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by jvz 3y ago
I'm evaluating Flow for CDC. Do you support logical decoding messages from `pg_logical_emit_message`? This would allow us to add audit metadata[^1]. [^1]: https://www.infoq.com/articles/wonders-of-postgres-logical-
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by jvz 4y ago
Goodhart's Law in action. Any "product quality" metric will be gamed to the point of uselessness as soon as it gains traction. In other words, services like this one can only work as long as nobody knows about them. The only
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by jvz 6y ago
Looks interesting; thanks for writing this! Does it support nested structs? Sometimes that's more natural than a flat struct.
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by jvz 8y ago
I was intrigued, but after visiting your website I'm ambivalent. The only way to truly combat shilling is to fully embrace a model where each person sees reviews only from their own personal network of sources— this drastically reduc
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by jvz 8y ago
No metric can escape gaming when you apply it to rational actors (Campbell's Law / Goodhart's Law). Blind devotion to metrics is just as bad as no metrics at all.
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by jvz 8y ago
Have you evaluated compression algorithms that support custom dictionaries, like zstd? You could generate a compression dictionary for each domain, or just for those above a certain size.
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by jvz 8y ago
Why not increase the minimum font size instead?
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by jvz 8y ago
Reviews on sites like Amazon or Yelp are a monoculture: everyone sees the same set of reviews and the same ratings. This creates leverage that makes it worthwhile for shills to spend large amounts of effort "infecting" those sites
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by jvz 8y ago
Fake reviews can be seen as an instance of Goodhart's law, where the metric is the rating or score of the business. Initially those ratings may have high correlation with something real, let's say the "quality" of the bu
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by jvz 8y ago
Images are inherently visual, and they seem to have more irreducible complexity than music. Music has a lot of structure and repetition that seems like it could benefit from abstraction (as Chris Ford demonstrates with some Bach in this ent
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by jvz 8y ago
Are you familiar with Overtone[1]? I'm no musician, but as a developer I'd think building your own musical abstractions via code would be better than any visual IDE. [1] http://overtone.github.io/
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by jvz 9y ago
> IIRC this project Gets to 120 when you drag your mouse What causes that kind of thing? I've noticed stuff like that while playing video in mpv sometimes (despite my Mac being easily fast enough to play the video) and it just baffl
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by jvz 9y ago
Do you encrypt your keys before exporting? How do you ensure you'll remember the passphrase, if so?
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by jvz 10y ago
I'd love to see a kind of reverse-DNS-style tagging system, so that when my browser comes across a dat:// link it can automatically show me that this content is commonly tagged as "book, Fahrenheit 451" or such.
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by jvz 10y ago
The problem is that none of that is apparent to an outsider . You can tell developers that filing radars is important until you're blue in the face, but as long as dealing with Radar from the outside is functionally identical to talki
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by jvz 10y ago
It's not a question of "should". You can't beat the market. You can fight it, but you will lose. And so will your customers, most likely.
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by jvz 11y ago
There's a fundamental difference between physical property and intellectual "property": an owner of the former can conceivably hire guards to protect or restrict access to that property, since physical objects are generally l
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by jvz 11y ago
Thanks, though I'm still getting authentication errors. I don't want to use the JS library since I'm not working in Javascript. I'd kill for a working code sample, in any language. I tried looking at the JS source, but i
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by jvz 11y ago
By coincidence, I was trying to test out this exact thing yesterday and was having trouble with authentication. Does anyone know what they mean by "ISO8601" in their instructions for building an HTTP API request[1]? AFAIK there ar
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by jvz 11y ago
Even in a (totally unrealistic) scenario where N dollars are "useless" to you, but N+1 get you something of great value, it's not true that the (N+1)th dollar has greater marginal utility than any of the other N dollars, beca
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by jvz 11y ago
> The lack of types mean you require extensive use of macros for advanced functionality. Could you elaborate?