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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
My highlights were the Edward Ashton books « Mickey7 » and « Antimatter Blues » (sequel to the first). Haven’t seen the movie adaptation yet but the books are such delightful dark humor SF, loved them
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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
This should be interesting then: we’ll finally be able to assert whether time is deterministic and the future and past can be modelled/predicted (if you’ve seen the show you know what I mean)
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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
For a minute I was like (spoiler alert) « wow the creepy sci-fi theories from the DEVS tv show is taking place »… then I looked up the video and that’s just video generation at this point
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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
Bighead is back! « Fart Alert »!
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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
Yeah that’s what I do also when I have to (and it can be done, not everytime). But it requires some advanced local testing setup and knowledge to do so, hence my initial remark on this type of developers not being real professionals in the
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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
> As software engineers we… That’s the thing. People exposing such rude behavior usually are not, or haven’t been in a looong time… As for the local testing part not being performed, this is a slippery slope I’m fighting everyday: more a
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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
> I also think it takes a lot of the fun out of the whole thing. I used to say that implementation does not matter, tests should be your main focus. Now I treat every bit of code I wrote with my bare hands like a candy, agents have sucke
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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
Honestly now I only use agents for very narrow surgical scopes to avoid feeling numbed. It removed the fun of actually dreaming and building things
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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
Can we also take into account the mental cost associates with building software? Because how I see it, managing output from agents is way more exhausting than doing it ourself. And obviously the cost of not upskilling in intricate technical
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by rmnclmnt 10mo ago
If only for the initiative driving the work behind delta-rs, I’d say it was well worth it!
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by rmnclmnt 11mo ago
> We don't need AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). We don't need a digital god. We just need software that works. Yeah, I think the days of working software are over (at least deterministically)
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by rmnclmnt 11mo ago
Matches my experience also. Bothered only once to setup a proper CLAUDE.md file, and now never do it. Simply refering to the context properly for surgical recommendations and edit works relatively well. It feels a lot like bikeshedding to m
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by rmnclmnt 11mo ago
> Coding is not fun anymore The thing that made our crowd apart in the work society is now vanishing, that’s sad. I wonder how future movies will depict programmers: depressed faces getting angrier and angrier chatting with a CLI coding
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by rmnclmnt 11mo ago
Your daughter is so lucky! I meaning the physical UX is very reminiscent of teenage engineering, looks great! The more I was scrolling down the article the more I hoped for an « order » button :)
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by rmnclmnt 11mo ago
Until the product manager ask for the bill… then all of a sudden things get reconsidered
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by rmnclmnt 11mo ago
Yes using Python UDFs within Spark pipelines are a hog! That’s because the entire Python context is serialized with cloudpickle and sent over the wire to the executor nodes! (It can represent a few GB of serialized data depending on the UDF
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by rmnclmnt 11mo ago
Currently working on two OSS projects: Laketower: https://github.com/datalpia/laketower A lightweight data lakehouse exploration and management app (web+cli), using DuckDB as the default query engine. It can run locall
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by rmnclmnt 11mo ago
I fear the consequences will be even darker: - Users are confused by autogenerated docs and don’t even want to try using a project because of it - Real curated project documentation is no longer corrected by users feedback (because they nev
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by rmnclmnt 11mo ago
The README explains it: > This separation also avoids the threading and memory-safety limitations that would arise from embedding DuckDB directly inside the Postgres process, which is designed around process isolation rather than multi-t
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
Thank you for your honest and detailed answer! Great to see it’s working so far and this allows you to build a true OSS product in the meantime, i really appreciate that (i think this is the biggest benefit of your licensing scheme)
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
Curious to know more about the commercial licensing scheme for Yaak: if i’ve read correctly, purchasing a pro license if based on « good faith » as the features are exactly the same as the MIT licensed Hobby version? Sincere question, been
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
Yeah this is the kind of thinking opening up new heights when you get it! These type of exercises should be mandatory for all compute intensive related jobs, especially for all data science people (i know some of them know this stuff but th
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
Great article, triggers some memories. When you get to think about branchless programming, especially for SIMD optimizations in the real world, you always learn a lot and it’s as if you get a +1 level on your algorithmic skills. The hardest
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
> Today, AI types most of our code. We think, they type. Rather than diminishing our value, this shift amplifies it as thinkers — especially for those who love architecture This way you get to experience the job of a senior principal sol
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
Agreed. Not what society needs, but what giant corporations and govs need for the society to well behave… (Edit: typos)
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
Ok I’ll bite: putting « only » implies this is not a big deal and a lesser of 2 evils, between an AI model provider harvesting prompts for retraining and a 3rd party hosting provider most probably only storing logs for security and accounta
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
That’s a fun take on a real issue, but… > Your code is only sent to the model provider (OpenAI) When has this become an acceptable « privacy » statement? I feel we are reliving the era of free mobile apps at the expense of harvesting any
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
Share this gem on a team chat, everyone had a good laugh and now everytime we discuss some weird situation, we start speaking as grug brains… Don’t know how I lived without it so far
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
Yeah last time I touched it was during an internship 15 years ago, the few memories I recall were not enjoyment at all (however I was using LaTeX everywhere at the time). Writing documentation as XML is powerful but not enjoyable at all I g
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by rmnclmnt 1y ago
Basically DocBook?

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