maxbond

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by maxbond 2y ago
I don't really understand what you're getting at. No language should provide a package manager? All languages should use the same package manager? That seems unnecessarily constrained and coupled. This is all so vague, and that co
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by maxbond 2y ago
Alright. I can see how that might be confusing. To my eye, they are linking to that page because it documents how they intend to approach releases and editions. Not to indicate that they expect the pace of change to monotonically increase i
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by maxbond 2y ago
You're quoting a post from 2014, before Rust released 1.0 . Of course the pace of changes was going to accelerate. I don't think it's fair to present that as if it were a current forward-looking statement from the Rust proje
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by maxbond 2y ago
Is there reason to believe that language package managers are universally destined to decline in quality rather than, for instance, that we've made progress one bad package manager at a time? I also don't see reason to declare npm
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by maxbond 2y ago
For sure. Done is better than perfect and iteration is a great strategy. I wouldn't have made this criticism if I'd realized you agonized over it.
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by maxbond 2y ago
Dr. Hipp is one of my heroes. He seems to labor quietly in semi obscurity for decades, and at the end of it he's produced some amazing software. I was tickled by the curfuffle over his use of a set of guidelines for living in a Christi
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by maxbond 2y ago
I've met some employers who dangle these sorts of things in front of people, probably telling themselves that they are being sincere, but when the time comes to deliver there's always a new goalpost. They have the same motivation
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by maxbond 2y ago
Cool stuff! You might consider an alternative to screenshots for tables. There are a few problems with this strategy. Most significantly, it's inaccessible to the visually impaired - they're hearing your description of the data wi
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by maxbond 2y ago
My interpretation is that it's related to modulate. Like how you might modulate the volume to reduce it (without muting it), "X is true modulo Y" means that Y makes X less true (but not untrue). I didn't find any evide
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by maxbond 2y ago
This is better than the usual story, where a company abandons a product and the units are sent to the landfill. Kudos to Amazon.
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by maxbond 2y ago
We "couldn't progress before science" but developed metallurgy, mining, sailing, astronomy, democracy, ... well before the enlightenment and the development of the scientific method? Heck, we domesticated plants and animals b
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by maxbond 2y ago
I'm aware of no process by which I would have been destroyed and recreated in my sleep, and I actually take my memories and meat tube to be rather strong evidence, so I take the simpler assumption that I persisted. If I receive evidenc
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by maxbond 2y ago
Let's not swallow a cat to chase a fly. I'm sure LLMs could help police by for instance, providing a semantic search capability in a document retrieval system. I could see that working a lot better than fuzzy search in some cases
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by maxbond 2y ago
I don't think an LLM will fix the problem of a police officer who only enforces the law at their leisure. For all we know, the thief was their nephew or an informant, and the officer was deliberately protecting them.
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by maxbond 2y ago
> tinygrad IS brat. pytorch but it's minimal so it's not
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by maxbond 2y ago
Poking at the documentation, they're only recompiled when the schema changes or ANALYZE has been run[1]. So, if you want them recompiled, you can use the optimize PRAGMA[2]. They raise a good point in the docs that in the contexts SQLi
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by maxbond 2y ago
That's an interesting idea. One problem I see is that conventional query planners use statistics to choose the optimal plan, however the data presumably wouldn't be available at compile time. But if you built the database with thi
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by maxbond 2y ago
I mean, they're both excellent languages, but people regularly use frameworks for both (eg Axum for Rust and Fiber for Go), and in Rust you get the excitement of choosing an async runtime. They both have important advantages but this i
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by maxbond 2y ago
This is tangential but I watched an interesting video essay about slot machines recently[1], based on the book Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll, and one of the surprising things Schüll's research turned up in interviews with
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by maxbond 2y ago
I think that framing comes from the article rather than the Aurora researchers (I skimmed some of their papers & didn't see it mentioned), but the article claims: > Indeed, these loud cracking sounds are often attributed to larg
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by maxbond 2y ago
That being why they've been gathering evidence for 25 years, and present multiple lines of evidence from different instruments.
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by maxbond 2y ago
The article explains that this objection was raised by other researchers, but that the sounds were triangulated to a height of about 250 feet (because they are caused by an electrical interaction at the top of an inversion rather than from
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by maxbond 2y ago
Surely the recordings are available somewhere on the web, but here's a short clip I found on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cm97VQobbh4&t=435
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by maxbond 2y ago
> The book is entitled something similar to : "Mushrooms UK: A Guide to Harvesting Safe and Edible Mushrooms." > The book has been removed from sale from the online retailer, ... Emphasis added. I don't know if this is
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by maxbond 2y ago
Which piece of advice is no longer good since the last version of the blog post was published 6 years ago?
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by maxbond 2y ago
> For one, the bays don't look like thermokarsts But they also don't look like craters? They don't look so dissimilar from thermokarsts, but craters really as a rule are circular. > the bays look like they "aim&quo
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by maxbond 2y ago
What do you find disatisfactory about the conventional explanation that the Carolina bays are thermokarsts? On a smell test level, here's a picture of a thermokarsts: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons&
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by maxbond 2y ago
> Am I getting crypto advice that will keep my data safe for 30+ years, if the advice changes every 3 years? If you drill into the details a lot of things haven't changed. Eg, the key size and HMAC recommendations go back to the ori
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by maxbond 2y ago
This website design is absurd and I love it. It works really well as a document but the skeumorph of it being a physical periodic table with samples that's also a wooden desk gets so disconnected from a physical metaphor as you drill i
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by maxbond 2y ago
Poking around I found this video, where a university professor demonstrates the principle with a snow globe (containing virtually the same beads) and a strontium 90 source. https://youtube.com/watch?v=3kHfXntPMoI I think th

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