manlobster

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by manlobster 2y ago
Golang is sometimes considered a simple language, but it's not really beginner-proof like Java was designed to be. It's a good idea to spend time learning it thoroughly.
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by manlobster 2y ago
Generating the HTML in a container seems like a better solution than ditching the generator altogether.
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Tekton, the ancient Greek word for artisan(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by manlobster 2y ago|2 comments
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by manlobster 2y ago
True, but both of these are for relatively slow operations, where the performance of the error checking is relatively insignificant.
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by manlobster 2y ago
> Here's one of them, which follows a common recommendation in the Go community to use a sentinel error to represent the "value not found" condition. Is this really a common recommendation in the Go community? Seems like r
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by manlobster 2y ago
Do OpenAI employees actually get equity in the company (e.g. options or RSUs)? I was under the impression that the company awards "profit units" of some kind, and that many employees aren't sure how they work.
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by manlobster 2y ago
I don't love the $...$ syntax for executing commands. Using $ as a string delimiter is very strange to my bash-accustomed eyes. It's a shame that they provided such weird syntax for the most important thing you tend to do in a bas
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by manlobster 2y ago
Why does everyone need to live in Palo Alto? There's housing elsewhere. If we built more housing in Palo Alto, it wouldn't be such a nice place to live.
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by manlobster 2y ago
It's not clear to me that every site would have to perform age verification themselves. Seems like the "I am a minor" flag could be managed at the client operating system level (e.g. as a property of the cell account on mobil
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by manlobster 2y ago
I think it would be better if this was a code generator similar to `protoc` for gRPC, so we don't have to learn yet another implementation language.
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by manlobster 2y ago
You could view the trial-by-Leetcode that people undergo when they switch jobs every 4 years or so as a form of relicensing. One advantage that the current setup has over officially proctored examinations is that you get to try again repeat
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by manlobster 2y ago
Looks like all the heavy lifting is being done by webllm [0]. What we have here is basically one of the demos from that. [0] https://webllm.mlc.ai/ .
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by manlobster 2y ago
It's truly amazing how quickly my browser loads 0.6GB of data. I remember when downloading a 1MB file involved phoning up a sysop in advance and leaving the modem on all night. We've come so far.
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by manlobster 2y ago
Googler protests in the past have typically been walk-outs and other outdoor gatherings. This protest took place within the offices. Some of the protestors occupied senior executives' offices for many hours, and had to be removed by th
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by manlobster 2y ago
This seems like a reasonable use of the preprocessor to me. I've seen similar use in high-quality codebases. I wonder why the author is so disgusted by it.
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by manlobster 3y ago
I wonder why they didn't use bazel as their build system.
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by manlobster 3y ago
I worked at Google when the daycare was introduced. At the time, it was so expensive that very few employees could afford to use it. Was that still the case recently?
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by manlobster 3y ago
Great! Love it! Could you add a way to race other people to solve the puzzles?
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by manlobster 3y ago
Test code doesn't have tests of its own, so we must rely on inspection to establish that it is correct. This means that test code must be extremely readable. It would make me uncomfortable to rely on tests like some of the examples in
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by manlobster 3y ago
It would be more productive to focus on the appalling suicide rate among young people, rather than the fact that they used guns.
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by manlobster 3y ago
Also P. G. Wodehouse[0], so it can't be all that bad. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse
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by manlobster 3y ago
You can do `Hello @TheirSlackHandle`.
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by manlobster 3y ago
Given: all(xs + ys) == (all(xs) and all(ys)) And: xs == xs + [] We have: all(xs) == all(xs + []) == all(xs) and all([]) Which implies: all([]) == True.