IanCal

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by IanCal 1y ago
A cache being fast enough doesn’t mean no caching is relevant - I’m not sure why you’d equate the two.
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by IanCal 1y ago
I disagree. They found that Postgres, without tuning, was easily fast enough on low level hardware and would come with the benefit of not deploying another service. Additionally tuning it isn’t really relevant. If the defaults are fine for
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by IanCal 1y ago
There is a number for this but it’s not tied to your right to work. We have a mash of different systems. Here’s what employers need to do currently: https://www.gov.uk/check-job-applicant-right-to-work
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by IanCal 1y ago
No one agrees on what agi means. IMO we’re clearly there, gpt5 would easily be considered agi years ago. I don’t think most people really get how non-general things were that are now handled by the new systems. Now agi seems to be closer to
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by IanCal 1y ago
Asking for a pipeline described in a paper to be run over a new set of inputs is not a tool for a casual observer. I’m not sure what benefit making someone build that themselves would have for people with expertise in the field but not codi
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by IanCal 1y ago
They’re not talking about removing any effort to understand a paper, but to lower it for the same level of understanding. If more effort required to reach the same understanding was a good thing we should be making papers much harder to rea
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by IanCal 1y ago
Exactly. There is a limit to what a private company can do on private land, set by "the government" (here it'd be parliament). You don't seem to be an absolutist about this, so we both agree that the government can and s
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by IanCal 1y ago
I know what you mean but read this in context. You're less restricted in what you can collect compared to what you can do with it - any valid use case requiring video footage allows you to get video footage but that doesn't mean y
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by IanCal 1y ago
> 1) the selling of private, incidentally collected information by service providers, and 2) the accumulation, buying, and selling of dossiers on normal people whom one has no business relationship that is the problem. But this is exact
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by IanCal 1y ago
> For me, the ultimate laptop bag is one that looks nothing like a laptop bag; it should look like nothing special at all. That sounds like almost any regular backpack then. They can also be pretty weather proof, don't need to be c
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by IanCal 1y ago
> How the hell does the government have the right to decide what this private company can do on their private land? Unless you think a grocery store should be allowed to grab you and sell your organs then you agree that this private orga
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by IanCal 1y ago
This should be very familiar to people working with data in a lot of jurisdictions. I can speak to Europe but I think similar things exist elsewhere - data is less restricted in how and what you collect than it is how you use it. This makes
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by IanCal 1y ago
I worked with someone who was great with this. They’d go through the docs and do exactly what was said, document where problems were hit and then repeat from scratch again and again. Seemed slow but their docs were excellent and I’m sure
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by IanCal 1y ago
People say this a lot but the dull knives I have won’t cut my hands around the force required to cut, say, veg. My sharp knife will cut my hand at extremely low levels of force. Also the direction the dull knives can slip is usually along t
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by IanCal 1y ago
Have you never used a knife like this? I’ve got one that’s been used by people on plates enough that it’s dull - I can press it into my fingers and pull back and forth and it won’t cut me with pretty reasonable pressure. With more pressure
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by IanCal 1y ago
You can do this already, the most useful things to help with this are either writing tests or having it write tests and telling it how to compile and see error messages so you can let it loop.
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by IanCal 1y ago
They sound like they’re positioning it more that it’s faster to complete because it uses fewer tokens - see the mentions of token efficiency.
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by IanCal 1y ago
I feel like that would require work from the language side, or at least runtimes. Is there a way of stopping code in one package from, say, hitting the network? You might be able to do this around install scripts, though disk writing is lik
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by IanCal 1y ago
I'm not a fan of conspiracy things but I'd definitely agree that would A/B test better.
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by IanCal 1y ago
You're right and I'm torn on whether it's good or bad. In a way that would be at least sensible, but awful for me. The other option is they're making lazy bad choices. I do wonder what would have happened if the laws wer
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by IanCal 1y ago
Yes? I do not play the guitar to get a better recreation of a song - if that’s all I wanted I’d play the original on high quality speakers.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Sort of aside but it’s wild to me that people talk of ab testing all kinds of minor things and yet so many shops immediately cover up the item I’m viewing with a huge banner/full page annoyance about cookies.
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by IanCal 1y ago
They're definitely in the room I'm in, yes.
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by IanCal 1y ago
This is about dealing with csv files in the wild not about whether you can craft the perfect csv file. I have had years dealing with actual csv files from all corners of the world and all corners of sanity.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Love it. The first data release I did excel couldn't open the CSV file, because it started with a capital I (first column ID). Excel looks at this, looks at this file with a comma in the header and text and the ending "csv" a
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by IanCal 1y ago
> My company deals with a lot of CSV and we literally built tools and hire multiple full time employees whose entire job is handling CSV sucking in new and interesting ways. Truly shocking how many ways people manage to construct these f
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by IanCal 1y ago
> Can you provide a reproducible example of how sorting rows can lead to unrecoverable data loss? This was in the context of having it in a place humans can edit it directly so the case here is sorting rows by sorting lines . CSV has th
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by IanCal 1y ago
There's ascii characters for field and record delimiters which would be perfect. I tried using them once after what felt like an aeon of quoting issues, and the first customer file I had had them randomly appearing in their fields.
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by IanCal 1y ago
Counterpoint - CSV is absolutely atrocious and should be cast into the Sun. It's unkillable, like many eldritch horrors. > The specification of CSV holds in its title: "comma separated values". Okay, it's a lie, but s
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by IanCal 1y ago
As a counter I've found that the iOS app is insanely unreliable. I've lost chats, it messes up and says there has been no response, connection lost and more. It's been really bad. Often when it's reported no result and f

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