rtpg

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by rtpg 4mo ago
The distinction here is on application vs library, IMO. I basically agree that applications, as a default, `==`'ing everything makes sense. For libraries, having loose bounds might mean that users upgrade and hit issues due to a lack o
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by rtpg 4mo ago
Makes sense, yeah.
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by rtpg 4mo ago
> no way to delete an account you create In here it sounds like this is a client to a third party service. Mail.app and Thunderbird don't have buttons to delete my Gmail account I do agree all of this seems basically like "sure
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by rtpg 4mo ago
what is the value of an "update or insert" call on `Map`? is that not just set? `getOrInsert` here seems to be the Python "set_default" method on dicts, which is very useful at avoiding tedium in some basic data munging
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by rtpg 4mo ago
There's something quite illuminating with this first "horror", where they basically say "it's OK to report wrong answers, because you can check the answers". I don't think I've ever felt like it'
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by rtpg 5mo ago
Global styling done messily can override local styling. It’s the hardest kind of problem to reason about! I do think that stuff like bootstrap is generally good at avoiding this but it only takes a handful of improperly scoped high level CS
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by rtpg 5mo ago
I think it's obvious that multi terabyte repos are not the norm.
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by rtpg 5mo ago
what are token speeds like for frontier models, if that gives a rough idea of how much "slower" slow is?
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by rtpg 5mo ago
int d = foo ? bar() : baz(); I think if anything people have been leaning more and more into expressions over statements, because when everything is an expression you end up being able to walk the gradient of complexity a bit more nicely th
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by rtpg 5mo ago
So with CPython's reference counting, if you're good at not building strong cycles, you really can avoid garbage pressure. It's not even that complicated, it's mostly a question of making a weak reference _somewhere_ alo
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by rtpg 5mo ago
We've been chasing down similar aiohttp client creation issues (liked to ...aiobotocore usage) for months now. It's annoying that somehow talking to S3 etc requires so much churn. We have been trying to cache session objects and t
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by rtpg 5mo ago
What kinda harness do people use with these local models? I am quite happy with the Claude Code permission model and interface in general for coding stuff (For chat-y interfaces I have no real opinion)
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by rtpg 5mo ago
It really isn't if you don't have the right abstractions. Especially for memory management the right and wrong abstractions in Rust can lead to a factor of 5 or 10 extra amount of difficulty. The right memory management abstractio
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by rtpg 5mo ago
I think the big difficulty here is that Rust's ownership model in particular tends to require certain kinds of control flow to avoid a bunch of weird churning/copying, which makes it not as straightforward of a port target from ot
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by rtpg 5mo ago
Increased metadata isn't tool blunting in itself though, even if MacOS uses it for being... annoying is one way of saying it. Provenance information bundled into a file is not the worst idea in the world IMO. We have created/modif
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by rtpg 5mo ago
If airlines stopped offering flights then their loyalty programs would not be useful. Even in this "airlines as point program companies" view of the world, flights don't make money in the same way that electricity going into
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by rtpg 5mo ago
Can we just make a one-pager instead of this nonsense LLM bullet pointed list that is explaining this issue to your pointy-haired CEO instead of to sysadmins who understand the badness in 3 lines? Yeesh
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by rtpg 5mo ago
Clojure allows for that, giving you neat hot reload capabilities when working in Clojurescript. I believe Emacs Lisp works the same way, and allows for fairly fluid debugging sessions. Universal hot reload is really a messy beast though. Fo
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by rtpg 5mo ago
Python is not Lisp, but jumping into a Python REPL in a halfway-run program and poking at the internals easily is _very_ useful as a debugging tool, quickly getting you answers on some messier programs. It's a shame that other scriptin
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by rtpg 5mo ago
The lack of naming seems to indicate a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLM coding agents are successful, and just makes me doubt anything about this project being useful and workable.
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by rtpg 5mo ago
LA proper seems to have a density of 3000/km^2 according to Wikipedia A perhaps more interesting use case is the utsunomiya light rail. Utsunomiya has a density of around 1200/km^2. What they ended up doing was building a new tram
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by rtpg 5mo ago
> California spent 15yrs trying to build a high speed train and failed. It has to be said: even in Japan train projects are multi decade projects. Is Cali HSR stopped? I can imagine it being slow but I wonder if it's 10x slower or &
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by rtpg 5mo ago
I really worry about a bunch of people going over to codeberg. Site's already super slow, but apparently it's quite nice when self-hosted Anyone who is able to just plop a forgejo instance on their own machines... please do that i
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by rtpg 5mo ago
The world-class script munging capabilities and rapid prototyping capabilities of C, combined with the durable performance of your favorite scripting language. A match made in heaven for operational scripts
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by rtpg 5mo ago
you don't have to name your forge after the VCS it's based off of.
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by rtpg 5mo ago
> After a $75 million fundraising round led by U.S. venture firm Benchmark in May 2025, Manus shut its China offices in July, laying off dozens of employees. It then moved its operations to Singapore. The company itself was based in main
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by rtpg 5mo ago
yeah I was thinking of the foil stamping etc... maybe it just looks fancier to me (and hence why they do it I guess??) Japanese paperbacks tend to use dust covers instead. Dunno if that's cheaper or not, but it seems like it.
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by rtpg 5mo ago
> books are cheaper than a Doordash meal or a computer game we buy and never finish. Would the average person really read more books if they were $4.99 instead of $29.95? As a data point I'm reading some series I enjoyed the first 2
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by rtpg 5mo ago
Japan and France to me stand out as places where pop culture-y books are really fairly priced. And both of these are places where there are established printing formats that don't try to make the books huge. Walking around in an Austra
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by rtpg 5mo ago
I legit think this is the biggest danger with velocity-focused usage of these tools. Good patterns are easy to use and (importantly!) work! So the 32nd usage of a good pattern will likely be smooth. The first (and maybe even second) usage o

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