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sambellll

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Sam bell from the greatest movie ever created.
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sambellll··on Show HN: Elevators
> Seems like the real reason it performed worse in this simulation is that when they implemented destination dispatch, they assigned an elevator at time of request, and had no system for reviewing and updated that assignment.

I don't think it's possible to have destination dispatch AND update assignment together, in the real world.

- If the user clicks floor 26 and you tell them to wait at elevator G, you can't really tell them to move to F if it's taking too long.

- But if you don't tell them an elevator to wait at, then you'd need them to run around what is possibly like 5-8 elevators to find which one is going to their floor? That's obviously not realistic.

So then you're going to just have them get in the first one that opens? But then that's just the same as an up/down button.

sambellll··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
To me this is like a good software engineer using AI.

The fact that they use it doesn't make what the result is any worse or less trustworthy - arguably it makes it better.

It only becomes a problem if they offload all of the thinking to AI.

sambellll··on ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
It's just odd to see a company buy a product and then promptly nuke it.
sambellll··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
Here to say the same thing.

I built an app a few years ago and needed some sort of DB to store around 50 million records that had ~10k reads+writes per month with 1 index. It cost me something like $50 to load it up initially, and then something stupid like 10 cents/month to maintain.

sambellll··on Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)
Would've been cool if the levels came into effect while you scrolled down the page
sambellll··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
I don't think it's fair to say suburbanization lead to isolation. I think factors like social media have had a much bigger impact.

It's not like you're living away from any people - you have 100 other neighbours living on your street!

sambellll··on Claude Opus 4.7
Someone should make an MCP that parses every non-code file before it hits claude to turn it into caveman talk
sambellll··on Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
I feel like that's the optimal implementation - best of both worlds

Wish android copied them for once lol