mahidhar

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by mahidhar 3mo ago
Well, unlike a human, I cannot expect any these LLMs to take any ownership of the work they do. I cannot expect any given model and version (sonnet 4.6) to learn, improve and adapt over time. I cannot expect it's limitations to ever go
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by mahidhar 3y ago
https://archive.is/X8ih6
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by mahidhar 3y ago
I remember watching his Google talk[0] several years ago while learning vim. RIP and thank you for your contributions. [0] https://youtu.be/eX9m3g5J-XA
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by mahidhar 4y ago
Agreed. Recently I was discussing the same point with a non-technical friend who was explaining that his CTO had decided to move from Digital Ocean to AWS, after DO experienced some outage. Apparently the CEO is furious at him and has assum
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10M Rows of data analyzed using Excel's Data Model [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mahidhar 4y ago|0 comments
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It’s Time to Get over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have (2015)(bigmachine.io)
4 points by mahidhar 4y ago|3 comments
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by mahidhar 5y ago
If you have a couple of hours to spare, I recommend listening to the episode of the Songhai Empire by the Fall of Civilizations podcast. They go into the fascinating historical background of the Timbuktu scholars and libraries. Link: < h
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by mahidhar 5y ago
Actually it's pretty weird. This is a sports blog and content engine. And the author is someone who started this publication. I'm not sure what the motivation/context is at all here.
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by mahidhar 5y ago
I've generally had a little bit more success with mocking when I'm hiding that dependency behind my own interface. So for example in Java, instead of trying to mock the AWS provided class, I write my own class (like a facade or re
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Declarative Memory Management (2019)(fasterthanli.me)
1 points by mahidhar 6y ago|0 comments
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The State of (Full) Text Search in PostgreSQL 12 by Jimmy Angelakos [video](youtube.com)
6 points by mahidhar 7y ago|0 comments
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by mahidhar 7y ago
Unfortunately, I must agree with you that there are definitely some very troubling implications to how WebAssembly might be used to build more effective walled gardens on the web. I can easily imagine a "platform" WASM module whic
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by mahidhar 7y ago
As a fellow web developer, I want to offer a different viewpoint. Firstly, the pros that you listed for the web are equally valid today as they were 7 years ago. But additionally, I want to push back a bit against the "app-ifiction&quo
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by mahidhar 7y ago
So I work with a company where we provide online nutrition consultation to employees from other organisations as part of a larger corporate medical program. Our system has a scheduling system developed in Rails to deal with these appointmen
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by mahidhar 8y ago
An interesting observation in the article is the data structures DSL that the author goes into quite a bit of detail, which is essentially what most Clojure/Lisp developers also talk about. Basically the author points out a lot of bene
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by mahidhar 10y ago
Agreed. One of the common things I use is git add --patch <file>. This allows me to commit changes in a file under different commits, by staging only the parts of the file that I consider as relevant for that commit. A lot of times I