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by mind-blight 2y ago
I'm usually a +1 for the empathy train and second chances, but it seems like the guy legitimately committed fraud and hasn't taken responsibility for his it his company's actions. There's a big difference between an hone
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by mind-blight 2y ago
Ditto. Whenever I messed up, dang always did a great job listening to my explanation and helping to correct. Honestly, he's more lenient in posts that are negative to YC companies to prevent any chance of favoritism (I've experien
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by mind-blight 2y ago
There is a pedestrian bridge, but the nearest for vehicles is a couple of miles away. There are 3 roads connecting these two parts of the city, but I've had a train cut off all 3, then stop. It must have been there for around an hour.
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by mind-blight 2y ago
I'd really like there to be a study on the secondary impact of long trains. They cut entire towns in half for sometimes 30+ minutes at a time. In Portland, OR, extremely long trains would cut of entire sections of the city, and that&#x
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by mind-blight 2y ago
This seems really cool. I've just been running into scenarios where this kind of durable execution is really helpful. I've been doing basic things with RabbitMQ plus a job server, but there are definitely limitations. I'd lov
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by mind-blight 2y ago
> the depiction of every upset customer being irate because of a personal problem That's the straw man. I don't see anything in the parent comment that implies or expresses that. It says 1. "There will always be a subset o
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by mind-blight 2y ago
Do you know if people have tried distributing execution across multiple machines using Effect? That's one of the big advantages of fully immutable code execution imo, and I'm really interested if anyone has succeeded in leveraging
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by mind-blight 2y ago
That was my first thought too. I thought it was a new web framework at first, then an ETL pipeline library. It took me about 5 pages of reading before I found an actual description, and I only knew what it was trying to accomplish from the
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by mind-blight 2y ago
Just reading the docs, but it looks like it forces these errors into compile-time checks instead of runtime checks. It makes you a lot more confident that code that compiles with run correctly and without error. Seems like it's mostly
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by mind-blight 2y ago
Please don't straw man. Nothing in OP's comment said they're against fixing issues. But they - correctly - pointed out that you won't be able to completely eliminate abusive callers even if you're fixing issues. The
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by mind-blight 2y ago
We're using PG vector alongside our other dat. It's has pros and cons. I've found checking to be really slow, so we don't index vectors. We just make sure the query filters down on a small enough subset where a direct co
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by mind-blight 2y ago
Back in 2018, Chrome released an update that automatically logged users into the browser if they'd logged into a google. It was done silently and automatically, and it was a pain to log out of. They faced a ton of backlash ( https:&#x2
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by mind-blight 2y ago
I've been using Firefox since Chrome forced users to sign in to the browser with their Google account, and I'm quite happy. The only time it's a problem is when a site detects Firefox and won't display unlocked your usin
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by mind-blight 2y ago
A similar case for me has been processing large files. It's really nice to be able to scale up the memory of the file processing server when there are large files being processed, they scale it back down for normal usage
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by mind-blight 2y ago
Is it just me, or is vector search not particularly good? It seems like magic at first, but then you start rubbing into a bunch of issues: 1. Too much data within a single vector (often even just a few sentences) makes it so that most vecto
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by mind-blight 2y ago
I've of the best essays I've read explaining this kind of phenomenon is The Tyranny of Structurelessness ( https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm ). It's a critique from a feminist in the 70s account
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by mind-blight 2y ago
The Django code base is excellent. I learned a ton early on by reading through it
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by mind-blight 2y ago
Super cool! I was looking at the self hosted quickstart, and it looks like Docker compare installs both hatchet and RabitMQ. Does hatchet use rabbit alongside Postgres?
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by mind-blight 2y ago
I'm still not sure what point your trying to make. Are you arguing that the US is a republic but not a democracy? That it's controlled by corporations and therefore shouldn't be called a democracy? That first past the post vo
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by mind-blight 2y ago
There's an excellent essay on Anarchy Unbound about this. It analyses inter-group transactions and methods to not be cheated. Essentially, cheaters are defined as people who discount future transactions as 0. Therefore, I've easy
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by mind-blight 2y ago
Even worse, named entities vary from organization to organization. We have a client who uses a product called "Time". It's software time management. For that customer's documentation, time should be close to "produc
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by mind-blight 2y ago
I suspect the biggest difference is the input data. Embeddings are great over datasets that look like FAQs and QA docs, or data that conceptually fits into very small chunks (tweets, some product reviews, etc). It does very badly over diver
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by mind-blight 3y ago
Unless your using database specific features. One of the biggest advantages for Postgres is how incredible the ecosystem is. It doesn't work for everything, but I have an OEM, multiple kinds of text search (vector, inverted indexes, tr
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by mind-blight 3y ago
One thing I've noticed with pdfminer is that it can have horrible load times for some PDFs. I've seen 20 page PDFs take upwards of 45 seconds due to layout analysis. It's anaysis engine is also decent, but it takes newlines i
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by mind-blight 3y ago
I can't find it now, but someone actually built that for SQL in Typescript as an experiment. The problem folks run into is IDE and compiler performance. These sorts of features are what make your system turing complete, so they start s
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by mind-blight 3y ago
What Typescript infrastructure code are you using? I'm looking for alternatives to TF, so if love to know what's working for people
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by mind-blight 3y ago
Congrats Myles! Super excited that you all have finally open sourced! I'm gonna start moving my Jupyter notebooks over to this asap. I love that it's all just .py files. Have you had anyone use Marimo to write production web app c
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by mind-blight 3y ago
I've been doing web development for about 20 years, and have the opposite reaction. I started web development with Flash (dark times), jQuery, and/or Django. I love that people are pushing back on the SPA architecture everywhere (
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by mind-blight 3y ago
You might be thinking about about done cats and dogs can tell an earthquake is coming a minute or two before it hits. That's not as much remembering the future as it likely is having a sense that we don't. But, it can feel like it
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by mind-blight 3y ago
A lot of this complexity is historical. English has a number of languages with wildly different roots in it (Germanic and Latin). One example: why do we call the animal a pig, but the meat pork? Because when William the conqueror was French

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