williamdclt

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by williamdclt 5d ago
well, never heard that! And hate it, as "dub" does not contain (let alone start with) the sound it refers to
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by williamdclt 5d ago
> from spelling you can easily infer pronunciation Usually :) But plenty of cases where you can't, the most common one being silent letters: while you can guess silent letters pretty consistently, some words have unusual silent lett
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by williamdclt 9d ago
Postgres takes the actual values into account when generating a query plan. The same query with different params can (and should) result in different query plans. It looks at statistics on the actual data stored.
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by williamdclt 10d ago
Seamstress is still a thing, and different from a tailor AFAIK (probably a lot of overlap)? I have 2 friends for whom that's their job, and they do refer to themselves as seamstresses
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by williamdclt 10d ago
I don't understand the argument? Seems like you're saying that not having to handle a gear change makes roundabouts better, but that applies to both your manual technique and automatic, so I don't see how Europe would be diff
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by williamdclt 12d ago
I'd guess not-suggestive sexuality-related content, such as sex-ed. Possibly political stuff too?
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by williamdclt 16d ago
> I'm reminded of a quote: "the best camera is the one you have on you." Yeah, I think about that often when deciding on what to buy. It's often "what would I actually use" rather than "have on me"
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by williamdclt 16d ago
> that isn't a change to the definition of the meter How is it not? it's not a change to the actual distance (well, it is for a sufficient precision), but a change to the definition of the metre is exactly what it is. It's
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by williamdclt 17d ago
Just subjectively making it up, but my feeling is that people are not so much against AI in principle as they are against the american-capitalist approach to it: steamroll its rollout everywhere, risk the entire economy (both jobs and stock
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by williamdclt 18d ago
> Go is an amazing AI language for this reason. I'd be interested to hear more about why? because my experience with Go has been the opposite, I found it pretty bad for "making illegal states unrepresentable". In fact, its
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by williamdclt 19d ago
> To this day, I'm not convinced that hardsole shoes that haven't walked through wet messes are substantially dirtier than a damp sock that's been inside a shoe all day long. Absolutely no way. Like, it's not even com
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by williamdclt 22d ago
Not particularly an OOPer, but regardless tou're only making it less clear I'm afraid! "objects" and "methods" instead of what? I'll make an educated guess that you mean "objects and methods" ins
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by williamdclt 22d ago
I have more experience with authorization than most engineers, even engineers who have some experience with authn/authz, and I have no idea what that "subject can utter the action" or "transfer of nouns and verbs to perf
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by williamdclt 23d ago
> They almost always cycle from left to right Try searching "bike" in google image :) Most bike images are from the right side, as that's where the mechanism is (gears, chain etc), so not surprising that LLMs reproduce thi
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
I'd guess that the very large majority of people don't know that americans use 12h time, no. Why would they?
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
I'm skeptical. Switching between time formats when you're used to it requires 0 cognitive effort, and certainly doesn't warrant a button. Eg in France, people use 24h time for display but talk in either 12h or 24h time depend
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
I've not interacted with mysql a whole lot, but when i did I was regularly surprised that it didn't have stuff I was missing from Postgres. Off the top of my mind: - Query planner is much worse (just yesterday I had to USE INDEX t
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
> I have a long-held feeling with Trump that his most ardent haters don't hate his specific policies, merely that he's so gauche about it, that he has no class. A bit of an extraordinary belief to hold, to be honest
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
the vast majority of people have not taken Marketing 101, and it'd be strange to expect them to have. I know you're not literally talking about a Marketing 101 course, but the point is the same
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
habits, no. But difficult argument to make that lab-grown meat requires _less_ of a "moral value realignment" than plant-based food?
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
what a strange comment! It's totally fine, you do whatever you want, but it sounds like "I used to be an alcoholic drinking two 12-packs a day, now I don't even care about beer: I just have 6 a day and that's not because
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
Our ecosystem dying is also pretty suboptimal.
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
I think it's far from being this simple. What you're describing is productivity on a greenfield project, but what's really interesting is productivity when working on an existing large codebase, with existing conventions, arc
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
not the same as scam, but how is it not spam?
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
> its even more disheartening that most people's reactions to just about anything these days is dread about how it'll make their lives worse without fail. Maybe because most (tech) things do make most people's live worse w
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
> will produce extraordinary improvements in prosperity Who says that? Who is doing _anything_ for AI to result in (even non-extraordinary) improvements in prosperity for the average citizen? I'm hearing a lot about AI reducing need
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
I wouldn't say "magically", it's what happens with me and every other engineer I know: we're all detecting bugs and yet we're all writing them too. Not saying that LLMs work the same as humans, but saying it&#x
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
still isn't for most purposes, and most people are still more comfortable with yards than meters for day-to-day stuff (friends are often looking at me blankly when I give a distance in meters)
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
How did they appear upstream?
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
> "Is it clean and tidy right now" is a decent proxy for "Has this been properly taken care of in the past" I don't think so, esp at selling time, I definitely expect that the owner has just made it look pristine

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