lhnz

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by lhnz 10mo ago
Records and Tuples were scrapped, but as this is JavaScript, there is a user-land implementation available here: https://github.com/seanmorris/libtuple
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by lhnz 1y ago
Out of interest, why is it a nightmare to use? I've always been worried about how overly clever the approach is, does it have problems?
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by lhnz 2y ago
If it weren't for JavaScript we'd still be downloading binaries and running them unsandboxed on our computers.
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by lhnz 2y ago
I have lots of HTTP endpoints that we poll with a cursor but actually the underlying data is very large (we work with snapshots of it) and updates very frequently and eventually we'll move to something else (e.g. interact directly with
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by lhnz 2y ago
Do you have plans to make the data sources pluggable instead of being Kafka specific?
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by lhnz 2y ago
Is this something you'd need to download and install ROMs to use?
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by lhnz 2y ago
It's bittersweet. It seems likely to me that the US government didn't really want an open trial due to the possibility of scrutiny and that indefinite detention without trial followed by setting the legal precedent that aiding and
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by lhnz 2y ago
I'm surprised that an executive or lawyer didn't realise the reputational damage adding these clauses would eventually cause the leadership team. Were they really stupid enough to think that the amount of money being offered would
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by lhnz 3y ago
If I can sit down at any table in my house and get a multi-monitor setup without needing to buy multiple 4K screens then it'll win me over. However, in practice, I do not think the hardware will be high enough quality for me to want th
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by lhnz 3y ago
These aren't "the rules of capitalism" they are just maximally self-interested hubristic behaviours by companies with monopolies. Capitalism doesn't have rules; states have rules. Capitalism has market incentives and sta
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by lhnz 3y ago
I don't want my family to know I spent 3 hours chatting about the Holy Roman Empire.
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by lhnz 3y ago
This is probably correct but I'd prefer that family don't read the conversations I've had, as even if I'm not saying anything too private, it feels too intrusive (it'd be a bit like reading my inner thoughts).
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by lhnz 3y ago
I did land a job making applications for an HFT firm and while I don't think that being able to implement data structures or write my own algorithms is necessarily what will allow me to keep this job, recently I somewhat regularly us
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by lhnz 3y ago
I'm the OP (of this thread). The main issue caused by the industry-wide hiring freezes wasn't necessarily income but work/team quality. I've been in the top-10% of incomes in my country for more than 5 years and the top-
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by lhnz 3y ago
You are right in theory. But instead of trying to predict the future I'm trying to be descriptive about what has changed so far (very little) and why (mostly advertisers + debt driven by buy-out).
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by lhnz 3y ago
I think this is very unfair. In the few months that I was looking, I put in more than 300 hours of study. It wasn't superficial and I didn't attempt to memorize anything — I wanted to understand fundamental techniques, and put a c
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by lhnz 3y ago
Features are both being added and removed. Actually, the main difference is that more feature are being added than were before, but this is being done in a more haphazard way. Sometimes things appear to break but are then fixed. It's n
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by lhnz 3y ago
These issues are caused by (1) the buy-out by Elon Musk involving a large amount of debt, and (2) Elon Musk annoying "woke" advertisers who have subsequently deserted the platform. The actual engineering hasn't been as affect
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by lhnz 3y ago
Honestly, I could feel it. In 2023, I practiced ~200 leetcode problems and learned how to create an LLM but I felt like I was the least employable I'd ever been. It was very difficult to get interviews, and even though I managed to get
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by lhnz 3y ago
I don't think you disagree with me. For larger projects, like infrastructure projects, very detailed designs are used and contracts that disallow substitutions or alterations to the design without contractual agreement. I'm talkin
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by lhnz 3y ago
I agree that it would be fatalistic to not try to improve the situation using technology, I'm just trying to explain what happens as you try to do so with more planning.
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by lhnz 3y ago
This is a negative outcome of the Town and Country Planning Act. We've mandated by law that all planning is done upfront and due to the possibility of construction fraud provide detailed designs to building contractors that disallow th
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by lhnz 3y ago
The design and planning process for UK infrastructure is already notoriously expensive and we already do significantly more "planning" than we used to do 100 years ago (when we were actually capable of rapidly building high qualit
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by lhnz 3y ago
It's very difficult to make thousands of up-front planning decisions perfectly. It'd be even more costly to try to perfect every aspect upfront within the planning stage and it'd be more reasonable to make best attempts but t
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by lhnz 3y ago
Interesting that some of the stickers contain significant white elements. Is the material used less likely to mark? Actually, I'm not sure that these are stickers. Maybe it's paint. If it's a sticker it'd be very difficu
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by lhnz 3y ago
I think they intend for their tactics to cause damage, but I do not think that they have set forwards reasonable evidence for their proceedings, or even been clear what they consider illegal or whether it's merely a case of them disall
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by lhnz 3y ago
I don't think that you need VCs to be rational for what I'm saying to be true. LPs will see this as reducing the likelihood of making their money back via investing in VCs -- or at least, this is a reasonable theses, and those tha
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by lhnz 3y ago
Counterintuitively this will lead to more monopolies since with less likelihood of "exiting" startups via mergers and acquisitions there'll be reduced interest in venture capital and therefore fewer startups capitalised to th
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by lhnz 3y ago
The EU's Digital Services Act permits the gathering of evidence and enforcement activities to be conducted confidentially behind closed doors. It does not require the EU to make their evidence available to the public, particularly when
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by lhnz 3y ago
1. His credentials are literally relevant to the evaluation that he is "some guy" and therefore not able to weigh in on free speech and related technology regulation. Specifically, this is his area of interest and he is capable of

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