chrsig

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by chrsig 11mo ago
the narrow window view is appreciated given the increased indent level of your comment
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by chrsig 11mo ago
> You can see in chats 11 to 14 that we're entering the slop zone. The code the agent created has a critical bug, and it's absolutely failing to fix it. And I have no idea how to fix it, either. This definitely relaxes my ai-hy
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by chrsig 11mo ago
to be useful to whom, exactly?
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by chrsig 1y ago
w.r.t. your edit: Is there anything the community at large can do to aid your efforts?
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by chrsig 1y ago
You're sort of answering your own question. It was a matter of proximity. The thousand others were a greater distance in the initial conditions.
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by chrsig 1y ago
valgrind finds sooooo many more problems than just memory leaks uninitialized memory, illegal writes, etc... There's a lot of good stuff that could be discovered.
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by chrsig 1y ago
I'm glad to see rsc still actively involved. And commenting on commit messages. The older I get the more I value commit messages. It's too easy to just leave a message like "adding valgrind support", which isn't v
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by chrsig 1y ago
Useful for people -- believe it or not not all of us internalize the language we use as part of our identity (and species).
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by chrsig 1y ago
From someone that grew up in New England, but experienced a 4.x in california: I assure you it does not feel small. The revelation that the ground does not stay where I left it was quite disturbing.
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by chrsig 1y ago
I'm coming to expect that most things you see on the internet are written by an LLM. I can't wait for all the de-LLM denoiser products that're sure to come out combating llm spam.
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by chrsig 1y ago
Thanks for bringing up therapy. I've been in therapy for some time, which lead to leaving my former position. I agree with you that my brain is certainly more buggy than my side projects :)
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by chrsig 1y ago
Think of it like emacs. Browsers are perfectly good operating systems just needing a better way to view the web.
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Ask HN: Getting over Burnout with Imposter Syndrome
21 points by chrsig 1y ago|7 comments
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by chrsig 1y ago
I've definitely done that as well. I generally don't have a problem with it, but it makes for an extra conversation the first time someone sees the pattern. Given how some of the other ergonomic changes in go have gone (closures
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by chrsig 1y ago
yeah, I've always just extracted the loop body into a new function as a result
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by chrsig 2y ago
>Those who listened correctly predicted a whole bunch of things and were called paranoid by enablers. was being called paranoid not also predictable?
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by chrsig 2y ago
i don't like unexpected things happening. they cause me to panic. i can expect errors.
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by chrsig 2y ago
maybe spend the time talking to his voters?
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by chrsig 2y ago
This is a great perspective on pedantry
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by chrsig 2y ago
how nested is the data in the parquet files?
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by chrsig 2y ago
i recall some of the same speculation. in my case we wound up getting a satellite connection, with a wonderful 600ms round trip time.
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by chrsig 2y ago
ah, good ol' capping out at 26.4kb/s...until 2005
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by chrsig 2y ago
i don't think they have been for a while.
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by chrsig 2y ago
you're not wrong, but i don't think that you're presenting the argument in a way that is going to be well received. hopefully both gccgo and any llvm backed implementations eventually mature to production grade. I think the t
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by chrsig 2y ago
this was actually one of the things that really turned things around for me actually. it took probably 25 years in between.
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by chrsig 2y ago
I a missing component is a plan for recourse if the student doesn't take to the new pace/material. That was my biggest problem, that and I wasn't actually on-board for the skip. Educators need to learn how to admit when they
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by chrsig 2y ago
I'll call out 3b1b and khan academy for me. Especially over covid. Made math fun again. My middleschool principal thought it'd be a good idea to skip me over pre-algebra into alg 1. Turns out that doesn't work great, and I
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by chrsig 2y ago
no...they'll just let the seniors die.
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by chrsig 2y ago
> he can’t cut either one without Congress. What is he going to do? Not send checks to senior citizens? cut it anyway then deal with the 'consequences' in court. obviously.
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by chrsig 2y ago
someone doesn't remember y2k.

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