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by default-kramer 3y ago
Reading the open letter, I don't think they are concerned with AI compositions dominating the charts. The open letter mentions "massive quantities of AI-created 'sounds' and 'images' that substantially dilute t
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Yes, people who don't understand SQL databases can easily create "F-" situations. The problem is that people who are great at SQL databases can't do any better than a C+ because that's as good as SQL gets.
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Two links away is the answer: https://github.com/SixArm/usv/tree/main/doc/faq#why-use-cont...
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by default-kramer 3y ago
> Often wondered if that would work at all, but it would have to be secret or if ever found out it would be pilloried for being 'manipulative'. Why would it have to be secret? All major governments do plenty of manipulation, an
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Whether or not a certain religion is "proven false" is generally not a productive question. But many religious people would proudly state that they would continue to hold whatever sacred belief they have even if it were proven wro
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by default-kramer 3y ago
SQL is indeed pretty terrible IMO. Here's my favorite source to trot out when people inevitably disagree: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Yeah, kind of. I have seen Escape From New York but I don't really remember it. I was more aware of the character via the reference/homage in Metal Gear Solid 2. In any case, I don't love the name but the obvious choice (Racq
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by default-kramer 3y ago
You might be interested in my attempt: https://docs.racket-lang.org/plisqin/Nullability.html I think it handles all the 3VL problems I've encountered in SQL, but that doesn't mean it handles all possible 3VL
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by default-kramer 3y ago
What do you think is incorrect about the code here which produces 1/2 if Monty randomly chooses? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515082
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by default-kramer 3y ago
I disagree. If Monty always reveals a goat, there is no tension. You know exactly what is going to happen. Maybe it could be used a way to pad the running time of the show, but it would not add tension. "Coming up next: Monty reveals w
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by default-kramer 3y ago
I had a similar thought when C# introduced async/await. "Why all this complexity? What was wrong with good old fashioned blocking calls?" I don't know the answer, but I would like to. I think it has to do with the limit
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by default-kramer 3y ago
> easy way to enforce modularity and does not require the strict discipline required in a monolith In my experience, microservices require more discipline than monoliths. If you do a microservice architecture without discipline you end
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Having fewer bricks could be considered a feature. There are definitely situations in which more constraints can increase creativity and happiness. For a long time, I preferred Dragon Quest Builders 1 (a Minecraft-style game) over its seque
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by default-kramer 3y ago
First the authors show that for certain use cases, a single query is not ideal. Either the result set will be larger than it needs to be, or it will have to use something like ARRAY_AGG which "discard[s] all schema and relational infor
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by default-kramer 3y ago
I don't remember the exact quote, but I saw a talk where he said something like "People want big/verbose/explicit syntax for the languages features they don't understand, and small/terse/implicit syntax fo
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by default-kramer 3y ago
But the 2400 blunders the queen in the opening for seemingly no reason? Then Magnus gives it back to be nice? I don't know what's going on there, maybe they're both hammered.
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Of course I enjoy leveling up and choosing skills and exploring dungeons, but plenty of games implement those same mechanics at least as well as DQ. For me, the distinguishing feature of the Dragon Quest franchise (today*) is its charm: The
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by default-kramer 3y ago
I guess I was assuming the LLM would be wrapped into some larger goal-seeky thing. Explaining the goal seems like the easy part; it could be as simple as "Make it possible for execution to reach this function."
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Very cool. I wonder if this kind of work is something that LLMs will be good at someday. (Has anyone trained an LLM on machine code yet?) Is it reasonable to hope that 20 years from now you'll be able to say "Hey CodeGPT, this bin
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by default-kramer 3y ago
A sibling comment mentions why this isn't likely (half of them are still sitting in storage). But I love this theory anyway - with some more creative liberties, you could write a script to rival The Big Lebowski!
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by default-kramer 3y ago
You're right. And I realize I can't answer the question. But I wonder how much it matters? If a colleague and I disagree on whether some authorization logic counts as business logic or not, what is at stake?
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Yeah that kind of stuff can definitely scare people away. I don't know what a monad is and I've stopped pretending to care. For me immutability and pure functions are the only important concepts; everything else is a bridge too fa
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by default-kramer 3y ago
I mostly agree with you. But I'd guess that at least 10 of those 100 developers might say something like "business logic belongs in framework-agnostic pure functions, unless you have a good reason not to." And many of the rem
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by default-kramer 3y ago
I guess I've been lucky to work for companies that don't try to squeeze their developers so much. In my career, there has usually been time available to do things "the right way" (up to reasonable constraints of course).
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by default-kramer 3y ago
From the article > I routinely come across developers who are the real deal: they’re conscientious and judicious in an unwavering way. They set a standard for themselves and do not compromise on it. Whether that’s a deliberate thing or w
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by default-kramer 3y ago
"ERROR: Mono: Core API hash mismatch." is a strong clue that it's using C# instead of GDScript. (I was on the lookout because the same error appears in my own game. Apparently it's benign.)
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Early in my career, I just moved the mouse to my left hand and kept everything else the same. It was super easy to get used to and easy to replicate whenever I have to use some shared workstation.
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Using FQL instead of SQL seems to be a pretty big difference too.
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by default-kramer 3y ago
> Strictly speaking, this system is defined only for notated music. We cannot identify the interval between two notes just by listening. However, there are a set of common conventions for notating music that typically make it possible to
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by default-kramer 3y ago
Interesting stuff. Did HSTS seem out of place to anyone else? Not that it's not important, but compared to the rest of them, it hardly seems like it "changed everything." And from the gut, I'd guess that CORS has done mo

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