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by spenczar5 1y ago
Isn't the original post about servers? A minimal client doesn't help with server security. I would endorse your idea, though, speaking more broadly! That does sound useful.
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by spenczar5 1y ago
I dont know, arguing that http/2 is safer overall is a... bold claim. It is sufficiently complex that there is no standard implementation in the Python standard library, and even third party library support is all over the place. reque
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by spenczar5 1y ago
Yes, I think that sounds like Warp. Personally, I find warp a bit disorienting, but it is indeed a more integrated approach.
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by spenczar5 1y ago
JITting bytecode VMs really seem fantastic at this. A similar trick works in Avro in Python ( https://journal.spencerwnelson.com/entries/avro.html ). I suppose the insight is that schema documents are programs, just in a
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by spenczar5 1y ago
Uh sir the article is about JavaScript Browser APIS
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by spenczar5 1y ago
That is very impressive - getting the nongravs is a lot of work. Anything published on your integrator and its modifications? One nice feature of ASSIST (from what I remember, its been a while) was that I could add in more perturbers and cr
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by spenczar5 1y ago
Cool to see! I spent a few years working on asteroid orbital dynamics too. What integrator are you using? Do you cover the weird stuff like Yarkovsky effects? That gets important for NEO impact risk, which is what I worked on. Matt Holman&#
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by spenczar5 1y ago
honestly, yes - but MCP includes a really simple 'reflection' endpoint to list the capabilities of an API, with human readable docs on methods and types. That is something that gRPC and OpenAPI and friends have supported as an op
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by spenczar5 1y ago
(December 2024, which somehow feels an eternity ago)
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by spenczar5 1y ago
That's fairly typical. You want a human in the loop for decisions like that.
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by spenczar5 1y ago
The issue is, whats the alternative? People are generally bad at predicting what work will get broad adoption. Carefully elegantly constructing a project that goes nowhere also seems to be a common failure mode; there is a sort of evolution
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by spenczar5 1y ago
Of course, these are awful for a human. But I wonder if they're actually helpful for the LLM when it's reading code. It means each line of behavior is written in two ways: human language and code. Maybe that rosetta stone helps it
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by spenczar5 1y ago
I could have told you in advance it would have been a Finn! Something in Helsinki has been going on for a while in astronomy. They're so much more willing to challenge the norm, and unusually capable with Bayesian statistics and big co
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by spenczar5 1y ago
I want something like this, but I work almost entirely in Go. Am I correct in thinking that this would require a fork of the main Go implementation, in order to make a deterministic (and controllable) goroutine scheduler and network stack?
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by spenczar5 1y ago
Even though it's in your own SQL DB, there's still some sort of layout for the metadata. That's the thing that trino/bigquery/whatever won't understand (yet?). > They solve query parallelism by allowing you
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by spenczar5 1y ago
I agree with everything you said. I just mean that a single node may be slow when processing those parquet files in a complex aggregation, bottlenecked on network IO or CPU or available memory. If the thesis here is that most datasets are s
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by spenczar5 1y ago
What does that mean? In what way does "search and feed" differ from "retrieve and augment?" Those are practically synonyms to me - is it about tool use vs prompt crafting?
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by spenczar5 1y ago
There is a lot to like here, but once metadata is in the novel Ducklake format, it is hard to picture how you can get good query parallelism, which you need for large datasets. Iceberg already is well supported by lots of heavy-duty query e
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by spenczar5 1y ago
Something I have always wondered about is how Nix interacts with my editor and language servers. I use emacs. The emacs LSP mode starts up a language server process for a language like Python or Go. If I use Nix to manage development depend
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by spenczar5 1y ago
Yeah, wouldn't want to rewrite the frontend in a new framework. Good thing the SPA frameworks are so stable and solid; when I choose one I will surely be able to use it for a good, oh, 3 to 6 months.
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Making Tansu Hardware by Hand(bigsandwoodworking.com)
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by spenczar5 2y ago
> That doesn't seem to jive with the way I live vs the literal log fucking cabin they lived in. I propose that different goods have different trajectories. Lighting is better and cheaper than 100 years ago. Boots maybe aren't
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Thanks for writing about this. Is it clear that this is from crawlers, as opposed to dynamic requests triggered by LLM tools, like Claude Code fetching docs on the fly?
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by spenczar5 2y ago
It is importamt to understand the whole cultural picture of this practice: 1. Neighbors and friends are notified in advance. "If you see my daughter and she looks lost, please help her, she is doing an errand." 2. The destination
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by spenczar5 2y ago
As the other posts have said, this isn't the right algorithm. Onesweep and its kin are cool but intimidating. The magic is easier to understand if one looks into the core algorithm: radix sort. A very readable explanation is here: htt
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by spenczar5 2y ago
> It would be great if every decent sized box of screws came with a drill/screw bit appropriately sized for pre-drill and screw This is very common. GRK, Spax, Axis (a local brand to the Seattle area), and many more. Yes, they are b
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by spenczar5 2y ago
I have directly worked with one of these companies on asteroid discovery. Even they would say it does not cash out for decades. But the premise is that as costs improve it becomes fabulously lucrative. These companies are very, very risky.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
The usually cited mineral is iridium. It is exceptionally rare on earth (ninth rarest stable element!) but abundant in asteroids and very useful in alloys and many applications.
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by spenczar5 2y ago
Ooh, I know this one! I worked on historical asteroid observations categorization and precovery for a few years. The MPC has many observations of unidentified moving object candidates. These are called “tracklets” and come from pairs of obs
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by spenczar5 2y ago
An interesting case of that is the stave church builders of Norway. Stave churches are marvelous woodworking achievements, and too many of them sprung up too quickly in the historical record. The current theory is that there were traveling

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