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by Spivak 1y ago
That… seems bad? Like I guess it is what it is and you just have to deal with it but what if your "critical section" has two await calls? The code can be paused between them but it's such that it must eventually resume. Say m
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by Spivak 1y ago
I love the feature but I really dislike using the word lazy as a new language keyword. It just feels off somehow. I think maybe defer might be a better word. It is at least keeps the grammar right because it would be lazily. lazily im
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by Spivak 1y ago
You… can? I mean in the strictest sense you're technically not importing by file path but if you make your folder a module by slapping an __init__.py in there then your relative imports will follow the directory tree. I think as of Pyt
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by Spivak 1y ago
It should, when you do lazy imports on your own it fixes the problem.
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by Spivak 1y ago
This problem is associated with ORMs but the moment there's a get_user(id) function which does a select and you need to display a list of users someone will run it in a loop to generate the list and it will look like it's working
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by Spivak 1y ago
I'm fully in the camp of just give people dollars and let them decide how to spend it rather than navigate a bureaucratic nanny state system like SNAP. But if you're only doing that well no shit it doesn't help. You have to a
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by Spivak 1y ago
And it was wrong then too. Preventing people from sharing publicly available, literally visible from the street, information has got to be the brightest line violation of 1A. I'm really over how much the supreme court—not just this sup
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by Spivak 1y ago
Also R&D, for tax purposes, likely includes everyone at the company who touches code so there's probably a lot of operational cost being hidden in that number.
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by Spivak 1y ago
It would be exactly the same thing people expect from people with mental disorders. You must manage your disorder in such a manner that to the outside world it appears as though you don't have it. Which is totally not an unreasonable a
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by Spivak 1y ago
I like the distillation of aliens but I think that undersells the risk because aliens are individuals with their own goals and motivations. It's more like robots with 300 IQ who unquestionably obey the person or group that made them, e
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by Spivak 1y ago
When you have a condition that alters behavior I think it's pretty fair to blame that condition for said behavior changes/differences. People are so weird about mental disorders in a way they would never be about physical disorder
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by Spivak 1y ago
Which is RAG. How you decide to take a set of documents to large for an LLM context window and narrow it down to a set that does fit is an implementation issue. The chunk, embed, similarity search method was just a way to get a decent class
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by Spivak 1y ago
1. Small programs that do a single thing and are easy to comprehend. 2. Those programs integrate with one another to achieve more complex tasks. 3. Text streams are the universal interface and state is represented as text files on disk. Sou
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by Spivak 1y ago
Why? We expect huge swaths of non-programmers to learn R to work with data. Seems like it just depends on the field. If Excel was an integrated Python environment (or VBA or whatever pick your language) then I bet users would have learned i
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by Spivak 1y ago
I'm confused, is insubordination not enough of a reason to kick someone off? So we have the steering committee and a set of moderators that serve at their pleasure. If they don't listen to the committee and it's enough to get
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by Spivak 1y ago
Seems like B and G. Then if you do business with A (what the GPDR calls "UK Establishment") and A has laws governing its citizens abroad like the UK GPDR then also A.
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by Spivak 1y ago
This is true in a big picture sense but that's not the concern of someone who's making a tool meant to be useful to users. The consequences of this existing will be what they will be.
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by Spivak 1y ago
The Kagi implementation can use Kagi search and can use advanced features of search like lenses. This isn't a unique feature but if you believe Kagi search is better than whoever Anthropic/OpenAI are using it's a nice plus. K
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by Spivak 1y ago
It seems like ATProto and Nostr have a similar architecture and similar centralization failure modes in the relay servers. The "you can run your own but in practice nobody does" problem.
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by Spivak 1y ago
There's a few, I really like PinkSky which makes BlueSky into Instagram instead of Twitter.
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by Spivak 1y ago
The subtext of this article is screaming that, in the view of professional actors, this AI actress is apparently really good. I think it will be interesting to see if Hollywood gets their version of Hatsune Miku. But it's not like Miku
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by Spivak 1y ago
Stated another way, they don't have a ready-made DoubleClick to buy the way Google did. The big money is in being the ad network not just the purveyors of billboards.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yep, in some ways it's good to be the price sensitive side of the transaction. Can't really take more of the money people don't have.
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by Spivak 1y ago
> Now that I have a mortgage, it’s much less than the rent I was paying for a similar property. This is what my parents kept telling me would happen but no one in my late 20s social circle who've bought houses (including myself) has
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by Spivak 1y ago
And on Free Balloon Day too, the absolute monsters. How many times are people going to join the software hippie commune that believes as its fundamental principle that software shouldn't be bound by IP restrictions, and who wrote a bun
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by Spivak 1y ago
> And for that to happen, the country needs a well-educated population with strong critical thinking skills. I think we have this already. Sure, if you go looking for it you can find any brand of stupidity you want—and if you want to sel
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by Spivak 1y ago
Good catch! Fixed.
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by Spivak 1y ago
People sorting their files in alphabetical order but who want numerical values in their files to be sorted digit by digit instead of as numbers is the rare case. I might go further in my ideal sorting algo which would be normalize capitaliz
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by Spivak 1y ago
Well in that case, yeah, I can't imagine any reason you would rent. But in my neck of the woods renting a place is a little more than half the cost of the equivalent mortgage on the same property.
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by Spivak 1y ago
> Indeed the main issue is that there are dodgy employers and landlords who simply flunk the law I'm surprised that this is your framing, I don't think I would hesitate to offer a willing tenant or otherwise good employee a job

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