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by kuahyeow 5mo ago
Just use blocking/non-blocking. The issue with nitpicks: different reviewers have different definitions of what a "nit" is.
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by kuahyeow 7mo ago
This is a delightful reverse turkey graph (each day before Thanksgiving, the turkey has increasing confidence).
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by kuahyeow 9mo ago
GitLab employee here. We have completed the move away from Gollum years ago (see https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2381 ). It looks like that doc https://docs.gitlab.com/develop
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by kuahyeow 10mo ago
If anyone is interested in this - checkout Richard Behiel's video on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_GSBaUE1o It is fantastically long, but still fascinating !
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by kuahyeow 10mo ago
I think you are ascribing too much into this. If he does not believe anything then there will be nothing to write about. It looks like he does not believe in _your_ ideals - that does not make it nihilism though.
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by kuahyeow 1y ago
Compiler is the more apt analogy to a mechanical loom. An LLM is more like outsourcing to a consultancy. Results may vary.
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by kuahyeow 1y ago
What protection do people use when enabling an LLM to run `bash` on your machine ? Do you run it in a Docker container / LXC boundary ? `chroot` ?
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by kuahyeow 1y ago
I think you need to read the OP again. Not just the pictures at the end.
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by kuahyeow 1y ago
OP does not ban digital screens despite the title. They even play video games ! It's more the en-shittification of the Internet, and other media.
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by kuahyeow 2y ago
I will go one deeper. Are fields (quantum fields) even real, or just a model ?
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by kuahyeow 2y ago
I work from New Zealand, for a quite geographically distributed team. For our team, the solution is partly: 1. "Write everything down" culture. 2. Rotate the regular meetings. For example, a meeting around 1000 UTC for E
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Yes, PostgreSQL Has Problems. But We're Sticking with It(cs.cmu.edu)
2 points by kuahyeow 2y ago|0 comments
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How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)(chelseatroy.com)
109 points by kuahyeow 2y ago|103 comments
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by kuahyeow 3y ago
So AGI will invent fusion, but we need fusion for AGI. Chicken-egg :)
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by kuahyeow 3y ago
Didn't Git have a new default merge strategy, `ort` https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNote... ?
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by kuahyeow 3y ago
Even with kids, I simply do not care about any judgement. 99% of the time, no one on the proverbial soccer field honestly cares about your family setup - they are more worried about what's for dinner.
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by kuahyeow 3y ago
Absolutely this, knowing what's _important_ at the end of the day. Must haves, nice to haves, not needed. We all only have limited lifespans.
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by kuahyeow 3y ago
> Modern cars work, let’s say for the sake of argument, at 98% of what’s physically possible with the current engine design. Modern buildings use just enough material to fulfill their function and stay safe under the given conditions. Al
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by kuahyeow 3y ago
Train new people ! That is the only long term sustainable option.
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by kuahyeow 3y ago
Maybe there's engineers / developers working like this. Most likely it's a reflection of company culture. But there are real-world repercussions of just plain bad working practices * https://www.abc.net.au/new
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by kuahyeow 4y ago
Haha, no - way to stereotype. If you follow that it just leads to non-independent children.
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by kuahyeow 4y ago
Capricious enforcement sucks See also Andor episode 8 (spoilers so I won't post exact details) ;)
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by kuahyeow 4y ago
It is most likely counter-productive, if said software is imposed upon. Best case scenario, you raise a hacker who works around it. If necessary, as others have alluded to, a global timer is best.
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Sigstore - A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software(sigstore.dev)
111 points by kuahyeow 4y ago|27 comments
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by kuahyeow 5y ago
Article author here, and also GitLab team member. If you peek into the source code, I was actually inspired by the ruby-warning gem, and have directly credited it ( https://gitlab.com/search?group_id=9970&project_id=27896
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by kuahyeow 5y ago
> It's so bad that I haven't managed to find a single industry with the same massive amount of stupidity, with the exception of perhaps the fashion industry Perhaps a bit too much hyperbole, but lots of industries have these cy
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by kuahyeow 5y ago
Also, OP, the world is bigger than just the American continent :)
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by kuahyeow 6y ago
> Yet not a single government has published a cost-benefit analysis to justify lockdown policies Enjoy, here's a stackful of documents showing https://covid19.govt.nz/updates-and-resources/legislation-an... how
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by kuahyeow 8y ago
https://whynohttps.com/country/nz Ouch number 5 in NZ is a Credit card payment gateway
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Hiring, firing and more(minnenratta.wordpress.com)
58 points by kuahyeow 8y ago|15 comments

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