duncanfwalker

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by duncanfwalker 2mo ago
It might not be the perfect analogy, but it does show some important parallels and differences. Compilers reason to some extent - for example type inference is definitely some deductive reasoning that I would have to do if the compiler didn
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by duncanfwalker 5mo ago
I have been feeling that something - a few things - has to change about Agile rituals given a team is using Claude extensively. I haven't yet found any thoughtful writing on the topic. The most obvious impacts have been shorter synchro
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by duncanfwalker 5mo ago
Reminds me of seeing this presented at a conference years ago https://github.com/braposo/graphql-css It was a joke but I really like the way it pointed out how we copy and reapply patterns in different contexts and tha
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by duncanfwalker 6mo ago
I would assess the directionality and rate of the trend. If it's getting better fast and we don't see a limit to that trend then it will eventually pass whatever threshold we set for adoption.
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by duncanfwalker 6mo ago
It's not so valuable to assess the current state - what the impact of using AI is today. From personal experience it feels like overall impact on productivity was not positive a couple of years ago, might be positive now and will be p
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by duncanfwalker 10mo ago
Spending is paid for out of tax and all those people will have paid tax. Paying less tax than someone else doesn't make a free rider. Deliberately opting out of an obligation while taking from the group makes a free rider.
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by duncanfwalker 10mo ago
I guess it's more clear that it should be a to statically readable value? eg you shouldn't do things like use arguments to build the str
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
This is spot on. I'd love it if it was possible to get the integration with the QGIS ecosystem. It could open source integrations or even a commercial offering that just joins things up in a cohesive way just something that enables a m
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
Any tips on smoothing the transition between the two that mean work isn't duplicated?
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
That's an insightful nuance. I've seen you just create divisions in organisations because while it is a really fully featured desktop application, it implies a way of working that doesn't play well with the cloud, which creat
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
As other comments have said, I'd prefer other solutions to get by all the tests to run faster. It would be interesting to see if it could be used to prioritise tests - get the tests more likely to fail to run sooner.
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
Oh god, this has just made me reflect that we're in the golden age of generative AI - not in technology terms, in user experience terms. We're in the period where the major products are competing against each other before they swi
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
I wonder whether we'll be able to look back on this period in 10 years time and save definitively whether the wide spectrum of responses to LLMs was perception or real feature of our differing jobs.
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Think of AI as Immortal Intelligence – Geoffrey Hinton Talk Video (July 2025)(youtube.com)
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
+1 you're paying for the governance as much as you're paying for the code.
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
At the start of your comment I thought the 'issues like this' were going to be the 4 year discussions about what is and isn't core.
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
I think a lot of this is addressed by having a definition of done and more generally being explicit about quality expectations. You don't need to worry whether to polish the readme or add cross-compilation if you conscious about your
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
It's true that anything that can go wrong will go wrong but I wouldn't use that as a maxim to direct designs - risk is one trade-off and it's significance varies.
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
I really like it. I particularly like that you've resisted the temptation to include SQL itself or the jq queries in the DSL. The validation piece makes it feel a bit a bit like the Rails mindset for people who work better in FP. I&#x2
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
I think it depends on the API - we do this with AWS Secret Managers. I haven't seen it fail but if did it would only effect new instances coming into service so I think we'd have to be pretty unlucky for it to have a noticeable im
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
Yeah, I'd agree with that. Validation rules are like an extension to the type system. Invariants are useful at the edges of a system but also in the core. If, for example, I can be told that a list is non-empty then I can write more cl
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
I mainly see this wtf pages as a hook to talk about the internals of a language/interpretor/etc. As you say, there's no point reading them as a criticism of the language because that's just not what production python loo
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
The --no-verify example is interesting because I can imagine the same hint being useful for junior engineers. In general it's hard to give the the right level of advice in cli docs because you don't always know who the consumer wi
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
100% - for me the fact that hasn't been picked up throughout the research undermines the credibility of the rest of the paper.
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
> Comments per PR [...] served as a measure to gauge the depth of collaboration exhibited during the development and review process. That sounds like a particularly poor measure - it might even be negatively correlated. I'm worked
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
The skew you mention for mass transit exists for individual vehicles too. In New York it's baked in that the avenues, running north-south, are wider than the east-west streets and have longer greens at intersections. The 15-minute city
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
Nice idea to make that accessible in the browser. If you made the default query something that has some variant-specific syntax or functions new people would be about to see the value more quickly
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
I'd say it was The Full Monty and Brassed Off. I'd say it was almost a mini-genre at the start of the Blair years. There's also Made in Dagenham. There's probably lots of french language films with workers struggle. The
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
There's a few different things in there that I think have different answers. I'd draw a distinction between banning and curating to cover the quality points. I don't know what it's like in other parts of the world but I&
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by duncanfwalker 1y ago
For me the point is that __init__ is special - it's the language's the way to construct an object. If we want to side-effecting code we can with a non-special static constructor like class Foo @classmethod def connect():

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