conradludgate

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by conradludgate 2mo ago
In my experience, it's the act of writing for someone else that makes me learn the most. It helps clear out the assumptions I had which I had been satisfied with but didn't actually have the evidence for. When writing for myself,
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
See also https://orlp.net/blog/taming-float-sums/
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
Maybe you could benefit from Hooks?
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
How does this work with a monorepo with hundreds of teams around the globe? If you break the trunk, that means no other teams can release
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
The design is postgres. It's our customers that do stateful things on those connections. Unfortunately it's tools like pgdump/pgrestore that are not tolerant to connection interruption. Node failure is indeed a problem. Not m
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
In my experience, it's a monorepo problem. We have a monorepo at work and the CI only runs a minority of tests prior to merging, and then reverts bad commits later. It can take a few hours until every test has run including your commit
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
I've been introducing feature flags into our component at work. The reason why rollbacks isn't sufficient for us is that our service is semi-stateful (postgres connections are stateful, we proxy those connections). Because of this
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
I used past tense for a reason ;)
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
I never saw the point in Diataxis, but honestly while vibe coding it's pretty convenient to tell an LLM "do diataxis" and get decent first pass documentation out of it.
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
Their harness is indeed nice, but we're using it against our own AI Gateway at work. Right now we only expose GPT models on it, but I imagine it's possible to add our own models eventually
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
As far as I understand, no. They're suggesting that smaller context windows are typically cheaper (fewer input tokens over time).
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
I don't like the idea of this using bitcoin. I wonder if it's possible to build this off of regular PKI - certificate transparency logs for instance encode the proof of commitment, while the signature can be an X509 certificate.
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by conradludgate 2mo ago
What I think you're trying to say, but don't seem to be getting across super clearly, is that this standard hasn't yet gone through an open third party review
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by conradludgate 3mo ago
I should publish it at some point (it's just a simple bash script), but I made a convenient alias `git bisect-rebase` which helps catch up very old branches. It isn't particularly fast, but it uses bisect to find the first commit
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by conradludgate 3mo ago
I don't immediately follow how Rust breaks the ecosystem. Rust has very good C FFI support and fully supports the default C ABI. It just requires unsafe bindings.
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by conradludgate 3mo ago
Given your performance concerns, I'm imagining you're unlikely to run Zig-Fil in practice, due to the GC overhead?
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by conradludgate 3mo ago
I am 6'7". I regularly have to ask the person in front not to recline on some layouts. I get aisle/exit row seats if possible, but sometimes it's just not possible. For euro city flights there is no premium economy and t
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by conradludgate 3mo ago
Hi, I work on Lakebase (but not on storage), here's how I understand it. For Lakebase and Neon, our architecture needs the caching layer regardless (what we call Pageservers). Performing reads from S3 directly is too slow so we reconst
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by conradludgate 3mo ago
Fearless concurrency has always been regarding data races. There's no fear of undefined behaviour due to a race condition. Rust has never promised to solve race conditions as a whole.
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
How is it a poor choice of words? It might not be "native" UI, but they never claimed as such. I've always felt that native UI on Linux always looks incredibly ugly and I'd much rather use a nicely styled HTML+CSS layout
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
With one Z tile and 2 blanks...
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
300* that could be 100*
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
It can also be encoded as a bloom filter for very fast checks. Then you can defer to the replicated LSMTree that's stored replicated on your local node
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
Glad I've jumped ship to Zed+ACP. I liked the idea of the new agent window view, but it's obviously slop and hasn't had a any polish or care put behind it given the number of bugs I keep seeing. Zed is so much more stable and
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
> I take this to mean they threw a bunch of incoherent bullet points at the AI for it to denoise and render into paragraphs What I generally tend to do is have a long conversation with an LLM for at least 30 minutes, and then have that t
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
Does quicksort explain the mechanics of the algorithm?
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
It was alluded to in the post - contributors turn into maintainers. Someone who contributes has a small but plausible chance of sticking around. For an open source project that isn't a business, that's really the only way to recru
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
Continously saying "FSD will be ready next year" for the last N years
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by conradludgate 4mo ago
This might apply to the AI integrations in Gmail, but someone's own agent setup might have more references saved privately than yours. You can't ask your AI to search through my personal notes.
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by conradludgate 5mo ago
It's a signal, and probably a high success signal in open source slop discovery, but it's more of a correlation than a causation. I've seen lots of changes that bear the co-authored tag that have had a lot of thought behind t

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