I wasn't able to force the agent to write failing tests yet. Although I'm sure it should be possible to do.
I do that all the time with Claude. What part is not working?
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I haven't listened to this podcast, but if you want another one, the history of rome podcast by Mike Duncan holds a similar place in my heart. He's kind of monotone but I was entranced and would you believe that I couldn't listen to the episode for the final emperor because I didn't want the roman empire to fall. lol. What a good series.
His subsequent podcast: "revolutions" is also really good.
Las Vegas:
* A very diverse city, demographically. Evenly split gender. Age demographics tend to lean either students (from UNLV) or 30s 40s.
* Affordable but lots to do. Amazing entertainment, restaurants, nightlife subsidized by tourists. The restaurants are great even off the strip and 1/3rd the price. Cost of living is 30% cheaper or more than the SF Bay Area for comparison.
* It has it's own different scenes for different people, such as the art district, downtown, China Town, Summerlin for families, Henderson for old people
* Housing is affordable, $300-400k gets you a 3 BR SFH easily
* No state taxes
* Lots of outdoors activities, hiking, climbing, even skiing/snowboarding with lifts thanks to Charleston, a 12k ft mountain next to the city
* LA is 4 hour drive away if you want a big city or beaches
* International airport that will take you anywhere
* Recycles 99% of it's water and a great place for generating electricity from the sun
Cons:
* Lots of gambling and drinking addictions
* Car centric. Public transit is more of an after thought.
* Lots of wind and it gets really hot June-October
* No plants. Just desert and donkeys.
I always thought Las Vegas wouldn't be the worst place to raise a family despite it's reputation as Sin City.
himlion commented on Ask HN: Engineering managers, how do you “upskill” your team? · Posted by u/joshelgar
I usually stick with this approach:
* Two sit-downs anually with each team member to figure out long term and short term goals.
* Fridays are for fun, almost as mini-hackathons, if the calendar allows for it; use it to get rid of technical debt, try something new etc.
* 3-4 hackathons, each 3 days long, each year.
* Conference budget per team member of their choice. Should allow for at least one conference anywhere in the world per year.
* Don't micro-manage; engineers are best when they are allowed a lot of freedom.
* Work from anywhere, anytime, but try to keep a core schedule from 9 to 15.
* Work from anywhere, anytime, but try to keep a core schedule from 9 to 15.
That's almost three quarters of the work day.
Even a small startup, a researcher or a tinkerer can get a cloud instance with a beefy GPU. Also of note, Apple's M1 Max/Ultra should be be able to run it on their GPUs given their 64/128GB of memory, right? That's an order of magnitude cheaper.
I overlooked the unified memory on those machines. Can it really run this performantly?
Yup, they did that to our team too. Calling my coworker during the evening, emailing me and messaging me on LinkedIn at the same time. When I said "no thanks" they replied with a message to set up a meeting. Went from a maybe someday to a never real quick. They really need to rethink their marketing.
I wonder if that kind of marketing is actually quite successful. You'd think they wouldn't risk their reputation otherwise right?
himlion commented on OpenAI’s Red Team: the experts hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT ft.com/content/0876687a-f... · Posted by u/belter
You're totally right!
As the other comment said not everything is "billable hours" and, speaking for Germany again as a Freelancer, you've got taxes, health insurance etc. so your 16k get down to much, much less pretty fast.
In my experience contracting for bigger companies you can be close to 100% billable by just billing a default 8 hours per day. Not counting the time without an assignment of course, but that should not be long if you have skills and a network.
himlion commented on OpenAI’s Red Team: the experts hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT ft.com/content/0876687a-f... · Posted by u/belter
That's what the customer pays, not what you see on your paycheck. 100€/h would equate to 16.000€ gross a month/192k a year, and no one pays that in webdev.
You can definitely make close to that as a contractor / freelance web dev. I make about 85-90 per hour and should be charging more..
himlion commented on SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds sfexaminer.com/forum/put-... · Posted by u/hnburnsy
America also accepts way, way more immigrants than any other developed nation. Japan? None. Norway? Zilch. Netherlands? Come onnnn. They get handfuls but as a percentage of population the USA takes in boatloads and bus loads of immigrants every month.
When you look at statistics that say the US is lower in this or that, remember that America takes in millions of dirt poor immigrants each year, and their circumstances skew the numbers. However they get assimilated and integrated, and a generation later their kids are going to the Ivy League and starting businesses.
Ironically, as a Dutch tech worker without a degree the USA is one of the very very few countries I can't emigrate to.
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