TomBombadildoze

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by TomBombadildoze 27d ago
Beats Opus 4.6 at what exactly? It certainly isn't code. I use a combination of a Claude Max subscription and local inference, including qwen3.8-27b, 4bit. I have found qwen to be absolutely useless at anything but very specific, surgi
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by TomBombadildoze 2y ago
Buffalo also feature prominently in The West, another fantastic Ken Burns documentary. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-west/
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by TomBombadildoze 2y ago
Unpopular because it's so flagrantly ignorant. How much do you know about the "egregious" expenditures by rank-and-file federal employees just doing their jobs?
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by TomBombadildoze 2y ago
> A butler has always been a person of authority, expertise, and responsibility. Why "houseboy"? Because he's Asian? facepalm The author describes Marc Andreessen's Gilded Age slash Roaring 20s lifestyle and attitud
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by TomBombadildoze 3y ago
No, it is bad advice, and it is absolutely not idiomatic Python. The language specification reserves them to ensure new ones can be added in the future. https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#re.
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by TomBombadildoze 3y ago
Cartels disrupting law enforcement, and/or vice versa.
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
Pulumi, cdk8s.
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
Until you need to update it, or apply it to multiple environments, or any number of tasks where the concepts of configuration parameters and dependencies become important. Edit: I'm not saying Ansible is an appropriate substitute (it a
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
The lesson is that shockingly few people have realized is that the problem space is not, nor has it ever been, served by declarative solutions. You can describe the state you want a system to be in but there will inevitably be procedures
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
"Moving on" and recounting a story can be, and often are, entirely different things.
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
Ruby/RoR values form over function. Over the past few (five or so?) years, as teams went through the transition from aggressive feature development to devoting more effort to maintenance and operations, they realized that relying on co
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
Their own internal price target, the FMV they assign to shares. https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-cuts-internal-valuation-...
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
Please. Stripe is privately held so let's look at a market comp, SQ. SQ 2021 Revenue: $17B SQ 2021 cash and short term investments: $5.3B Stripe 2021 Revenue: $12B Similar businesses, operating in the same market, with the nearly the s
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
You aren't missing anything. This guy is absolutely, completely, without rival or parallel, beyond compare, unquestionably supreme, the God-King, the Emperor, the One True Big Kahuna, and the Head Motherfucker In Charge of being Full O
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
Interesting concept, and plenty of good discussion and criticism in other comments. One thing in particular from the article that I found especially objectionable: > For now, the theory is just that—a theory. This is a conjecture . I ex
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
I tried to order a Solo Stove last fall. I placed the order, they accepted it, everything seemed like a normal e-commerce experience. Two days later, I received an email saying my order had been canceled for suspected fraud. I've nev
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by TomBombadildoze 4y ago
There are many complaints in this discussion about inaccuracies in the post but you've actually captured the essence of the problem--type hints just don't solve the problem well. My team began using type hints and aggressively app
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by TomBombadildoze 5y ago
Good gravy, this is a lot to unpack. It's an alarming story from the very beginning, and a cautionary tale of how tempting it is to do everything with Jenkins, even though it's an appropriate tool for absolutely nothing in the Yea
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by TomBombadildoze 5y ago
This isn't a batch scheduling problem. It's a monitoring and alerting problem. OP needs a monitoring and alerting solution . Stop ~~~ engineering ~~~ things and choose the right tool for the job.
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by TomBombadildoze 6y ago
You put it better than I could. There are certainly naive examples of how to use it out in the wild but that's not SQLAlchemy's fault. It's a sophisticated tool that accurately reflects how a database works. I caution people
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by TomBombadildoze 6y ago
Yes, the premium received at the time the contract was sold.
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by TomBombadildoze 6y ago
That's not what the fallacy fallacy means. It is possible to form an coherent argument that happens to include a fallacy, where eliminating that fallacy doesn't invalidate the argument. Essentially, the argument itself is poorly c
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by TomBombadildoze 6y ago
citation needed
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by TomBombadildoze 6y ago
> The whole idea of containerization came from Google anyways, who uses it internally. Not really. Jails and chroots are a form of containerization and have existed for a long time. Sun debuted containers (with Zones branding) as we thin
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by TomBombadildoze 6y ago
Of course. However, you don't need someone to provision and monitor power, connectivity, datacenter security, and all the responsibilities AWS absolutely prices in for you. You also substantially reduce your effort and cost toward ca
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by TomBombadildoze 6y ago
> The nearest galaxy is 25k light years away so even at the maximum speed it would take 25 thousand years to travel here. Given your arithmetic, I assume by "maximum speed" you mean the speed of light, in which case travel woul
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by TomBombadildoze 6y ago
43k reactions and 1600 comments. You know, I feel like he just might pull through and score another job.
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by TomBombadildoze 7y ago
Almost everything on computers is perceptually more rich, useful, and intuitive than it was in 1983.
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by TomBombadildoze 7y ago
^The word “mafia” is never heard in The Godfather$

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