mindwok

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by mindwok 3y ago
I find this attitude entitled. They have never made a profit, and are trying to find a pricing model that allows them to exist as a company while still providing value, which is extremely challenging with an open core model. If you believe
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by mindwok 3y ago
You have pretty much described what Waymo is doing. They use specific, pre-mapped zones only in certain conditions.
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by mindwok 3y ago
I haven't used Workers, but from the article it seems that they were limited to the standard APIs available across browsers and JS runtimes like Express and Deno, so you could use the fetch API or AJAX for things like HTTP, but there w
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by mindwok 3y ago
As a (mostly) layperson, this seems like it could be a very significant paper. What are the odds we see the next few years of machine learning models based on RWKV like we have seen with transformers since the attention is all you need pape
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by mindwok 3y ago
Information on how they trained it nonwithstanding, there’s clearly more than just statistically appropriate words going on because you can ask it to create completely new words based on rules you define and it will happily do it.
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by mindwok 3y ago
Thanks for writing this, it really resonated with me. What 'training & certification' are you referring to?
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by mindwok 3y ago
Low cognitive load, both for developing and writing it. There's very little "debugging the language" instead of "debugging the program" compared to other languages, it's just too simple to do anything too cleve
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by mindwok 4y ago
So did Apple. They were both correct, at the time.
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by mindwok 4y ago
I feel like that would be helpful context at the top of this article, because before knowing this I was pretty confused why a project was publicly questioning a decision it made 3 years ago, whereas with that context it seems this was more
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by mindwok 4y ago
People fearing domesticated plants sounds hilarious to me. Surely this is an exaggeration?
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by mindwok 4y ago
If we're bypassing TCP/IP, does that mean we need to build our own protocol on top of this to achieve the reliability guarantees etc provided by the TCP stack?
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by mindwok 4y ago
IMO K3s (and distros like it) are the future of self managed Kubernetes. The same way Linux distributions brought simplification and sane, opinionated defaults to Linux in an era where compiling your own kernel and throwing user space toget
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by mindwok 4y ago
I’ve landed in the same place. Feels like the more your job interacts with people or the physical world, the safer you are. Everything else is going to undergo a massive paradigm shift.
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by mindwok 4y ago
I think it's a consequence of going public. Enterprise is where the money is at, and public companies have huge amounts of pressure to chase the money. I have a lot of love for GitLab, so I hope the strategy works and they can reinvest
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by mindwok 4y ago
RustPython still uses the GIL. The GIL is not a consequence of technical limitations in the language used for the interpreter, meaning you could also remove the GIL in CPython. But it’s a design decision that makes many things in the interp
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by mindwok 4y ago
What is this actually doing to simulate a 'node'?
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by mindwok 4y ago
Sam Zeloof's new company Atomic Semi might be up your alley: https://twitter.com/atomic_semi
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by mindwok 4y ago
That isn’t the issue. Debian experimental already has 4.4.0, but it won’t make it into Debian unstable and thus Ubuntu for a while. The issue is how frequently Debian and Ubuntu release.
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by mindwok 4y ago
Also skeptical. How would you determine if a business would have succeeded if it had working capital to continue?
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by mindwok 4y ago
This seems like a good trend to me. Do an IPO to satisfy all the early investors, then go private so you can focus on long term growth and avoid most of the horror of being a public company.
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by mindwok 4y ago
Interested in hearing this. I’ve recently switched to SE from being a developer and prior to that more of an SRE role. I changed because I wanted more interaction with customers and to improve my communication skills and make me better alig
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by mindwok 4y ago
Another reason I really like open core, besides the reasons mentioned, is that suggesting and collaborating on features that I'd like is a much better experience through GitHub or GitLab than it is via some terrible support channel whe
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by mindwok 4y ago
They are separate problems and not really comparable, git is a higher level tool. The diffing in git is for humans to compare code, and as such it is actually computed on the fly and not stored anywhere (unless you use git patch). Similarly
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by mindwok 4y ago
I was wondering the same thing. It isn't explicit in the write-up but it's because rsync does not have a native Windows implementation, only rsync under Cygwin, so they developed this to achieve the same thing except it turned out
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by mindwok 4y ago
Can you talk to why you believe this is the most important problem in the world?
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by mindwok 4y ago
I think the main difference is that it forces the acknowledgement of the error at the point of the function call, which is not the case with exceptions.
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by mindwok 4y ago
I should have caveated that it's purely subjective. In my experience, developers write much more reliable and understandable code when they handle errors as values rather than as exceptions.
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by mindwok 4y ago
After working in an SRE-type role on a codebase full of unchecked exceptions, or exceptions that are caught at the wrong levels because programmers just want their code to work - forcing the explicit handling of errors is favourable because
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by mindwok 4y ago
Absolutely agree with you on that front. Go's tedious error checking and manual rewrapping is pretty annoying and I'm sure there's a smarter way to do things waiting to catch on. That being said, I prefer that annoyance over
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by mindwok 4y ago
Exceptions are starting to feel like a legacy programming paradigm to me. Rust & Go have, at least in a practical programming context, shown that errors-as-values has far less footguns and encourages better error handling practices than

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