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by gwd 3y ago
In context, what is clearly meant is, "If you're just reading and writing full JSON blobs, use `insert ... ($id,$json)`; if you're primarily querying the data, use `insert ... ($id, jsonb($json))`, which will convert the text
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by gwd 3y ago
I'll admit this sounded cool when I first heard about it; but it's actually a lot harder to program if you want to be able to recover from sudden power outages (which would be the main reason for having persistence in the first pl
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by gwd 3y ago
> There's no reason for them to switch. The reason to switch is that once you get over the initial barriers to entry (having to choose which server to join being a lot bigger barrier than most Fediverse activists seem to realize), t
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by gwd 3y ago
> Are you perhaps strongly invested in a particular position on this subject? I'm strongly enough invested in the truth to ask you for references, read them, and engage critically with them. I can honestly say that if I was wrong,
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by gwd 3y ago
From page 72[ed]: > And on the other hand, if Mark received his Gos- pel from Peter, why is it that the other Gospels have more anecdotes about Peter, including for example, Je- sus telling him, “You are Peter the rock, and upon this roc
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by gwd 3y ago
The way I heard the "needle gate" interpretation is: 1. A camel normally is tall, covered in a tarp / saddle, and loads of baggage. 2. To get through the Needle Gate, a camel needs to take off all his baggage, saddle, and tar
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by gwd 3y ago
Can you give me a reference for this? The only evidence I've seen points in the opposite direction; e.g.: - The frequency and granularity of place names mentioned match other documents where we're pretty sure the people actually t
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by gwd 3y ago
The payoff is the same: you do more work up front, but have fewer weird, hard-to-track-down bugs later. Even rust's "?" operator nudges you towards "just pass the error on up", rather than actually thinking about w
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by gwd 3y ago
> And D-K did indeed show a correlation between the two, just not as strong of one as we would expect. Rather, they showed a consistent bias. That's the interesting result. Right, so: 1. If the data were truly random, with no correl
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by gwd 3y ago
> So they really don't deserve the power that money awards them and we can't just blindly believe money to be a proxy for someone's decision making prowess. I think we basically agree on this. The question is whether a fl
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by gwd 3y ago
You're confusing resources they have control over with resources for their own personal utilization . Money is power; not to force someone to do what they don't want to do, but to pay them to do what they're willing t
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by gwd 3y ago
https://archive.is/ku2Ap
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by gwd 3y ago
For those not logged in, Power said the following was "an interesting thread, maybe too speculative": https://nitter.net/scottastevenson/status/172673102286200873...
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Give OpenAI's Board Some Time. The Future of AI Could Hinge on It(newcomer.co)
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by gwd 3y ago
> These concerns are in the hands of voters and their representatives in governments now, and really, they always were. A single private organization was never going to be able to solve the coordination problem of balancing progress in
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by gwd 3y ago
Or potentially a concurrency bug trigger ? "One in 1000 times X takes a bit too long and causes problem Y; I'll make X take minimum 5 seconds so I can trigger Y reliably." Then fixes Y but forgets to remove the delay.
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by gwd 3y ago
You're correct that this "creative re-application of cultural standards", along the lines of Dante / Virgil, is what's going on here. There are some key differences. For one thing, Virgil and everyone who knew him
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by gwd 3y ago
And I was SOOO happy when I heard WhatsApp's business model: Finally, I'M THE CUSTOMER! I gladly signed up for the "free year" and started getting other people to sign up for it... only to have it bought by FB, and nev
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by gwd 3y ago
This is kind of the number I was looking for -- "Cover your own costs: $1/year. Cover yourself and five other people: $5/year." I feel like something pointing out that the costs are around $1/year on signing up, m
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by gwd 3y ago
If anything, using GPT-4 makes a lot of that more efficient. Rather than scrolling through loads of API documentation trying to guess how to do something, writing Python with a "C" accent, I can just read the implementation that
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by gwd 3y ago
Well no, you shouldn't use it for your top-end problems, but your bottom-end problems. Aren't there things that you have to do in your job that really could be done by a junior programmer? Don't you ever have one-off (or on
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by gwd 3y ago
> Like if you just excepted owner-occupied housing you would already have exempted most of the housing stock in the United States. Because the purpose of this isn't really to get money out of owner-occupied housing, but out of indus
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by gwd 3y ago
> The point is that everything is always implicitly on the market at all times. I understand that point; but that's not what GGP said. He explicitly laid out: 1. Government benefiting from "overpricing". But there&#x27
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by gwd 3y ago
These "problems" assume that the "tax value" will actually be similar to the "market value". What's the difference between "0.1% on the declared tax value, you have to sell it for the declared tax va
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by gwd 3y ago
> 1. The first is literally the first example of the article: real/important vulnerability disclosures get confused with beg bounties which dont need to be acted on / are not serious (most of the time). That can cause real harm
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by gwd 3y ago
And to be fair, ChatGPT warned me about all of the potential issues with indexes. I did actually evaluate its suggestions and decided they were probably going to be worth the potential cost; and as I've said in a sibling thread, it wa
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by gwd 3y ago
This is a local SQLite database into which I had slurped a load of information about git commits to do data analysis. If I'd somehow destroyed the database, I would have just created it again.
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by gwd 3y ago
GPT-4 is quite capable of writing function-length sections of code based only on descriptions. Either in a context where you're not sure what the a good approach is (for myself, when writing Javascript for example), or when you know w
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by gwd 3y ago
Memory is so weird... I feel like I saw it in person. But given that the site was started in 2008, and some other details I remember about the talk would indicate that I must have heard it at least a year after it launched, I can't fi
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by gwd 3y ago
I seem to remember a talk I heard a very long time ago, maybe by Joel Splosky? He was saying that he'd observed the "population change" effect in USENET; where argumentative jerks tended to stay and helpful people tended to

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