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by benrutter 7mo ago
What do you mean by "feature extraction with an LLM?". I can get this for text based data, but would you do that on numeric data? Seems like there are better tools you could use for auto-ML in that sphere? Unless by LLM feature ex
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by benrutter 7mo ago
> Alacritty I like but the lack of tabs is not acceptable for the moment... and before you ask: I hate tmux. Surprised none of the other commenters have mentioned zellij. I work across windows (WSL) and linux so really like having the sa
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by benrutter 7mo ago
I really like this take! A couple years ago I wrote a throwaway blog about learning curves in user design[0] but the thought has stayed with me a lot since then. It's especially tricky because things are contextual. I use Helix as an e
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by benrutter 7mo ago
Its almost enjoyably bad - I especially appreciate how it gets worse as you scroll. Do images of that low quality honestly help sell something? I'd have thought stock footage or simple icons would be more effective.
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by benrutter 7mo ago
I think this is sort of just what publishing looks like for super niche books. Academic books are a rip off for other reasons too, but they also have the issue that only a very small number of copies are expected to sell, smaller runs means
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by benrutter 8mo ago
History probably says I'm being naive, but I feel like I don't hate this possibility (hear me out!). Personally, I'd always choose to use a distribution with open source userland packages and utils, but if closed source alt
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by benrutter 8mo ago
Codeberg is immense buuut it's only intended for open source projects really, so might not be a good fit for all.
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by benrutter 8mo ago
> The monorepo problem: git has difficulty dividing the codebase into modules and joining them back Can anyone explain this one? I use monorepos everyday and although tools like precommit can get a bit messy, I've never found git i
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by benrutter 8mo ago
I think a big reason (aside from intertia) is that arrow is designed for tables. Json sends a lot more than just that and can support whatever octagonal junitsu squid shaped data you want to fit into it. Also, a good proportion of web apis
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by benrutter 8mo ago
There's definitely a "everyone uses it because everyone uses it" effect. Feather might be a better fit for sime yse cases, but parquet has fantastic support and is still a pretty good choice for things that feather does. Unle
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by benrutter 8mo ago
Yes (mostly) is the answer. You can use arrow as a backend, and I think with v3 (recently released) it's the default. The harder thing to overcome is that pandas has historically had a pretty "say yes to things" culture. That
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by benrutter 8mo ago
It's really surprising, we've trained these models off of all the data on the internet, and somehow they've learned to act like jerks!
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by benrutter 8mo ago
That's sort of true, although in reality Airbyte was only truly "open source" for a very small period[0]. In reality, since about 1 year into the project, it's operated with a mix of open and "less open" licens
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by benrutter 8mo ago
> People saying IRC are trolling or never used Discord. I think it's probably that Discord has such a range of use cases. I only ever use Discord for open source projects that have communities there. Discord supports a whole load of
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by benrutter 8mo ago
This is awesome, and remimds of my favourite fact which is that the jurrasic park unix system was actually a real unix system running a real file browser . File browsers ended up converging om a more useful, but way less cool design[0]. [0
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by benrutter 8mo ago
There's some cool ideas about unit testing here, and I know I'm kind of missing the point, but am I the only one who finds unit tests and documentation sort of, soothing? Of course I love solving the initial problem / buildin
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by benrutter 8mo ago
I don't think this proves/suggests a crash will happen, but its worth considering most of what you've said would have been true right up until both the 2008 financial crash and the dotcom bubble.
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by benrutter 8mo ago
> The question is there is no other place for money to go. Whenever I've heard people speculate on the US bond market losing its footing, the suggestion isn't that "Japan will be the new US" (eg) - it's that inve
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by benrutter 8mo ago
I think I'd be in the "don't buy it" camp, so maybe I can explain my thinking at least. I don't deny that there's been huge improvements in LLMs over the last 6-12 months at all. I'm skeptical that the las
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by benrutter 8mo ago
I'm not an expert, my knowledge is just from reading around a lot, but I think there's some stats that would suggest the US is particularly exposed: - At points, AI investment has actually seen more spending that US consumer spend
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by benrutter 8mo ago
I feel like one of the following is true (and I don't know yet which is the case): - I'm genuinely a lot more pessimistic than is accurate around what is and isn't a bubble - Bubbles are just slower to burst than I expect Pos
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by benrutter 8mo ago
There's a common consensus in economics that bubbles are really hard to predict, and even some argument that they don't actually really exist. Great paper came out recently called "Bubbled for Farma"[0] which looks at p
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by benrutter 8mo ago
I love the WM innovation that is happening in Linux right now. I've used i3, awesome and pop quite a bit. That said, I've gone full circle and just use a regular ol' floating style for now. This is because if the realisation
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by benrutter 8mo ago
I think context matters, often I might be writing docs in a text format that doesn't support mermaid (some readmes for instance, or a print put in a CLI tool) and want diagrams. In those contexts, rendered mermaid as html isn't an
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by benrutter 9mo ago
This is neat! People who like this might be interested in the awesome Hedy language[0]. It's purpose is education, but it's a single programming language with lots of localisations. Always suprised this idea isn't pursued mor
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by benrutter 9mo ago
I work in the UK energy sector and have been exposed to more than my fair share of bad, crufty APIs. I don't know the reason, but those returning XML are, practically speaking, much worse. I've seen a bunch of times where an API r
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by benrutter 9mo ago
XML is still the implementation tool for Microsoft Office and Open Office docs. I wouldn't hold those up as the gold standard or anything, but it's hard to see how Markdown could capture everything that XML does for, say, powerpoi
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by benrutter 9mo ago
Not the prettiest but absolutely amazing to use! I'm sure web devs are laughing at me right now, but I genuinely didn't realise websites with that many images etc could actually be that fast.
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by benrutter 9mo ago
Can't speak to availability outside of Europe, but parts are sold by the manufacturer directly for fairphone, so they're very easy to get hold of if you can buy a fairphone in the first place. Me saying "a samsung" pro
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by benrutter 9mo ago
This radio selection is brilliant silly, especially because the end result is indecipherable from a vanilla css rqdio button. For some reason people keep going back to complex UI and interactivity frameworks though, does anyone have a good

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