islandert

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by islandert 2y ago
Would the JVM ecosystem almost be a working example of this? Since there are a variety of languages with editor integration that all compile down to the same byte code, it feels pretty close to what you’re describing.
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by islandert 2y ago
I made a CLI tool called kilojoule that is similar to jq. I addition to the normal suite of JSON manipulations, it also has support for a couple of other file formats and can call other shell commands. https://github.com/ste
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by islandert 2y ago
TikTok?
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by islandert 2y ago
If you don't have access to COPY if the postgres instance is managed, I've had a lot of luck with encoding a batch of rows as a JSON string, sending the string as a single query parameter, and using `json_to_recordset` to turn the
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by islandert 3y ago
I love that writing LLM-friendly docs is just... writing good docs. There's a ton of overlap between accessibility work and preparing things to be used by LLMs. I wonder if an unintended side effect of this AI hype cycle is a huge inve
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by islandert 3y ago
There’s a straightforward way to reach this testing state for optimization problems. Write 2 implementations of the code, one that is simple/slow and one that is optimized. Generate random inputs and assert outputs match correctly. I’v
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by islandert 3y ago
Not high level but a RTO policy seems like an easy way to downsize without having to fire people now that interest rates are higher.
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by islandert 3y ago
I'm finishing up reading Cadillac Desert, a book describing the history of dam building and irrigation project in the US. It goes deep into all aspects of irrigation projects from environmental to economic to political. Very cool to he
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Ask HN: How did you accidentally build a database?
2 points by islandert 3y ago|1 comments
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Grace Hopper: Full Lecture at the University of Tennessee (1983)(youtube.com)
3 points by islandert 4y ago|0 comments
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by islandert 4y ago
My take is that dicts are fine as long as your code is well tested. Yeah, dataclasses and frozen classes have much better typing support, but if you code is mostly reading and writing JSON like many modern cloud apps, it can be easier to us
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by islandert 4y ago
I remember when that popped up on my screen in college. Fun problems. There was one where you derived the page rank algorithm, but they framed it as radioactive decay. Definitely a little questionable though for them to use their browser mo
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by islandert 4y ago
wayback machine link from April 21: https://web.archive.org/web/20220421205808/https://fastertha...
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by islandert 5y ago
I agree with most of you points, but the one that stands out is "push for unit tests over integration/system tests wherever possible". By integration/system tests, do you mean tests that you cannot run locally?
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by islandert 5y ago
WHich has a more powerful processor, the gameboy or the raspberry pi?
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The Secret Side to My Static Site(smlandis.com)
3 points by islandert 6y ago|0 comments
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by islandert 6y ago
I'm working on a python script that downloads web serials as ebooks. It's set up to check if a new chapter has been posted, and if there's a new chapter that finishes a book, it outputs the book as an epub so I can read offli