abraxas

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by abraxas 1y ago
It's fine to let exceptions percolate to the top of the call stack but even then you likely want to inform the user or at least log it in your backend why the request was unsuccessful. Checked exceptions force both the handling of exce
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by abraxas 1y ago
An adjacent point is to use checked exceptions and to handle them appropriate to their type. I don't get why Java checked exceptions were so maligned. They saved me so many headaches on a project where I forced their use as I was the t
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by abraxas 1y ago
If I'm being honest, this list is really daunting. I had no idea that so much red tape stood between North America and pedestrian (i.e. human) friendly places.
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by abraxas 1y ago
I think Java might be the best language for LLMs to use in an agentic mode. It has an extensive and well documented standard library. It's fairly type stringent without the escape hatch of an Unknown type (yeah, I know you can beat tha
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by abraxas 1y ago
An old Dilbert cartoon had the pointy haired boss declare monetary rewards for every fixed bug in their product. Wally went back to his desk murmuring "today I'm going to code me a minivan!"
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by abraxas 1y ago
I'll take the bubble tea interface over the extreme flatness of every widget that dominates the UI these days where no cues are given as to what is just text, what's a button, an editable text input etc. While liquid glass is perh
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by abraxas 1y ago
Maybe it did. A lot of message boards where like minded people cluster often devolve into mutual adoration clubs.
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by abraxas 1y ago
Yeah given the stochastic nature of LLM outputs this approach and the whole field of prompt engineering feels like a classic case of cargo cult science.
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by abraxas 1y ago
One difference that may be very important to a lot of people is that unfortunately the MMBasic is not open source. Is yours closed or open source?
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by abraxas 1y ago
Is it similar to the Maximite series of hardware and their Basic clones? I think a fast Basic on its dedicated hardware is quite a phenomenal way to teach kids and novices programming. I wish one of these setups would penetrate into the sch
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by abraxas 1y ago
Are these things good enough to narrate a book convincingly or does the voice lose coherence after a few paragraphs being spoken?
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by abraxas 1y ago
But an embedding is more like a one way hash, kind of like sha1 or md5, no? You can get from input data to a hash value but not the other way around, right? I know that similarly placed embedding vectors will sit next to semantically relate
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by abraxas 1y ago
But how do you go from predicting embeddings (which could be thought of as a type of lossy compression of the original data) back out to something usable, say a sequence of image/video tokens or a sequence of robot actions?
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by abraxas 1y ago
yeah, I'm one of those who usually ignores any built in search option. I just default to assuming that it's an adware infested trap that will provide no value, only "engagement". Windows and Google conditioned this behav
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by abraxas 1y ago
At 86kg I had a bit of dad bod going on. Not a huge gut but somewhat pudgy here and there. Not hugely so and not overly visible as most of it was visceral fat. I haven't had an ultrasound since losing the weight. I hope the liver looks
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by abraxas 1y ago
This frankly scares me somewhat. I had a liver ultrasound where the radiologist warned me I had some signs of fat on the liver though not extensive yet. I weigh 72kg at 178cm height. At peak, when I got tested I weighed around 86kg. I was b
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by abraxas 1y ago
Backend python code, postgres database. Front end: Reeact/NextJS. Very common stack in 2025. Using LLMs in assist mode (not as agents) for enhancing the existing code base that weighs in under 1MM LoC. So not a greenfield project anymo
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by abraxas 1y ago
I found all the previous Gemini models somewhat inferior even compared to Claude 3.7 Sonnet (and much worse than 4) as my coding assistants. I'm keeping an open mind but also not rushing to try this one until some evaluations roll in.
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by abraxas 1y ago
Git. Most people have no need for 95 percent of its features and don't have a good mental model of how it works. Just copy and paste commands to get it to work, more or less.
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by abraxas 1y ago
I used to be a huge enthusiast of electric cars. Mostly because I was terrified of the consequences of peak oil. In time I got over this infatuation as I realized that electric cars are only marginally better than fossil cars in terms of re
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by abraxas 1y ago
As much as they were a disaster for computing interfaces what they did to architecture is so much worse and so expensive to fix. So many cities are semi-permanently scarred by outrageous creations of "starchitects".
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by abraxas 1y ago
I'd love to have a copy of that list. Just to see how much I've yet to absorb.
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by abraxas 1y ago
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC) was a very interesting title. It came about because Sid Meier lost his rights to the Civilization franchise for a period of time. Yet SMAC was considered the real successor to CivII rather than Civiliz
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by abraxas 1y ago
> You can move to France with a regular paying job no problem or just a few thousand euros in savings Unless something has changed dramatically in the last decade this is patently false. Getting an EU work permit was historically very ha
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by abraxas 1y ago
I wonder if XP fondness dates you to a certain age bracket. Yeah new UIs seem disorganized and inconsistent to me but I feel the best consistency in UI was hit around Windows 95-98 but then again that's when I was in my young adult yea
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by abraxas 1y ago
You are just used to it. It's every bit as terrible as most web UI. It took me quite a while (coming from a different git UI) to actually figure out where to click to see a stream of commits for a branch (spoiler: the xxx commits text
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by abraxas 1y ago
I guess Gemini will be writing emails going forward so no need to have a meaningful text input field.
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by abraxas 1y ago
And he famously nearly missed the internet. Microsoft famously came within inches of irrelevance when they ignored the internet for too long leading to his "tidal wave" memo. They got onboard but at the last minute.
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by abraxas 1y ago
I think timescale will compress them heavily on your schedule so if that's acceptable to your use case you might be able to do away with clickhouse. Hard to say of course, without knowing details around your insertion and query pattern
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by abraxas 1y ago
It's very good. Postgres by itself can handle a very high volume of inserts (I did over 100,000 rows/s on very modest hardware). But timescale makes it easier to deal with that data. It's not strictly necessary but it's

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