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by pnathan 1y ago
This isn't how people really are. People have different presentations for different social contexts. That's typical and normal. For a working example, the social context of the marital bedroom is not the social context of the city
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by pnathan 1y ago
I was a teen in the 90s, in my circles it was Understood that the data was not private. Some of this in any case sounds like the usual "did not grow up in white collar society, got white collar job, got in trouble for violating white c
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by pnathan 1y ago
If it was me, I'd have- at the least - a little routine in the trial-signup logic on the backend which would check the company name and known aliases, and return "not eligible for free, but sales would love to talk! Have a nice da
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by pnathan 1y ago
Apple user software is legitimately awful in a systematic way. Although I like the Chess app. :) Google, interestingly, is much better. I don't know what to say. It's clear that the Internet Ecosystem has a megafauna of Google an
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by pnathan 1y ago
I would absolutely go landline if I had the option of doing so due to work.
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by pnathan 1y ago
This confused me as well. The scripting / engine divide is old and long standing.
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by pnathan 1y ago
Since Python type checking is functionally optional, it implies that somewhere, somehow, someone has opted out, or has used a type checker that differs subtly but unpleasantly from the one you're using. Python's type checker syste
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by pnathan 1y ago
I need to spend some quality time with Coalton. I don't think it's _quite_ what I want, but its in the same key.
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by pnathan 1y ago
Agreed. I had to work in a larger Python codebase after spending a few years with Go and Rust and the drop in logical confidence around the language was remarkable. I have, roughly, sworn off dynamic languages at this point. Although I have
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by pnathan 2y ago
Having grown up on histories and stories from the first half of the 20thC, this headline is unreal to see.
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by pnathan 2y ago
Tolerably modern Nikon lenses have in-lens AF I believe.
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by pnathan 2y ago
Directionally correct. GenAI is - imo - an assistant. Copilot does effectively templating. I can have ChatGPT read an email and check it for tone. Claude can comment on camera kit. Claude does a very nice image recognition for obscure thing
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by pnathan 2y ago
This is always in my mind. Whatever we choose to let the ruler du jour do, what would, let us say, the $hitler be able to do when they come to power through the mischoices of our fellow citizens? After all, history tells us that such people
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by pnathan 2y ago
Screen share or in person are what I think the best ways are. These are not the best options. I do not want AI. The human is the value add. I understand that people won't feel super comfortable with this, and I try not to roast the can
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by pnathan 2y ago
Have you ever used Common Lisp macros? Its absolutely eye poppingly easier.
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by pnathan 2y ago
I think the answer is that in a case when you need that speed, you hoist the stack allocation & zeroing and unsafe that buffer in the loop if need be. Test well. I am a huge Rust fan but also it is actually possible to write correct un
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by pnathan 2y ago
I have moved to this. CI works _fantastic_. Absolute top-notch. Then I have to sort out deployment...
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by pnathan 2y ago
What's your recommendation on how to rapidly learn TLA+? I spent some time staring at references and the UI a few months ago and came away very defeated. But I'd like to actually level up here.
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by pnathan 2y ago
I spent altogether too much time trying to get the Rust otel libs working in a useful and concise way. After a few hours I junked it and went back to a direct use of a jaeger client sending off to the otel collector. there's some gold
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by pnathan 2y ago
The number of manual tweaks required to the approach suggest that it is essentially an ad hoc experimental fitting, rather than a stable theoretical model that can adapt to your time series.
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by pnathan 2y ago
Yeah I looked at that design, but I wanted the palm rests and contours. I don't particularly _want_ an infinitely programmable KB - just enough to have stability.
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by pnathan 2y ago
I am at the keyboard 40-80hr per week. I want a keyboard that is ergonomic and pleasant to use.
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by pnathan 2y ago
My thoughts, as someone who focuses on tools a lot - Ergonomic is a must. Anything not ergonomic should be gently removed from your approach. Mechanical is nice, but relates to how your personal interaction with your tools is. I use Cherr
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by pnathan 2y ago
Heckendorn and Soule were the key profs in the research in the area. One other maybe?. Soule in particular. In 04 I was doing some undergrad research around training neural networks with particle swarms. I wandered off to do this Lisp o
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by pnathan 2y ago
15 or so years ago now - before I worked professionally really - I worked with Common Lisp to create a little toy tool to build, essentially, ASTs and evolve them to achieve a given fitness function. It was a heavily studied topic in the 19
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by pnathan 2y ago
This reads, lightly, like a clinical psychosis situation, presenting a kind of mania with delusion. It can have different diagnoses, of course. As I understand it, there is _almost nothing_ short of medications that will deescalate it. Ther
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by pnathan 2y ago
I can only say that the obvious answer here is to throw effort into supporting & improving Gentoo.
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by pnathan 2y ago
In general I do not find AI a net positive. Other tools seem to do at least as well in general. it can be used if you want the reliability of a random forum poster. which... sure. knock yourself out. sometimes there's gems in that dirt
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by pnathan 2y ago
I've used mill for some Scala projects in the past and I give it 5/5.
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by pnathan 2y ago
Might as well use emacs at that point. :)

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