ashkankiani

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by ashkankiani 7d ago
People have been having this same debate in a very similar way on typed languages vs untyped interpreted languages. I think that, in a similar vein, if you look at the trend over time: - the addition and standardization (with incomplete co
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by ashkankiani 7d ago
And if I asked people to name companies which retain a good public perception of being not entirely profit driven, the ones that would most likely come to mind are ones like Costco, where there's someone who is setting the tone and not
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by ashkankiani 7d ago
This is a good observation, with the observation that there are two different levels of latency requirements. Most of the time, I would be pretty happy with an untyped, unsemantic, mildly smart heuristic based ident completion while the asy
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by ashkankiani 8d ago
Cool idea. The pricing model reminds me of my time working in algorithmic trading, haha. I'll try this out for some queries I wanted to run. I suppose the scraping you're doing is a huge part of your value proposition, but I would
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by ashkankiani 8d ago
Yes, sorry, I should've said "first version of the built-in lua lsp." I basically laid down the foundations of a house and you guys built the rest of it, haha. No one wants to live in just the foundations except for the brave
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by ashkankiani 9d ago
I agree in sentiment, and really a lot of this is Google's doing. It's been around a decade since they switched to approximate results and started encouraging people to search via sentences. I believe this is the one? https:&#x2F
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by ashkankiani 9d ago
He says this in the post almost word-for-word. Are you agreeing with him? The opening "Well" confuses me on what tone you're going with.
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by ashkankiani 9d ago
For a reference point, when I was unemployed and between jobs, I got involved with Neovim for fun, and after some contributions, I eventually tried some full(ish)-time paid work. I wrote the native lua LSP client (:h vim.lsp, and the nvim-l
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by ashkankiani 9d ago
If you saw a homeless person in a library, would you be able to tell them they smell to their face? Do you have that kind of "bravery"? Or is it just here, amongst your "peers."
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by ashkankiani 9d ago
I would love if someone could tell me the name for this phenomena. FWIW, using an LLM incites this same undue assurance as well. No matter how much you know that an LLM might just be hallucinating, it still happens anyway. It's a hard
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by ashkankiani 15d ago
The malice would be in not prioritizing the provenance tool at the start as a requirement of the rest of the product. Ethics would tell you that if you can't make the product in an ethical way, then you probably shouldn't make it.
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by ashkankiani 17d ago
It feels convenient to not spend time on engineering around tooling that could be used to answer a question like “did you violate copyright by training on X?”
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by ashkankiani 18d ago
In China, CEOs go to prison or are executed. Not all the time, but enough. In the US, they are given a golden parachute and make more money at their next posting. There is mostly only failing upwards.
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by ashkankiani 24d ago
If you watch his latest interviews you can see him talking about how he finds it useful for simple cases like in the Bloomberg terminal for generating code for queries, but it still has fundamental limitations for doing anything autonomousl
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by ashkankiani 24d ago
I pretty much only use jj now, and it was really good even just with the CLI. But adding jjui changed the story entirely. I now rarely use jj without just booting up jjui first. It will be good to see what jj will look like with more funded
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by ashkankiani 24d ago
I canceled my Claude subscription, though I did get some utility out of it, because of how much steering was required to use it on complex projects. A big reason being that anyone who is using Fable seriously will run out of usage limits ve
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by ashkankiani 24d ago
This isn't a serious analysis of the actual thesis or any of the predictions in any meaningful way. I learned almost nothing from this shallow wall of text. It seems overly focused on "predictions" instead of the ideas behind
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by ashkankiani 5mo ago
My first thought: setting up a self replicating duckdb wrapper over ssh so that I can execute queries on any computer. Can’t wait to play with this!
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
You are a bad programmer if you think silently doing the wrong thing is not a bug. The right thing to do with unexpected input as the setTimeout library author is to raise an exception.
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
I had this exact idea and I've described it to colleagues before. Fun to see parallel evolution. It feels like a simple concept that should already exist, so I'm surprised it's not more commonly attempted. But you're mis
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
LLMs make mediocre engineers into slightly less mediocre engineers, and non-engineers into below mediocre engineers. They do nothing above the median. I've tried dozens of times to use them productively. Outside of very very short isol
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
Your food is undercooked
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
Love the expanded C API support! Also those performance improvements are massive! Pushing through filters and the streaming optimization for fetchone() is great! This makes it more viable to use duckdb in smaller queries from python. I&#x2
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
Make a cap on the value of house. What do people need $100 million stupid ugly houses for anyway. None of these billionaires have good taste anyway.
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
Adding a way to query the path at the current node would let you skip out on doing stuff like keeping track of `in_section`. I wonder if the `enter|exit ...` syntax might be too limiting but for a lot of stuff it seems nice and easy to reas
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
Make an exemption for a primary residence. Everything else can go. Stop letting people hoard wealth like dragons.
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
I get nervous reading when people write exceptions and name "good" CEOs or "good" celebrities. Lots of skeletons come out later. I don't like to put people on a pedestal, especially those we don't know intimate
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
It's pretty cool that I can read "anablibg" and know that means "enabling." The brain is pretty neat. I wonder if LLMs would get it too. They probably would.
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
As someone who stopped getting involved in blockchain "tech" 12 years ago because of the prevalence of scams and bad actors and lack of interesting tech beyond the merkle tree, what's great about it? FWIW I am genuinely askin
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by ashkankiani 2y ago
I wrote a similar snapshot system for our deterministic trading engine. It's hard to imagine a system that doesn't do that unless you actually enforce every single event in your log to be reversible/non-destructive/non-a

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