evnu

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by evnu 25d ago
The pun in this follow-up makes the whole mixup worthwhile: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4n4l1yyvro "'We're not going to run from it': Sydney Marathon laughs off medal error"
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by evnu 7mo ago
For me, if it's worth thinking about it, it's worth writing it down. Doesn't matter if it's a todo list I just came up with, a system diagram, whatever I am currently working on, or thoughts on a human interaction I just
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by evnu 8mo ago
"perhaps even why it was necessary at all" not being asked anymore is what I fear as well. Stumbling over problems repeatedly gets attention to architectural defects. Papering over the faults with a non-complaining AI buries the d
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by evnu 11mo ago
Uiua is the first one that made array languages "click" for me due to the formatter.
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by evnu 11mo ago
Sometimes it works to find a solution which makes the life of teams easier and comes with an additional gain in security. That can potentially be sold more easily to the team then, as you are solving a problem the team actually experiences.
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by evnu 1y ago
I wondered about that as well while looking into the http handler. I think a missing space between method and path overruns the buffer (haven't tried running it though).
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by evnu 1y ago
Maybe because aging is non-linear.
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by evnu 1y ago
Some years ago, I started to use FIXME to indicate that something is blocking the PR and needs to be done before merging, and TODO if something can be done at a later point in time. Then, CI only needs to grep for FIXME to block merging the
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by evnu 1y ago
> Instead you should use high quality sources, then ask the LLM to summarize them for you to start with (NotebookLM does this very well for instance, but so can others). How do you determine if the LLM accurately reflects what the high-q
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by evnu 1y ago
We found Erlang to be the right choice at small scale. Namely, we used it in iot applications, where the self-healing property of proper supervision trees resulted in a very stable implementation. We also saw the same benefits in the cloud
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by evnu 2y ago
> I think it will spawn a lot more code that was as bad as it was before. And that makes it even harder for seniors to teach: it was always hard to figure out where someone has misconceptions, but now you need to work through more code.
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by evnu 2y ago
More frequent attention is a solved problem: a server walks around with a tray of filled glasses and always replaces empty glasses, except if they are covered. That way, the communication overhead is reduced, and a roundtrip per table back
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by evnu 2y ago
As usual, there are exceptions as well. For example some streets in Berlin use a "horseshoe" numbering system. I tend to look for the house numbers of opposing houses when I enter a street I don't know to check if it is horse
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by evnu 3y ago
> For example: I wonder if it wouldn't be more "erlangy"/"elixiry" to model the mutable ops behind a genserver that you send messages to. It depends on the use case. For example, when creating a resource (ba