athenot

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Cloud Janitor, Five9, Inc.

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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Happy Kagi subscriber here! I just wished Apple let them integrate into Safari without the need for silly hacks.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Maybe it's not practical for day-to-day use but the way this hacks the font to produce something completely different is amazing!
Comment · 4 months ago
Money.

Typical amount of commercials time per game:

    NFL                          60-65 min
    NBA                          40-50 min
    MLB                          40-50 min
    NHL                          25-35 min
    MLS/Premier League/World Cup 10-20 min
Comment · 8 months ago
> I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore

It's highly reminiscent of "IBM Watson" a few years ago. Basically the add-on brand to make them look cooler.

Comment · 8 months ago
One of my favorites being Micros~1, in reference to how Windows had to mangle file names for DOS's 8+3 character limit.
Comment · 8 months ago
A more appropriate signature would be "Please excuse any auto-correct errors that my ducking phone might have added."
Comment · 9 months ago
> We ultimately need optimized DSLs and aggressive use of stateless sub-modules/abstractions that can be implemented in isolation to minimize the amount of context required for any one LLM invocation.

Containment of state also happens to benefit human developers too, and keep complexity from exploding.

Comment · 9 months ago
This is a fun app.

One way I deal with people talking on speakerphone, is inviting myself into their conversation and making comments as if I were an active participant. That usually earns me a weird look, and then they go off speaker so I can't hear what's been said. Success.

Similar with folks watching reels on speaker, I fake a laugh or make comments about the content. It's awkward enough that they usually stop because they want a moment alone, not an interactive session with a stranger. Which ironically is the same thing I want too.

Comment · 9 months ago
> You can write boring code in Scala, but in my (limited) experience, Scala developers don't want to write boring code. They picked Scala not because it was the best tool for the job, but because they were bored and wanted to flex their skills. Disregarding the other 95% of programmers that would have to work with it.

Intersting observation.

So basically Scala is to the JVM what Perl is to scripting?

Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
In a similar vein, as the industry matured, we went from having teams of wizards building products, to teams of "good-enough" developers, interchangeable, easy to onboard. Perl culture was too much about craft-mastery which ended up being at odds with most corporate cultures.

Unfortunately, as a former Perl dev, it makes a lot of other environments feel bland. Often more productive yes, but bland nonetheless. Of the newer languages, Nim does have that non-bland feel. Whether it ends up with significant adoption when Rust and Golang are well established is a different story.

Comment · 1 year ago
Only in France. For some reason, the names for Gruyère and Emmental got swapped there.
Comment · 1 year ago
You're being downvoted but yes, this is about risk mitigation. The IT department at a health care organization has to balance matching the requirements of payers, admins and clinical staff, do so in a way that fits inside the allocated budget, and de-risk the unknowns as much as possible.

Even if the vendors are only half accurate about the solution they offer, by being paid suppliers, they are on the hook (to varying degrees). These systems are highly customized and serious headaches arise from interoperability and security. If some of that can be shifted to a vendor, it's a net positive insofar as the IT department and the compliance departments are concerned.

Some healthcare organization have invested in the technology side and become leaders in innovation but those are the exception.

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