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by akavi 7mo ago
A relational querying DSL: https://github.com/akavi/yarrql/ “Compiles” to SQL, but with a different structural paradigm.
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by akavi 8mo ago
Only if you believe the primary purpose of a corporation is to provide employment, as opposed to generating profit for its shareholders. (To be clear, I think the latter is both descriptively true and normatively good)
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by akavi 9mo ago
You are aware that insofar as AI chat apps are "hallucinatory text generator(s)", then so is Google Translate, right? (while AFAICT Google hasn't explicitly said so, it's almost certainly also powered by an autoregressiv
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by akavi 10mo ago
Hmmm, that doesn't seem right. I'm having a hard time finding an actual consumption number, but I am confident it's well below 50%. The top 10% of households by wage income do receive ~50% of pre-tax wage income, but: 1) ou
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by akavi 10mo ago
The bus (and the subway) in NYC are also already heavily subsidized. There is also already heavily subsidized childcare in NYC (3k, preK). The article in general takes the approach of listing a small handful of (usually very small) politie
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by akavi 11mo ago
PD's been tolerant to total AZ failures for years (was an early eng there)
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by akavi 1y ago
> We're going to stabilize around 10 billion by 2080 according to projections and then decline, hopefully reaching some kind of Star Trek utopia at some point. 10 billion is gonna be the high end by the looks of things, and that dec
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by akavi 1y ago
> I think it's more likely, drawing from biology, that we end up at a stable global population level without having to worry about moving backwards along the metrics of education, income or contraceptive access. There's absolut
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by akavi 1y ago
Mentioned above: https://github.com/stepchowfun/typical
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by akavi 1y ago
I'd actually bet against this. The "bitter lesson" suggests doing things end-to-end in-model will (eventually, with sufficient data) outcompete building things outside of models. My understanding is that GPT5 already does thi
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by akavi 1y ago
It's evil to sell a product for a price higher than you, personally, want to pay?
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by akavi 1y ago
A zero-sum mindset on a website dedicated to programming of all places? Where we literally create wealth out of nothing but coffee and the strength of our minds? My love for my country means I want it to be the greatest in the world. Wa
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by akavi 1y ago
As an American citizen, born and bred, I would literally, physically fight you on behalf of keeping Waterloo grads in America. Many of the best coworkers I've had the pleasure of working with, not to mention the founders of the company
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by akavi 1y ago
Is PHP more performant? That'd be surprising to me, given how many eng hours have been invested in V8
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by akavi 1y ago
Is there any evidence that _8_ years of post-secondary education (plus 3-7 years of residency at poverty wages) actually improves medical outcomes? 5 years could be plenty?
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by akavi 1y ago
A part of "being a good developer" is being able to evolve systems in this direction. Real systems are messy, but you can and should be thoughtful about: 1. Progressively reducing the number of holes in your invariants 2. Building
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by akavi 1y ago
If my understanding is correct, this is still a much worse deal for employees than if Windsurf's exec team had negotiated a "standard" "accelerated vesting, common conversion" acquisition with Google. Presumably the
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by akavi 1y ago
Is this purely the rump company left over from the Google pseudo-acquistion? Or does this mean that deal fell through? Does this represent confirmation that there was no pro-rata compensation to common share holders in the Google deal? I ju
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by akavi 1y ago
L5 ("Senior") at any FAANG co, L6 ("Staff") at pretty much any VC-backed startup in the bay.
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by akavi 1y ago
But for most human endeavors, "operational precision" is a useful implementation detail, not a fundamental requirement. We want software to be operationally precise because it allows us to build up towers of abstractions without n
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by akavi 1y ago
> All they have are relations between labels and how likely are they used together. But not what are the sets that those labels refer to and how the items in those sets interact. Why would "membership in a set" not show up as a
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by akavi 1y ago
Same reason humans use high-level languages: limited context windows. Both humans and LLMs benefit from non-leaky abstractions—they offload low-level details and free up mental or computational bandwidth for higher-order concerns. When, say
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by akavi 1y ago
I've never seen 8000 -> 40, but I have done ~10 kLoC -> ~600. Aggggressively "You can write Java in any language" style JavaScript (` Factory`, ` Strategy`, etc) plus a whole mini state machine framework that was replac
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by akavi 1y ago
I sincerely believe this thesis and desperately want a REIT that owns real estate in a 2 hour radius of major urban downtowns.
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by akavi 2y ago
Hmm, this article is a little confusing. I'm not familiar with Vitess or Citus, but am familiar with "manually" sharded Postgres/Mysql, and I'm not sure I understand if there's any "interaction effects&quo
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by akavi 2y ago
It's certainly true that the charismatic have a better go of this, but after 12 years in the industry I've built up a solid list of quietly excellent engineers. Whenever I see an opportunity they could shine, I reach out to them.
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by akavi 2y ago
As an alternate datapoint, I've almost solely (by a 90% majority or more) heard "sequel" and "sequelite" (/'siː.kwəl/ and /'siː.kwəˌlaɪt/, respectively) across 12 years and 6 companies
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by akavi 2y ago
When was this? MIT's financial aid was already very generous when I was applying (in 2008); IIRC the no-tuition threshold was 100 k$ back then
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by akavi 2y ago
I'm a native english speaker, and prompt is pronounced "promt" ( /prɒmt/ in my roughly General American accent). Ie, there is a silent "p", but it's the second one, not the first.
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by akavi 2y ago
It's not. If my work (as a software developer) can be replaced more cheaply by a machine, it should be. I'm still quite a bit better than SotA models, but I imagine that won't be true in 2034.

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