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by lanstin 2mo ago
DuckDB is modern but written in C++ and crashes in production more than SQLite, which is old and it doesn’t really crash. you have to build in resilience to use DuckDb.
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by lanstin 2mo ago
https://paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by lanstin 2mo ago
The old ones are so ingrained it seems hard to imagine they were new at one point. But generally, assembly, top down programming (structured functions, modular hierarchies, no goto), bottom up programming (easiest to feel in Lisp or Python,
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by lanstin 2mo ago
My son works in a place where this happens pretty regularly, and it actually increases his job security to clean it up.
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by lanstin 2mo ago
I rewrote a very slow backup lambda from Python, which I know well, to Scala, which I have done like three sections of the intro to scala exercises, in about 4 hours, totally vibe coding, but I know enough to skim it and see it is doing thi
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by lanstin 2mo ago
To be happy as you age, you have to embrace being a clueless newbie. Some people seem very pessimistic that there is a method of creating networked software systems in a high quality way with LLMs, but it seems no different from many other
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by lanstin 2mo ago
Like the old joke: The axiom of choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn's lemma? But can you do stats without measure theory? Normal distribution in the limit and all that? The
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by lanstin 2mo ago
Sqrt(2) “any unit that is an integral multiple of the shortest interval”. But it would get complicated, for any given allowable velocity and allowable length, you’d get more lengths from Lorentzian contraction. There are really a couple of
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by lanstin 2mo ago
I would never be chosen as an astronaut, but I have certainly had long periods of time doing difficult unrewarding and unrecognized work because I believed in the ends - as a stay at home parent, as a child that was being sexually and physi
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by lanstin 2mo ago
Skylab third (longest) mission the astronauts went on strike at one point. Just started ding solar research till NASA put in some flexibility.
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by lanstin 2mo ago
Wow, I would sign up instantly for such a voyage to Mars. I am probably too old but knowing why you are engaged in a heroic task makes one happy to tolerate all kinds of problems. Sure they might get a bit twitchy but gonna stay basically g
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by lanstin 2mo ago
There is no observer in realization. Dissociation is having your self be separated from reality. Safe from the trauma, but not whole. Mystic union is more like having seeing the boundaries between self and other as illusory, and fully exper
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by lanstin 2mo ago
As is so often the case with biology on earth.
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by lanstin 2mo ago
It ruined my nice quiet job of delivering networks services during the dot com bust; it ruined the ordinary practice of staying employed and moving during the financial crisis; it didn’t hurt as much but wasted a lot of time and energy duri
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by lanstin 2mo ago
Not much in biology is simple. The time scales for this random walk and the ruthless energy budget of organisms makes for pretty crazy re-use of structures and chemicals even at relatively simple things. The time scales and mechanisms of in
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by lanstin 2mo ago
Our sensory experience as wired into our brains include notions of our own body, both physically “where is the leg now and where is it going” and as a sort of monitor of our brain/body state “hunger” “restlessness” “lonely” “need to ta
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by lanstin 2mo ago
It is remarkable. A shame that unregulated business models and giant pools of capital seeking very high returns seem to be distorting (hype cycle, excessive spending that seems untethered to realistic plans, and uncritical roll out prior to
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by lanstin 2mo ago
I always have all these parallel things take a configurable number of worker go routines, then try different numbers and run btop or iostat to see how close I am to being hardware bound. Never had a machine where the limit was anywhere clos
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by lanstin 3mo ago
I certainly hope not. I have built (vibe coded in languages i am expert in) proxies to have carefully and deterministically defined access to our systems, and described access only via these proxies (which do data sanitation as well as sepa
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by lanstin 3mo ago
I had an experience where we were getting some unusual behavior in a new release of a data store (for various reasons main hadn’t been released in quite a while). We gave Claude code the weird symptom details and the git repo and the tags f
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by lanstin 3mo ago
The virtue of writing is it makes it harder to fool yourself that you have all the important links addressed in your construction/argument/proposal.
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by lanstin 3mo ago
Only if it is a very hard text that I have to move slowly thru. For normal reading, no not at all. If I am trying to read something faster than is comfortable, I will periodically emphasize the thing, the idea, behind a key word, so I am mo
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by lanstin 3mo ago
The (or a) current neuroscience models of the brain are that its main job is to predict how the body should be responding in the near future. Obviously a lot more complex network nodes than an LLM, but prediction is clearly tied up with tho
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by lanstin 3mo ago
Have you ever had a professor or mentor walk you through some experiences as a way to help you understand some complex concepts? I guess language is used in that but the ideas are conveyed by the process not the language. And I rather disa
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by lanstin 3mo ago
Some people find a duty to ignore senseless rules. If Debian wants to make the LLM thing good, sue the providers for a billion or two for copyright violation, and join a class action to do some ASCAP style thing routing their money back to
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by lanstin 3mo ago
I have a thing like this - one thing I have found useful is also going up the directory tree to find entire duplicated directories. (So dir hash is hash of the concatenation of the subdirs and the files). I also used go, it excels at just t
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by lanstin 3mo ago
Kind of? It is of central importance at this time.
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by lanstin 3mo ago
Can’t two solid object with equal kinetic energy collide in such a way that most of the energy goes into one of them, giving it a velocity that boosts its orbit while the other one has lower velocity and de-orbits? Or one object explode int
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by lanstin 3mo ago
Shocking that humans are able to exist and not know this is how they work. Or maybe they made up their own purely rational language and I, grounded in the millennia of human culture distilled down thru my childhood, no longer perceive these
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by lanstin 3mo ago
We aren’t specifically designed for anything, perhaps outside of the necessary consequences of having our mental capabilities and existing in an evolutionary context, so we can reason about tigers or integers and can persuade others to lik

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