karparov

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by karparov 1y ago
Discussing is obviously fine. But sometimes some innocent blog posts get criticised as if they claimed that they solved world hunger. They don't. They are often just some random thought in a rarely-read blog. Nobody intended to go conv
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by karparov 1y ago
It takes more than a few minutes, yes. But this one-time investment will prevent the next 10 migration-related bugs that he'll otherwise blog about. Grab some representative data from production and keep feeding that into your migratio
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by karparov 1y ago
Pre-populate the db.
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by karparov 1y ago
Tbf, it's not their fault it made it to the HN front page. Are we going to criticise every little innocent blog post just because somebody liked it, submitted it to HN and it got enough upvotes?
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by karparov 1y ago
> This wasn’t caught by the existing test suite (even though it runs almost 200 end-to-end tests), because it always starts from an empty database, applies all migrations and only then runs the test code. Isn't that where the test c
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by karparov 1y ago
Twice a year? That's only recommended by dentists in north america because most insurances cover it because of lobby pressure. Every 1-2 years fully suffices, depending on your risk profile (smoker, genetics, ...). That's what cou
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by karparov 1y ago
Or just not consume any water.
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by karparov 1y ago
As a random US citizen, chances are high though that you voted Trump and are ok with all this nonsense. So, should be ok?
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by karparov 1y ago
As a European who has lived in both countries I can only laugh at this. From our perspective, US and Canada are 99% identical, culturally.
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by karparov 1y ago
It's also restricting the freedom of communities if you ban them from adding fluoride to their water if they like to. This ban is anti-freedom. (Just like forcing them could be argued to be, even though that's what you argued agai
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by karparov 1y ago
"Receive messages on Signal via a simple API. Perfect for notifications and alerts." is not "how it works" but "how you use it". This is "hacker news". A hacker is typically interested in how somethin
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by karparov 1y ago
"... seeking the truth ..." Hahaha, ha ha, ha... Maybe more accurate to say "spreading my truth".
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by karparov 1y ago
You built this? Would you like to comment what your future plans are? Your self-description is "entrepreneur love for automation". Is it fair to assume that if this takes off then you are planning to introduce paid plans (perhaps
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by karparov 1y ago
Who is behind this and how does it work? Why is this information not present on the front page? And why does somebody who thinks people would start using and relying on it not immediately understand that that's important information?
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by karparov 1y ago
> Damn, local LLM just made it up. > I just searched for the quote and my comment shows up as top result Welcome to the future. Isn:t it lovely? And shame on you (as in: HN crowd) to have contributed to it so massively. You should hav
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by karparov 1y ago
That code-gen would be fantastic. I have commercial applications for this, so I'll keep an eye on your space.
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by karparov 1y ago
> and we don't know how it does it We know quite well how it does it. It's applying extrapolation to its lossily compressed representation. It's not magic and especially the HN crowd of technical profficient folks should s
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by karparov 1y ago
It's the exact opposite of math. Math postulates a bunch of axioms and then studies what follows from them. Natural science observes the world and tries to retroactively discover what laws could describe what we're seeing. In math
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by karparov 1y ago
It's been there in programming from essentially the first day too. People skip the theory and just get hacking. Otherwise we'd all be writing Haskell now. Or rather we'd not be writing anything since a real compiler would sti
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by karparov 1y ago
In my experience, even if people knew, they just don't care. Most people I talk to about this, tech and non-tech folk have an attitude with a.mix of "you can't escape this anyway, so might as well embrace it" and "m
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by karparov 1y ago
> That’s what the type system is for: a means of grouping similar bits of information into an easy-to-use whole. While types can be used for that, they are a much broader concept. I would say the general purpose of types is to tell apple
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by karparov 1y ago
Prominent definitely. But researcher? Does he actually research anything? He just claims lots of things. He is half-way to being a fiction author, just that he would never acknowledge that.
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by karparov 2y ago
That all may be the case. But these two arguments are working against each other. One is to work on a super low spec machine because things were really expensive and the tech scrap in Mexico at the time just didn't have anything better
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by karparov 2y ago
Sure. Not common, but possible. Still 8x as much as what I responded to, and thereby even as an uncommon case an order of magnitude more. Further contributing to my point.
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by karparov 2y ago
When somebody questions a description that by the face of it violates general sanity checks then you (and others reading along) can often contribute more to the discussion by providing the context in which it makes sense, rather than berati
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by karparov 2y ago
CD-ROMs and only 128k of RAM? Sorry, that doesn't pass the smell test. Once CD-ROMs were available, 2-digit megabytes of RAM were standard (and affordable) for home PCs.
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by karparov 2y ago
Excellent point. Why would a move a certain crowd likes be out of principle and when the tide turned and a move in the opposite direction happens suddenly be just opportunism? The more realistic/neutral interpretation is that it's
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by karparov 2y ago
Yes. And your point being ...?
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by karparov 2y ago
Depends on the company. I've seen the opposite case were such a person was let go, much to everybody's relief. Some people had to clean up his mess, which was genius in the sense that it worked flawlessly, but nobody else could ma
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by karparov 2y ago
It's not just some govt. form. It's literally about using it as a reason to ban the world's largest news agency from govt. press briefings.

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