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by calpaterson 16d ago
I'm not sure I understand - the schema is set and doesn't get changed by agents as they work
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by calpaterson 16d ago
You don't have to regenerate a zipfile each time you do something - the zipfile is just to give a single file for distribution. It's just a zip of the directory. Git is supported in the spec, though the tool doesn't yet hand
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by calpaterson 16d ago
Thanks for pointing out recfiles. I was not aware of it and will investigate whether we can reuse anything. That said Markdown with YAML frontmatter is not exactly my own invention!
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by calpaterson 17d ago
I find that semantic search is substantially better than keyword search even for small corpuses. Being able to find "related" material that doesn't match the keyword is a big advance over traditional full text search.
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by calpaterson 17d ago
What I propose is only a very slightly more formal version of what you describe. Just to start with: memoryfields are possible to use in a server/client system. That was a key aim and I do already use them over Amazon S3 (though not a
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by calpaterson 17d ago
Just retrieving usually doesn't count as memory. "Memory" tends to imply writing too. And I agree: it's not a very special thing. That's why I propose: Markdown + a simple embedding.
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by calpaterson 1mo ago
Most welcome
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by calpaterson 1mo ago
We also meet in the evenings sometimes, so I would join now and figure it out later.
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by calpaterson 1mo ago
You pray that people either have their contact details in their HN profile or that they attached some social networks to their meet.hn post. Then you trawl through your set of qualified leads :)
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by calpaterson 1mo ago
There is https://meet.hn/ , which is a good way to bootstrap (and indeed, how I bootstrapped this meetup)
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by calpaterson 1mo ago
Having it be an open invitation meetup would attract a very different cohort and would have a very different character. Feel free to start that meetup - I might give it a try. But I wouldn't be interested in spending my personal time
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by calpaterson 1mo ago
You were added :) See you in person
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by calpaterson 1mo ago
There is a conscientious objector to every communication system. As was said above: WhatsApp had the fewest.
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by calpaterson 1mo ago
We've been organising this for a while (a year? more?). It's quite relaxed - just a coffee morning every month or two. I'm sure there are other HN local meetups who could post in this thread - please do if you have a local
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Helsinki Hacker News Meetup(calpaterson.com)
185 points by calpaterson 1mo ago|136 comments
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by calpaterson 2mo ago
There was a good explanation when they published the mechanism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309
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by calpaterson 2mo ago
That is indeed how it works https://news.ycombinator.com/pool But not in this case. It's a slow Sunday afternoon and getting a few upvotes quickly is enough
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by calpaterson 2mo ago
> Consuming that much caffeine is terrible for your heart. He's talking about 800mg, and I doubt it. 400mg is well known to be a safe daily level. I doubt by doubling it you will experience massive negative side effects. Here in F
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by calpaterson 3mo ago
Interestingly, after writing this (some years ago) I spoke to some of the original authors. They had never used Smalltalk. So I suppose they invented this stuff independently
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by calpaterson 3mo ago
No, no, there is a single world ring. the 16mb limit is for values
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by calpaterson 3mo ago
Well, I say "more or less" :). But the fact that there is a single global database doesn't mean that you can read every key or value (but generally, yes, you can _read_ everything). I mention in passing prolog-style permiss
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by calpaterson 3mo ago
They don't use pip, you just import the module and it is pulled from barbara
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by calpaterson 3mo ago
Mostly is no rule, adding a cache can just save you from having to buy a bigger database instance in many cases. The most common first thing to cache is getting the current user, because this ends up being a very hot path for most stateless
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by calpaterson 3mo ago
Once someone decides they want to use redis as something other than a cache, you sort of do have 2 cache technologies anyway. You can't use a redis instance that is configured for caching for any other purpose (caching instance must h
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by calpaterson 4mo ago
Yes I switched from claude code to opencode with deepseek recently. It is basically indistinguishable from sonnet. At this point my own prompts, AGENTS.md, background docs and so on matter a great deal more than the differences between mod
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by calpaterson 4mo ago
It often is illegal to pay them. They are often on sanctions lists, or indeed in embargoed countries. And it's just generally not allowed to pay unidentifiable parties for basic anti-money laundering reasons. And a lot of countries a
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The box-tickers shall inherit the Earth(spectator.com)
2 points by calpaterson 5mo ago|0 comments
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by calpaterson 5mo ago
Fair enough. I didn't say so but - bookstack is great. Thanks so much for it.
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by calpaterson 5mo ago
As best I can see, bookstack has not experienced much in the way of concrete issues with Github. And there there are no concrete benefits from migrating to Codeberg. It is his project, his perogative, completely. But the major disbenefit
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by calpaterson 5mo ago
"56k" meant 7 kilobytes per second as a theoretical max. So 4.4 was ok. Everything with networks is done as bits, I think honestly for marketing reasons now

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