JackC

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by JackC 4y ago
For me the most interesting thing about using large language models is they offer a kind of conversation with the average of the human data they were trained on. They surprise me by telling me when I'm doing something boring. When Copi
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by JackC 4y ago
I also had this experience. I read blog posts like this one that said "just start with postgres," so tried that, and spent a bunch of time with GIN and RUM indexes trying to work around edge cases before going to Elasticsearch, wh
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by JackC 4y ago
PSA that the python bindings for hyperscan need maintainers: https://github.com/darvid/python-hyperscan/issues/44
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by JackC 4y ago
"transaction reversibility is not about the ledger, but rather about the transaction rules that a currency uses. A reversible currency requires that someone anoint this trusted party (or trusted parties) and that they use their powers
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by JackC 4y ago
It's not the volume of the ocean that matters for sea level rise but the surface area, right? Ocean surface area is 140M square miles, so 6.4M cubic miles of water would naively be like a 241 foot rise -- each cubic mile gets split int
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by JackC 4y ago
This argument assumes the market is rational and well informed. It would be totally possible to have a market where a well-resourced player could tank arbitrary stocks, and smaller players would lose by betting against them. Making no claim
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by JackC 4y ago
The question in that thread, and this later thread,[1] is how to know which keys are valid to sign a package. For example: I go to release a new version and I've lost my private key, so I roll a new one -- this will happen often across
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by JackC 4y ago
The missing thing last time I looked was a fast python json library that's byte-compatible with stdlib -- same inputs, same outputs. There are good fast options but they tend to add some (perfectly reasonable) limitation like fixed ind
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by JackC 4y ago
Not a nim user, but I wonder if the styleCheck:error or styleCheck:usages compiler flags would do what you're asking for.
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by JackC 4y ago
> I am even more frustrated with the moral crusaders from languages like Rust, one of whom went as far as to suggest that I should personally be criminally prosecuted if some downstream Hare software has a use-after-free bug. My goal is
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by JackC 4y ago
> Why do I have to request anything? And I'm not an academic or researcher, so will they accept my random request? Just a guess: you will have to contractually agree to some things in order to get the model; at a minimum, agree not
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by JackC 4y ago
> Poetry is mainly used for managing an _application_ and its dependencies I'm surprised to hear that view, since when I looked into poetry it seemed more designed for libraries than for (web) applications. I'm thinking specifi
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by JackC 4y ago
For anyone who reads the comments before the article, note that the article explicitly agrees with this point. What it's arguing is that many of the people attracted to crypto are there because they're desperate for answers to tho
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by JackC 5y ago
This is sort of what we're trying with our Technologist in Residence job for senior engineers at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab -- not exactly part time, but we work library hours that really are limited to 35 hours a week, with a
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by JackC 5y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote, must be US employment authorized The Harvard Library Innovation Lab builds open source websites to democratize access to information. We are seeking Vue + Django developers to add features to our projects: http
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by JackC 5y ago
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Technologist in Residence | ONSITE Cambridge, MA | https://lil.law.harvard.edu/collaborate/ The Harvard Library Innovation Lab builds open source websites to democratize access to infor
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by JackC 5y ago
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Web Developer (Python, Django, Vue) | ONSITE Cambridge, MA | https://lil.law.harvard.edu/collaborate/ The Harvard Library Innovation Lab invents, designs, and builds open source website
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by JackC 5y ago
Slay the Spire changed how I think in some ways. It's a brilliantly designed deckbuilding roguelike that asks very clear questions about how strong your position is and what you can afford to gamble, one after another -- and it eventua
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by JackC 5y ago
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Web Developer (Python, Django, Vue) | ONSITE Cambridge, MA | https://lil.law.harvard.edu/collaborate/ The Harvard Library Innovation Lab invents, designs, and builds open source website
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by JackC 5y ago
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Web Developer (Python, Django, Vue) | ONSITE Cambridge, MA | https://lil.law.harvard.edu/collaborate/ The Harvard Library Innovation Lab invents, designs, and builds open source website
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by JackC 5y ago
Per-object costs can be tricky with S3 -- it's easy to mentally round costs less than 1/10th of a penny to zero, and then look up a few years later and realize you have hundreds of millions of things and can't afford to do an
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by JackC 5y ago
Decentralized currencies rely on proof of economic waste. It's possible to imagine forms of economic waste that have different externalities, e.g. different environmental impacts. But we don't have evidence yet (that I know of?) t
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by JackC 5y ago
I like the 3blue1brown youtube series for explaining mathematical problem solving, like this example explaining a difficult problem from the Putnam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmNXy7er84 "And those of you who fol
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by JackC 5y ago
> people born after 2000 are so used to getting filmed and photographed everywhere that they don't have such reservations It's more complicated than not having reservations -- younger people share more online but are also more
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by JackC 5y ago
Think of it like, if your read-only regions don't have anything else stateful they're able to do before the postgres write fails, then their existence is indistinguishable from network latency. An app that doesn't break becau
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by JackC 5y ago
I like the EFF's explainer: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...
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by JackC 5y ago
Here's a more recent Vice article a couple of links in: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpxvq/this-transparency-pro...
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by JackC 5y ago
Don't know if this is your issue, but it could be Enhanced Tracking Protection -- I have it turned up pretty high in Firefox and find that a lot of sites won't work until I turn it off. One example seems to be sites that use &qu
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by JackC 5y ago
My dream tutorial shows how to move from what I have to the new thing, because that teaches me what new ways of thinking I need to adopt. Like right now at work we have a small team making a website with docker-compose to specify the dev en
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by JackC 6y ago
How does one update an oldschool web admin page to interact with this model? For example, suppose Kermpany had already been up and running for a while with a standard Django website running behind Cloudflare with an admin page at example.co

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