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by nivertech 1y ago
Correct, but that's not how I think about systems. Most problems stem from poor PL semantics[1] and badly designed stdlibs/APIs. For exogenous errors, Let It Crash, and let the layer above deal with it, i.e., Erlang/OTP-styl
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by nivertech 1y ago
With IEEE 754 you can always explicitly check for edge cases. But with exceptions you can’t use SIMD / vectorization.
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by nivertech 1y ago
Why not just to use IEEE 754? > According to the IEEE 754 standard, floating-point division by zero is not an error but results in special values: positive infinity, negative infinity, or Not a Number (NaN). The specific result depends
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by nivertech 1y ago
a/0 = Inf when a>0 a/0 = -Inf when a<0 a/0 = NaN when a=0
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by nivertech 1y ago
Why do you need the call stack at all?
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by nivertech 1y ago
Why do you need exceptions at all? They’re just a different return types in disguise… Also, division by zero should return Inf
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by nivertech 1y ago
aka "loss leader" or "supporting the ecosystem" e.g. VCs invest in startups commercializing open-source foundational/infrastructure projects not only for the financial RoI, but also because it helps their portfolio
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by nivertech 1y ago
I'm not criticizing. I think these 2 apps were experiments. They probably wanted organic downloads only, in order to identify real user needs / find PM/F. Otherwise, it's hard to explain why they wouldn't spend mone
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by nivertech 1y ago
> Both apps have been downloaded just over 1,000 times on the Google Play Store. The company had raised about $20 million in 2020. $20K per free app download?
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by nivertech 1y ago
Can you expand on the RL thing? Just because an agent “lives” in the environment, doesn’t make it RL. It needs a reward function, or even better something like Gym.
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by nivertech 1y ago
Full-time cofounder(s) should have the right to fire other cofounders, at least until a formal board of directors is established The problems start when you fire someone with equity closer to the cliff Anyway, I don't get the original
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by nivertech 1y ago
Maybe a 18-24 months cliff would solve it?
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by nivertech 1y ago
I think it belongs to type, but since they use “auto” it looks standalone and can be confused with the “&” operator. I personally always used * and & as a prefix of the variable name, not as a suffix in the type name, except when us
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by nivertech 1y ago
What’s the easiest way to convert all dataviews in an existing Obsidian vault to Bases?
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by nivertech 1y ago
A. Never The real Q. is “When do you stop learning?” A. When you dangerous enough
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by nivertech 1y ago
There are things we think we know - we all think we know SQL. There are things we know we don’t know - those who realize they don’t know SQL know they need to learn it. And then, there are things we must assume everyone knows - every
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by nivertech 1y ago
Once CC tried to put an MIT license on a proprietary repo It's best to explicitly to disallow things like that in CLAUDE.md
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by nivertech 1y ago
they don't see words, only tokens and even with tokens they don't know how to count them at the LLM completion layer they have to be trained with something like RLHF about word counting at the question answering / instruction
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by nivertech 1y ago
killed by Stripe: +-----------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | Discontinued Offering | Discontinuation Date | Notes | +-
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by nivertech 1y ago
I don't know about ancient philosophers, but for ordinary folks there was no distinction between a religious scholar and a scientist (both were learned men who read books). This still happens today, when many people mix history and gen
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by nivertech 1y ago
Somebody should start “Killed by Stripe - Stripe Graveyard”[1], because this project soon (several years max) will be featured there. —- 1. https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by nivertech 1y ago
I don't think there was a distinction between science, magic and religion (or rather, cults, since there were no organized religions in the modern sense).
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by nivertech 1y ago
Makes sense, except: 1. too many layers and worse DX 2. harder realtime updates
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by nivertech 1y ago
No MCP support?
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by nivertech 1y ago
system_template: str = "You are a helpful assistant that can do anything." anything ? Sounds like an AI Safety issue ;)
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by nivertech 1y ago
The Lobster-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Ocean?
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Task decomposition is the most important aspect of software design and SDLC. Hopefully, your GitHub tickets are large enough, such as covering one vertical scope, one cross-cutting function, or some reactive work such as bug fixing or troub

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