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by virgilp 1y ago
As a cache, it is. All you need for a cache (if you're using it correctly, as a cache) is for the replica to be up, which it can be. Azure even gives you out-of-the-box multi-AZ replicated Redis with 99.99% promised uptime (and based o
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by virgilp 1y ago
But that's sort of my point. > using HA-capable systems All the systems mentioned in this discussion are HA-capable (even Redis, for some usecases, is perfectly HA-capable; typically for a distributed lock it isn't appropriate,
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by virgilp 1y ago
TBH I didn't communicate that clearly - my point was not "Redis in particular", but "whatever you already have at hand, for this usecase". Could also be Postgres or another SQL server. 1 etcd pod doesn't give y
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by virgilp 1y ago
Does a truly distributed solution have no additional cost at all? To be honest, for me, in an interview-type situation, if you insist that Redis is the problem in that scenario - you would have failed the interview (the interview is never o
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by virgilp 1y ago
What, you need something truly "internet-scale" to make sure your thousands of clients can hit, sequentially, that one faulty api? Would you really be concerned more about Redis failure rates, than said API's failure rates?
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by virgilp 1y ago
But that's already way better than a physical rubber duck. That was my point.
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by virgilp 1y ago
TBH, I feel like the biggest help Cursor gives me is with understanding large-ish legacy codebases. It's an excellent (& active) "rubber duck". So I'm not sure the argument holds - LLMs don't just write code.
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by virgilp 1y ago
You can define any space as "not crowded" if you narrow it down enough. That was the point really, they entered a crowded space & re-defined it with their offering.
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by virgilp 1y ago
By your own measure, if startups fail 99% of the time, shouldn't one value a $1M equity as $10k bonus? "Zero" does seem extreme, agree with the sentiment that "it's less than you think" but if you get lot of e
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by virgilp 1y ago
> would've been better if I just skipped the GPT quote. I obviously meant the latter - that the comment should've been skipped (i.e. not included) the GPT-generated quote; it was a useful quote for me but I see how other peopl
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by virgilp 1y ago
The problem with consciousness is kinda' the same as the problem with AGI. Trying to prove that someone/something has or does not have consciousness is largely, as a commenter said, the same as debating whether it has or not plipn
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by virgilp 1y ago
> Does that mean those LLMs have gotten consciousness and emotions? No. Is this a belief statement, or a provable one?
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by virgilp 1y ago
Those examples are pretty bad, though. The guard deters thieves by mere presence - just like how an apparently-locked door, even if unlocked, deters more thieves than a wide-open door. The example doctor provides psychological support and r
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by virgilp 1y ago
From my perspective it wasn't a generated comment - the meat of it (though not the most characters typed) was about my realization that BTC has maybe/probably one decade of trading left in it. Kinda' how meindnoch's repl
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by virgilp 1y ago
As a (very good I would say) product manager once told me - the product vision and strategy depends very much on the ability to execute. The market doesn't stand still, and what you _can_ do defines very much what you _should_ do. What
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by virgilp 1y ago
I wasn't using it to prove a point, I was shocked at what it said and trying to find out where it is wrong. But yeah, point taken, my comment's formulation was unfortunate and a bit lazy.
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by virgilp 1y ago
Thank you. While admittedly lazy, I wasn't trying to make a point with "here's what ChatGPT says" - I looked up the economics of BTC for the first time and I was shocked that its demise is built into the protocol (I didn
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by virgilp 1y ago
I've recently been able to use LLM on a large-ish internal project to find a bug. The prompt took the form of "here's the symptoms I observe, and some hypothesis, tell me where the code that handles this case is written"
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by virgilp 1y ago
On one hand, yes; on the other - a human that can produce that level of details in the output would notice that iat & exp are extremely close & the token is very unlikely to be valid. Also, you don't produce an exact number for
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by virgilp 1y ago
I managed to get Perplexity to hallucinate, which was rather hard :) - but this is not a question that acts as a very good "template". The question is "Is this JWT token valid or is it expired/ not valid yet? eyJhbGciOiJ
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by virgilp 1y ago
Indeed the more advanced ones catch this particular one. I could trick phind with "Explain the IEEE 1588-2019 amendments 1588g and i impact on clock synchronization" (g exists, i does not but Phind hallucinates stuff about it). P
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by virgilp 1y ago
In chatgpt, it hallucinates an answer for me, but indeed both Phind & Perplexity identify the problem. It may take a few tries and of course there's no question that's guaranteed to work in getting any LLM-based service to hal
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by virgilp 1y ago
Something like: "Can you explain the key points of the ISO 9002:2023 update and its impact on project management?" (there's no ISO 9002:2023 update but ChatGPT will give you a detailed response)
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by virgilp 1y ago
hacker+news-startup = golfer
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by virgilp 1y ago
I find that structural typing is the most useful thing and unfortunately few languages support it. I'd like a language where: - If I have a class Foo and interface Bar, I should be easily able to pass a Foo where Bar is required, provi
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by virgilp 1y ago
Agreed - the better take is "getting promoted in large tech companies requires marketing" (and even that is only true for the senior roles, in the junior roles, being good at your trade is typically enough to get promoted to &quot
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by virgilp 1y ago
I don't know. I'm 30 years into those 40 and, while I can list plenty of "achievements" ... that's not what got me promoted. There _is_ value in making bosses & grandbosses happy. I don't think it's go
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by virgilp 1y ago
Linkers pretty much map data sections to memory, and in doing so are able to replace symbolic names (like global variables, or goto targets) with numbers. They may also completely drop some things that are not needed (e.g. code/files i
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by virgilp 1y ago
As a general rule, one should presume that they now less about running a business than the people that actually do that. There are exceptions but as with all rules, exceptions don't invalidate the rule. "they should stop" is
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by virgilp 1y ago
> While exp one starts to run longer than millisecond for sizes bigger than number of particles in universe. You don't really know how this works, do you? I can guarantee that thera are more than 1M particles in the universe. And if

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