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by riwsky 1y ago
Mental model: “everything is a commit”. Commits are commits. Stashes are commits. The working tree is a commit. The index doesn’t exist, because it’s unnecessary. The data model is technically of revisions, which are stable across operation
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Raft Consensus Algorithms(blog.outlandish.claims)
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A case of https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do...
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by riwsky 1y ago
“Permission for concurrency is not an obligation for concurrency. Zig lets you explicitly permit-without-obligation, to support the design of libraries that are polymorphic over a/sync ‘function color’.”
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by riwsky 1y ago
It’s about time.
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“We underpaid you relative to what price you were able to command on the market, and you left, how DARE you!”
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by riwsky 1y ago
Because it’s not about “who can do it”, it’s about “who can do it the best”. It’s the difference between running a marathon (impressive) and winning a marathon (here’s a giant sponsorship check).
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by riwsky 1y ago
Most users of written English are not the Great Authors, though, nor are they writing literature. Hemingway is a much more appropriate model for business communication than is, say, Wallace. Though for attention-grabbing copy, you’d probabl
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by riwsky 1y ago
Anyone optimizing for some specific taste already has an implicit theory of linguistic efficiency. Most writers aren’t optimizing for anything at all, and they have no taste, and their writing is boring, and it wastes my time, and I hate it
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The Jumbotron of the Soul
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by riwsky 1y ago
Ah yes, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, a famously “meet the reader where they are” book
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software capitalists don’t want to commodify software. But their complements do: I could totally see Apple pushing for something like this to make the iPhone more valuable and integrated.
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by riwsky 1y ago
Don’t forget tags! Tags very 2.0, none of this straitjacketed directory-hierarchy-only mentality.
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by riwsky 1y ago
Don’t talk to Opus before it’s had its coffee. Classic high-performer failure mode.
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by riwsky 1y ago
Update: It’s actually been divided into multiple sections; if your code assumes a single section, it will break as of the addition of multibyte characters in Unicode v7.1
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by riwsky 1y ago
I can't even. …Until now.
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by riwsky 1y ago
On the other hand: https://kysely.dev/docs/recipes/excessively-deep-types
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by riwsky 1y ago
Heck, you don't even need to run something like GitLab. Owing to Git's design as a distributed version control system, a "Git server" isn't even really a separate piece of software—it's the same software being
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by riwsky 1y ago
And also, somehow, Fantasian
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by riwsky 1y ago
Like “dead give away” instead of “dead giveaway”?
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by riwsky 1y ago
Hallucinations are kind of the default, like finding hay in a haystack. The leads (needles) people search for are on what causes non-hallucinations.
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by riwsky 2y ago
Running Gemini models, for one.
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by riwsky 2y ago
Oh, that? That’s just Bob. He helps out around the busy season sometimes. Didn’t know this much about his family, though—neat!
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by riwsky 2y ago
They’re not—they’re talking about this guy who replied to yegge: https://x.com/Beirutspring/status/1898689770563260535
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by riwsky 2y ago
Probably!
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In 50% of possible worlds, it’s 100% certain!
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by riwsky 2y ago
“Cogito ergo cogito”?
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by riwsky 2y ago
> the quiet cries of the one to two experienced engineers on the team arguing sprint after sprint that "this doesn't make sense!" “I have five years of Cassandra experience—and I don’t mean the db”
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by riwsky 2y ago
Said the quiet part out loud! Or as we say these days, “transparently exposed the chain of thought tokens”.
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by riwsky 2y ago
"can map A to B, solve B, and use that to solve A" establishes the pre-order A ≤ B; you seem to pronounce "A ≤ B" as "B reduces to A", which indeed lines up with the wikipedia page for preorders in general—&quo

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