guhidalg

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by guhidalg 7d ago
Have you considered using https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/ ? Disclosure: this is run by my team.
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by guhidalg 9d ago
Some PM realized that agents will not push back against waterfall style project planning, so now we get an agent for all possible versions of waterfall projects.
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by guhidalg 3mo ago
Because it's less moving pieces to only have one bit of state to think about. You already have a connection string to your database with a password or authn/z with your cloud provider. If this is a "serious" application,
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by guhidalg 3mo ago
FDA does regulate cosmetics components, and FTC regulates what claims they can make. It’s hard to make a binary decision that one thing is a drug and something else isn’t. You can appreciate there is a spectrum of side effects with moisturi
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by guhidalg 3mo ago
I bet this is correlated with how much they like/know Postgres already. When people don’t understand their database’s features, they want it to behave like something else they do understand (code). They’re leaving a lot of performance
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by guhidalg 7mo ago
More like "you must be on the newest version of everything all the time, or you will get hacked".
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by guhidalg 7mo ago
You don’t, there’s always a choice about what to include and what to exclude in your system. Unless you are hand selecting every atom that goes into a thing (maybe you make nuclear weapons?), you always make choices about what you focus on
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by guhidalg 7mo ago
In my experience, the median user for communication apps is mobile _only_. Before that, it better be a website that works well on phones, and decently on desktop. As a developer I don't like it, but reality doesn't have to appease
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by guhidalg 8mo ago
In my experience, there is no in-memory database replacement that correctly replicates the behavior of your database. You need to use a real database, or at least an emulator of one. For example, I have an app that uses Postgres as the data
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by guhidalg 8mo ago
But our brains do map high-dimensionality input to dimensions low enough to be describable with text. You can represent a dog as a specific multi-dimensional array (raster image), but the word dog represents many kinds of images.
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by guhidalg 9mo ago
The phrase implies that powerful companies know that historically black neighborhoods don’t have the resources to mount a legal defense against abnormal pollution from data center generators, so the smart choice is to put all the pollution
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by guhidalg 10mo ago
“Work best” is giving Apple the benefit of the doubt here. The point of standards like Bluetooth is to avoid vendor lock-in and promote interoperability. If Apple chooses to leverage the spec to produce a product that has degraded functiona
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by guhidalg 10mo ago
You can certainly do that if you restrict software to be a mathematical artifact instead of an executable running on one of 3 kernels with different APIs and behaviors, let alone the mountain of dependencies your code will build and link ag
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by guhidalg 11mo ago
I downvoted you because you are exceptional but the rest of the world is not. Most people benefit from traditional education, software engineering is not different.
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by guhidalg 1y ago
You are not technically wrong, but you are economically wrong. The water cycle _could_ require spending grid energy to filter/pump water into an economically usable state. Instead if water was better managed, we would not need to build
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by guhidalg 1y ago
Right, but the genius was in understanding that the dynamics of a system under PID control are predictable and described by differential equations. Are there examples of LLMs correctly identifying that a specific mathematical model applies
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by guhidalg 1y ago
Surely this is wrong. Government spending isn't immune from opportunity costs. If fewer players receive all the money to provide fewer more expensive goods and services, then revenue may be flowing through the national coffers but the
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by guhidalg 1y ago
I think the governments only role is to guarantee the planes don’t fall out of the sky or crash into each other, and then the airlines can price compete.
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by guhidalg 1y ago
Do they have to show up? What is the carrier policy on travelers that “miss their uber”?
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by guhidalg 1y ago
Depends on the state, but for my alma mater (Georgia Tech) I'm pretty confident the answer is yes.
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by guhidalg 1y ago
The ones where human interaction is the point. Education, bar tenders, nursing, tourism, for example.
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by guhidalg 1y ago
I think the latter view is usually held by people who know they won't experience productivity gains from automation. Say someone who is has driven a taxi all their life or driven a forklift. They can appreciate how adding air-condition
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by guhidalg 1y ago
The part in the constitution about "promote the general Welfare" (first sentence) definitely depends on funding research.
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by guhidalg 1y ago
Who has the kubectl credentials to humanity?
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by guhidalg 1y ago
Low-key this is true, I don't trust Python code.
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by guhidalg 1y ago
> review the most basic financial information of our government departments That is what the GAO is for https://www.gao.gov/ , and these people are much better than script kiddies. > I would really like my tax money u
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by guhidalg 1y ago
That has not been my experience, do you have a source?
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by guhidalg 1y ago
That would be an improvement. Perhaps the UN should fund it.
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by guhidalg 1y ago
No, "the industry" is all of us alive in the 21st century who depend on software to make material decisions and to be resilient to attacks and tampering. We were all funding it, and now surely we will see some big tech company now
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by guhidalg 1y ago
Is that better? We need at least one cobbler sure, but if shoes are so scarce that we need to repair them like some communist country, are we better off?

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