billdueber

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by billdueber 2mo ago
For me, I find the biggest benefit is that I actually do all the things I know I’m supposed to do, but usually don’t bother if I’m the only audience.The first time a model asked me, “do you want me to wrap this in an easy to use CLI?” I was
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by billdueber 2mo ago
I keep seeing tts stories here. Is it just an interesting subset of the llm world, or is there a huge use case I’m somehow missing?
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by billdueber 9mo ago
Gopher came out of the U of Minnesota. Their teams are the “Golden Gophers.”
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by billdueber 1y ago
If you add in a call to “.lazy“ it won’t create all the intermediate arrays. There since at least 2.7. https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.0/Enumerator/Lazy.html
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by billdueber 2y ago
You’re right, of course, and I apologize to GP for conflating what they were saying with what I, to be fair, do often see in these threads. Like others in these comments, I can use it just fine right up until I can’t. Then it’s back to the
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by billdueber 2y ago
Sigh. Another git thread, another pile of posts telling me that if I would _just do the work_ to understand the underlying data structure I could finally allow myself to be swept up in the _overwhelming beauty_ of the something something so
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by billdueber 2y ago
“Do you want to be a Writer, or do you want to write ?” I think that almost any question of the form “Do you want to be an X er, or do you want to X ” is useful these days.
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by billdueber 2y ago
I keep telling people to think of Rails as a “ruby-like” language. Rails monkey-patches so much and has so much magic that it’s substantially a different thing.
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by billdueber 2y ago
I'm kind of interested in this space -- can anyone point me at an article that goes over why this is harder for python than it seems to be for, e.g., ruby? Is there something inherent about the way code is imported in python that makes
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by billdueber 3y ago
Reminder to everyone commenting here: you are not an average student. The hard part of teaching is not coming up with dynamite lessons for kids who are smart and want to learn and are capable of doing so and aren’t hungry. Anyone can do tha
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by billdueber 9y ago
No, it was a joint decision. I just figured I'd be more-or-less like my dad, who loves being a dad. It never struck me that it might be something I really struggle with. Overall, it was the right decision for us. But there are defini
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by billdueber 9y ago
A lot of parents really, really like having kids. The ROI on having children is, for them, so self-evident that they don't really think about it. But that's not true for everyone, esp. if you were old enough to be pretty fully-for