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by mypalmike 3y ago
The vast majority of people who want to create something that executes on a computer are not inclined to write in a language that more closely resembles parse trees than it does human language. To many, Lisp is nearly as inscrutable as an i
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Would a central dehumidifier help solve that?
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by mypalmike 3y ago
To be fair, Java didn't have generic types when Juice was announced.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Personally, I think it's worse than 2000. There are so many more actually talented engineers now competing for each job. The dot com boom and bust cycle was famous for people being hired (and then laid off) who had little to no backgro
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Being open source, it shouldn't be too hard to modify to use gpt4all locally, which presents the same API as openai.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
I've been working on implementing this same thing but using gpt4all rather than requiring an API key. I got a bit discouraged when my first few test examples didn't work. One was like, "show me all files less than 3 weeks old
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by mypalmike 3y ago
If you'd left off "not pumpkin", you'd be technically correct. But it's a somewhat nuanced topic. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canned-pumpkin-isnt-actual... [I'll just add one more no
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by mypalmike 3y ago
s/Rust/Go/
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Is this just LLMs trained on Cisco/Juniper/etc configs?
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Yeah it's a nest. Very common mouse behavior here.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
In any online discussion of company sizes, someone must mention the furthest outlier in the history of business.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Presumably they're talking about the recent so-called "demake". https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/now-you-can-play-myst-on-...
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Ok, my lazy use of words. Substitute the word "fad" with "niche". VR found a couple of very specific niches where it brought value. LLMs are already starting to pervade society in both good and bad ways and will likely c
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by mypalmike 3y ago
LLMs are a fad like cellphones are a fad.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Nice to see the name Jim Kurose here. Many years ago, I learned networking and C programming in his computer networks course at UMass. Such a great teacher and a real breakthrough class for me in understanding not just networks, but low le
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by mypalmike 3y ago
I agree, but Ruby folks seem to consider C style transitive inclusion to be a feature. I found it and several other aspects of Ruby to be maddening (and productivity-sapping) for the 1.5 years I spent with an otherwise pretty nice language.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Fastmail and protonmail are both solid email providers. And you can use your own domain name with either of them, reducing future friction if you should need to switch providers later.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
The amount of time needed to restart a fleet (without sacrificing availability) is correlated with excess server capacity. Excess server capacity is not free.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
> fixing their system for taking hosts in and out of service, so that it's extremely robust and reliable would likely pay big dividends in reliability. Facebook hosts can be robustly cycled. Of course. They've been doing this s
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by mypalmike 3y ago
I once worked at a startup that sold a very expensive "enterprise" network appliance that didn't have partitioning. I had worked on network appliances before which did have this capability, so I asked the VP of engineering ab
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by mypalmike 3y ago
The whole purpose of make is the dependency graph.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
It's quite difficult to imagine an experiment that would disprove that the experimenter's experiences are intended solely for them.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
What inconsistencies would you encounter? It would seem that a solipsistic view is trivially consistent. Any phenomenon you experience has a simple explanation : that's how it was designed for you. Conversely, a non-solipsistic view de
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Hi HN. I made a daily word puzzle game where you match letters in a pattern to make words. I've structured it so that the easiest puzzles are on Monday and they get more difficult through the week to Sunday. Scoring is based on time ne
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Show HN: Wordslot, a pattern-matching puzzle game(wordslot.uck.io)
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Many people who struggle with things like mental health, addiction, and general life dysfunction find religion grounding. Religions answer questions about ethics, foundational reality, and other aspects of life that are riddled with ambigui
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by mypalmike 3y ago
You might like his music too, which might be described as harsh guitar-driven industrial punk. I'd start with "The Rich Man's 8 Track Tape" by Big Black.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
> Or rephrased, an atom is mostly [near] empty space. This is fair. But the point is that a model which is fundamentally stochastic is more valid than one where particles are continuously moving through some subset of mostly empty space.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
"More advanced networking" is an understatement given the lack of networking in v0.01.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Not sure why you mention "thread pool executor", which of course does not get you concurrency due to the gil.

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