barrkel

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by barrkel 2mo ago
The single biggest annoyance with Opus 5 is that it writes too elliptically. Sentences that orbit a point, then jump to it like it's a revealed insight. Unnecessarily abstract phraseology. Constantly using inanimate nouns as the subjec
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by barrkel 2mo ago
journald is IMO the worst part of the systemd ecosystem. You're better off using it only as a router and not storing any logs in it. The indexing system it uses is slow and provides no control over chatty subsystems - you cannot trunca
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by barrkel 2mo ago
Printing money without backing is not deficit spending! We're all well aware of the money supply, M1 / M2 / M3, velocity of money, etc. It's important for money to not get tight when the economy slows down, and it's
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by barrkel 2mo ago
Inflation is an increase in the cost of living. It can be caused by deficit spending. It can also be caused by supply shocks. For example, if you restrict building new housing, the price of housing will increase, both rents and house pr
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by barrkel 2mo ago
Very similar to Windows Structured Exception Handling, which the Win32 implementation used, and also looks similar to Java, but without checked exceptions. try/except/end and try/finally/end blocks. The major differences
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by barrkel 2mo ago
The combination of exceptions and non-trivial {copy constructor, assignment operator, destructor} are what combine to make C++ a somewhat broken language when you try to use all the features. And also responsible for poisoning the well for
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by barrkel 2mo ago
As is well known, security is not a binary, it's a spectrum. It's why you add security in layers, and why it's generally a trade-off between risk and usability. Your mileage may vary, but I sleep better with my own projects n
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by barrkel 2mo ago
Load penalty is part of the Otis RSR algorithm, it's in the article.
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by barrkel 2mo ago
If you run it in a sandbox with no internet access and a read-only role login for the database, and you supervise it, how big is the risk do you reckon? Of course there's an issue if the data in the database is contractually restricted
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by barrkel 2mo ago
JJ stacked changes are just a chain of git commits. To jj, a branch is just a pointer to a commit, like git. Code review is no different to whatever you normally do for git. Push to your review system and review commit by commit Gerrit styl
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by barrkel 2mo ago
A decent idea, however it seems to me a good chunk of it is because of git limitations. Have you looked jj? I'm having a much better time with jj and a workspace per subagent than I was with git and worktrees. It's still useful to
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by barrkel 2mo ago
Eggplant is called aubergine in UK and Ireland. Full true synonym.
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by barrkel 2mo ago
The facts don't support a real eco panic. IMO it's a proxy for middle class job security fears, displacing into known middle class shibboleths. It can be sincere, but it's motivated reasoning.
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by barrkel 2mo ago
No, but you would find jj solves this problem far more elegantly.
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by barrkel 3mo ago
There comes a point in a startup's life where more controls are needed. Red tape. The stuff that slows down the big boys. Problem is, the red tape is scar tissue from previous informal process failures.
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by barrkel 3mo ago
I think these control rooms were superior in some respects to modern software system observability. - modelling the system rather than implementation (system status rather than many individual service statuses) - supporting causal reasoning
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by barrkel 3mo ago
Is it being used in production anywhere, even if only a toy app? I know you say it's not production ready and not optimized yet, but in the same breath - in your comment here - you say it's already faster.
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by barrkel 3mo ago
My experience has been escalating fragmentation past 90%, along with lower performance owing to the fragmentation.
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by barrkel 3mo ago
It's not actually. Think about it for a moment and you'll see life is full of tensions between preventing crimes and freedom / utility. It's most obvious on the roads. Few non-commercial vehicles will limit your speed to
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by barrkel 3mo ago
I didn't put them on the same level. At the same time, one should acknowledge that not all tasks are on the same level.
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by barrkel 3mo ago
People are stochastic. You build reliable processes out of unreliable parts with feedback and self-correcting mechanisms. AI is not actually magically special in this regard. It has higher variance and we're still figuring out how to g
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by barrkel 4mo ago
Repeal Town and Country Planning Act 1947
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by barrkel 4mo ago
You see a lot of hobby shops in ultra-wealthy areas of major metropolises. Tiny art studios, interior decorators with a handful of items in stock, boutique fashion shops.
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by barrkel 4mo ago
Can you try and tune your Claude or whatever LLM you're using for your text to phrase things in plain English. Way less use of antithesis, at least. You can probably find a skill for it, if not get an LLM to write your own.
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by barrkel 4mo ago
I never want to read the phrase "heavy lifting" again.
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by barrkel 4mo ago
The second mode is another way of doing the first, actually. Either way, working people's output today needs to support the non-working people today (unless you let them starve). Whether that is done via taxation or via wealth accumula
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by barrkel 4mo ago
I found it interesting that vLLM was dismissed as slower than llama.cpp. IME vLLM is quite a bit faster than llama.cpp but where it really wipes the floor with it is in batching concurrent load. The downside is that it is dramatically less
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by barrkel 4mo ago
That revenue exceeds cost of revenue so tokens aren't being subsidized...
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by barrkel 4mo ago
Do you think token completion endpoints are the final form for AI APIs?
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by barrkel 4mo ago
It takes time to re-ground yourself, to renew your ambitions to new circumstances. It usually takes more than a year even for employees.

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