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by pgwhalen 2y ago
This comment is *not* an explanation of why the feature was problematic in its current form, and portraying it that way makes the JDK team look far more political than they actually are. The comment is just explaining why feedback from usag
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by pgwhalen 2y ago
> It often feels like the median Python (or JavaScript for that matter) user has a very different mindset than Rust, Go, C, etc programmers (in my experience, Python programmers also are much less likely to have used other languages exte
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by pgwhalen 2y ago
There is a wide gap between "known to juniors/mid level/low senior programmers" and "interesting enough to post on hacker news," which often surprises people. People can be productive for a long time having no
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by pgwhalen 2y ago
I'm no market data specialist, but that seems like order of magnitude just top-of-book for US equities? The equity options market, at least, is orders of magnitude larger.
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by pgwhalen 2y ago
Why would the number of data points correlate to budget? Perhaps there’s a chance if the business scales with paying users, but that’s unlikely to be true in finance.
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by pgwhalen 2y ago
I disagree, I think the distinction is quite clear.
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by pgwhalen 2y ago
With publishers' brands. This is not about getting Burger King ads in your ChatGPT responses, it's about getting NYT and Ars Technica's content into (and linked from) ChatGPT responses.
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by pgwhalen 2y ago
It doesn’t defeat the problem in theory, but in my experience it does in practice. I’ve never come across an NPE on a nullable reference even in development - it would have to be the result of a really fundamental misunderstanding of the co
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by pgwhalen 2y ago
A more charitable interpretation might be that their goal is to create space for good decisions to be made, and to de-risk those decisions. Unless your mental model of a manager is "person who make decisions," than that is far fro
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
This is much less true for modern Java than it used to be, with records, pattern matching, sealed classes, etc. The trick though is you actually have to use modern Java, which means you need to both be on the right version of Java, and have
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
I like that layers of responsibility theory, and applaud you if you live your life by it. One thing I would amend for myself - I don't think I feel as though I have responsibility to the environment in and of itself. I am an environme
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> It's not a good practice to print stack trace anyway What makes it not a good practice? > you don't need 20 lines of stacktraces I don't _need_ stacktraces, but they are useful to me.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
What do you mean by “this application”? There’s no application here, it’s just a database, right? Or do you mean that LSMs shouldn’t be a foundation for a database?
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
Seriously, this comment has to be satire.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
Seems a bit gauche to link to them, but there are comments all over this thread, including top level ones.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
Some great quotes here. > When people try to set up similar events, say, in Europe, they make them put a tracker on everybody because the government wants to protect you from yourself. But we’ve always done it. They’ll say, “Well, the tr
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> But in all fairness, most of those deep deep threads are just two people trying to get the last word in. So it wasn't a high percentage even before the shift. Yeah, it's worth pointing out that the website you're on has
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
I'm not familiar with ClickHouse materialized views, but the other tech you list (as I roughly understand them) seem more concerned with streaming SQL, which is a related but different end user experience from incrementally refreshed m
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
pg_ivm has a ton of restrictions though (as do other PG incremental view refresh mechanisms, like timescale hypertables). That's why I assume it's not in vanilla postgres: adding the future with so many caveats would not make for
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> I bet you noticed a change on the comments themselves. I guess. Everything on the internet has changed in those 15 years though. It doesn't seem fair to attribute most of that to Reddit the product. There are still plenty of dee
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
What are you referring to? I’ve been a redditor since I was a digg refugee, and I can’t remember any meaningful change to the commenting system since then. Maybe some different sorting mechanisms with different defaults, but that’s about it
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
I am definitely not a rust expert, but as far as I can tell this is just not true? The quote you copied is from the documentation is in the context of creating a string in an unsafe manner. If you're going to include unsafe behavio
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
I have zero evidence, but this seems extremely unlikely. Do you have more than zero evidence?
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> So basically, most people using AWS is definitely people who don't need it to scale. This is what we would expect, right? Surely the huge majority of AWS users are small and wouldn't have the slightest interest in owning&#x2
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> I'd prefer to focus on the idea that we should have more than one "memory-safe" language. The very very large majority of code written today is done so in a memory-safe language. C/C++ is the only mainstream except
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
Does this mean it would take out “loans” from member banks if its insurance fund was exhausted? If so, interesting, I always sort of assumed the money would just come from the treasury at that point.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
What are you referring to in this document? The only reference to "lifetime" is for revocable trust accounts, which obviously is not the kind of FDIC insurance most people are concerned about.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> The TARP bailouts showed all of us that bailing out banks in bad situations does little to help the average citizen anyway. I'm not sure how one can make this conclusion without having known what would have happened if there was n
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
Go's time package seems like one of the bad ones, since it makes the classic mistake of combining zoned and naive times into the same type (arguably it doesn't support naive times at all).
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
People definitely complain about Amazon in real life now, but is criticism of Google search something that actually happens outside of HN? It's not something I've seen.

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