alexchamberlain

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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
Those are part of the modern day commentary, rather than the historic document that starts later in the article. The historic document itself seems to use capitalised nouns fairly consistently, though I haven't tried to find exceptions
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
The first thought that came to my mind reading the DaisyUI website was "Is this an April Fool's joke?". I wouldn't normally post something like that, as it's entirely unfair to the hard work and dedication that some
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
For a source package based on setup tools, setup.py is executed with a minimal environment and can run arbitrary code.
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
I think it depends on the project. I think most of us could eye ball a blog directory pretty quickly and get more or less the same idea. However, give it a gnarly bit of legacy code in a language you haven't used for a while, and indee
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
> That is a global static relationship rather than a local one dynamic one, which is the sense in which Go users use wrapping. In practice, the error type will be defined quite close to where the conversion is applied, so the static natu
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
I think you've highlighted the real engineering challenge of using LLMs - overcoming the uncertainty. In some contexts, a reasonable level of uncertainty is fine, as the tool itself is being used by experts ( ie the coding tools), but
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
I don't understand what people were basing that on; the conclave is a completely secret process?
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
I'm inferring that you think Rust adds too much brain drain? If so, what?
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
Is the solver guaranteed not to land in a local minima/maxima?
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
I don't think you're missing anything fundamental, but I've worked with systems written in Fortran, C, C++ and Python that have the same problems. I suspect the systems I'm working on in Python & Rust will have the s
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
I think the point was you could do that in COBOL; the vendor lock in won't go away just because you change language- it goes away when you decide to refactor the code to vendor agnostic solutions.
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
That's how it used to be done. Buy a certificate with a 2 year expiry and manually install it on your server (you only had 1; it was fine).
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by alexchamberlain 1y ago
Towards the end of the article, the author implies it is real when they explain why they made it that way (TL;DR: A bit of fun)
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Each iteration is (much) more expensive, but you should be able to get to the final answer in fewer iterations.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Well, you can define such a subset and write or configure parsers to only use that; I've seen both XML and YAML libraries do just that, by disabling remote file loading or arbitrary code execution for example.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I think there is a "safe" subset of both XML and YAML that 80% of people actually use.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Honestly, I think we already see that in wider society, where mental arithmetic has more or less disappeared. This is in general fine ofc, but it makes it much harder to check the output of a machine if you can't do approximate calcula
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
My biggest worry about AI is that it will do all the basic stuff, so people will never have a chance to learn and move on to the more complex stuff. I think there's a name for this, but I can't find it right now. In the hands of a
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A More Modular Reqwest(seanmonstar.com)
1 points by alexchamberlain 2y ago|0 comments
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How to add a directory to your PATH(jvns.ca)
38 points by alexchamberlain 2y ago|63 comments
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
How does that $0.21 compare to the cost of maintaining the coin machine on a vending machine and sending someone to collect the cash?
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I would lean the the skip level managers on both sides of the move. Leaders should be looking out for the overall wellbeing of the IC and the company, not just their individual team. Hopefully, the skip levels are more mature about the whol
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Are you applying American practices to a European context?
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I think Frontend (or maybe slightly expanded App Development) is a greatly underappreciated skill. It's easy to throw a UI together, but to do it in a way that is obvious to your user's, can be maintained and can move at the speed
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I thought RSS readers were able to extract the URL themselves?
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The gen auto-trait problem(blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
2 points by alexchamberlain 2y ago|0 comments
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
The was an article here a while back about the production of propane from water and CO2 (via a catalyst and electricity). I think "renewable fossil fuels" are the only way we can handle the fluctuating production of renewable ener
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
An alternative take is that people who can only afford mass transit options (without even adding congestion pricing) are now on a level playing field with most commuters, and should experience a better commute less affected by traffic. (Thi
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I think we need more details: do you mean TVs aren't getting worse, or are? Why? What examples do you have? I think LG's webOS is nice - its consumer friendly, but as a developer, you can whip something up and install it on your T
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I think GenAI is incredible in a lot of ways. I think for me it's frustrating that GenAI is currently being used in a way that largely regurgitates and hallucinates information, rather than aids a computer to follow instructions in pla

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