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by btown 3y ago
I once had a CS teacher who hated early returns and break statements; they would always prefer the "nested ifs" approach. And they're far from being alone - many others believe that path is cleaner. I'm with the parent p
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by btown 3y ago
He’s just trying to get us used to how important it is to account for communication latency in aerospace engineering!
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by btown 3y ago
What kinds of bugs have you run into? Any large-scale corruption of data at rest?
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by btown 3y ago
It’s also absolutely vital as a manager to put in place a system of psychological safety before making these kinds of asks. If someone feels like they will be held accountable for not accomplishing the task in the allotted time, then everyo
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by btown 3y ago
Not pedantic at all! https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/336 is a (somewhat rambling) discussion on whether it would even be worthwhile to use the neural engine specifically, beyond the GPU.
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by btown 3y ago
The picture: https://cdn-0.tankhistoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/32...
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by btown 3y ago
If you have a stable global long-term API key for a global API that you use without regards to your users' tenancy on that platform, then absolutely - just put it in your 12-factor env or other secret storage, and start developing! But
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by btown 3y ago
https://www.anthropic.com/product recommends the open-source SBERT: https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/computing-embedd... Highly recommend preemptively saving multiple types of embedding
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by btown 3y ago
Oh wow, you're absolutely right. Somehow I missed that from the OP: > The software company actively "polices" landlords to ensure that they comply with the rent cost it generates, the lawsuit alleges. Failure to impose the
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by btown 3y ago
Oh, no doubt - I'm certainly not trying to defend EA's particular flavor of polyamory. But from Time's perspective, you have a term like polyamory that the general public is not likely to be familiar with, and you only quot
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by btown 3y ago
I'm not even sure if he saw himself as redistributing money vs. creating value from scratch, from the productivity increases that cryptocurrency would usher in when it became mainstream - and if he was the one to not "re-distribut
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by btown 3y ago
Certainly when it comes to computer software causing language to change far outside the sphere of computing terms, TikTok takes the cake, with words like "unalive" joining the real-world lexicon: https://www.washingtonp
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by btown 3y ago
> still a ton of keywords don't have any advertisers at all. Optimizing for these has been the number#1 revenue maker in the past 3 years. The more Google trains its normal users that “generic queries will get you spoon-fed generic-
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by btown 3y ago
Yep: https://netflixtechblog.com/consistent-caching-mechanism-in-...
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by btown 3y ago
Is an open source game engine likely to cause those War Thunder forum participants with military clearances to become more angry in debates (because they can now see how the inaccuracies in specifications would impact the performance in
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by btown 3y ago
There are certainly situations where, as a reviewer, 5 minutes of goto-definition on a PR branch, or a well-placed debug breakpoint while running a test, is all you need to write a more prescriptive comment than “I don’t understand how this
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by btown 3y ago
Brings a whole new meaning to “idle” games!
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by btown 3y ago
A perfectly valid opinion! As a user, I like that my apps keep getting feature improvements without needing to pay $100/user/mo for them. I like that they can support all different kinds of text rendering without relying on shared
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by btown 3y ago
My more positive take on this: our runtime environments are bloated because we have ways to enable trust, stability, and iteration speeds that people wouldn't have dreamed of in years past. Your Notion desktop app and Google Chrome b
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by btown 3y ago
In theory, in event sourcing, a reader would enumerate every proposed transaction, in order, and skip any invalid ones (or ones invalidated by a separate invalidation stream). This is expensive, so a materialized Balances table might be cre
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by btown 3y ago
There's a huge gap, though, between the boot camp methodology of essentially "here's a visual design or a set of fields, I'm going to pattern match that onto a single React component or backend endpoint that's isola
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by btown 3y ago
Self-replying to retract the above. From https://www.404media.co/bandcamps-entire-union-bargaining-te... it seems that Songtradr leadership had explicit knowledge of the members of the union bargaining team, lied about it,
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by btown 3y ago
Does this robustly support altering tables? What happens if a column is deleted - does it delete historical data, or mark the history column as nullable? As the OP article notes/hints, there are all sorts of performance and regulatory
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by btown 3y ago
This could be you one day! https://gizmodo.com/the-humble-origins-of-the-html-blink-tag... > At some point in the evening I mentioned that it was sad that Lynx was not going to be able to display many of the HTML extensi
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by btown 3y ago
Alternate, equally speculative but less cynical take on 4-5, largely advised by Songtradr's announcement here: https://twitter.com/songtradr/status/1709986126117630051?s=2... This may have been a last-minute
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by btown 3y ago
Giant Grant Games makes a compelling case for why single-player campaign and mod-development experiences are often overlooked but are key for RTS crossover success. And this came out long before the success of BG3. I hold out hope that some
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by btown 3y ago
A semi-automated system that compares old unsafe code to new unsafe code would likely be really helpful here - say, a LLM prompted to investigate whether the new unsafe blocks are a significant difference in scope and documented intent from
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by btown 3y ago
Ironically, Butter is both really really cool and exactly what generative AI is sustainably good for: reading large amounts of text (in this case video transcripts) for you, the user, and extracting structured or unstructured insights tha
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by btown 3y ago
https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-p... is somewhat ambiguous on this front: > Limit your use of data to providing or improving user-facing features that are prominent in the requesting appli
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by btown 3y ago
You can also create arbitrary indices on derived functions of your JSONB data, which I think is something that a lot of people don't realize. Postgres is a really, really good NoSQL database.

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