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by thom 2y ago
Yeah this feels right. It helps with the bits I care about and definitely reduces friction there, but it also breaks through every wall when I’m off the happy path. I had to solve three layers of AWS bullshit yesterday to get back to traini
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by thom 2y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding, you can use workflow_dispatch to avoid having to make useless commits to trigger actions.
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by thom 2y ago
I too enjoyed Unsong, but I've never gone back and reread it because I found the chapter about The Broadcast so haunting.
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by thom 2y ago
Were I to have a religion, it would be following the poor, stressed programmer tasked with creating (on some insane deadline) the universe we inhabit. To fix various performance bugs, he (I like to think he's called Colin) had to imple
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by thom 2y ago
99% of interactions with documentation can be solved by showing 10 lines of code related to a specific use case. Optimise for someone with a problem to solve who doesn’t necessarily want an intimate, long-term philosophical relationship wit
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by thom 2y ago
Exactly my feelings. The CD boxed set, now scratched and basically unplayable, is still one of my prized possessions. I've probably listened to it hundreds of times, often back to back.
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by thom 2y ago
That's Mostly Harmless, and yes, Adams was quite depressed when he wrote it. I still don't hate that ending - I segued in my youth from these books straight into existential philosophy (I was a tiresome bore then and still am, apo
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by thom 2y ago
I consider myself an enormous Douglas Adam’s fan, but I only really enjoy the original radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so I don’t think I can get too uppity about your comment. I’m not sure I’d call it depressing
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by thom 2y ago
10x engineers don’t spend half their lives trying to argue against the existence of 10x engineers to protect their fragile feelings, maybe that’s where the productivity comes from.
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by thom 2y ago
Huh, my kids were playing a version of this on Roblox this week. I assumed it must be some LLM behind it but failed to suggest they try and jailbreak it.
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by thom 2y ago
Lots of tasks involve two different apps (googling a bug while looking at the error, reading a spec while working on the code, being on a call while showing off a document etc). I'm almost always happier with two full monitors, but I u
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by thom 2y ago
Bluey is the West Wing of children's television, a cloying, overbearingly earnest fantasy which nobody shuts up about at dinner parties.
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by thom 2y ago
Could you talk a little more about your D&D usage? This has turned into one of my primary use cases for ChatGPT, cooking up encounters or NPCs with a certain flavour if I don't have time to think something up myself. I've also
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by thom 2y ago
Yep, this is a sneaky great feature. Where previously you’d have a sequential scan unless you put in multiple indexes or a bloom filter, you can now get great performance and easy of maintenance at the same time.
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by thom 2y ago
Worth reading the whole document here instead of making assumptions based on the title. In some ways the authors would recognise almost all current developer tools as integrated environments, even those we consider editors compare to those
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by thom 2y ago
Founders - what would the ideal accelerator (or call it what you like) look like today?
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by thom 2y ago
Can I open a KWord document in a tab though?
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by thom 2y ago
Delighted to discover this kind of breakthrough is based on a gnarly regular expression: https://github.com/Svensson-Lab/pro-hormone-predictor/blob/m...
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by thom 2y ago
In a sense, OLAP is just a series of indexing strategies that takes OLTP data and formats it for particular use cases (sometimes with eventual consistency). Some of these indexing strategies in enterprises today involve building out entire
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by thom 2y ago
Interesting. My personal feeling is that we're slowly headed to a world where we can have our cake and eat it: fast bulk ingestion, fast OLAP, fast OLTP, low latency, all together in the same datastore. I'm hoping we just get to c
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by thom 2y ago
Good on you! Of course even after 40, it's still not the end of the world if you don't get what you're hoping first time, but I hope it goes well.
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by thom 2y ago
It's not clear that enough information really survives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoacoustics
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by thom 2y ago
The true Roko's Basilisk: being subjected to social media scrutiny thousands of years after one's death.
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by thom 2y ago
It's true there were usually pairs of consuls and censors, but there were powerful magistracies that were awarded to individuals, like pontifex maximus and the tribune of the plebs, the former being a lifetime appointment. Either way,
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by thom 2y ago
This is very interesting. I know obsessing over Roman history is seen as somewhat fascist-adjacent, especially emanating from tech spaces, but I keep wanting to run a company along the lines of the Republic’s mixed constitution. No king wit
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by thom 2y ago
Do you have an example? On the face of it I agree that seems like a baffling thing to do.
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by thom 2y ago
I use Integrant to make systems out of components that are tied together at runtime. I have the option of running real versions or mock versions in tests or the REPL, with config drawn from the environment or config files or parameters. I c
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by thom 2y ago
We use IcePanel for a similar functionality but like all diagramming solutions it suffers if you don’t constantly feed it. If you can solve that problem you’re definitely on to something.
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by thom 2y ago
What wall did you hit? I can jump into a Clojure REPL without needing a project or even any files.
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by thom 2y ago
Even if government were like a tech startup, you shouldn’t run it like a stupid one. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

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