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by nirvdrum 6mo ago
For anyone else unfamiliar with the term: RLHF = Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning_from_hu...
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by nirvdrum 7mo ago
What makes plasma the obvious worse choice? I have a 50” plasma that still looks better than just about any non-OLED TV I’ve seen. I understand price was a concern, but OLED TVs sit in that price category now. The only real downside with th
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by nirvdrum 8mo ago
My experience with small police departments in the US is that they either don’t have the time or the inclination to deal with small property claims. If you’re a business they’ll be there in 10 minutes, but individuals aren’t afforded the sa
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TruffleRuby 33 Is Released(truffleruby.dev)
6 points by nirvdrum 9mo ago|0 comments
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by nirvdrum 9mo ago
It doesn’t have to be like X11. Presumably, it’d be something you could disable if you’d like. It’d be very handy if we had a performant remote desktop option for Linux. I could resume desktop sessions on my workstation from my laptop and I
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by nirvdrum 9mo ago
I'd encourage you to read the HN guidelines, linked in the site footer: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Repeatedly, you've been dismissive and insulting. It's not conducive to productive conv
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by nirvdrum 9mo ago
When the news hit that the entry model was being retired I thought it might not be so bad because there’s probably a deluge of used models available, either because the owner doesn’t really use it or because they upgraded to the OLED. I was
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by nirvdrum 9mo ago
I clean up commits locally as well. But, I really only commit when I think I have something working and then collapse any lint or code formatting commits from there. Sometimes I need to check another branch and am too lazy to set up worktre
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by nirvdrum 9mo ago
> But this would require hand curation? No development proceeds that way, or if it does then I would question whether the person is spending 80% of their day curating PRs unnecessarily. It's not really hand curation if you're d
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by nirvdrum 9mo ago
> Why do you care about the history of a branch? Presumably, a branch is a logical segment of work. Otherwise, just push directly master/trunk/HEAD. It's what people did for a long time with CVS and arguably worked to some
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by nirvdrum 9mo ago
If you’re just committing for your own sake, that workflow sounds productive. I’ve been asked to review PRs with 20+ commits with a “wip” or “.” commit message with the argument: “it’ll be squash merged, so who cares!”. I’m sure that works
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by nirvdrum 9mo ago
Having immutable objects by default isn’t incredibly commonplace outside of functional languages. It certainly isn’t unique to Ruby and seems out of place in a discussion comparing Ruby to Python. Fortunately, you can defensively freeze any
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by nirvdrum 10mo ago
Plaid still rubs me the wrong way. Not selling to 3rd parties is great. But, everyone uses it, so that's still a lot of people getting data I don't necessarily want them to have. If I want to link a bank account to a credit card a
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by nirvdrum 11mo ago
Actual Budget uses SimpleFIN [1] in the US. The integration is pretty good. The big alternative is Plaid and I don't trust them at all. It's a shame we don't have a standard for electronic banking yet. [1] -- https:/&#x
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by nirvdrum 11mo ago
If all you're looking to do is produce a design the quickest way possible, then sure Fusion often wins. Just as there was a time where buying Maya made more sense than using Blender. But, FreeCAD offers other niceties, like being able
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by nirvdrum 11mo ago
Have you tried since the 1.0 release? There were quite a few improvements that were locked behind weekly builds for a long time. AstoCAD[1] might be another option for you. It's basically FreeCAD with a streamlined UI. [1] -- https:&#
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
Maybe it's a local bump, but it sure seems like SQLite has become a fair more popular topic in the Rails world. I wouldn't expect to find it in a HN search tool. SQLite has gone from the little database you might use to boostrap o
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
Ouch. That sounds terrible with or without YAML anchors. GitHub Actions has overall been a great addition, allowing projects to integrate CI directly into their PR process. But, I never understood why it didn't have simpler paths for t
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
That's fair. And I'm not arguing that YAML anchors can never be a problem. I am saying that layering in a whole custom build system to handle a 250 line ci.yml file is not the trade-off I'd make. What I'd hazard to say m
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
Huh? I'm using YAML because that's the language used to configure GitHub Actions. You may not like YAML, and that's fine. But if we collectively had to learn the unique way each project generates their GitHub Actions config,
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
That would be better, but it's an option I already have available to me and it's just not attractive. AFAIK, GitHub Actions requires the config files to be committed. So, now I need to guard against someone making local modificati
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
Oh, for goodness' sake. We know YAML syntax and that's the only part that's relevant here. Pointing out that different software uses different keys for their configuration or even takes different actions for keys that happen
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
Having used CI systems and application frameworks that support YAML anchors for configuration, adding in a programming language would be a massive amount of complexity for very little gain. We're not talking about dozens of locations w
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
You already can set and read variables. The `matrix` section is often used to test against multiple versions of software. Environment variables can be referenced. And the project configuration supports both secrets and variables configured
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
The argument that this is a security issue isn't very well fleshed out either. As far as I can tell, it boils down to his opinion that this makes YAML harder to read and thus less secure. But, the reality is we have to copy & paste
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
> Microsoft/GitHub has no model training. How do you think Copilot works? I'm sure if you used that big, smug brain of yours you'd piece together exactly what I meant. Here's a search query to get the juices flowing:
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
You’re assuming people are self-hosting open source projects on their gut servers. That’s often not the case. Even if it were, GitHub irked a lot of people using their code to train Copilot. I self-host gitea. It took maybe 5 minutes to set
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
I’ve not heard of getstream. Is your service open source and all data easily extracted? This post serves as a cautionary tale about how privately owned walled gardens, no matter how pretty, leave you in a precarious position. I suspect bein
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
Truffle is not part of OpenJDK. It's a separate project and licensed under the Universal Permissive License: https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/truffle . The UPL is an OSI-approved open sour
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by nirvdrum 1y ago
I'm not sure where things fall on your timeline, but in case you missed it, Amazon has their own Java distribution called Corretto. It was first publicly released in 2018: https://downloads.corretto.aws/#/overview

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