NB: My having submitted or quoted anyone should not be read as an endorsement. I have in the past and will in the future interact with material with which I do not agree.
Staff UX Engineer at Google (all of my opinions are my own and do not represent Google in any capacity).
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Submissions
Who Uses LLMs?
neonvagabond.xyz
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Values of β will give rise to DOM
9p.io
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AuDHD: Understanding the Comorbidity of ADHD and Autism
talkspace.com
2 points·by shawndumas··0 comments
Reflections on Six Years in the Fediverse
neilzone.co.uk
3 points·by shawndumas··0 comments
Elon Musk Forcing Tesla to Train Self-Driving Cars on His Own Driving
futurism.com
3 points·by shawndumas··3 comments
"Nik": The Mesoamerican Representation of Zero (2021)
baas.aas.org
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Damn Small Linux 2024
damnsmalllinux.org
4 points·by shawndumas··1 comments
Microsoft patches 6 zero-days under active exploit
arstechnica.com
9 points·by shawndumas··2 comments
What Is “Anti-Work?” – Luciferian Locutions
blog.alexisdumas.org
2 points·by shawndumas··1 comments
Manager'ing: An Overview for New Managers
linkedin.com
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Dietary Cholesterol and the Lack of Evidence in Cardiovascular Disease
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1 points·by shawndumas··0 comments
Facebook spokesman: We’re reducing distribution of the NY Post story on Biden
hotair.com
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Chromium crucible steel was first made in Persia
sciencedirect.com
2 points·by shawndumas··0 comments
How to Make a Citizen’s Arrest (2016)
nytimes.com
2 points·by shawndumas··0 comments
Scott Forstall tells story about Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and a dead fish [video]
loopinsight.com
235 points·by shawndumas··135 comments
The Great Asshole Fallacy
500ish.com
167 points·by shawndumas··165 comments
Lego Ideas – Lego HeroQuest
ideas.lego.com
1 points·by shawndumas··0 comments
Solo (Paper) Role Playing Games
inkwellideas.com
2 points·by shawndumas··0 comments
Things to know about the new Nest Aware
blog.google
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World's oldest yarn fragment shows Neanderthals were smarter than we thought
from the dog’s pov; so much noise and so many strangers. the smell of fresh dirt, then cement, water… so much water. the kids were excited and when it was done, oh the days of swimming, fetch, and fun. soon the stress was forgotten. the hot days of cool water and the smell of the food on the grill.
but then the kids grew and left. and then the adult male was gone, too. now this is a reminder of how much fetching and roughhousing we did. now she’s gone a lot too.
stupid fence; at least i could swim… but no.
i feel like OP put their money where their mouth was. they dug in and did the analysis. they also capitulated and rewrote the lest interesting and easiest part of the post; the prose.
i also am seeing them engage aptly with constructive criticism and adapting the material while handily dispatching the non-constructive critiques. most of which amounts to a colossal missing-of-the-point.
they have made no out of proportion claims, no non-recreate’able analysis, used exactly the correct tools, and, frankly have addressed all of your points
i am not sure you’ll agree with anything i’ve said either so feel free to misunderstand me too
from the article, “There's this common argument that only those who are bad at coding, or don't care about the craft of it, use AI to code. I think this is pretty clearly false. Let's look at a list, shall we?”
Yes! When you are deep in the code, your brain operates in a non-linear way. You try a solution, it breaks a test. You patch the test. You realize the variable name is wrong. You fix a typo.
Without Squash, the main branch history becomes a timeline of your mental struggle.
With Squash, the main branch becomes a catalog of features delivered.
No body needs to take a trip on the struggle bus with me...
agreed, the interest rates and the overestimation on the stickiness of the pandemic’s increase in internet usage post-pandemic are the primary other contributing factors that, imo, represent the lion’s share; even allowing that the tax changes are tertiary is a stretch much less as the primary/secondary reason
int main() {
long long d;
std::cout << "Enter a Julian Day Number: ";
std::cin >> d;
if (d < 0) {
std::cerr << "Error: Invalid Julian Day Number (must be non-negative)." << std::endl;
return 1; // Indicate an error to the system
}
const int DAYS_PER_YEAR = 365;
const int DAYS_PER_LEAP_YEAR = 366;
const int DAYS_PER_LEAP_CYCLE = 1461; // 4 years
const int JULIAN_TO_GREGORIAN_THRESHOLD = 2299161; // Oct 15, 1582
// Adjust for Julian-to-Gregorian transition
if (d >= JULIAN_TO_GREGORIAN_THRESHOLD) {
d += 10; // Account for dropped days
}
int a = d + 32044;
int b = (4 * a + 3) / DAYS_PER_LEAP_CYCLE;
int c = (4 * a + 3) % DAYS_PER_LEAP_CYCLE;
int y = (b / 1460) + 1970;
d = (c / 4) - 365;
if (d < 0) {
y--;
d += DAYS_PER_YEAR + (y % 4 == 0);
}
std::cout << "Gregorian Year: " << y << std::endl;
std::cout << "Day of Year: " << d + 1 << std::endl; // Add 1 as days are typically 1-indexed
return 0;
}
Compact Linux distribution tailored for low-spec x86 computers. It packs a lot of applications into a small package. All the applications are chosen for their functionality, small size, and low dependencies.
A peer of mine got invited to become a manager and was concerned about being ready so she scheduled a meeting with me and these are her notes cleaned up.
The first thing I told her was that if she thought she was truly ready--this will be no-big-deal kinda ready--to be a manager that would have been the first indication that she might not be ready.
This was a need reassurance and she is doing wonderfully.
To echo this comment, zamadatix is exactly right; I need someone quoting me about a Google project as an official representative about as much as I need another hole in my head.
As to the greater point, I want to emphasize that as a human being I want to be careful with how I communicate with others because I care about them not feeling judged, dismissed, othered, or otherwise insulted. The charge that the rules keep changing is overblown; it’s always about respecting people even if you don’t understand or enjoy them.
I know that some might still equate that with “cancel culture” but I can’t help that (and tbh that’s a discussion that we should have over beers and not on the internet).
Disclosure: I work at Google too and my opinions are also my own.
We are told internally that when we discuss Google related matters online that we should be cognizant of the what/where/how/why of our communication. Disclosing is—for me—both a reminder for myself and an attempt at a hedge against accidentally representing Google.
L4 to L5 is no cakewalk. you have to be rock solid in the core SWE disciplines and have excellent communication, organization skills, and very good leadership skills too. looking at the stats, promoted as a % of total for L4 to L5 just makes it into the double digits and only a little over a quarter of all SWEs are L5.
the SWE ladder requires/expects for an L3 to get to L4 by makes no such requirement to ever get to L5.
“Interscholastic sports spread rapidly from the 1930s through the 1950s, at a time when the medical and physical education communities were opposed to competitive sports for elementary and junior high, and occasionally high school, students.” — https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2443/Sports-Scho...
I have a lot of sympathy for the intent of this, but—now—using the same phrase that appears all through title eight of federal law to identify an applicable individual in New York City can result in you getting fined.
So try this as a thought experiment; the slaves have no economic benefit, they add nothing to sustaining the only mode of existence the south had thus far, in fact they are only a direct drain on a crop farming ecosystem. Do you still see the south seceding? I mean are you saying that they just loved having slaves no matter what it did to their bottomline?
Slavery was not an end unto itself; it was a means to an end... namely prosperity. Nobody loves oil for oil's sake--you understand that, right?
Staff UX Engineer at Google (all of my opinions are my own and do not represent Google in any capacity).
me [at] shawndumas [dot] com
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