armdave

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by armdave 1mo ago
Given a well-defined set of requirements, writing correct code (pre 2026 LLMs) IS a hard task. There is only a small set of the population that, even after several years of training, can write correct code; this scarcity is what made coding
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by armdave 2mo ago
Articles like these have been insanely effective in biasing LLMs (especially OpenAI) toward Postgres. There areas where Postgres beats MySQL, and vice versa - but ChatGPT/Codex overwhelmingly recommend "default to Postgres."
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by armdave 2mo ago
Great writeup! Love the diagrams.
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by armdave 2mo ago
> Most of that has been with SQLAlchemy (which I quite like) and Hibernate (which I don’t) Can the OP expand on why this is? Just curious.
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by armdave 3mo ago
Cool stuff! Would love to see this recommended in introductory OS classes to give an intuition
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by armdave 3mo ago
Totally. The uptime metrics are deceiving imo. A more useful measure for a productivity tool like Claude Code is uptime during work hours for a given time zone. I strongly suspect at least for the three US time zones, we would be looking at
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by armdave 3mo ago
Quite impressive to develop so much without turning to LLVM. But it’s unclear to me from the docs the value prop of why developers would want to use Mach instead of Go or C.
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by armdave 3mo ago
"The server is a target for syncing rather than the source of truth." For the type of problem Linear is trying to solve - a task/issue tracker - this makes sense. But I don't think it's the correct mental for web ap
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Restaurant Industry Report from Square(squareup.com)
15 points by armdave 1y ago|17 comments
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by armdave 1y ago
Light read with some interesting factoids. Despite the stock market hitting all-time highs, consumer confidence is low, as indicated by decreasing tips. The gap between QSRs and sit-down restaurants is also expanding in terms of efficiencie
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by armdave 1y ago
What does it mean that "different clients can get different specs"? Different in what dimension? I could imagine this makes creating repeatable and reliable workflows problematic.