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by rtpg 25d ago
I remember finding a test online for "left-right blindness" that had a similar kinda busted vibe. It was literally something where you look at arrows going up/down/left/right and you have to press a thing to match i
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by rtpg 25d ago
I used the lego mindstorms environment (scratch-based) way back. It was quite excellent, along with stuff like Clik n' Play. Basically "event driven" + "blocks so you can't have syntax errors and other silliness&quo
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by rtpg 26d ago
I was thinking about this. Would it be possible for Anubis to have a code gen process that would make every deployment of itself sufficiently unique such that it's "annoying" to work around? I do wonder about the premise as w
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by rtpg 26d ago
I get what you're saying, but I think that in the abstract "here's this thing you can do to cut the annoying traffic down to 1/3rd its previous level" (with the obvious issues to legitimate users of course) feels li
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by rtpg 26d ago
I've told myself if I ever become a teacher I'll do things like make tests out of 250 or something like that, and make sure enough points go around. Ultimately I wouldn't want to punish the students, but at least give them op
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by rtpg 26d ago
Yeah I did the French engineering school exams, I got a looooot of nasty grades in some of the test banks. I was in the American school system up until HS and then moved to France. The _way_ stricter grading compared to what I had in the US
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by rtpg 26d ago
University objectives of making a diverse student body (an objective I basically agree with!) make this tricky and futzy (but not impossible IMO! You can always do something a bit hybrid), but I really feel like if some US university just d
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by rtpg 26d ago
That's the wrong read. It's more that it's easy to understand. "I will give you a 100 dollar bill, please give me a 10,000 yen bill."
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I think the reason some people are complaining about the Suica stuff nowadays is that since... I think 2021 there's been stock shortages so getting a physical Suica involves going to specific places (I think at airports for example?) t
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I mean apart from the uploading of the backup xmpp already lets you do this right? That's my impression at least. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. (The premise in my understanding is that you own example.com and control its D
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by rtpg 1mo ago
> Ideally, I'd like to have me@mydomain.com as my persistent XMPP ID that I can freely migrate across servers just by updating a DNS record without having to worry too much about who is actually hosting the server. The AT protocol d
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by rtpg 1mo ago
to anyone reading this who is thinking of setting up snikket: suffer through setting up prosody. It's a bit futzy but you won't find yourself saying "ah if only I had tried a bit harder" 10x a minute when trying to confi
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I was generally "Matrix feels right" but I read through [0] and other discussions and I think that Matrix's E2E focus + way of duplicating everything just means that it suffers a lot of scalability issues that "plain old
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by rtpg 1mo ago
Bit of a tangent but does anyone have good learning materials on doing things with Emacs Lisp beyond just staring at the source of packages? I have the Mastering Emacs book and read through most of it, which gives me a good idea for some st
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I think Qt is a bit different here because of Qt Quick etc but I've tried using "native" GUI frameworks a lot and ultimately the web DOM model is pretty nice for iterating easily. Querying into the DOM and working off of that
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I'm having a bit of trouble reading this over understanding the case where I would rather the agent update itself, vs having the agent write out tools and then call those tools. I rarely find myself thinking "ah I need the agent i
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by rtpg 1mo ago
OTel has a nice property of working, which sometimes can't be said about vendor stuff. I think the actual APIs kinda smell at the language level, and when Honeycomb decided to lean into otel and deprecate its Python libs I was super sa
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by rtpg 1mo ago
We use victoriametrics, but I believe that's just the collector side of it cuz we also query into it with grafana. Datadog isn't just a collector, but the whole querying UI as well, right?
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by rtpg 1mo ago
Let's say I type "SomeStructure" and haven't imported it, how does rust glancer _not_ end up poking at all the dependencies to figure out where it is, and to import it? In some sense I feel like that example is the canon
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by rtpg 1mo ago
That's fair, at a previous place I worked at we had SFDC integration and there was definitely a lot of restrictions and pain points there. Especially if you're integrating, it's an uphill battle.
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by rtpg 1mo ago
Don't you feel like it's still fairly far ahead of other systems, if you buy into the model? I think there are other systems that kinda get there but SFDC is the only one of these kinds of systems that give you a lot of options on
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I think the real thing is that software for one _business_ is very much in demand (and a bunch of SaaS exists as a release valve for those use cases). And that stuff is hard to get working
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I've been saying it to anyone who cares to listen: Salesforce is basically the biggest "Smalltalk" deployment out there. Super malleable, has a lot of ... decent rules for how to get software out into the world, every environ
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by rtpg 1mo ago
Even just B2B vs B2C is a huge split. Plenty of specialized ERPs in the world that have relatively few "butts in seats" users but have a lot of data to work through. Size of the data, read/write ratio, number of "request
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by rtpg 1mo ago
3 months since the last stable release feels ... alright. The constant promises for a new stable release feels a bit like a self-own. Having said that I would have a bit more confidence in things if release just got back to a normal pace.
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by rtpg 1mo ago
what is the visualisation strategy here? I find post-hoc grouping and plotting in pandas pretty satisfying.
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by rtpg 1mo ago
do you have a snippet of what this looks like in R?
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by rtpg 1mo ago
Pandas and Polars are both a place where I _really_ would love to have some sort of macro subsystem for Python. `pl.col(...)` is a neat trick for slicing, the pandas `df[df["foo"] == "bar"]` thing has always felt a bit o
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by rtpg 1mo ago
The "obvious" one: supply chain chaos due to everyone and their dog spending as much as possible for AI boxen Every investor being full on AI has lead to big corps massively increasing AI spend, instead of "just" hiring
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I love it. I'm gonna indent anyways for clarity! I'm... not a super fan of rhombus' emphasis on metaprogramming beyond supporting the language itself though.

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