aaaronic

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by aaaronic 29d ago
That feature is definitely part of why it's still so relevant. The hstore approach wasn't nearly enough when it was all PG offered.
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by aaaronic 29d ago
Sure, best not to overcomplicate early if you don't need it. PG is great and I work with it daily, but it's also not a problem to think about scale early and at least have a notional plan for what to and how to know when scale is
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by aaaronic 1mo ago
Do you think it's actively deciding to remove them or just not noticing you added them and then overwriting? I ask because when I started informing it I made personal edits, it stopped doing this kind of thing so often and let me work
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by aaaronic 1mo ago
My "favorite" Claudism is when I critique its work and ask it to remove some unnecessary part of the design -- and then the diff has more green than red because it added comments about why the code is no longer there -- the code t
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by aaaronic 1mo ago
Most of the older consoles don't have an FPU. Fixed point is king on those older systems.
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by aaaronic 2mo ago
Yes and no. It depends which branch of chemistry you world have chosen to go down. Physical Chemistry certainly improves a fair amount of the hand waving, but even there the underlying physics is simplified fairly often (as I understand it
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by aaaronic 2mo ago
Sigma and Pi bonds are typically covered in AP Chemistry, even if the “why/how” is hand waved pretty heavily. The valence cloud shapes get wild for heavier atoms and bonds between two or more atoms add even more to the mix.
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by aaaronic 3mo ago
It's not like they're mutually exclusive. In fact, multiple candidates seem to be quite sympathetic in their feedback loops.
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by aaaronic 3mo ago
I thought his name was Watson (the dog assistant). Edit: I was wrong. But there is "Power Pup" and apparently Will Shakespeare
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by aaaronic 4mo ago
Ha, I have a 16 year old who yells "chat" often enough when online gaming to be familiar with that use. I'm positive these students did use an LLM to get the help instead of crowdsourcing, but it is an interesting linguistic
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by aaaronic 4mo ago
I was hoping to get them access to a specific tool like GitHub Copilot via GitHub Education, but when I looked, sign-ups were paused, so I went the tool-agnostic approach. Even during installation a lot of them were telling me how "cha
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by aaaronic 4mo ago
I told them up front this was new territory and we're all learning from it. If they're overusing it I assured them they won't be dealing with a student integrity issue, but I will be giving them feedback if they're clear
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by aaaronic 4mo ago
I'm trying something similar this semester with my course via AGENTS.md. I think this one is overly verbose and probably falls out of context windows pretty quickly, based on my experience (for me, a very terse but clear set of 30 line
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by aaaronic 5mo ago
Brave man. RIP your inbox.
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by aaaronic 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure I did not get to keep my shoes on through TSA in 2004. It may not have been mandatory nation-wide until ~2006, but the origin is a 2001 incident.
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by aaaronic 5mo ago
See: "It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918961 (also on today's frontpage)
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by aaaronic 5mo ago
I've worked in too many large codebases where no one can point to any _single file or class_ and label it "correct," ("the right way") yet management is amazed when the lack of a "North Star" means the cod
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by aaaronic 5mo ago
It does amaze me when colleagues refuse to read what I (personally, deliberately) wrote (they ask AI to summarize), but then tell AI to write their response and it's absolutely bloated and full of misconceptions around my original docu
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by aaaronic 6mo ago
I also found the statement bizarre. They don’t seem to have any argument for compensation of any kind unless the books were under a restrictive license that required derived works to also be open source.
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by aaaronic 7mo ago
But some of Apple or Spotify Premium's recent moves Re: advertising show that even those who _are paying_ end up getting the ad experience eventually. The old "If you aren't paying for a product, you're the product.&quot
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by aaaronic 10mo ago
Building floor numbers in at least a few countries I’m aware of start from zero or “G” ( or the local language equivalent for “ground“) with 1 being the first story above the ground. I think you’re just biased to think that starting must “n
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by aaaronic 1y ago
Ditto!
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by aaaronic 1y ago
I’m afraid I couldn’t follow. Too long since I used most of those terms or symbols. Can anyone ELI5?
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by aaaronic 2y ago
The multi-line case can usually be fixed with simple configuration changes to a structured log format. The other cases are more interesting, and pre-aggregation of all logs related to a correlation ID can be really helpful when debugging a
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by aaaronic 2y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that Pikachu was the culprit.
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by aaaronic 2y ago
Multiplying by increasingly complicated expressions equivalent to “1” is what I remember doing for almost every problem in Quantum Mechanics.
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by aaaronic 2y ago
It’s not so bad when there’s at least sprint toggling (often an option in gameplay settings). Having to hold it down continuously can be a bit much, especially in games where you basically want to sprint 90%+ of the time.
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by aaaronic 2y ago
I can agree with that, though admit to being guilty of using sudo bash far more often than I should. I honestly thought they’d be using ssh that way (single command at a time), though I’m still not sure to what security end.
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by aaaronic 2y ago
Am I missing something? How is logging into ssh (sshd) AS root more secure than using sudo? I honestly don’t even know how dangerous that is because I’ve always been told to never allow it. I see here thought goes into preventing that for a
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by aaaronic 2y ago
Jerk, Snap, Crackle, and Pop are the only ones I thought had agreed upon names. But my understanding is probably 20 years out of date at this point. However, the paper says they’re not commonly taught, but jerk is taught in many high school

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