From the future, just trying my best to live in the present. Here to exchange understanding.
New Zealand
Joined January 2018
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"So many people think of themselves as honest simply because they can't manage to steal." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #honesty
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When my kid asks "How are babies made?", I'm going to say "A doctor combines a sperm and egg in a test tube, and then freezes it until Daddy's startup has a liquidity event"
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"A prediction is wrong only if it costs you something. A prediction is right only if it makes you something. The rest is tawk. #skininthegame." - @nntaleb
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No, it was the printing press, or the Phoenician alphabet even. Or never. The only important question ever has been whether you swim with the current of [insert sufficiently sane-sounding description of Landian technocapital] and win, or swim against it and damn your lineage.
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our butt was making so much poop we had to invent a new kind of toilet
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.
In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.
Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
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This is the first time in my life where I have been truly stumped when it comes to ascertaining the optimal move.
I truly have no idea. All paths seem to terminate almost instantaneously. I have never been faced with a scenario even remotely analogous to this.
