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by bcoates 2y ago
Assume I'm not somewhere I can watch a video and that GitHub link is mostly "how to run this" not "what this does" (and the demo link is broken). Assuming this isn't a joke/hoax, is there an explanation in
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by bcoates 2y ago
HPPD is probably real but it's hard to tell what the base rate is in non-users (idiopathic visual disturbances are hard to test for) Psychotic acid flashbacks aren't real
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by bcoates 2y ago
It's just incredibly inefficient if there's any other alternative. Doing 4 sprints over 2 months to make a prototype in order to save 3 60 minute meetings over a week where you do a few requirements analysis/proposal review c
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by bcoates 2y ago
Agreed, particularly on code reviews: the only useful code reviews I've had were either in an outright trainee/expert relationship or when the reviewer is very experienced in the gotchas of the project being modified and the revie
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by bcoates 2y ago
Yeah, looking at the code my 'intuition' was "this is a classic data race, the program is broken" not "somewhere between 10 and 20". I suppose if you assume all global accesses are atomic, it's a good demo
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by bcoates 2y ago
Ugh. The "vanity domains for gmail" product i've been buying for a long time is really metastasizing into something that's both too expensive and actually worse than the free experience, wonderful. It’s weird that predic
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by bcoates 2y ago
I'm curious if this product actually works because I was beating my head against almost exactly this very recently. I haven't checked yet, but is SDF schema-dependent? For some reason, all sql comprehending/transforming tools
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by bcoates 2y ago
Yeah my experience is much closer to that, I generally point my clients to core over cloud even if they're indifferent to the cost. (Sorry dbt guys, love your product, but somebody read the strategy memo backwards and you've got l
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by bcoates 2y ago
This is why RLHF causes those overly verbose answers to simple questions, it's a fundamentally busted evaluation function so you wind up optimizing for the wrong thing
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by bcoates 2y ago
"I've never met anybody that used Alteryx" I have! It's a pretty good no-code/minimal-code graphical ELT+Analytics in one tool. It's one of those alternate-universe tools that has it's own way of doing thi
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by bcoates 2y ago
Doom doesn't even have a (variable) random seed, it's deterministic like an NES game and has built-in record/playback that's just a frame by frame list of player moves.
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by bcoates 2y ago
14 years or less. Any version of Postgres before 9.0 was a nightmare to administer as a real production transactional dbms, at least the off the shelf version without a whole lot of tweaking without a (then very rare) pg expert.
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by bcoates 2y ago
That's deranged, just use a namedtuple and some functions. Even decorators for something this simple are a code smell. What do you do when another module needs ymin, inheritance? OO is dead, leave it buried umourned.
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by bcoates 2y ago
For adversarial inputs, even a cryptographic hash won't save you, the cost of brute force searching for pathological keys is based the number of buckets not the cost of finding full collisions.
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by bcoates 2y ago
Maybe they should then, I was blaming humans for the unsafe/illegal right turns and deranged maneuvering in the presence of lights and sirens firetrucks.
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by bcoates 2y ago
The equivalent system is no driver in car at all, and unless there's some trial I don't know about, Tesla's product that does that is announced but not existing anywhere, 0 cities, 0 cars. the definition of vaporware.
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by bcoates 2y ago
There are (crappy, dangerous-seeming) genuine full autonomous-assuming-you-don't-count-remote-safety-drivers Waymos on the street where I live, in volume, for a while now. Tesla's equivalent system appears to be 100% vaporware. I
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by bcoates 2y ago
The business case is that networks are getting better but NAT hardware isn't keeping up. Dual-stack users are increasingly likely to have a good v6 connection and very marginal v4, and just abandoning v4 support entirely lets you stop
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by bcoates 2y ago
32-bit C programming on wintel systems in that era would have looked like using DOS extender/DPMI and would have been lumped under "MS-DOS" even if you were assuming the user was running Windows. (Even if your IDE was a Windo
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by bcoates 2y ago
Lots of windows users were on the Internet or otherwise online, but the form it would take was pulling up ProComm and dialing into an isp, fidonet bbs, compuserve, etc. You didn't need to have a local TCP stack running to use email, ft
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by bcoates 2y ago
Looks cool... anybody want to do an explain-like-im-not-a-c64-esoterica-expert on what this is?
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by bcoates 2y ago
Not super familiar with Carbon but .. what's the elevator pitch for porting my C++ to unsafe Carbon? Can it be done with an automated refactoring tool or something? I feel like if I'm gonna go through the whole nightmare of a code
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by bcoates 2y ago
From the abstract: "Studies suggest muscle loss with these medications (as indicated by decreases in fat-free mass [FFM]) ranges from 25% to 39% of the total weight lost over 36–72 weeks. This substantial muscle loss can be largely att
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by bcoates 2y ago
Yeah describing Luo Ji as having "struggles with the ethical implications of his mission" is the biggest whopper. He's like God's perfect sociopath. He wobbles between total indifference to his mission and interplanetary
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by bcoates 2y ago
You roll back a schema migration on a dev/test database by nuking it and regenerating it, probably with the same tools you use to manage the rest of your environment. You don't rollback a schema migration to a production database,
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by bcoates 2y ago
If I understand what you mean, it's supported everywhere that has windowing at all afaik. If you mean filtering the rows in the window, you can do 'sum(case when condition then value else null end) over (window)'; if you mean
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by bcoates 2y ago
There's PowerQuery, built into Excel. It can do some great stuff (love me some fuzzy join) but the ergonomics are apocalyptic. This is actually the root problem of trying to improve or extend Excel--it has a truly ancient, horribly bro
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by bcoates 2y ago
That's not really the problem here--CHAR_BIT is already 8 everywhere in practice, and all real existing code[1] handles CHAR_BIT being 8. The question is "does any code need to care about CHAR_BIT > 8 platforms" and the an
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by bcoates 2y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it's obviously correct--there is no meaningful use for CHAR_BIT to be anything other than 8. On the other hand, it seems like some sort of concession to the idea that you are entitle
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by bcoates 2y ago
Microsoft has declared a whole lot of things to be the future of Windows, almost all of them were quietly sidelined in a version or two. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

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