zoogeny

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by zoogeny 3y ago
Here are the conversation logs: https://chat.openai.com/share/867ff0c4-d4cf-4af9-a785-31a599... https://www.phind.com/search?cache=ej8pn1dfjjwfr1tgc6ybwhlg NOTE: there are a few more question/answ
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I just spent a few minutes doing a comparison between Phind and GPT-4 for a very high-level question on a distributed job queue. I gave them both the same fairly vague sketch of a kind of system I would like to build. Here are my impression
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Kafka is amazing for what it is made for, but it doesn't seem to solve the query problem for past states. For example, if there is some intermediary details related to the "in-progress" state that will get overwritten once th
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I was thinking about this yesterday and your tip about TSTZRANGE is a good one. My main concern with audit table is that now every write becomes a transaction (if you are concerned with consistency between you master table and your audit ta
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Yes, totally agree, which is why I'm waffling over the upgrade. From 1TB to 2TB is $500 CAD extra . It is just so insanely out of line with the actual cost of the memory. I'm looking at Amazon NVMe SSD and a decent looking 2TB dr
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It is possible but unlikely. Of course, the idea of the "heel" [1] is well-established. But I find it hard to believe someone with an established career as a sober art critic would volunteer for the kind of negative attention this
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I believe that long-arc moral ideas are debatable when applied to history . I personally don't believe it and unless we want to get into some deep discussion on history, politics and metaphysics we are unlikely to get anywhere. But I
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Finally time to upgrade my 2017 i7. For over 1 year the battery meter has said "Service Recommended" and in the last 2-3 months multiple key caps are literally falling off and regularly get jammed while I try to type. I figure the
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> if one of the things you are selling is likability and good vibes, cheering on this kind of vicious reaction every time you get a review you don’t like is probably not a sustainable career path. This is completely false. I might even s
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I recently saw several mentions of image alt text including a poll about alt text on social media. The question was something like "Would you ever post an image without alt text" and something like 99% of responses were "neve
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I was thinking of `guard` in Swift when I was writing but I haven't used it so I was unsure of its exact semantics. It is a bit of a shame it is only useable on optionals and not on arbitrary types. Nice to see a full pattern matching
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I am pretty sure (but not certain) it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6YPgEhGKjOGKriFcF0LC...
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It reminds me of a YouTube course on general relativity where the instructor went from most basic elements and built up towards a complete description of the full math. I was able to follow along step-by-step at the time but there were a lo
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have been envious of pattern matching for decades. It is one of those language features I saw (almost certainly in OCaml) and just desired it. I have not worked professionally in any language that supports it. One tiny annoyance I have wi
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by zoogeny 3y ago
If I recall correctly, the view obscured by the billboards in that scene in Brazil was a barren wasteland. That fits even more into the themes of the film where the harsh realities of the world are constantly hidden behind facades. It'
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Sure, but "working code" written in C is declining. So some choices are being made. It fits in line with how I've seen Apple developers at conferences highlighting the memory safety aspects of Swift. They are maybe hoping to
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by zoogeny 3y ago
What is interesting to me is the decline in C, from 52% in iPhone OS 1 to 5% in iOS 17. I am a bit surprised to see Objective-C still dominating. It goes to show that transitioning languages is extremely difficult, even when you are applyin
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by zoogeny 3y ago
There is a very old joke which I will try to paraphrase. A scientist is having a debate with God and he says "I have discovered the recipe for how life is created, I no longer need you". God says "Oh, really, please explain i
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Interestingly, a service that made that use-case into a turn-key and repeatable API call would probably be quite profitable. The target market would be web marketers and social media managers who have to pump out content. I'm imagining
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I'm glad you mentioned D and I literally paused while writing the above to consider if I should include it. Back when I was writing a lot of C++ (decades ago now) my greatest hope was that D would catch on. It is hard to say why it did
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I like the feel of the syntax on first glance. I have been thinking recently that all of the new powerful features showing up in language (Typescrpt, Go, Rust, Elixir, Kotlin, etc.) have been exposing programmers to combinations of programm
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It is hard to remember how I felt about the company before (as opposed to the product idea). To be even more clear, the request was explicit. Like "we are super passionate about this product here and want people who are just as passion
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I thought (and still think) their product is a great idea. Some people here seem to think my objection was being asked to use the product. It was actually the content of the message I was asked to send that bothered me. It wasn't &quot
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I applied to Loom several years ago while they were still tiny. The CEO sent me a Loom thanking me for applying and asking me to send him back a Loom describing why I was excited to work for his company. Something about that rubbed me the w
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Seems good as a general heuristic but bad as a requirements checklist.
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It may have already been solved, in the way that cars were "already solved" by the model-t or airplanes were "already solved" by the Wright brothers. That doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement in this s
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I recall some controversy over AI generated kids YouTube channels. Some people here seem to assume the target market for this AI generated stuff is Hollywood blockbusters or AAA video games. But really, we're going to see an explosion
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I'm not above using inflammatory language when I want to and I don't subscribe to tone-policing in general. But in the context of the paragraph you quoted, "a legion of idiots" refers explicitly to a specter in the min
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I love this talk for a lot of reasons. Mostly because it crystalizes a lot of feelings I have been having about "Open Source" as a general concept. His conclusion that Open Source is for big companies and not small developers is a
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I found this post on her substack: https://aella.substack.com/p/fetish-tabooness-and-popularity...

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