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by chrsig 2y ago
> and autovectorization is brittle, writing inference or training in a way that relies on it is the last thing you want) I'm curious if you could speak more to this? Is the concern that operations may get reordered? > To put it
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by chrsig 2y ago
i just hope for a sufficiently smart compiler shrug (i'm pretty sure go has some autovectorization) before jumping to another language, I suggest perhaps examine the memory layout and access patterns.
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by chrsig 2y ago
ok, that seems like a bit of a moved goal post, but you do you. is there any particular impact you see that having? Postgres has had it's share of data integrity issues due to things like locale differences between primary and replica
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by chrsig 2y ago
On the flip side, sqlite is also a great choice in those circumstances. so regardless of attitude, outcome seems good to me. incredibly well tested for scenarios where data loss is likely, code is in the public domain, available on all maj
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by chrsig 2y ago
no, it just tends to need to be a violent offense
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by chrsig 2y ago
well, one major problem is that you can't force people to get mental health treatment. the courts can, but that means things need to be brought before a judge.
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by chrsig 2y ago
i don't read that as a condemnation of usefulness of integrating w/ the system tzdb (every language stdlib does this under the hood) my biggest issue is that the structs and function definitions are pretty opaquely named and make
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by chrsig 2y ago
eh, i think i disagree. a new stdlib on its own wouldn't come with a lot of abi/linking baggage that tends to hold up tooling and migrations when you start introducing a different language. (see recent rust/linux drama). i m
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by chrsig 2y ago
> For clarity, tree-wide fixes for C in the kernel are automated via Coccinelle. Coccinelle for Rust is constantly unstable and broken which is why manual fixes are required. Does this help to explain the burden that C developers are fac
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by chrsig 2y ago
I'm a bit out of my depth, but I think I recall Gerald Sussman talking about dealing with a similar problem using an operator that indicated that evaluated to exactly one out of a finite set of elements but can be evaluated to any in t
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by chrsig 2y ago
This is the first time I'm encountering Norton's dome, and I'm not particularly academic, just really like learning about math -- so I'm hoping a friendly HNer can help me out here. Is norton's dome essentially desc
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by chrsig 2y ago
isn't the point of the chaos that as time progresses the predictability of outcomes severely deteriorates? or maybe a better frame: any simulation the seed would still result in the same answer, since the computation is deterministic,
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by chrsig 2y ago
I mean...you're kinda using sentimental anecdata to pat hn on the back a little bit here. There are definitely other explanations for sentiment change than being presented with facts.
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by chrsig 2y ago
if it's any consolation, when the sky isn't blue, it's mostly because the ground is on fire. a situation which is exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change. so i mean, it's hard to agree on the basics when the basics
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by chrsig 2y ago
Also a pager/phone going off incessantly isn't useful either. manage your alarms or you'll be throwing your phone at a wall.
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by chrsig 2y ago
ouch, i didn't even know about that
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by chrsig 2y ago
eternal september; people new people are continually learning new strategies. You're correct, the real issue comes down to 1. making sure those printf statements don't wind up in prod, spilling potentially sensitive data or corrup
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by chrsig 2y ago
nah, not crazy. it's pretty crazy to think that sort of shit doesn't happen.
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by chrsig 2y ago
I think it depends on who the documentation is intended for. I often let public facing documentation be the source of truth for expected behavior unless it's infeasible to coerce the system to that behavior. If the latter does occur,
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by chrsig 2y ago
I think they got the nature of intuition wrong. It seems intuitive to me that information shapes the intuition. Introverts (probably, on average) spend more time ingesting the information, in turn shaping intuition.
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by chrsig 2y ago
no, but they do make them normal.
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by chrsig 2y ago
It looks like he's staying on the committee and what not, just changing his day job. That's actually one of the benefits of having a committee & iso standardization process -- things aren't so reliant on a single enginee
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by chrsig 2y ago
> but C++ sings its siren von Neumann song to the wizards, and there will always be wizard musicologists who steer their projects toward those rocks and, when they have just enough wax in their ears, they sail right past the rocks and co
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by chrsig 2y ago
The other end of the spectrum has snakeoil salesmen grifting from town to town. It's a hard equilibrium to blance.
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by chrsig 2y ago
> One problem we discovered while running 1:1 coaching is that people weren’t able to actually follow through (in real life) on the ideas they came up with during their weekly sessions with their coach. Really? No, you did not discover t
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by chrsig 2y ago
> While that may be true, isn't another reasonable explanation that the Copilot development team is moving as fast as they can and these sorts of workarounds are being forced through in the name of team velocity? this strikes me as
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by chrsig 2y ago
yeah, getting people to think through consequences is like pulling teeth.
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by chrsig 2y ago
also the puts are 5x as expensive as the get operations
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by chrsig 2y ago
it wouldn't be unprecedented. dynamodb-local exists.
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by chrsig 2y ago
> This is a ton of work to ask of a small group of volunteerss and leaves users vulnerable for longer. Perhaps consider purchasing a support contract if people's charity endangers your users.

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