jt-hill

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by jt-hill 3mo ago
Always read the PKGBUILD. Always read the updates diffs. It’s that easy.
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by jt-hill 4mo ago
> I have no idea if it works or not because I haven’t yet tried running it. This should have been disclosed in the first paragraph
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by jt-hill 6mo ago
Wow it just keeps going. Extremely thorough.
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by jt-hill 6mo ago
This is a relief in many ways. With Fivetran’s acquisitions of both dbt labs and Tobiko, I was expecting the end of the open source data ecosystem.
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by jt-hill 6mo ago
Astral was always going to have to find some way to sustain itself financially. They weren’t going to just make the best free tools in the ecosystem forever. uv is sufficiently entrenched as infrastructure that I’m sure it’ll take no time
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Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty(simonwillison.net)
86 points by jt-hill 6mo ago|24 comments
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by jt-hill 6mo ago
Ruff solves this. You should not be manually fiddling with indentations in 2026.
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by jt-hill 6mo ago
Hah, thanks. Believe it or not I proofread it like three times but my mental autocorrect is just really aggressive.
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by jt-hill 6mo ago
I keep making this argument elsewhere on the Internet, so I thought it would be nice to make my point all in one place. Python is good now, if you weren't paying attention.
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You don't hate Python. You hate other people's Python.(jt-hill.com)
8 points by jt-hill 6mo ago|6 comments
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by jt-hill 7mo ago
Related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202864
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How does AI detection work?(pangram.com)
1 points by jt-hill 7mo ago|1 comments
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by jt-hill 10mo ago
Thanks! And you're right this is true for storage and at the transaction level where nothing smaller than, e.g., a penny is allowed to move or exist in the first place. But when you're working with interest rates and the main calc
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by jt-hill 10mo ago
Author here. I thought was doing what I was supposed to do by using Decimals heavily in my credkit[0] Python library, but I did some testing and discovered it wasn't worth the pain for me. Test code [1] is available for the curious. Th
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Decimal Is Sometimes Wrong(jt-hill.com)
10 points by jt-hill 10mo ago|3 comments
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by jt-hill 11mo ago
I work in credit risk and needed to model consumer loans in Python. I couldn't find a tool that made it easy to model simple loans either individually or at the pool level, so I decided to make my own. It's early (v0.2.0) but work
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Show HN: Credkit – Easier Loan Modeling(github.com)
1 points by jt-hill 11mo ago|1 comments
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by jt-hill 1y ago
I highly recommend this one too. It completely solved my issues with FOMO/compulsive refreshing
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by jt-hill 1y ago
Classic mistake theory vs conflict theory. Just being right is not a good enough reason for someone to believe you. They have to believe you’re on their side.
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by jt-hill 1y ago
Tbf I don’t think the parent meant all Lexuses (Lexes? Lexi?) are soulless, just theirs. But the brand has its fans.
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by jt-hill 1y ago
> No one will look at it and feel stirred by its beauty Except for the Toyota nerds who will want to come talk to you about the LFA. Ask me how I know!
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by jt-hill 1y ago
I’m sympathetic to the desire to recapture the electricity of early Twitter, but I’m reminded of the famous quote that “a man cannot step in the same river twice.” I’m on Bluesky too, and it’s alright, but the internet has changed, the worl
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by jt-hill 1y ago
This makes me think of The Sort, coined by the venerable patio11. The types soft skills it takes to to be effective in the kinda crappy jobs described by the author can command much better remuneration in any number of other roles, and soci
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by jt-hill 1y ago
Wait, this is Andy Weir? Like, that Andy Weir? Like, The Martian and Project Hail Mary Andy Weir? I had no idea.
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by jt-hill 1y ago
It's funny, I instantly recognized that iconic atrium when they used it in Severance and my poor wife had to suffer through an explanation of the history of Bell Labs when she was just trying to watch her TV show.
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by jt-hill 1y ago
I agree that holding the line and failing the whole class if the whole class deserves it is the only hope universities have of breaking the feedback loop, but the author seems to think that represents an insurmountable coordination problem.
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by jt-hill 1y ago
I remember this frustration clearly. It's valuable to be challenged and struggle and overcome, but the value of a perfect GPA is a lot more salient.
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by jt-hill 1y ago
Goodhart's Law in action
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by jt-hill 1y ago
I can't respond to any specifics of the documentary, but it looks to me like the universities themselves are the biggest cultivators of this perception, with the goal of increased enrollment. If a college degree wasn't so importan
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by jt-hill 1y ago
I agree that the trend is not sustainable, but that's not the students' responsibility — they're just responding to incentives. Either institutions maintain their standards or employers stop relying on the signaling value of

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