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by rented_mule 10mo ago
A few years ago, I moved from San Francisco to a rural area. Smelling weed in SF was not at all unusual. One summer night in the rural area, I smelled it coming through open windows for the first time. I wondered which house it was coming f
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by rented_mule 10mo ago
> Software has been unreliable for over a decade The "over" deserves a lot of emphasis. To this day, I save my code at least once per line that I type because of the daily (sometimes hourly) full machine crashes I experienced
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by rented_mule 10mo ago
It's a little early to say that "Python is shipping" anything related to this. The PEP is still in draft status and it may be modified (as it was three hours ago) or even rejected. The article says it is likely to be accepted
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by rented_mule 10mo ago
> The idea of a linear hierarchy in languages is the true flatlander mindset. 100% this. I think you can replace "languages" in that sentence with many things (employee levels is another big one that is relevant to this forum -
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by rented_mule 11mo ago
I've seen too much of the same. It strikes me that the pattern you describe also matches a lot of AI generated code I see, especially when it's big chunks of generated code. Are we automating this problem and going all-in on the l
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by rented_mule 11mo ago
XML and JSON only started about 5 years apart (1996 vs. 2001). I think XML's adoption was more broad more quickly, so the gap felt a bit longer than that (XML was a core part of my jobs from 1998-2007 and JSON ever since). I think more
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by rented_mule 1y ago
Self-driving cars also require us human drivers to learn new defensive-driving skills. A month or two back, I was driving down a steep one-way, three-lane street in SF, late on a rainy night. I saw a Waymo stopped at the left curb and I mov
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by rented_mule 1y ago
All the school buses near where I live (Sierra Nevada mountains in California) have these - it's cool to watch them lower and start spinning. But chains aren't enough in some common situations around here that locals, including sc
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by rented_mule 1y ago
Not calling it anonymous is an improvement. Before I retired, I read many "anonymous" surveys taken by my reports. Any free-form text in the survey that goes beyond a sentence fragment usually made it obvious who wrote it. At leas
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by rented_mule 1y ago
> This video, to me, seems to deride it. I don't see any derision of the first amendment or of the public square (not sure which you were referring to as "it" in your last sentence). When we exercise our freedom of express
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by rented_mule 1y ago
Isn't it possible for someone to spot a growth opportunity for someone else without they themselves being perfect, or maybe even good, at that thing? I've certainly benefited from useful ideas in my core area of expertise from peo
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by rented_mule 1y ago
> A modern version should, of course, work in a browser, so that there'd be no Python packages to install Now, only uv needs to be installed (two self-contained binaries). Then you can do `uvx magic-wormhole --help` and it will quic
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by rented_mule 1y ago
In addition to languages, there's a Python library called "construct" that's been around for a long time. It uses a declarative style to make it surprisingly easy to make binary parsers and emitters. https://c
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by rented_mule 1y ago
I was just mentioning that any feedback loops have the potential downside of coupling things together in ways that make experiments (and analysis, improvements, etc.) difficult. I used control theory as an example of another type of feedbac
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by rented_mule 1y ago
Agreed. In the case I was describing above, new arms were constantly being introduced (often several times a day for each of hundreds of thousands of scenarios). Manual experiments weren't an option. This also meant we were in a consta
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by rented_mule 1y ago
Yes, this is exactly the kind of scenario I was alluding to. For example, cohorts with very light traffic are likely to get undue benefit as a lot of exploration might be done before the smaller cohort needs to select an arm, so things are
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by rented_mule 1y ago
We employed bandits in a product I worked on. It was selecting which piece of content to show in a certain context, optimizing for clicks. It did a great job, but there were implications that I wish we understood from the start. There was a
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by rented_mule 1y ago
So, for example, Viola / Cesario in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Who needs great literature? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_(Twelfth_Night) And regarding "the other biological sex"... It is no
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by rented_mule 1y ago
> What change was the person who shot him hoping to elicit? I think a difficulty in searching for such answers is assuming that it was a well reasoned decision. I'm not sure how often attempting to take a life is a purely rational d
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by rented_mule 1y ago
An older analog is calculators. My college intro to stats course didn't allow them. We did simple arithmetic by hand and looked up things like roots and logs in tables. I still have my copy of this: https://www.amazon.com&#x
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by rented_mule 1y ago
Many show up on Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=leak+sensor and on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=leak+sensor
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by rented_mule 1y ago
In the 1990s, I was at a startup that had a need for a message queue. The only thing we found at the time was a product from TIBCO that was priced way-way-way out of our reach. IIRC, it didn't even run on PCs, only mainframes and minis
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by rented_mule 1y ago
> And why is pointing out anti-Western agenda posts always met with multiple simultaneous downvotes Maybe because acknowledging flaws in "y" is not necessarily "anti-y"? In fact, it is often "pro-y". I want
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by rented_mule 1y ago
> cell phones have basically filled that area in years ago That doesn't work well in mountainous areas, which are often rural. There are three towers within a couple of miles of my house, but nothing close to line of sight to any of
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by rented_mule 1y ago
Your idea is not too far from marble pixel art machines... https://youtu.be/w1ks0Vy98KI
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by rented_mule 1y ago
For simple string search (i.e., not regular expressions) ripgrep is quite fast. I just generated a simple 20 GB file with 10 random words per line (from /usr/share/dict/words). `rg --count-matches funny` takes about 6 se
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by rented_mule 1y ago
Years later, when all memory of intent is long gone, I'd much rather work on a large code base that errs on the side of too much "throat clearing" than one that errs on the side too little. `sleep 1` tells what was written, w
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by rented_mule 1y ago
It certainly can matter in any scope. `x` or even `delay` will lead to more bugs down the line than `delay_in_milliseconds`. It can be incredibly frustrating to debug why `delay = 1` does not appear to lead to a delay if your first impressi
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by rented_mule 1y ago
100%!!! I have an n305 with the CPU thermally bonded to its small aluminum case with a quiet 80 mm Noctua fan screwed into the fins of the case. The manufacturer on Ali Express said the fan is optional, but it can get to ~85°F in the room w
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by rented_mule 1y ago
There is also marimo. For my use cases it has been a fantastic upgrade from Jupyter. I use it in the style of TFA (notebooks are just Python files). In the notebook UI, you can add packages to the script headers. It's so nice to have m

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