tomjakubowski

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by tomjakubowski 3mo ago
It may be hard to separate the work and non-work personas of Jarred in particular. I watched an interview with Jarred where the interviewer asked what he liked to do for fun, what were his hobbies outside of work, and so on. His answer was
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by tomjakubowski 3mo ago
Every day we stray further from gopher://
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by tomjakubowski 3mo ago
> into the air void above the ketchup. Somebody at Heinz packaging department should be working on a ketchup syringe.
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by tomjakubowski 3mo ago
> rather than spend a penny of the $87 million in gross profit they were making. PJ's gross profits are much higher than this, in the hundreds of millions, usually over $500M. $87 million is approximately their net income for 20
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Don't know about other systems, but in Ducklake every committed transaction creates a new snapshot. https://ducklake.select/docs/stable/duckdb/usage/snapshots
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
I don't think it's true that distributed and decentralized mean the same thing. A hub and spoke rail system is centralized, but it's still a distributed system, if it has multiple trains running concurrently.* A distributed s
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
In the past 20 years there have been enormous gains in tooling and culture, besides the rise of LLM-assisted coding, which make this task easier now. The task was already easier five years ago than twenty. Don't get me wrong, LLMs can
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
And if you're Andrew Skurka, in peak form, you'll get 15 hours in per day. https://www.keithfoskett.com/the-andrew-skurka-interview/
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
The desire not to leak valuable secrets is a strong argument for supporting local-first developer workflows. If an AI agent exfiltrates the credentials to connect to my local dev Postgres database which stores synthetic data, that's p
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Macintoshes have had mnemonic keyboard shortcuts for inserting en- and em-dashes since forever: option-hyphen and option-shift-hyphen. They've been in my digital repertoire since I first switched to a Mac around 2004.
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Idler Magazine(idler.co.uk)
32 points by tomjakubowski 4mo ago|7 comments
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Much of the population of Australia are from those same groups.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
In downtown LA I routinely spot on-duty police officers, who are usually cruising in large SUVs, texting while driving.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
The most likely way I think you'd catch this in a test would be by accident, running some kind of long-running integration test for other purposes, and then finding the disk gets filled up in CI (or on a developer machine).
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
You can also edit binary distributions of models with means besides changing their weights. See "LLM Neuroanatomy: How I Topped the LLM Leaderboard Without Changing a Single Weight." On the spectrum of: careful engineering--h
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
The community does not abhor use of unsafe. The community abhors bad usage of unsafe: unsafe code should be used only when necessary, and ideally to build safe abstractions.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
This is wrong, demonstrably. There are multiple OS kernels written in Rust (with small amounts of ASM glue, as is required in any kernel project).
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
It'll be fine, don't worry about it: just add a couple more obscure boolean parameters to that reusable function to support your new use case and ship it.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
> In my case, I often use object inheritance. It's a damn cheap way to DRY. However, when people hear "inheritance," they often think "polymorphism." There's a really big difference between the two, but pop
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Reminds me of the Taskmaster interview of Sam Campbell, where (Little) Alex Horne is changing the requirements on his portrait up to the last second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0btgXY_D0
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
For what it's worth: this isn't a PR on mainline WebKit. The PR is on bun's own fork of WebKit (and JSC), which already has a bunch of their own changes.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
From what I've heard there are two main use cases: - People use bun as an all-in-one frontend web bundler. Personally, I just use esbuild (and webpack, if I'm working on a system using its module federation, like Jupyterlab). My
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Here's a trivial docs issue I opened, where I had a similar experience: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/31233 The difference is that the PRs to fix that problem were already open when I created the
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
You can even use DuckDB to query SQLite :^)
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Folks have been beating this drum for as long as I've worked in software, dating to the Hadoop era, and it remains true today. So much of "big data" only appears big because it's poorly stored, or is represented wastefu
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
> But in East Asia, Zen actually emphasizes aimlessness or non‑purposefulness. I cannot recommend the Idler magazine strongly enough. It's outstanding material towards a healthy way of aimless being. https://www.idler.co
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
I use git worktrees pretty heavily in my own workflows (I worked like an AI agent before AI agents made worktrees cool). I like to track my ephemera/utility scripts in git, so what I do is keep a private ephemera repo for those, and t
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
The other thing DuckDB does quite well, and which is out of scope for polars, is its keeping of an absolute zoo of external data sources you can query with SQL from the same database client. It's an excellent data warehousing tool.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Rust itself, at least the early incarnations, was pretty strongly influenced by ML. The first rustcs, before it became self-hosted, were written in Ocaml.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Don't know if Joe Armstrong ever said anything like it, but I would propose naming an Erlang/OTP analogue of Greenspun's tenth rule (the one about C projects containing ad-hoc, buggy implementations of Lisp) for him.

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