Calavar

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by Calavar 13d ago
> Early termination of a domain registration does not impact the life cycle of the domain, as the domain can still go through the various stages of a standard life cycle. According to ICANN cutting the life cycle short doesn't have
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by Calavar 15d ago
An absolute doddle assuming you have an absolutely excellent test suite. Otherwise on any nontrivial codebase you will still have regressions that make it to production and you will waste your time squashing bugs rather than writing new fe
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by Calavar 18d ago
It's a MongoDBism. The MongoDB community used document to mean the nonrelational equivalent of a row in a relational database. But over time there was definitional shift, and now it means a JSON blob, even if that blob is in a relation
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by Calavar 26d ago
I am confused as to how this is an argument for a single source of truth. It seems like you've presented an argument for the opposite. If there were a single source of truth, there would be no point in seeking a second opinion - it wou
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by Calavar 2mo ago
SoftRam. Raymond Chen wrote a great technical analysis on what it actually did: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...
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by Calavar 2mo ago
> There are a finite number of words and a finite way of combining them within an academic setting/field which means that we can't build a perfect classifier with just text. Maybe for very short phrases, but otherwise I disagre
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by Calavar 2mo ago
> They'll almost certainly spend more time and money on the process than is ever collected if this ever happens. The point of regulation isn't for the state to turn a profit. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that regulatio
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by Calavar 3mo ago
Similar situation. I have no doubt that a large fraction of my childhood memories are fabricated, but there were a few that I kept to myself until I was over the age of 30 and were later confirmed by a parent or aunt or uncle. There's
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by Calavar 3mo ago
This gets said a lot and it kind of irks me. (I am a physician.) US software devs also make 2x what their European colleagues do, but that never gets called out as bloat. Plus US software devs make that 2x pay without taking our additional
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by Calavar 3mo ago
I would be more willing to believe you only used Claude for minor editing tasks if you disclosed your usage of Claude upfront.
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by Calavar 3mo ago
The value of a PhD thesis is the personal intellectual growth you get from putting it together. The end product isn't really the point. There's a lot to be said about publishing in academia being broken and how nearly all the valu
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by Calavar 3mo ago
To call out The Tribe as hypocritical, you first need The Tribe to have a consensus opinion. Agentic coding in particular has been very polarizing both on HN and in the developer community at large - there is no consensus opinion.
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by Calavar 3mo ago
Octopuses are smart, but I've yet to see anything that suggests they are smarter than dolphins or whales.
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by Calavar 3mo ago
Brains are resource hungry, especially oxygen hungry. Earth's air is orders of magnitude richer in oxygen molecules than its water. This likely made it easier for intelligence to develop on land. It's worth noting that the smartes
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by Calavar 3mo ago
Gates famously came from a rich family, but Bezos did too - he used hundreds of thousands of dollars in investments from his immediate family members to get Amazon off the ground. Maybe 1 to 2% of Americans would be able draw that much from
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by Calavar 3mo ago
> While fact investigation continues, BAM’s current state of its investigation has uncovered significant evidence of gross negligence in how the store was previously operated by the prior owner Verbal diarrhea. Excessive passive tense an
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by Calavar 3mo ago
I believe they mean GPU threads. Plenty of cuda files in their repository.
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by Calavar 4mo ago
Your sarcasm is misplaced because yes, this has unironically been true for large chunks of Latin American history. - Argentinians in particular are over 60% of Italian descent. - The richest man in Mexico was born to Lebanese immigrants. -
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by Calavar 4mo ago
If you're looking for international precedent, this is an old vs. new world issue. Birthright citizenship is rare in the old world, but it is the default for the Americas. Canada, most of Latin America, and a decent part of the Caribbe
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by Calavar 4mo ago
I did look up numbers before I made that claim: From Yahoo Finance GME Jan 1, 2016: $7.09, $5.49 adjusted (accounting for dividend disbursements) GME Jan 1, 2026: $20.09 266% or 365% return depending on how you count dividends. 365% for GME
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by Calavar 4mo ago
GME also beat the S&P 500 over the past 10 years. Is this evidence that Ryan Cohen is a business genius? Tesla has been a meme stock for about five years now, maybe more. Its valuation correlates with Musk's abilities as a showman
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by Calavar 4mo ago
I consider myself AI skeptical-ish and I detest when people defend LLMs with "it's user error, prompt better," but in this case it actually is user error. If you want a particular implementation approach, you need to specif
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by Calavar 5mo ago
> But it’s getting harder and harder to define a task that humans beat LLMs on. On pretty much any easily quantifiable test of knowledge or reasoning, the machines win. Quite to the contrary, I think it's extremely trivial to find a
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by Calavar 5mo ago
I disagree, I use metaprogramming in application code quite regularly, although I tend to limit myself to a single construct (instance_eval) because I find that makes things more manageable. In my opinion the main draw of Ruby is that it&#x
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by Calavar 5mo ago
I'm writing a compiler. When I have Claude write a new feature, I have validate that suite against a test suite of ~200 tiny programs. I have a shell script that automates this. If all tests pass, the shell script prints "200&#x2F
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by Calavar 5mo ago
I'm skeptical of that reasoning because the original C wasn't too clean or performant either. For example emit.c from an earlier commit [1] It writes a separate call to emit_raw for each line, even though there many successive cal
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by Calavar 5mo ago
I know this is tangential to your overall point, but did really they murder everyone in the room? I was under the impression that a few Venezuelan generals kidnapped Maduro themselves, left him at a predetermined point for US forces to pick
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by Calavar 5mo ago
spinel_codegen.rb is an eldritch horror. I always get spaghetti code like this when using Claude, and I've been wondering if I'm doing something wrong. Now I see an application that looks genuinely interesting (not trivial slop) w
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by Calavar 5mo ago
What sorts of instructions?
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by Calavar 5mo ago
It's interesting how variable people's experiences seem to be. Personally, I tend to get crap quality code out of Claude. Very branchy. Very un-DRY. Consistently fails to understand the conventions of my codebase (e.g. keeps hallu

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