catlifeonmars

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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Npm likes to run package lifecycle scripts of your dependencies by default. You have to explicitly opt out of this. It’s probably the worst package manager out of npm, pnpm, yarn, and bun.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Same here. Corepack was fine and there is already too much churn
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Warning fatigue is a very good callout. I find it’s really easy to get to a state where you are inundated by notifications that aren’t actionable.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
But there isn’t one size of food producer. I would think there are diminishing marginal returns on food safety after a certain size. At that point perhaps the blast radius of mistakes offsets the advantage of scale. It’s a false dichotomy t
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
And all observers on the event horizon agree that there is no event horizon :) What I’m trying to say is that there is nothing special about the region of space near the event horizon.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Have you considered that the apparent event horizon is not uniform for all observers? So does spacetime exist in some frames of reference but not others because those frames disagree on the radius of the apparent event horizon? Also note th
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
This is like saying the Riemann zeta function is only defined for real numbers. You can always extend the singularity mathematically by incorporating new axioms. My point is, it’s not super meaningful to argue whether a black hole has an in
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
What’s a way to flag to an engineering team that they should do a thorough review of their usage of a particular API because it has footguns in it? This is a rhetorical question because there isn’t a generally accepted way of doing so. Auto
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
I thought that UI looked vaguely familiar, and then I realized that the BIOS on many computers uses that design. I never really connected the dots.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Thanks for responding! I hope I didn’t come across as being overly critical. I’m curious what you would consider if designing a greenfield implementation of an object file format. What would you optimize for, and perhaps more interestingly,
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
None of those things sound terrible. I’d argue the world would be better off. The only real losers are those companies you mentioned :shrug:
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
> I wrote a tool[0] for manipulating elf files to support inline assembly for a compiler that doesn’t support it (based on a similar python tool). That required knowing any of the ELF sections that were being changed and how those change
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
True. The main difference, like you pointed out, are the concept of a file tree and a commit tree which adds some structure along the time and space dimensions on top of the content-addressable blob storage.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Oh do you mean as a way to store app state? Yeah 100%. It also helps that there are native reimplementations in many major languages, which means you don’t even need to link a libsqlite3 in contexts where it can sometimes be impractical to
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Two tools come to mind that you might be interested in - osquery: virtual table abstraction over proc fs. https://www.osquery.io/ - nushell: shell with structured I/O. https://www.nushell.sh/
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
I can buy that an object file can be viewed as a relational db. Why SQLite though? Why not SQL query engine over the object file using a virtual table abstraction? I’m not seeing how most the SQLite features, with the exception of a subset
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
So you overextend, such that the quality of your support suffers? You can just call it what it is: greed. Have you considered that maybe a company shouldn’t have millions or billions of users? That’s a lot of eggs to put in one basket.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
This is just a rephrasing of the Dunning-Krueger effect, but quantized to a binary domain (ignorant vs wise).
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
> Ask anyone in a HCOL area in the US and it is hardly an "exception". By definition this is an exception because there are simultaneously places in the US with a low cost of living. If it had something to do with USD, wouldn’t
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Where do you live where you need to make $500k and above to live in the US? Silicon Valley? If so, that’s definitely the exception rather than the rule. > Because $1m is worth less today than it was 40 years ago. And? $1 is also worth le
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
> Rawdogging SQL when you're not a seasoned DB administrator basically makes an arcane art look occult. This is kind of a hot take. Most devs I know know PostGreSQL well. They know how to write complex queries with CTAS, joins, etc,
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
It’s shorthand for “it’s unreadable, but in the way an AI would write it”. I’m not OP, but that’s the issue. If it was well written (even if AI written), there would be no problem. As it turns out, you still need to be a good writer in orde
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
This is perhaps a little meta, but this was a pleasant read. It’s refreshing to read an article about using an LLM that doesn’t read like it was also written by that LLM. I might use this approach to generate the stencils for a JIT firewall
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
I wonder if this is an artifact of RL, where the training heavily emphasizes codegen. It may be that the model is just better at generating code than reusing libraries, so it prefers the lowest cost approach. I also wonder if this manifests
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
FWIW laziness is a strength, not a weakness in software engineering :)
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
> What the big AI labs have over the smaller labs, is a huge amount of data and diverse set of tasks, hence they generalize better, but still not great. Hehe, this kind of sounds like the opposite of generalization. As in it’s just speci
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
This is fascinating. I’m struggling to understand how that was causing such a large difference in the output. Is the “autoparser” vulnerable to injections somehow? How do you distinguish between user text, model text, and metadata, or is th
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Yes, exactly my point! “Frontier” vs “local” isn’t a useful distinction . “proprietary vs open” is a much more useful distinction. Although I suspect people use “frontier” as shorthand for “way too large to run at home practically”.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Local model doesn’t mean you have to run it locally. It just means that you aren’t locked into a provider. Nothing stops you from using a hosting service. The point is you get to choose if and who gets access to your data. Additionally, the
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
What’s the fundamental difference between a frontier model and a local model anyway?

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