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by alex-moon 7mo ago
> All things in tech are seasonal. I think this is maybe the most important point in this entire thing. It's not just tech. Things change. The funny thing is things change now faster than ever before, yet we still have that tendency
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by alex-moon 7mo ago
I think this is a really important distinction to make. The OP seems to be making a fallacious equivocation on the word "parameter" - specifically, any individual "parameter" in a large ML model has no unit of measuremen
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by alex-moon 8mo ago
I'm not convinced for one reason above all: short-circuit evaluation is available to use in most any programming language I've ever used, including Python and C. That said, I have seen this idiom in a lot of bash scripts. I'v
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by alex-moon 8mo ago
As someone who's big into UK Bass who finds new music mainly through a mix of Spotify, Beatport and Reddit, I found this recommender quite good actually! It seems to respond better to descriptions of the kind of music than to "Fin
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by alex-moon 8mo ago
So I came to Babylon 5 late in life, when my partner's mother revealed she had the entire box set on DVD. My partner had recently introduced me to The Expanse, which, like many, I consider the greatest sci fi TV show of all time - she
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by alex-moon 8mo ago
It is like make but designed specifically for the way non-C(++) users - people like me for example adding scripts like "make run" and "make build" to my node/python/PHP/etc repos - use it. It is great! I s
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by alex-moon 8mo ago
> Are we supposed to find the figurative "gym for problem solving" the same way office workers workout after work? That's it, yeah. It sucks but it's part of the job. It makes you a better engineer. You're absolu
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I hacked Datastar to support Web Components(ajmoon.com)
1 points by alex-moon 8mo ago|1 comments
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by alex-moon 8mo ago
Reposting this one with a better title in hopes it catches more eyes this time. Apologies if this is against the rules!
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by alex-moon 8mo ago
I am kind of surprised no-one has mentioned the obvious: Hacker News. Unless I've misunderstood your question, the bulk of web dev discussion happens in technical posts on personal and business blogs, which are then aggregated right h
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by alex-moon 9mo ago
Absolutely. It's one of my all time favourites stories and this is pretty much the reason why. I wish my users gave me such specific steps to reproduce!
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Joyus: I Tried Datastar(ajmoon.com)
1 points by alex-moon 9mo ago|0 comments
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by alex-moon 9mo ago
I should guess it is about liability more than anything else. They want to advertise and sell to children, but they don't want to be taken to court about it. Makes a tonne of sense from a profit perspective, especially as people under
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by alex-moon 10mo ago
The History of Medieval Europe by Maurice Keen Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman I had a crack at reading the first Game of Thrones novel (I think it's just called A Game of Thr
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by alex-moon 10mo ago
OK yeah I think I see what you're saying, if the SMTP mailer is a hosted service and we're talking about the logs for the service itself then failed connections are not an error - this I agree with. I also wouldn't be logging
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by alex-moon 10mo ago
"If a SMTP mailer trying to send email to somewhere logs 'cannot contact port 25 on <remote host>', that is not an error in the local system and should not be logged at level 'error'." But it is still an
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by alex-moon 10mo ago
https://joyus.ajmoon.com This is actually pretty much as done as it's going to be (could use some nicer UI feedback, i.e. how you actually use the app) - it is actually just a demo for an effort I undertook to mod Datastar
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by alex-moon 11mo ago
Point of curiosity: the community prediction is, presumably, an arithmetic mean, but I argue that is not a good model for a dataset that almost certainly gets more dense closer to the present, creating a gradient out into the future. It wou
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After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter(phys.org)
8 points by alex-moon 11mo ago|0 comments
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by alex-moon 11mo ago
This is actually a surprisingly effective way to get a broad range of feedback on topics. I realise this was built for fun, but this whole discussion dynamic is why I value HN in the first place - it never occured to me to try and reproduce
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by alex-moon 11mo ago
It's funny, I have never thought of it this way, but, reflecting, I realise the way I do think about it is very similar. Whenever I have to justify a subscription on JetBrains or hosting or what have you, I always just ask myself: will
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by alex-moon 11mo ago
So it's fascinating reading this looking at the screengrabs of the "original" versions... not so much because they are "how I remember them" but indeed, because they have a certain nostalgic quality I can't qui
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Baader-Meinhof complex in action: I have _just_ ordered a book of Rovelli's (Reality is Not What It Seems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Is_Not_What_It_Seems ), it should be in my hands by the end of the w
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I don't accept the unregulated and uncontrolled use of LLMs for therapy for the same reason I don't accept arguments like "We should deregulate food safety because it means more food at lower cost to consumers" or "
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I suspect you've never done therapy yourself. Most people who have worked with a professional therapist understand intuitively why the only helpful feedback from an LLM to someone who needs professional help is: get professional help.
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I greatly appreciated this article and have found the data very useful - I have shared this with my business partner and we will use this information down the road when we (eventually) get around to migrating our app from Angular to somethi
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Reading this is a truly weird experience - the idea of a single source of truth for domain names seems foreign now, though in truth it's probably not as far removed from the current practice as anyone would like to think.
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by alex-moon 1y ago
This is beautifully designed and engaging and potentially a fun way to learn things! Amazing work. Some things you could add to make it stickier: 1. Have a natural end where you "win" - possibly I just didn't hit this, it&#x2
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Fascinated by the cluster of Australian, British and South African. As an Australian living in UK, I hear an enormous difference between these accents - even just in the British ones, the Yorkshireman and the Geordie stick out like a sore t
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by alex-moon 1y ago
There is an amazing video of a similar exploit in Pokémon Yellow where they basically run a bunch of different games: https://youtu.be/Vjm8P8utT5g?si=8N0Xh-VOq_gqHJ4z

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