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sprynr

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sprynr··on Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction
They basically did this with https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/07/27/announcing-overflowai/
sprynr··on Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
Thank you! I totally missed that thread in my search to see if it had been posted
sprynr··on Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
Sounds like engineering caught a break on this one, but overall I wouldn't be surprised.
sprynr··on Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
After 10% back in May, another round is coming through at 28% today.
sprynr··on How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?
> State leaders had helped persuade the companies to open the facilities by offering big tax breaks and water and other infrastructure grants. > Intel soon announced a $20 billion expansion in Chandler, with two additional factories that would bring 3,000 new jobs to the state. Chandler also approved $30 million in water and road improvements for the new plants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/technology/arizona-chips-...

Basically just told them "Don't worry about it, we'll foot the bill for any infrastructure needed to get you your water"

sprynr··on Stack Overflow announces a GenAI VS Code extension
Looks like this will use their public Q&A answers first to generate answers? It's not open to the public yet though so only time will tell how well it pulls from their site.

They also announce some more public platform facing features that will use GenAI: https://stackoverflow.co/labs/

sprynr··on Is training an AI on public sources breaking copyright?
The way I look at this is the same way as if an art student goes and looks at 50 surrealist art pieces and then goes and attempts to paint one themselves. That doesn't break copyright and yet they've "trained" themselves by looking at those pieces of art. So, if that is true for an art student, why not an AI?
sprynr··on Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
I had a class last semester where we were required to use AWS. Our professor tried his best to teach everyone how to be responsible with their tool use and how to predict their costs (As well as how to set up a free education account and get AWS credits). I was amazed when final presentations rolled around my group had a total cost of 4.30 dollars after 5 months of uptime and use, while other groups had costs ranging from 30 to 150 dollars! I use AWS for my job so I guess I just never really went through those growing pains, but no system should be that easy to rack up costs unknowingly.
sprynr··on Awk is the coolest tool you don't know
Oops sorry I was referencing grep not awk
sprynr··on In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math
California has really been pushing the idea that all their students are equal, while quietly opening more charter and magnet schools to support the students that are "more equal than others", it's just plain inefficient to split the levels of student achievement into completely separate campuses instead of just different classes.
sprynr··on In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math
Looks like the "State Board of Education appointed 20 members to the Mathematics Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee (Mathematics CFCC) to assist in the development of the Mathematics Framework." Looks like this is more than just a rouge admin, unfortunately.
sprynr··on Awk is the coolest tool you don't know
Awk is nice when I need something more complex than just a straight up 'grep' (And has support for both basic and Perl regex) but I really think that sed is the best solution for almost all of the examples in just because of its readability vs standard regex and its power with streams.
sprynr··on Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video]
100% agree, we have full documentation of the board schematics and have photos from full teardowns, along with examples already stored in museums. Storing becomes hoarding after a point.
sprynr··on Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video]
They aren't tactile, but they weren't meant to be, they were utilitarian. Under normal conditions hall-effect switches could last up to 30 billion operations (From Honeywell's own documentation https://sensing.honeywell.com/hallbook.pdf). They are designed to last and be used for the entire life of a machine, through all its upgrades. The lack of cursor keys was normal for the time, just look at the IBM Model F. As for Unicomp, they are based off of the IBM Model M (Which I have a few of and love the buckling spring mechanism) but they were designed to have feedback (auditory and tactile) built in. For sure a good design, but that doesn't make it the only good design.

>Please don't part out keyboards from old computer systems so you can use them with your Macbook. Give them to people who are actually working on collecting and preserving the old systems. I never said I did or would? Hall effect sensors are still available if someone wanted some they have much cheaper and easier options than tracking down an old keyboard. Also who ever implied that I'm not collecting and preserving old systems?

sprynr··on Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video]
The Symbolics Lisp keyboards are also such amazing inputs devices!(Like the Space Cadet Keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard) They had a button or meta key combination for what seems like thousands of characters or functions. I actually netted an old Symbolics 364000 keyboard from my university and I love the design of it, makes me wish we had kept some of that design language in our modern day languages.