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by philbo 2y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0008c5c/raiders-of-th...
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by philbo 2y ago
Just caught the end of a documentary that mentioned this and it blew my mind. ~40k years old, the earliest known statue.
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Lion-Man(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by philbo 2y ago|3 comments
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by philbo 2y ago
> Closing dupes is a feature not a bug Yes, but it's implemented in a user-hostile manner that kills engagement and therefore retention. A friendlier implementation imo, would be for the asker to be shown the duplicated answer(s) in
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by philbo 2y ago
The optimal approach is to ask your question in a public channel . Then all 20 people get to see it at once, they can see if someone else already responded and other people on the team who may have been wondering about something similar al
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London through the ages inspires Civilization VII(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by philbo 2y ago|0 comments
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Biggest iceberg spins in ocean trap(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by philbo 2y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 2y ago
Not sure if anyone from Otherbranch will see this but there's a tiny error in the description part of the coding problem on this page: https://www.otherbranch.com/practice-coding-problem Under step 2, the description s
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A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans(bbc.co.uk)
64 points by philbo 2y ago|101 comments
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by philbo 2y ago
Just as important as chunking strategy, imo, is recombination. After you've picked the highest-scoring chunks from the search matter, how do you glue them back together? Simple concatenation is the obvious way, but I've had better
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'world-changing' solar tech could mean the death of batteries(independent.co.uk)
2 points by philbo 2y ago|2 comments
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Status Games(philbooth.me)
2 points by philbo 2y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 2y ago
I've received a few nasty comments in response to blog posts, both here and on reddit. When it happens I update the post to link to the nasty comment, without judgement, just to shine a light on it. Usually nothing happens but sometime
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by philbo 3y ago
It seems to me that the main difference between chess and startups is that in chess you only have one opponent. The more opponents you have, the more likelihood that not blundering on its own is not sufficient.
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by philbo 3y ago
Related thread on the LA/LV race: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35958673
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The Speed Project Atacama: The rebel race across a desert(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by philbo 3y ago|3 comments
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The art of good code review(philbooth.me)
3 points by philbo 3y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 3y ago
The passage you quote says "across the Americas", so presumably includes both the northern and southern continents.
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Mouse filmed tidying up man's shed every night(bbc.co.uk)
48 points by philbo 3y ago|2 comments
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by philbo 3y ago
> This blue glow has barely entered popular culture. The only two examples I’m aware of are the cinematographic depictions of the Chernobyl disaster, and the ficticious Nuka-Cola Quantum non-alcoholic beverage in the Fallout videogame se
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by philbo 3y ago
pessimifs
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by philbo 3y ago
My favourite technique for tackling dead code is something I saw in a lightning talk at Velocity Conf years ago. I've introduced it at three different companies now, it's worked well in all three places and I'm always surpris
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'Super-shoes', tumbling world records and the race for a sub two-hour marathon(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by philbo 3y ago|1 comments
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by philbo 3y ago
I think a browser makes a GREAT personal project, because there are high-quality, public specifications for the stuff you need to implement. And these things are maintained in the open, you can even go and find meeting minutes if there are
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by philbo 3y ago
I like to have a step zero, that comes even before you try to reproduce the issue: get your head right, essentially. If something's broken in production and the bug is hard to figure out, that often means stress. And stress is not good
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by philbo 3y ago
Getting authorisation right with GraphQL is no different to getting it right with REST, provided you push the checks down into your data access layer. You could do that with e.g. row-level security in Postgres or with something home-baked.
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Vector Search for Dummies(philbooth.me)
1 points by philbo 3y ago|0 comments
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Phosphor is a flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations(phosphoricons.com)
1 points by philbo 3y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 3y ago
Thanks for the tip, I haven't played around with chunk size much at all so far.
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by philbo 3y ago
Thanks! OpenAI embeddings are 1 per request payload, right? Have you hit any rate limits doing that? We have a performance budget of ~1 second for the generate-index-search pipeline, which may or may not be feasible. I discounted OpenAI bec

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