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by gopalv 1y ago
UUIDv7 is only bad for range partitioning and privacy concerns. The "naturally sortable" is a good thing for postgres and for most people who want to use UUID, because there is no sorted distribution buckets where the last bucket
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by gopalv 1y ago
> are array languages competitive with something like C or Fortran The REPL is what matters - also while being performant. Someone asks you a question, you write something, you run it and say an answer, the next question is asked etc. I&
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by gopalv 1y ago
> but it claims to be a tutorial. This is, but only for someone who wants to do JIT work without writing assembly code, but can read assembly code back into C (or can automate that part). Instead of doing all manual register allocations
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by gopalv 1y ago
It is a meme, but it's always DNS This error can happen if there's an AAAA record, but it contains the ipv4 address packed inside a ipv6 mask. If the AAAA record says ::ffff:10.0.0.105, then you can either fix DNS or do what'
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by gopalv 1y ago
> would've prevented technically competent leadership from testing customer hostile business decisions? Technically competent doesn't always mean empathetic. The decisions can sometime look like the xkcd cartoon about scientist
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Clearly useful to people who are already competent developers > Utterly useless to people who have no clue what they're doing > the same way that a fighter jet is not useless AI is currently like a bicycle, while we were all
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by gopalv 1y ago
> if you are into load balancing, you might also want to look into the 'power of 2 choices'. You can do that better if you don't use a random number for the hash, instead flip a coin (well, check a bit of the hash of a has
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Is the big win that you can send around custom little vector embedding databases with a built in sandbox? No, this is a compatibility layer for future encoding changes. For example, ORCv2 has never shipped because we tried to bundle al
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Python is never the best language to do it in, but is almost always the second-best language to do it in. I've been writing python from the last century and this year is the first time I'm writing production quality python co
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by gopalv 1y ago
> how big could a potential overlap be between ADHD and autism? The lack of executive function is overlapping, but this particular post might be more of an ADHD simulator. The very first "Follow the morning routine" or not is w
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by gopalv 1y ago
> I have found that I'm remembering more and understanding the code more (shocking). I feel like what I felt with adaptive cruise control. Instead of watching my speed, I was watching traffic flow, watching cars way up ahead instead
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by gopalv 1y ago
> If you judge Postgres without tuning it - that's not Postgres being slow, that's the developer being naive. Didn't OP end by picking Postgres anyway? It's the right answer even for a naive developer, perhaps even mo
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by gopalv 1y ago
> I wrote this article to lament the loss of the curious spark in our developer culture The curiosity hasn't disappeared from the culture, but it might not be brought in to a workplace anymore. I think a lot of us have stopped bring
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by gopalv 1y ago
> is this kind of like “if the answer to your minimization problem is negative infinity, the answer is undefined behavior”? Yes, it picked a valid result and gave up. I got a similar nonsensical result in my run-ins[1] in with SAT solver
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by gopalv 1y ago
> You only read one sentence at a time anyway. Not how I read when I read on paper & this bothers me on a phone a lot. I'm not functionally dyslexic, but all the words pop out at the same time, you could say I read verbs, then t
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by gopalv 1y ago
> because made by AI is becoming a negative label in a world The negative label is the old world pulling the new one back, it rarely sticks. I'm old enough to remember the folks saying "We used to have the paint the background
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by gopalv 1y ago
> get up every morning and hack, it's very hard to empathize with this sentiment Even if you have experienced the joy, it might not always be rewarded & the disillusionment burnout is always a risk. The most bitter folks I'
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by gopalv 1y ago
> for those of you using AI tools more than I am, how do LLMs handle things like API updates? From recent experience, 95% of changes are good and are done in 15 minutes. 5% of changes are made, but break things because the API might hav
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by gopalv 1y ago
> What the heck does "HORN OK PLEASE" mean anyway? I had seen it my whole childhood. I was told that this was the polite honk triplet - the two honk call and one honk response. "honk honk" / "honk" &quo
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by gopalv 1y ago
> What Trick of the Trade took you too long to learn? "Everything worth doing is worth doing badly" And as a corollary, every complex system that works came from a simple system that works. I learned this in programming, but no
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Bluey takes some weight off as you realise (and talk to other parents about Bluey) that some things are just universal and you're possibly doing better than you think. No question, the I can't count the number of times I&#x2
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by gopalv 1y ago
> The movie showcases culture and human nature more than any particular era. Most of my middle management experiences has been between Office Space and Better off Ted. One with "Don't care" as an answer and the other says
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Except that the textbook was probably QA’d by a human for accuracy Maybe it was not when printed in the first edition, but at least it was the same content shown to hundreds of people rather than something uniquely crafted for you. The
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by gopalv 1y ago
As always the YMMV of caching is access patterns, but the more consistent cacheable pattern has been the ext4 journals for me. They are tiny and often hit with a huge number of IOPS. Ext4 supported external journals and moving it to a singl
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by gopalv 1y ago
This is my absolute favourite uv features and the reason I switched to uv. I have a bunch of scripts in my git-hooks which have dependencies which I don't want in my main venv. #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script --python
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by gopalv 1y ago
> who will be able to bring even more of their ideas to life than they would have beforehand. This is the core part of what's changing - the most important people around me used to be "People who know how". We're slow
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Come back in a week and update us on how long you've spent debugging all the ways that the code was broken that you didn't notice in those 15 minutes. I was a non believer for most of 2024. How could such a thing with no unde
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by gopalv 1y ago
> Is aging bad though? Seems like natures way of helping humanity evolve. We're not undoing death, dying healthy would be better than aging the way we do right now. Increasing healthspans as a society would be great in a more family
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by gopalv 1y ago
My favourite part of these research publications from the US Gov is the licensing. All of the USDS work is published with "No Copyright". The SAT filters however still do not support incremental building, which is one of bloom fil
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by gopalv 1y ago
> make it work and make it right? My mentor used say it is the difference between a screw and glue. You can glue some things together and prove that it works, but eventually you learn that anytime you had to break something to fix it, yo

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