andrew_mason1

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by andrew_mason1 27d ago
I don't get why all your replies are on the AI language. Yeah the AI-isms suck and are obvious but is no one else bothered by how this page scrolls?
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by andrew_mason1 1mo ago
fuck it, we're doing five labs
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by andrew_mason1 2mo ago
this one i really don't get. it seems pretty low-effort to me to just: 1. make the dish 2. take a photo of the dish 3. say "hey AI, touch this photo up to make it look nicer" and you'd get way better results than this sa
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by andrew_mason1 6mo ago
They are not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xl24s_0mZs
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by andrew_mason1 7mo ago
hey now, landmines destroy stuff below them too
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by andrew_mason1 8mo ago
my only request is that when it spawns a subagent we get "nother troll here"
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by andrew_mason1 8mo ago
As an aside: > If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement is an insane utility function. That would be like saying you get more nutrition the more you spen
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by andrew_mason1 10mo ago
correction, it is downdetectors all the way downdetectors
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by andrew_mason1 1y ago
are the homes that were burned down by solar farms in the room with us right now?
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by andrew_mason1 1y ago
hey don't forget about nintendo too
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by andrew_mason1 1y ago
not the point of the article, but i really like the structure of this site
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by andrew_mason1 1y ago
there are also a significant number of previous vitess maintainers that have gone to supabase to work on it with him, so there's that. it is not at all accurate to say that neki is made by "the team that brought you vitess" a
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by andrew_mason1 2y ago
come for the clickbait, stay for the real-life star wars buildings
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by andrew_mason1 3y ago
Yes. For a long time, butter and cheese were the _only_ toppings for pasta. If you're interested, I'd really recommend reading The Discovery of Pasta by Luca Cesari, which traces the development of a few well-known pasta dishes th
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by andrew_mason1 3y ago
wait not the pizza oven? :(
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by andrew_mason1 3y ago
The whole British English thing of "companies are plural nouns" (e.g. "Apple are creating a VR headset") simultaneously makes so much sense from how companies actually are (vs the American English that treats the company
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by andrew_mason1 3y ago
Exactly. And the fact that (probably) none of these people ever use the singular "datum" in writing makes the whole thing reek of gate-keeper-y "I am smart and you are not because I know a Latin thing". Also, every singl
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by andrew_mason1 4y ago
> (Outside the US podcast ads are mostly for other podcasts) You're not missing out much these days; most ads in the US are for other podcasts now, too.
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by andrew_mason1 5y ago
Shame it's not called `crust`. Very cool though!
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by andrew_mason1 6y ago
Very excited to see how many codebases that do anything along the lines of `fs := flag.NewFlagSet(...)` have to update to also import `io/fs`
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by andrew_mason1 9y ago
Once while perusing our main codebase I came across the following: "Please only use this for testing. Please." It's been there for years.
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by andrew_mason1 9y ago
curl may not have the greatest CLI, but it's a huge step up from doing the equivalent tasks with powershell. not to mention this brings windows closer and closer to nix. windows making itself more familiar to nix increases the numb
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Commit Etiquette(fixedpoint.xyz)
2 points by andrew_mason1 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrew_mason1 11y ago
For reference, here was our rendered final report: https://github.com/thomasrussellmurphy/thomasrussellmurphy.g...
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HTTP Server in MIPS assembly(github.com)
4 points by andrew_mason1 11y ago|1 comments
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by andrew_mason1 11y ago
Don't copy paste from a website, just curl into ruby! http://brew.sh/
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by andrew_mason1 11y ago
I fail to see how optional chaining, Maybe monads (or Optionals, depending on your persuasion), or the Null Object pattern are fundamentally any different from each other.
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by andrew_mason1 11y ago
Well, node.js implies that at least part of Netflix is written in JavaScript, yet the only listed languages are Python and Java.