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by halfcat 1y ago
A service account sounds like one step forward, two steps back. It can limit the scope of accessible vaults, which can help but only if you do the legwork of keeping multiple copies of secrets in separate vaults and managing service account
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by halfcat 1y ago
You also might say ”I don’t remember” , which ranks below remembering, but above making something up.
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by halfcat 1y ago
Mohnish Pabrai said in an interview: “What we are taught is that if you want to start a business, you need to come up with something new, something that hasn't been done before. But the reality is that the world will very easily accep
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by halfcat 1y ago
> My gut feeling is that it's inevitable that we'll eventually just shut out everything that goes smoothly and by the time it doesn't it might be too late. Yes. Productivity accelerates at an exponential rate, right up u
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by halfcat 1y ago
I’ve use Tailwind standalone CLI with non-node projects (Django, etc) and it’s always worked well.
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by halfcat 1y ago
Yes, that’s another good one. I’ve added “AI slop” to the list of low effort red flag phrases people say when they turn their brain off and delegate their thinking to a meme complex. These were from a note on my phone. Originally I heard th
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by halfcat 1y ago
You seem good at using the tools of data. Stick to that. We need more people like you. Don’t let clever phrasing dim your shine. Hanlon’s razor is in that group of things the expert class is supposed to say so the expert class doesn’t use t
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by halfcat 1y ago
> Opening the native keyboard… I think this is the roadblock, that there isn’t always a way to pop open the keyboard programmatically. Rather, the mobile keyboard only pops up when there’s a DOM input element detected. So it would need a
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by halfcat 1y ago
> DearIMGUI can probably already do like 85% of what modern webapps do I’m with you. Main blocker I’ve seen to “just use ImGui for everything” (which I’d love to adopt), is if I run ImGui in WASM the keyboard doesn’t open on mobile. This
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by halfcat 1y ago
SendKeys() in VB powered basically all of the AOL chat bots in the 90’s. It’s how I accidentally learned the Win32 API
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by halfcat 1y ago
> rust does quite literally, everything better > (hopefully) will do it better So, not quite literally everything
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by halfcat 1y ago
There’s egui [0] [1] which, being immediate mode, simplifies state management quite a bit. Runs on Mac, Linux, Windows, Web, and mobile. [0] https://github.com/emilk/egui [1] https://www.egui.rs/
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by halfcat 1y ago
> not wanting to learn how to use it I kind of feel this. I’ll code for days and forget to eat or shower. I love it. Using Claude code is oddly unsatisfying to me. Probably a different skillset, one that doesn’t hit my obsessive tenden
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by halfcat 1y ago
There is some line here. I don’t know if it’s introvert/extrovert but here are my observations. I’ve noticed colleagues who enjoy Claude code are more interested in “just ship it!” (and anecdotally are more extroverted than myself).
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by halfcat 1y ago
I see what you’re doing. Going after that anti-sales dollar. That’s a good market. Very smart.
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by halfcat 1y ago
> I felt like they got stuck after a bit Every AI product that’s not a chatbot
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by halfcat 1y ago
> If you understand the operators That’s the point. In an imperative language if you don’t yet understand (or make a typo, or whatever), you can just print/console.log and find out. I’ve seen junior devs, data analysts, and LLMs s
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by halfcat 1y ago
If the data exists on the client, isn’t it going to be susceptible to compromise no matter what?
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by halfcat 1y ago
> With almost every one carrying smartphones we should be seeing a lot more high resolution videos of these objects. This is a well meaning take but it’s not a good scientific argument. It’s correlation, but doesn’t say which way the a
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by halfcat 1y ago
> What is the return value of boxplotContainer.append("line")? How do I debug it? I don’t know D3, but usually in these chaining approaches it would be something like: boxplotContainer .append("line")
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by halfcat 1y ago
The flip side is, you often don’t know what needs to be reusable until you’ve had some iterations. Wrong abstractions can be way worse, and also gain their own momentum.
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by halfcat 1y ago
In late 2000 or early 2001 I got into CS with some guys in Austin. Our leader knew some other clan’s leader, and we scrimmaged against them every week for a while. I thought I was decent, but, damn…this other clan destroyed us every time. I
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by halfcat 1y ago
In one sense you’re right, but (at least in data projects) the goal is a bit different. We’re often reading not only from SQL databases, but also parquet files, CSV, JSON, APIs, piped input from another process’s STDOUT, and so on. Basical
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by halfcat 1y ago
Pydantic isn’t an ORM, any more than JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse() are an ORM. Pydantic knows nothing of your database. It’s schema-on-read (a great pattern that pydantic is well suited for), or serialization, or validation, but not an
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by halfcat 1y ago
> Engineers should be writing SQL, period. As another commenter wrote: ”If you're doing OLAP…SQL isn't wholly adequate for this, it's hard work to get the SQL right and if there's joins involved it's not hard
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by halfcat 1y ago
If you can get all of your data efficiently (and transactionally consistent) into Kafka, that’s the scenario I mention where you have control of all your systems. Inevitably, even if you achieve this at some point, it never lasts. Your comp
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by halfcat 1y ago
> This is a valid concern, but astral just has an amazing track record. The issue is, track record is not relevant when the next investors take over.
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by halfcat 1y ago
The point is, you can’t do synchronization reliably using any message/event-based approach alone. You always need a reconciliation mechanism, as you’ve correctly noticed. It’s always shocking to me how many FAANG people will say, “we w
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by halfcat 1y ago
> How different are world models from LLMs? Depends if you’re asking about real world models or synthetic AI world models. One of them only exists in species with a long evolutionary history of survivorship (and death) over generations
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by halfcat 1y ago
This is what made Art Bell’s radio show, Coast to Coast AM, so great. Whether he was a believer or not, he was a great storyteller and took a default position of respect and good intent with every caller. If someone claimed to be a time tra

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