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by jci 11mo ago
My goto for this lately has been ephemeralpg [0] and pgTAP [1]. It’s been pretty great [0] https://github.com/eradman/ephemeralpg [1] https://github.com/theory/pgtap
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by jci 1y ago
Reminds me of Feynman’s Cargo Cult Science speech: https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ravenben/cargocult.html
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by jci 2y ago
Yeah, I’m in the midst of building out something for this. Involves a few pieces, the first is being able to apply the files in the right order https://github.com/joshainglis/topcat Essentially the output of that shoul
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by jci 3y ago
It's been a while since I've used Perplexity, but I've been finding the Kagi Assistant super useful. I'm on the ultimate plan, so I get access to the `Expert` assistant. It's been pretty great. https://he
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by jci 3y ago
I had this momentarily, but then it disappeared after a refresh. Guessing a feature flag got switched on a little too early. Will be interesting to see how it works. Wonder if it will RAG your chat history.
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by jci 3y ago
Guilty as charged… it’s just such a great experience and the incentives align.
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by jci 3y ago
Very happy paying Kagi search and Orion browser user here. Just want to send some general good vibes your way. I really love what you guys are doing, and this just adds to that.
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by jci 3y ago
Can’t speak for SQL _in general_ but in Postgres land pgTAP is wonderful. Invest in writing some factory functions, and you have the ability to write a very expressive test suite. We use Postgres functions to provide a data interface that i
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by jci 3y ago
I think I’m this is a commonly stated fact, but I don’t find it particularly true. Like any other technology, you just need to put in some initial effort to set up your test framework. In the case of PostgreSQL, pgTAP does a great job.
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by jci 4y ago
I asked GPT-4 to give me a prompt to use with it in order to set up a game of tic tac toe and it came up with a similar representation and played successfully. https://pastebin.com/83iZjHuc I'm still blown away that th
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by jci 5y ago
After reading your comment, I went and read this book. Both terrifying and inspiring. Clearly illustrating two extremes, but it’s obvious in which general direction we’d rather veer. And algorithms as bosses isn’t it. Thanks for the recomme