caleb-allen

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by caleb-allen 3y ago
Such a loss. I've spent many hours reading vim's incredible source code and documentation while developing a vim emulation plugin for the Julia REPL. Absolute world class codebase. Moolenaar was an amazing programmer, and his impa
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by caleb-allen 3y ago
If film was invented in France, why didn't France become the film hub of the world, then, instead of Los Angeles? If packet switching is from the UK, why didn't the UK build a world wide network instead of DARPA? If HTML was inven
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by caleb-allen 3y ago
Really? That is very different from my experience. If you're talking about the actual City of London then maybe, but most other places I have found quite lively and active in the evenings, especially around where I live.
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by caleb-allen 3y ago
I saw your talk in London a few weeks ago and immediately thought of your discussions on python accelerators when I heard about Mojo - glad to see your thoughts here!
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by caleb-allen 3y ago
> RabbitMQ also put up a fight. I'm interested in hearing more about this (making a similar decision right now!). What pains did RabbitMQ give you?
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
I did just this, and it hallucinated an answer (and did not hit my server). It may be more accurate than ChatGPT sometimes, if it's using Googles latest web index. The url I used has nothing publicly available and is likely not indexed
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
It's astonishing to see the goalposts move so quickly. The cope of "well, okay, it can do that, but that's not even the hard part!" when just a year ago this entire product was almost unimaginable.
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
You should listen to the full first movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. It's one of the most popular pieces of music in history, and for good reason!
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
I recall reading a very interesting short story about exactly this - handing over the entirety of your daily minutiae to AI and the moral consequences. I'm unable to find the name of it, maybe something by Ted Chiang?
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
> All it takes is for one or 2 strong employees to go off into the dark forest for a while and come back with a potential prize. I wish there was a more prevalent culture! My most productive work comes about this way, and I've yet t
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
> I'm so over this deconstructionist "reality is your perception" line. Kant would have a field day with this statement
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
> Is a shapeless creature even logically coherent? Do you see how your argument is self-defeating? According to logic that humans have developed, there is such thing as a "shape". But Western philosophers have pondered the inna
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
There are of course many breaking changes that could improve the language itself, but in my opinion the attention of maintainers is best spent on improving the ecosystem--while a 2.0 release may be exciting, I've been very pleased to s
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
I admire the queen if only for the masterful job she's done at convincing the masses that she is a victim of circumstance rather than the quintessential purveyor of privilege
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
Wow, this looks amazing! I'm not in data science but have been using Julia for about 2 years. I write almost all my personal code in Julia, and one of the biggest roadblocks for me is surfacing my code as a Web GUI. I'm very excit
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
That's true, but at least the mental model roughly holds. Somebody who is barely technologically literate will understand that "more bars" is better, and that's exactly what the abstraction should do. Communicate somethi
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
My dad ran a business that was totally centered around Facebook and suffered heavily when Facebook flipped a switch and disabled many of the APIs supporting my dad's business
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
Neither do many founders and executives of American companies. Snapchat is a prime example of a company/executive neglecting Android for years, at their own expense. Their international growth was extremely hampered until they finally
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
Just stunning. I'm only 26 and clearly remember being impressed with my 512mb flash drive. There are few, if any, industries with such consistent progress as semiconductors.
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
I purchased the ReMarkable 2 a few months ago and I can maintain that it is the most useful computing device I've purchased since my first smartphone over a decade ago. It feels like "upgraded paper". There is a little clunk
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
Is Google using ARM for their custom TPU systems? Perhaps they have some sort of non-compete agreement with ARM
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
That's fine, but the above commenter's question was related to the definition of an "active user", and Snapchat provides an answer to that question, even if it uses weasel words.
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
I would guess that you could uncover this information in Snapchat's 10K filings. In fact, I found the answer to your question on the 4th page of their annual filing to shareholders[1]: > While these metrics are determined based on w
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by caleb-allen 4y ago
The MIRI cryocooler technology is one of the most interesting advances I've ever heard of. My understanding is that it doesn't require any moving coolant, and it does so by creating a "standing wave" of sorts in the heat
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by caleb-allen 5y ago
My totally uneducated guess would be that whatever long term health effects that stimulants have on heart rate are minor compared to other stimulant effects (like blood pressure, appetite changes, etc)
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by caleb-allen 5y ago
Jeez, what's with the hate? Why do you have such a problem with somebody else caring about an animal as if it were family?
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by caleb-allen 5y ago
Wow, this is the first time I've actually understood the practical use of DST. Not that it's needed anymore, but that makes a lot of sense.
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by caleb-allen 5y ago
Yes, but at least it is consistent. I live right by the border, on the Utah side, and driving through Arizona and Nevada is always so confusing!
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by caleb-allen 5y ago
A VPN will do nothing to deter an enemy from detecting the radio signal from a starlink terminal
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by caleb-allen 5y ago
Same. I use pretty much every feature of the remarkable 2. My favorite product in a decade

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