carlmr

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by carlmr 1y ago
Yep, this is my biggest gripe with explicit async, all of a sudden a library that needn't be async forces me to use async (and in Rust forces me to use their async implementation), just because the author felt like async is a nice thin
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by carlmr 1y ago
Thank you! Really didn't expect that. I feel like in my personal space the people that partake haven't changed much. Drinking has gone down but I assumed it's an ageing thing.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>I wish that the hype crowd would do that. Exactly, IME the hype crowd is really the worst at this. They will spend 8h doing 8 different 1h tries at getting the right context for the LLM and then claim they did it in 1h. They claim to be
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by carlmr 1y ago
>We are at the point where more people use it than alcohol in the US. Citation needed on that one.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>But to your LLM, there’s no difference between “regular” tool calling and using a standard like MCP. The difference is that it's trained and benchmarked on the MCP-standard. Which makes it much more reliable than if you create your
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by carlmr 1y ago
If it works in some cases it's a simple lookup if the same item exists then show that. And if not you can show similar products in your region.
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by carlmr 1y ago
My biggest Amazon annoyance. I'm often looking for some product, reading Reddit and other reviews. They usually link to amazon.com. Then it asks me to switch my profile to American/$. But then in order to order I need to switch ba
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by carlmr 1y ago
I've never had this issue. Use the built-in datastructures that provide that functionality and you're good
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by carlmr 1y ago
>I will very easily write a faster parallelizable program in Java, before I get the C one even remotely correct and then we haven't even taken into account every future maintenance cost. Even better in Rust. You get great memory saf
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by carlmr 1y ago
I dunno, I was there in the 2000s and can't remember anyone saying that. I remember a lot of people saying Java's slightly slower execution will not matter that much when processing hardware gets better.
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by carlmr 1y ago
I rock climb and on some days can't use touch-ID because of it. My manual labor colleagues have way more calloused hands than me.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>It cannot reason about the abstract moving parts in a way the human brain can. Just found 3 race conditions in 100 lines of code. From the UTF-8 emojis in the comments I'm really certain it was AI generated. The "locking"
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by carlmr 1y ago
Anachronistic maybe, but it would still make a lot of embedded development a whole lot easier to get right. Modern Ada has a much better set of features compared to C, doesn't have the bloat of C++, and allows much better handling of e
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by carlmr 1y ago
I think we need to accept that AI is here now. Just assume that any take-home assignment can be done with AI. If you want to test non-AI skills give them pen, paper and a room without cell reception. It's not fair to students to assume
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by carlmr 1y ago
Isn't it enough to have the Cyrillic keyboard installed?
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by carlmr 1y ago
I didn't call it slow, but I'm sure it could be a little bit faster in Rust still. Fzy is noticeably faster for me, but it's bad at giving me the useful results first. For command line tools I just appreciate if they're
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by carlmr 1y ago
Nice, I do think fzf is a really good candidate for something that could be better if written in Rust. The fzy[1] C-rewrite is really fast, but I couldn't get it to give me as useful results when searching bash history. [1] jhawthorn&#
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by carlmr 1y ago
I'm guessing it needs internet for everything and can't work with local repositories.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>And it looks even more dire when you want to add clang-tidy in the mix. It can take like 5 solid minutes to lint even small projects. And running all tests with sanitizers, just to get some runtime checks of what Rust excludes at compil
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by carlmr 1y ago
>Just feels weird that Elixir gets a bunch of street cred for what are fundamentally Erlang/OTP capabilities I know what you mean, at the same time I'm thinking we should welcome any momentum from the Elixir community. The more
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by carlmr 1y ago
This is nice, I like Ada, but why is this happening now, is there any explanation for the blip?
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by carlmr 1y ago
>requires either "unsafe" (which is strictly more dangerous than even C, never mind Zig) Um, what? Unsafe Rust code still has a lot more safety checks applied than C. >It’s important to understand that unsafe doesn’t turn of
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by carlmr 1y ago
>I generate a small amount of code, check for validity (much easier to verify in a functional language), and repeat this loop. This has been true before LLMs as well. Build small, testable functions and compose them together. That's
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by carlmr 1y ago
That's true, "bread" in the US is atrocious. I recommend flour, water, salt, yeast. Amazing book if you want to get into home baking.
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by carlmr 1y ago
But they were eating plenty of seed oils, and sugar in cake, and loads of bread. So mostly carbs, but with a lot of fiber. It just goes counter to the current trend in major ways. I looked through the old cookbooks. The biggest difference i
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by carlmr 1y ago
My parents were vegetarians in the 80s, also no weight issues. I don't believe it's carbs or seed oils or any of the modern scapegoats. Since they were eating plenty of that. They even had cake. I think it doesn't matter what
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by carlmr 1y ago
I thought you were pulling numbers out of your magic hat. It seems true. Sorry for doubting you. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/10/14/weight... I guess the 2400 for middle aged
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by carlmr 1y ago
This is so on point, the big money in ag is pushing a lot of these conspiracies. If that's your argument for your diet, it's a shaky one. I will go that far to admit I don't know what's the healthy diet in the end, becau
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by carlmr 1y ago
So much this, the blank page problem is almost gone. Even if it's riddled with errors.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>It's just that software engineers like to pretend they're fully rational beings So much this. There are some rational factors to consider, but in the end gut feeling and UX is a much bigger factor than what people like to admi

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