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Yes? I think this is great. IMO our goal should be to enable building higher-level abstractions on lower-level ones.
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I don't work in an office anymore either, but when I did (years ago), I would get constantly interrupted by people walking up to my desk and talking to me. I like talking to people but I also need uninterrupted focus time. I made somet
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2y ago
Dicts can be a problem, but this particular example isn't that great, like in this diagram from the article: External API <--dict--> Ser/De <--model--> Business Logic Life's all great until "External A
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2y ago
We’re already past that point. If you thought connections were important before…they’re even more important now, as the volume of noise on both sides is deafening.
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2y ago
Sounds like you're actually just mad that it didn't have generics from the beginning. That horse has been beaten to death for years. I don't think it's fair though to characterize different points on a tradeoff curve as
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2y ago
Studio execs don't do any of that stuff anyway. It's the long list of people in the movie credits who should be worried.
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2y ago
Go does have const: https://go.dev/tour/basics/15
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> The usual way to get HTTP Headers using Go cannot distinguish between an empty header value and no header at all HTTP headers in Go are maps, which have a built-in mechanism for checking key existence, which distinguishes b/t empt
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I'm not sure anyone is asking you to take it at face value or implicitly trust them? There's a 92-page paper with details: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/the-llama-3-herd-o...
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2y ago
> What are we gaining here that is worth such an enormous risk? Well, Flet's landing page has a bunch of features and benefits. What is an "enormous risk" anyway? Depends on what you're doing. There are endless cases
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2y ago
No it won't reach 0, for many reasons. - Things change and break. You are paying for people to fix that for you at 2 AM, and to keep up with industry developments and best practices and make those decisions for you. - Legal risk and co
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2y ago
OpenAI and Microsoft get TONS of user-written code w/ quality feedback, OpenAI through ChatGPT and Microsoft through VS Code and Copilot.
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2y ago
My traveling stress went down significantly once I got a travel backpack, because I don't need to use the overhead bin anymore, I just cram it under the seat in front of me. And in general carrying a backpack is easier than rolling lug
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3y ago
For fun I tried to make an equivalently bad-faith two-liner with vanilla HTML+CSS that preserves the Tailwind behavior: <div class="custom-box"><div class="header"><div class="tab">app.css<
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3y ago
A box with rounded corners and a top and bottom section: <div class="bg-white rounded-2xl"> <div class="bg-blue-500">Top Section</div> <div>Bottom Section</div> <&
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3y ago
Besides compound file types, not all formats are well-specified either. Example is CSV.
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3y ago
It's not always deterministic, sometimes it's fuzzy depending on the file type. Example of this is a one-line CSV file. I tested one case of that, libmagic detects it as a text file while magika correctly detects it as a CSV (and
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3y ago
Separating these concerns (cancellation vs. bag-of-request-scoped stuff) might make sense. I'm specifically talking about the cancellation side of contexts. I don't think there's a good answer to this other problem of whether
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I really disagree with this. A function taking a Context is a really important signal to me about the semantics of that function. I also much prefer being able to see context values explicitly passed around, instead of values that magically
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It helps to use more specific terms than "decentralized" and "censorship resilient", there are a lot of attack vectors for both. IPFS certainly does address some of the attack vectors, but not all. For example if the &qu
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3y ago
There's a huge volume of existing Python code.
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Orbital Ring
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There are entire industries devoted to helping humans overfit on standardized tests. Humans love to overfit, it's often easy and faster to get what you want--which in the case of education, is usually credentials, not knowledge.
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Amazon definitely tracks returns in their A/B tests, along with impact on long-term projections of customer value. What they also track is ad and sponsored products revenue. The sad truth with most Internet products is that advertisers
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Apple definitely makes a lot of money from advertising...probably more than they make from selling Macs (based on 2022 results). Also I think this quote might be technically right, but Mozilla's revenue is almost entirely paid from a
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https://privacytests.org/
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What other project files or GitHub code? It’s a new language. And what does “hoover up” mean? Use the context window for language basics? RAG? Retrain the model? Also the LLM won’t have been trained on the vast corpus of debugging sessions,
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> The advent and rise of AI-based code assistants are already impacting the data that populates RedMonk’s language rankings. Not only that, they are impacting the actual languages people use. Why use some new / esoteric language tha
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The former are much cheaper to train than the latter.
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"Technicality" here means an argument that follows a strict/formal interpretation to arrive at a conclusion that is inconsistent with the principles and objectives of the law.
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