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by fvdessen 3y ago
That also works with monoliths ... Usually you would make your monolith stateless and distribute the incoming requests / events across many instances that can be spawned / killed depending on volume of requests and health status o
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by fvdessen 3y ago
How the hell does microservices 'auto-heals' ? Do they autogenerate bug fixes and patch themselves ?
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by fvdessen 3y ago
The fact some people think there's little difference between function calls and RPCs is exactly why microservices is such a dangerous idea.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
The thing is they are not harmful, they are valuable above a certain scale. To caricature, monoliths scale with O(n) and microservices O(nlogn). At some point the lines cross and microservices start to get better. The problem is there'
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by fvdessen 3y ago
you can also easily hurry up subtly wrong money math with ints. (overflows, wrong rounding method, etc). So you should not in any case use the default math operators
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by fvdessen 3y ago
There are multiple factors: Doubles can exactly represent all 16 digit ints (IIRC) which is good enough for most use cases, you can catch the out of range cases (as you should do with ints as well) If you use long ints you must track the de
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by fvdessen 3y ago
You can absolutely use doubles for money. Excel does it and so do many other financial tools. There are pros and cons but as long as you do rounding and comparisons correctly it works perfectly fine.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Are shoes a vehicle ?
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by fvdessen 3y ago
I think in most places in the world you can get cataract surgery for free no strings attached
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by fvdessen 3y ago
I think it is perfectly possible and normal to expect men to act decently despite whatever sexual urges they may feel, and the same goes for women.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
This is probably not entirely invalidating the result, but the language samples in the dataset seem to be extremely badly translated from english, with unnatural, verbose and grammatically wrong sentences. That would not help with good toke
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by fvdessen 3y ago
I also think it is interesting to note (for non natives) that they use the interpunct character in their writing, which is used by some french speakers to 'de-gender' french, similar to the usage of the singular 'they' i
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by fvdessen 3y ago
also SWIFT, the NATO HQ, the SHAPE, and most EU institutions
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by fvdessen 3y ago
If you compare an european style SUV with a sedan / station wagon with similar interior volume, you will notice that the SUV is shorter, and thus easier to park, offers better visibility to the driver, feels roomier, and while less aer
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by fvdessen 4y ago
The real continuation couldn't be more different ! I picked an obscure reference (Le Mont Analogue, René Daumal) so It's either not in the training set or it's not picking up on it.
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by fvdessen 4y ago
Second one is actually the official ! It indeed added some literary flair, but this flair does not have such presence in the original french text, as it is a modern and experimental work of literature.
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by fvdessen 4y ago
Well I actually did try a few prompts to get it the best I could ! But none were as good as the official, although all better than my own best could possibly be.
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by fvdessen 4y ago
I was curious so I asked GPT-4 to translate a bit of french literature, here it is, along with the official translation (I'll let you guess which is which) ------- The tale I'm about to unfold commenced with a mysterious handwriti
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by fvdessen 4y ago
You can think like that in the USA or China, but in the rest of the world its quite obvious we’re not winning any races and we know the consequences of not winning them
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by fvdessen 4y ago
Good list but it's It's missing: - "use an new, different and exciting technology for each new project, however small"
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by fvdessen 4y ago
I am in the camp of people who see the current limitations but also see the rate of progress and think those limits may not stand for long. It is yet unclear if it will progress like autonomous driving or like playing go …
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by fvdessen 4y ago
The coworking space where I work took the exact opposite approach. For each new location they hire an artist and let him go wild on the decoration, they have an in-house team of architects to make it happen. It makes for interesting social
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by fvdessen 4y ago
Worst case scenario that i've seen with 'incompetent nice' is when somehow a team was composed of only such people. Nothing they made worked, but because they were all nice it couldn't really be admitted that it was beca
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GPT-4 Can Use Tools, Serve a REST API, Pilot Drones and Drop Grenades(frederic.vanderessen.com)
4 points by fvdessen 4y ago|0 comments
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by fvdessen 4y ago
FWIW GPT-4 gets it completely correct.
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by fvdessen 4y ago
Youd’t think people wouldn’t want to drive under the influence and risk dying in a car crash, but they do ! They also main innocent along the way. That’s why you need regulations.
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by fvdessen 4y ago
Investors are usually not billionaires but either regular people putting money in the stock market for their savings or retirement money, companies looking to expand their assets, state looking to manage some of their funds, etc.
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by fvdessen 4y ago
Then people don't invest in France as much for fear of having their wealth nationalised and invest in neighbouring countries instead. Then the middle class leaves to the better jobs in the neighbouring countries.
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by fvdessen 4y ago
France already has a wealth tax and it is famous for being completely ineffective. Very wealthy people just move away with their wealth to richer countries.
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by fvdessen 4y ago
The guy you replied to didn't advocate to leave people to their own devices but to have a retirement system that is a healthy mix of different sources of revenue / investments rather than 100% from the state.

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