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by 100k 1y ago
If song lyrics count, Eleni Mandell's "Iowa City" is the poem that will always stick in my mind about that town. Girls, the boys don't cheat in Iowa City Iowa City nothing to do Now they're crisp and they&#x
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by 100k 1y ago
If you like this movie, I recommend Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz's podcast "Unclear and Present Danger" (the name is a riff on Clancy as well) which covers the political and military thrillers of the 1990s and how they dealt w
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by 100k 2y ago
Seconded! This was my favorite talk at Strange Loop (including my own).
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by 100k 2y ago
As someone who was against the Iraq war, it's hard to express how important Paul Krugman's columns were to me at the time. It felt like the world had gone mad, but he provided an island of sanity. And he was right about the war. I
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by 100k 2y ago
Zeke Faux's Number Go Up ( https://www.amazon.com/Number-Go-Up-Cryptos-Staggering/dp/05... ) started as an investigation into Tether. He found some extremely suspect clues, but he wasn't able to crack it.
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by 100k 2y ago
It's quite fun, I played a lot of it during the pandemic. It's sort of like Advance Wars, but when you lose you can choose to send one of your leveled up characters back in time, which lets you use them again in a new game.
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by 100k 2y ago
Yes, you can use CGO to call Rust functions using extern "C" FFI. I gave a talk about how we use it for GitHub code search at RustConf 2023 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdlqhb267c ) and afterwards I talked to
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by 100k 3y ago
There's some interesting companies in this space. https://gofourth.com/ - focusing on grid storage, uses graphite (carbon) and liquid tin for heat transfer https://antoraenergy.com/ - industrial heat a
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by 100k 3y ago
I’m happy to see Standard Ebooks here! I’ve read their editions of Nostromo by Joseph Conrad and Vanity Fair by William Thackeray and the quality great. I recommend it if you’re interested in classic literature.
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by 100k 3y ago
Yes. The concepts apply to all programming languages. The exercises use multiple programming languages. For example, one exercise has you explore the Git source code (which is in C) to learn how to use a program's data structures to un
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by 100k 3y ago
Yeah, we need to do better on the visibility of this for owners. And we're trying to scale the system so it's not a problem at all. In the meanwhile, you can ask support to index all the repos in your orgs and we can take care of
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by 100k 3y ago
I hear you, but we didn't break this for no reason. We rewrote our entire code search stack to support features it didn't before, like exact match, regular expressions, indexing forks, navigating to where methods are defined, not
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by 100k 3y ago
It refers to the geometric progression of bucket sizes used in the data structure.
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by 100k 3y ago
It means that we have a result limit. If a term matches in a lot of files, not all the hits will be shown.
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by 100k 3y ago
Tree-sitter is very cool! We use it to power semantic analysis for GitHub code search.
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by 100k 3y ago
For the repositories not in the index, we do show a message to try again later. For documents that have been excluded, we agree we need better visibility.
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by 100k 3y ago
(I gave this talk and work on code search.) Sorry you've had a frustrating experience with the product. When we look into complaints about missing results, it's almost always one of two things. First, the repository is not indexed
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by 100k 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, that's good feedback.
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by 100k 3y ago
We'll definitely blog about it ( https://github.blog/ ). His handle is https://github.com/aneubeck (it's on the thank you slide of my talk btw)
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by 100k 3y ago
Please see my other comment about why this is difficult: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38638214
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by 100k 3y ago
I work on this, and I agree we should do more to improve ranking. Exact duplicates are supressed, but often forks have different versions of some files, so they come up in the results. If you don't want to see forks, you can exclude th
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by 100k 3y ago
Yes! My colleague who created it has started working on an open source version so we can publish it. I am not sure when it will be ready, but I'm excited because it is extremely interesting and has a lot of potential use cases.
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by 100k 3y ago
(I'm the speaker.) This is frequently requested, and we've tried to answer it in GitHub's feedback forums. The reason it's not implemented is it's quite complicated and there are other things we'd rather work o
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by 100k 3y ago
Nice! Seems like a useful tool for digesting videos.
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by 100k 3y ago
Oh hey, that's my talk! Thanks for submitting it. It was a huge honor to present my team's work at Strange Loop.
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by 100k 3y ago
GitHub - code search | Staff/Principal Software Engineers | REMOTE (US/UK/Germany) | Full-time Helping developers navigate and understand that data is a core part of GitHub’s mission, and an area with significant potential we
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by 100k 3y ago
The name is terrific.
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by 100k 3y ago
Another thing you can do with LLMs that I think is pretty interesting is use them to train a cheaper and faster model. Then use the faster model in your application.
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by 100k 3y ago
I got interested in Al-Andalus when I visited Tarragona, where the Moors pushed out the Visigoths and ruled for 400 years. A short book I recommend is Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher ( https://www.amazon.com/Moorish-Spain-R
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by 100k 3y ago
I helped with a study of the compression strength of concrete blocks when I was in high school. It was a long time ago, but IIRC, the blocks augmented with monofilament (it was fishing line) performed well.

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