andyferris

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by andyferris 4mo ago
Sure, the ISP _should_ deliver the packets. No worries. The user agent should... be an agent for the user, and be able to perform actions on their behalf. (The legality of those actions is of course assumed by the user here... if I add an a
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by andyferris 5mo ago
How many great inventions and discoveries were the product of yak shaving? I'd imagine quite a lot.
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by andyferris 5mo ago
Interesting timing, with Australian budget night (removal of tax discounts for both capital and trusts, and for investment in existing housing stock).
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by andyferris 5mo ago
My example here is: it’s impossible to know what spaghetti code is until you experience it, and are on the hook for its bugs and outages. We hear a lot about it prior and upon experiencing it I could name it. (Like love, I suppose?)
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by andyferris 5mo ago
To me applying LLMs to a python (or similarly dynamic) code base where it’s currently spaghetti and monkey patched, it can miss things just like I can. But… I have to admit Opus 4.7 has been very pragmatic in detecting root causes and prop
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by andyferris 5mo ago
Yes. Maybe I’m wrong, but AFAICT this is block (page) storage backed by S3, tuned for Postgres with some paxos-linked storage/caching servers sitting in front? Sounds good, but I’m not sure “lake” or “warehouse” is a word I’d choose… m
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by andyferris 5mo ago
Meh, I’ve never been associated with the company and AFAICT they provide value through platforms for enterprises. Not everyone gets OSS sponsorships to fund team (and using a social media presence to achieve this was a post-Julia phenomenon
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by andyferris 5mo ago
Personally I never struggled. You can employ interfaces and maintain them judiciously. But interfaces are informal. Not using a monorepo say makes it harder to be sure if your broke downstream or not (via downstream’s unit tests). But freed
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by andyferris 5mo ago
> outsourcing It should also be pointed out that children and teens especially benefit from a range of role models and mentors. Having the parent(s) provide 100% of the (life and academic) lessons is not actually ideal. You say outsourci
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by andyferris 5mo ago
Good point. We need the mean, “any 1 of 10” and the “all 10 of 10” success rates in the metrics, so we can estimate reliability (the last one).
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by andyferris 6mo ago
I feel it's the extreme of "static vs dynamic languages". In Excel, even variables (cells) are dynamic, not fixed names in a lexical scope. The reactive programming aspect is genuinely good; I wish my business logic could be
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by andyferris 6mo ago
I move the record to another _index_, generally. It depends whether you reliably control all the DB client code, of course.
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by andyferris 7mo ago
Vibe coding is actually "good" for small, bespoke things. The same way that Excel is "good" for small tasks, bad bad for larger things. Too easy to make mistakes, too hard to maintain. I could equally ask - where are all
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by andyferris 7mo ago
Custom domains (BYO or buy through Apple) and email hosting is in the announcement, too.
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by andyferris 7mo ago
I believe it said it will be free, starting April 14.
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by andyferris 7mo ago
I think what they've announced is the best fit for small businesses, not large enterprises. They can still treat it as a B2C-style service - many tiny customers with similar needs. Mom and Pop can now get a domain name through Apple, w
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by andyferris 7mo ago
When people say the "bubble will pop" it's meant in analogy to the dotcom era - businesses and investers lost money, but the internet (and its opportunities) didn't vanish. Even open-weight local models are becoming good
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by andyferris 7mo ago
Thank you. I needed that.
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by andyferris 7mo ago
I guess it would be too obvious a lie to say Codex is "the present"?
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by andyferris 7mo ago
I highly doubt the A20 Pro will be slower than the A19 Pro - particularly for AI workloads.
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by andyferris 7mo ago
I am not a carpenter; I use a saw at least once a month.
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by andyferris 7mo ago
Canada might not own car manufacturers but they do have factories that build cars for GM, Ford, etc, and these are important to their economy. I thought some were sold in the US even? Chinese companies aren’t exactly building factories in C
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by andyferris 7mo ago
My theory is that social media simply increases the connectivity and reach (of the “rumour mill” or what have you) and thus it amplifies an existing social “failure mode”. (That and earlier mass media was heavily moderated and regulated, wh
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by andyferris 7mo ago
Everything “just works” and is fast - and that’s basically it. You can run a script with a one liner and it will automatically get you the same python and venv and everything as whoever distributed the python code, in milliseconds if the pa
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by andyferris 7mo ago
I actually really like "milky" tastes - has there been much progress on replicating the flavour?
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by andyferris 7mo ago
It's new
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by andyferris 7mo ago
It's definitely a product for the middle class, not the poor ("broke students" vs "mom bought me this laptop"). The distinction is a lot of (most?) Apple products are _expensive_ for middle class buyers, while this
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by andyferris 7mo ago
The methodology here is interesting. I'm looking at this exercise in exploring hypothetical situations as like throwing fuzz tests at the law, and using the results to correct the "code" (either legal code or how to interpret
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by andyferris 7mo ago
> So what’s the Pentagon’s plan — to coerce and threaten to destroy every single company that won’t give them what they want on exactly their terms? I mean... isn't that pretty much the way the current administration behaves in gene
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by andyferris 7mo ago
I don’t understand the sriracha “thing” in North America. Don’t you guys have 100’s of sambal oleks from SE Asia to choose from?

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