falls into this trap a bit, it's an issue across stem fields. Most grow out of it, or at least learn to qualify their statements for the audience.
francoisdevlin··on What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
Wait, are you talking about llms or people?
francoisdevlin··on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
I use vi because I'm not a savage
francoisdevlin··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
As an old hand that's managed many people, I can tell you this is true.
francoisdevlin··on No matter what they tell you, it's a people problem (2008)
As a tech manager with twenty years experience, I can assure you, in fact, engineers are people. And they interact with those MBAs, project managers, etc. The really good product/project people understand this as well, and make a point of doing their very best to be effective when interacting with the engineering team. They know how expensive we are, and try to bring our our best.

To the point of this article, the best product people were in fact respected by the tech team, and it made all the difference.

francoisdevlin··on Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers
Dude, that is sick.
francoisdevlin··on Culture Change at Google
As a father to both biological and adopted children, I couldn't agree more. I'm Dad to all of them.
francoisdevlin··on Unciv
The strength of unciv is how close it comes to civ 5, and for that I loved it.
francoisdevlin··on Error correction and concealment in the Compact Disc system (1982) [pdf]
I had a zip disk for all my work in college. It's completely impractical for anything these days, but it was so much fun. Having 100mb in your bag in the era of floppies made you feel like a king.
francoisdevlin··on Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries
What makes you think the residuals would fare better than the options? The risk is about the same, yes?
francoisdevlin··on Factorio: Space Age
There's a lot to belts

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-176

francoisdevlin··on Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood
Not quite. It's simply an argument that the money will end up back in healthcare, just maybe further down the line, and maybe that's okay. Just remember that as everything else gets cheaper, the percentage that is spent on healthcare must increase.
francoisdevlin··on Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood
Would it, or would it simply delay the bill? Every one of us must pay the final price at some point.
francoisdevlin··on Stop eliminating good candidates by asking them the wrong questions
A data point - the capital one AWS breach ended up costing $270M[1]. While they weren't destroyed, it wasn't cheap either.

1. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/capital-one-...

francoisdevlin··on “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (2002)
Smells like breakfast
francoisdevlin··on John Deere 'Kill Switch' renders stolen tractors useless (2022)
That's a nice tractor you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.

Can I interest you in some protection... Err, 3 year service plan?

francoisdevlin··on Make JDK source code UTF-8
I once wrote a math library with using the letters delta and epsilon. It was cute, but I had to copy/paste every time. Never, ever again.
francoisdevlin··on We Need Programming Mentors
What do you recommend instead?
francoisdevlin··on Htmx in a Nutshell
You need to start merchandising. Complexity very, very, bad.
francoisdevlin··on Htmx in a Nutshell
GRUG? Is that you?
francoisdevlin··on Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”
Dude, no. The sheet number of times I've seen candidates point blank lie to my face in a zoom is to high. Spend some time at the manager's side of the table in the interview process and you'll see this immediately. This is a major problem.
francoisdevlin··on Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
Careful, you might turn into a Boggle-head if you follow that logic too far...
francoisdevlin··on A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it
Productivity 3 modules anyone?
francoisdevlin··on Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
Anecdote not data

Some of the grocery shops near me are known union shops. The prices are in fact higher than the non union shops.

francoisdevlin··on Cat S22 Flip Phone
Right, but experience has taught me that construction equipment has nothing on my toddler...
francoisdevlin··on Ask HN: Am I being instructed to do something illegal? (DEI hiring practices)
If you seriously need legal advice talk to an attorney, not HN.
francoisdevlin··on Ask HN: Best Engineering Blog Posts?
Gotta give patio11 some love here...

https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

francoisdevlin··on The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression
Honest question here, slightly of topic. How do you handle indexing a compressed column? Or is this considered an anti-pattern?
francoisdevlin··on This word does not exist
So I just had a hit on a real word (pejorative), not sure if that's the plan or not

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/oLvV

francoisdevlin··on Factorio's Belt Bug
Here comes 1.1.42. I'd expect it cob Monday, even Wube would get the weekend
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