andyferris

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by andyferris 5d ago
Nitpick: monkeys have enough brains for "oh, I shouldn't do that again".
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by andyferris 21d ago
In raw numbers of humans... "the early majority" surely would be those that use ChatGPT or Gemini (aka Google) and pay between $0 and $20 a month? I would be surprised if the specialist that knows that various Chinese models exist
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by andyferris 23d ago
I've spent my spare time in the last _days_ rewriting a pretty small document made in collaboration with Fable. It was reluctant to simplify the proposed design. And the language is so dense - it's almost poetic in nature and conc
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by andyferris 1mo ago
I was curious to see they are advertising OLTP-like transactional processing speed. It would be super convenient to have one DB for OLTP and OLAP purposes! Has anybody here tried using it that way? (though I don't see any way to deal w
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by andyferris 1mo ago
I'm assuming most decent people just help out their friend the next day, right? The lesson appears to be prioritisation, not being a jerk.
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by andyferris 1mo ago
We are very fortunate that my wife got to work at the local school. She now walks to work and I work from home about 4 days out of 5 workdays. The benefits are huge in terms of time available and costs, and not needing childcare before or a
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by andyferris 2mo ago
1. Don't forget that there are parallel efforts for static compilation in Julia - a static artifact should be able to get through the App Store.
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by andyferris 2mo ago
Not to mention, the physical trades are not stopping taking on apprentices because... LLMs can't build a house? Not even the mundane bits. It will be interesting how to get the financial incentives to train juniors in knowledge work to
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by andyferris 2mo ago
I was hoping from the tagline it would have sum types (rust-like payloads on enums, like Swift).
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by andyferris 3mo ago
I believe I read a post by Andrew detailing how he intentionally did marketting in a way to attract users, the right contributers, and donations - he was quite intentional about making his full-time role sustainable (and now more roles).
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by andyferris 3mo ago
Is it not a web view? With nodejs capabilities from the “backend” half of the app for normal desktop app filesystem access etc?
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by andyferris 3mo ago
It always required a leap of faith - that’s the point of life, getting married and having kids. Not so many generations ago parents might not know if they’d survive to see their children reach adulthood (or if their children would survive,
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by andyferris 3mo ago
It benefits those that made the decision. That’s the thing to understand.
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by andyferris 3mo ago
I think nerd -> believes in science. Science -> requires honesty, curiousity, humility, persistence (i.e. admit you are wrong, accept you losses). Generally I'm not sure you'd be considered a nerd if you weren't too hon
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by andyferris 3mo ago
The brilliance of a mathematician like Terry is the the clarity they can bring. That’s my interpretation of your comment, anyway.
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by andyferris 3mo ago
> a good UI absolutely cannot cater to both So make two UIs? Or an API and a novice user / mass market UI, and let the open source community serve fussy power users (and borrow some of their good ideas as a return on your show of go
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by andyferris 3mo ago
Can we summarize this as "people get horny sometimes" and "ovulating people get horny"? Or is that too reductive?
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by andyferris 3mo ago
Modern off-road/off-grid inverter chargers make wiring to the network pretty easy. I'd still recommend an electrician, but most they'd likely need to do is wire the grid into the inverter-charger input, and your cabin to the
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by andyferris 3mo ago
The OP mentioned modern battery technologies - generally the shunt sits between an LFP battery negative and the main circuit negative/ground, and the solar panels connect to MPPTs. So the voltage at the shunt is a nice consistent nomin
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by andyferris 4mo ago
That’s incorrect. In most western nations, the “people who run the government” get paid a salary similar to a good software engineer (or maybe a doctor), and progressive taxation lets the government fund social services including free healt
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by andyferris 4mo ago
That depends how they got wealthy. Did they steal everything outright? Someone is worse off in that transaction. (Or everyone a little bit worse off if it’s government grift). Did they create all that value themselves? Might be fine - posit
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by andyferris 4mo ago
Oh wow! Team is still ok but Enterprise is excluded. That’s… quite harsh. I don’t normally want to speak up for BigCorp but it seems like they are getting gouged.
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by andyferris 4mo ago
I’m confused why a business would allow (non-data-science/agent harness devs) to pay per token instead of eg an Anthropic business premium seat? A monthly subscription seems pretty straight forward for the accountants, no?
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by andyferris 4mo ago
One problem I see is even in representational democracy (I'll use the Westminster system for concreteness) we get a lot of indirection leading to policies people don't actually want. Even more indirection is bad. Assume members of
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by andyferris 4mo ago
Low-level programming gets a bad name because C has many footguns and the spec leaves much behavior undefined - a fact that implementers use almost adversarially (which I'd support, if the goal was to refine the spec...). C++ adds more
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by andyferris 4mo ago
Yes. And ultimately the colour of swans in Western Australia impacts… almost nothing at all.
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by andyferris 4mo ago
Just a funny observation, apologies in advance: I am rewatching Stargate SG-1 with my children right now and cannot read this comment except in the voice of Teal’c. In the previous episode the team was in 1969 on a hippy bus. My advice is t
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by andyferris 4mo ago
Sure, the ISP _should_ deliver the packets. No worries. The user agent should... be an agent for the user, and be able to perform actions on their behalf. (The legality of those actions is of course assumed by the user here... if I add an a
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by andyferris 4mo ago
How many great inventions and discoveries were the product of yak shaving? I'd imagine quite a lot.
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by andyferris 4mo ago
Interesting timing, with Australian budget night (removal of tax discounts for both capital and trusts, and for investment in existing housing stock).

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