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by gavinray 2y ago
Let's suppose that you and I are non-technical founders of some medium-size software product. If we were to rank the most important factors in choosing how to build our product, I think we may be able to agree that they're likely:
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by gavinray 2y ago
Only on HN will you read someone unironically suggest writing LOB software in Haskell.
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by gavinray 2y ago
"It's not the size that matters, but how you use it."
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by gavinray 2y ago
Org manages spend limits and controls policies on how Copilot behaves. If the org hits their spending limit, you're SOL.
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by gavinray 2y ago
This is the reason.
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Tell HN: Copilot For Business forcibly terminates Copilot Personal subscriptions
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by gavinray 2y ago
Anecdote: My father was a Director at <large telecom company> and then an executive at another. He's spent his entire career in the industry. It's coming up on almost a year unemployed for him, and at this point he's re
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by gavinray 2y ago
FWIW, I have both IH and sleep apnea. The CPAP helped a great amount, but even with CPAP and meds (Solriamfetol for fatigue/sleep inertia, Daridorexant for insomnia) I'm not very energized.
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by gavinray 3y ago
Hypothetically, if one had good reason to believe a certain medication/treatment would work, and has some degree of risk-tolerance, they could acquire said medication online from other countries without trying to convince some doctor w
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by gavinray 3y ago
I was programming Rails during the Heyday. I don't miss it one bit. Yes, you can build things quickly, "rails g scaffold" was quite a tool. But the level of discipline required to keep a large Rails codebase from turning into
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by gavinray 3y ago
Is it "Photo Pea" though? I've always thought it was like "Utopia" but for photos.
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by gavinray 3y ago
> "Rearrange the points on the graph so that no lines cross, and no point is sitting on any of the lines." I do not understand the second part of the statement. Isn't a line nothing but a series of continous points? IE,
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by gavinray 3y ago
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/configuring-npm/package-json#...
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by gavinray 3y ago
In what form does subscribing to the simulation theory imply "higher power"? Oxford defines the term as "a god or divine being." Why is it so absurd to think that there have existed or do exist beings with more intelli
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by gavinray 3y ago
Lets get even more cursed then: CREATE TEMP TABLE temp_results(value int, value_squared int); DO $$ DECLARE r int; BEGIN FOR r IN SELECT generate_series FROM generate_series(1,5) LOOP I
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by gavinray 3y ago
They're incredibly useful -- any time that you want to both: - Reference data from the previous part of the query (the "left-hand side") - Return multiple columns The only way you can achieve it is with LATERAL/CROSS APP
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by gavinray 3y ago
What makes you think that SQL doesn't have "for loops"? Ever heard of LATERAL joins/CROSS APPLY? SELECT loop.value, x.squared FROM generate_series(1,5) AS loop(value) CROSS JOIN LATERAL (SELECT loop.value * loop.
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by gavinray 3y ago
Aren't business models complete bullshit? I've spent a decade in startups, and pitch decks along with projections are more or less riding-the-edge-of-grifting fluff. If it were possible to accurately forecast cost and revenue, the
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by gavinray 3y ago
My experience similarly points to partners or paid acquaintances doing a lot of ghost-chatting.
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by gavinray 3y ago
I would consider myself a very advanced Gradle user. I keep up with experimental/nightly features and best-practices. I have a love-hate relationship with Gradle. I think it's a better alternative to XML (if you keep it declarativ
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by gavinray 3y ago
In my experience, WSL2 works like a dream. I have nothing but good things to say about it. WSL1 was sort of clunky and slow but I feel no difference from using native Linux in WSL2. Plus, the VS Code integration for it is spectacular.
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by gavinray 3y ago
I pay for Jetbrains Ultimate every year, and I've been considering boycotting it. Not because of this AI thing, but because IntelliJ IDEA seems to break more and more things on their WSL + Gradle support every update. I've filed o
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by gavinray 3y ago
Note that you can get a significant speedup by using "restrict" on the pointer in the "sum()" function to tell the compiler that there is no mutation or aliasing happening during the call's lifetime. On Godbolt, wit
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by gavinray 3y ago
I wasn't racist or xenophobic, but I had a lot of spite and a fairly negative world-view due to experiences I had growing up. I had a chip on my shoulder, so to speak.
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by gavinray 3y ago
I had a similar phase myself. Though I still genuinely believe that every person should have a psychedelic experience at least once in their lifetime, as well as a talk-session with close friends while on MDMA. These two things radically sh
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by gavinray 3y ago
> Some people wish for non hallucinogenic 5-HT2A activation and that seems like a bizzarely detached from reality pipe dream. This is actually an area of active research with promising developments, FWIW: https://psyc
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by gavinray 3y ago
This is one thing I really appreciate about your API design in C/Zig -- the mindfulness of being idiomatic to use by passing (possibly nested) designated initializers.
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by gavinray 3y ago
JavaScript has named parameters, in sort of the same way that C has named parameters. Get used to writing your functions using objects for the arguments: function myFunc({ foo, bar }) {} Then you can call function myFunc({ foo: 1
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by gavinray 3y ago
Why jump through hoops with this special systemd fd when you can just create a regular file somewhere and mmap that?
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by gavinray 3y ago
It's a bit wild, but you can use memfd_create to do things like load libraries or binaries, on a filesystem that has no read/write access and noexec enabled. I have been meaning to do a blog post about this, since it doesn&#x2

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