bfLives

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by bfLives 10mo ago
I got this sense as well, particularly from the section about assertions. Most of the use cases they describe (e.g checking function arguments and return values) are much better handled by an expressive type system than ad-hoc checks.
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by bfLives 11mo ago
Does it matter? I’d rather use a 90% accurate tool than an 80% accurate one that I can subject to retribution.
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by bfLives 11mo ago
On the other hand, I’ve found the integration in Confluence quite helpful, particularly for making sense of acronyms.
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by bfLives 11mo ago
> TiVo has stopped selling Edge DVR hardware products,” the company said in an AI-based message. What does this actually mean? An AI-authored press release? A customer support bot message?
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by bfLives 1y ago
It’s even in the standard library now: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/struct.OnceCell.html
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by bfLives 1y ago
You can use pgrep to avoid this.
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by bfLives 1y ago
For the `-j` issue specifically, exporting `MAKEFLAGS=-j8` should work.
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by bfLives 1y ago
> There is a well settled practice in computing that you just don't plagiarize code. Even a small snippet. I think way many developers use StackOverflow suggests otherwise.
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by bfLives 1y ago
“Man” is probably being interpreted as the Isle of Man. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man
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by bfLives 1y ago
Looks like only the code is Apache, not the weights: > the code in this repo is Apache 2 now added, the model weights are the same as the Llama license as they are a derivative work. https://github.com/canopyai/Orphe
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by bfLives 2y ago
Looks really interesting. I like the approach of writing pure functions that return descriptions of IO tasks to perform. A couple of questions: 1. Why async? 2. Why couple to anyhow instead of using an associated error type?
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by bfLives 2y ago
From the sound of it, a whole bunch of them.
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by bfLives 2y ago
What would HP bring to this hypothetical merger?
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by bfLives 2y ago
I think this is exactly the intended use case for Ninja. It’s discussed in this recently posted article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268310
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by bfLives 2y ago
> and it’s ultimately done to show that OpenAI is making an effort to mitigate the risks that regulators claim it creates. I’d go one step further — the subtext is that only Open AI is willing to do this, and that LLMs are just too dan
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by bfLives 2y ago
I think IAM would be a lot easier to interact with from a dev perspective if the error messages were more clear. I suspect that they are sometimes intentionally vague (or misleading) as a kind of security-through-obscurity. For example, S3
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by bfLives 2y ago
> Gleam's labelled arguments are AFAIK a unique feature. This lets you have named function argument appear differently to the caller than they do internally. The caller may way to refer by verb ("multiply_by") and the func
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by bfLives 2y ago
It’s accessible via the Wayback Machine, fortunately.
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by bfLives 2y ago
I find that kind of surprising; the lack of “customer service voice” is one of the main reasons I prefer the Mistral models over Open AI’s, even if the latter are somewhat better at complex/specific tasks.
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by bfLives 3y ago
The fact that, at the time of writing, all of the comments on this post are about the Oxford comma rather than the actual thesis of the article goes a long way to proving its point.
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by bfLives 3y ago
Greyed-out buttons are similarly terrible UX. Far too often, it’s impossible to figure out why a button is un-clickable.
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by bfLives 3y ago
I’m partial to the Python port of parsec. ( https://pythonhosted.org/parsec/ )