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Are you being serious or sarcastic?

I built a 40 (later 80) node cluster with clusterknoppix ~2006 to run a bunch of physics simulations off of old library computers after I replaced a bunch of PSU fans. Kept my cubicle toasty until we moved them into a random subterranean room I think was used for some early nuclear research at university.

Salesforce runs Salesforce on postgres with LSM:

https://vldb.org/cidrdb/2026/a-multi-tenant-relational-oltp-...

you've had an account for four years, and _this_ is your comment?

SAT isn’t an IQ test, and probably all sorts of people took it before they had cultural awareness or a diagnosis that would have lead to different testing conditions had it been taken after diagnosis, let alone the fact that test scores are not comparable.

GPAs similarly not comparable over large time ranges, schools, or degrees without normalization you can’t get.

there’s really no limit to how many times and ways you can review something with AI, except dollars.

They are not all filtered early nor are they necessarily missing from images. The data can be embargoed until orbits change effectively.

Right, people haven’t internalized that these are really just scripts in natural language.

Oracle is the hilarious version of this -

9i - "internet"

10g - "grid"

11g - "also grid"

12c - "cloud"

26ai - "ai"

various other examples. One really annoying thing is this has also happened in open source projects too - generic things that, sure, help out with AI tasks are now "AI" things.

"rely" is overly strong in these cases usually (more like "make use of")

The real core of infrastructure monitoring isn’t dashboards. It’s the alerts.

“it’s not X it’s Y”

at this point when I see this pattern in writing I assume most if not all of it is AI generated - same with em-dashes.

This is not to discount the idea that alerts are more important than dashboards (I work directly in observability) - but just to say that I personally shut off reading anything else with these patterns because, generally speaking, the rest of the content is just not original or interesting.

Can you build most of this with Ray?

For files up to 100kB of size, this should effectively be really close to the same price as S3 when writing (didn't check reading so much, but the writes/PUT is always much more expensive than read/GET)

Would be really useful pre-compaction and to deal with small files issue without latency penalties

Adversarial software development is also when I do my best work

I have honestly not had that problem much. Being specific, concise, and strong with your prompts helps out a lot.

I find the people who end up with spaghetti code did so because they didn’t translate their normal processes over.

Being completely methodical about development really helps. obra/superpowers, for example, gets close but I think it overindexes on testing and doesn’t go far enough with design document templates, planning, code style guides, code reviews, and more.

Being methodical about it takes more time, but prevents a good bit of the tech debt.

Planning modes help, but they are similarly not methodical enough.

It would be interesting to make that sort of thing generic. A law couldn’t legalize something without backporting the legalization.

I think people rarely reject even if it fails a slump test though

The sklearn to me is (and mirrors) the insane amount of engineering that exists/existed to bring Jupyter notebooks to something more prod-worthy and reproducible. There’s always going to be re-engineering of these things, you don’t need to use the same tools for all use cases

In amsterdam, few people wear modern/synthetic rain coats as well. Just riding around in the rain with what I assume must be waxed duck out something

I’d always hoped something like this could take advantage of FPGAs directly

11MPG/7MPG if towing. My Uncle was a traveling pipefitter and had the ‘87. The two tanks were _just_ big enough to make it from Phoenix to Yuma after a miscalculation of where the next gas station would be.

I’ve had a few different specialty brands of milk and there can be a difference, but I think that has more to do with the cows (and their diet) than the process. Jersey cow milk is probably more different than raw milk than pasteurized is from raw milk.

I am enjoying the RePPIT framework from Mihail Eric. I think it’s a better formalization of developing without resulting to personas.

The last year it has really gone down hill — hard. Reporting is mediocre, photojournalism is forgettable, and the opinion section is absolute garbage.

I don’t think that’s what it would look like at all. The first stages would be cheap - mostly requirements gathering and research, but a bit more focus on that. A bit more time would be spent up front, but then you’d see multiple proposals being built, from that multiple plans being built, and finally multiple implementations to choose from. You might see A/B testing of multiple implementations or even products, and then a decision on which to pursue. You could move in multiple dimensions concurrently.

I’m not sure this is agile. I’m not sure it’s a waterfall.

We’ve got bounds on our infinite typing monkeys, but they increase every day

Waterfall came out when hardware and software had to be developed together, and appealed to traditional Engineering practitioners. You are right though, when the hardware constraints went away, software (more code) was cheaper and easier to ship in increments and iterate. But feature-rich products were still difficult to ship - and you had to pick and choose what things to spend your time on.

The SaaS-pocalypse is occurring versus investors don’t believe that to be true anymore.

I think they will still be wrong because ultimately people want people (particularly experts) to be held accountable for things - shipping high stakes software, running company ERPs/CRMs, and more.

Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive. It might not make sense to continue (waterfall might be better actually)

The real problem is that company decisions will never be made as fast as software can be written (and rewritten) now.

It has always been been possible to program literately in programming languages - not to the extent that you can in Web, but good code can read like a story and obviate comments

if it ends up being an issue, then the schools could just change start time?