mcqueenjordan

6 ms·

1.
by mcqueenjordan 7mo ago
trueflow - a code review TUI that semantically chunks code changes into reviewable “blocks”, and assembles them into a Merkle tree, so you can have an overlay of reviews of different semantic blocks of your codebase, and feedback the review
2.
by mcqueenjordan 9mo ago
I guess to follow up slightly more: - I think the "if you use another model" rebuttal is becoming like the No True Scotsman of the LLM world. We can get concrete and discuss a specific model if need be. - If the use case is "
3.
by mcqueenjordan 9mo ago
As usual with Oxide's RFDs, I found myself vigorously head-nodding while reading. Somewhat rarely, I found a part that I found myself disagreeing with: > Unlike prose, however (which really should be handed in a polished form to an
4.
by mcqueenjordan 10mo ago
The jankiness of the original had a lot of charm, almost selling the dystopian absurdity of trying to deploy a service via the janky voice and slightly desync'd audio and animation. I don't think it's just nostalgia, because
5.
by mcqueenjordan 1y ago
Presumably cargo clippy --fix was the intention. Not all things are fixable, though, which is where LLMs are reasonable for -- the squishy hard-to-autofix things.
6.
by mcqueenjordan 1y ago
If you want to do great work, that usually happens in environments with minimized politics. It's probably bad career advice to completely avoid politics (most places aren't doing great work) but it depends on what you're opti
7.
by mcqueenjordan 1y ago
One of my favorite LLM uses is to feed it this essay, then ask it to assume the persona of the grug-brained developer and comment on $ISSUE_IM_CURRENTLY_DEALING_WITH. Good stress relief.
8.
by mcqueenjordan 1y ago
I haven't read all the comments and I'm sure someone else made a similar point, but my first thought was the flip the direction of the statement: "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft /because/ people are willing
9.
Amazon S3 Express One Zone reduces storage and request prices(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by mcqueenjordan 1y ago|0 comments
10.
by mcqueenjordan 1y ago
Usually if you’re using it, it’s because you’re forced to. In my experience, the best strategy is to minimize your use of it — call out to binaries or shell scripts and minimize your dependence on any of the GHA world. Makes it easier to te
11.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
This is a silly extreme case, but it's kind of an absurd example of what happens when you live a life devoid of the principle of charity[1]. I think tons of interpersonal engineering issues boil down to a failure to apply this principl
12.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
Yeah, I more or less agree about the closed loop part and the overall broader point the article was making in this context — that it may be a useful use case. I think it’s likely that process creates a lot of horseshit that passes through t
13.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
> But I just checked and, unsurprisingly, 4o seems to do reasonably well at generating Semgrep rules? Like: I have no idea if this rule is actually any good. But it looks like a Semgrep rule? This is the thing with LLMs. When you’re not
14.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
It’s just not that big of a mystery. It’s not an excuse; it’s just true. Also, they’re not especially selling reliability as much as they’re selling small geo-distributed deployments.
15.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
Reliability is hard when your volume is (presumably) scaling geometrically.
16.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
Based on the ole' joke about outfitting custom planes, "If you want to do anything to a plane... /anything/..., it's 250. New coffee machine? 250k. Rotate the sofa? 250k." -- $149,072 for a soap dispenser might
17.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
Transcript link here if you prefer text: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/...
18.
Rust and C++ with Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter [audio](softwareengineeringdaily.com)
70 points by mcqueenjordan 2y ago|55 comments
19.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
The topic came up again and maybe this has been changing lately. I downgrade my above comment. I still think that it got popular in the U.S. first and then propagated back to Japan but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
20.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
Most Japanese people do not use this term, and I'm fairly certain most Japanese people don't even really know the word. This is one of those "Big in Japan" things, except, uh, "Big outside Japan". Source: live
21.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
I think it's a mix of: 1. Queues are actually used a lot, esp. at high scale, and you just don't hear about it. 2. Hardware/compute advances are outpacing user growth (e.g. 1 billion users 10 years ago was a unicorn; 1 billio
22.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
s3 is not optimized to directly serve websites, but to durably store and retrieve ~unlimited data.
23.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
I prefer AuthN and AuthZ. I don't think sharing a prefix/root implies that they're the same thing. Also, I don't think the suggested "permissions" and "login" terminology would work for all AuthN&#x2F
24.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
Yeah, you can avoid holding the xact with the means that you mentioned, e.g. SKIP LOCKED and set some value to PROCESSING, then do your processing, then update to DONE at the end. Or as you mentioned, timestamps. I think the SKIP LOCKED par
25.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
I personally think polling the queue/table via queries is a very sensible pattern and not something I have a desire to remove. In theory, you could go at it via a push approach by wiring into the WAL or something but that comes with it
26.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
Got it, thanks for the reply. The feature flag cache reload use case seems like reasonable one to me.
27.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
Other than the space for past notifications and/or having to issue a DELETE, are there significant reasons to prefer this over the typical table-based approach with SKIP LOCKED queries to poll the queue? It seems to me that if the list
28.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
And just to add a small clarification since I had to double take: this isn't exactly-once delivery (which isn't possible), this is exactly-once processing. But even exactly-once processing generally has issues, so it's better
29.
by mcqueenjordan 2y ago
I find the posturing as a thought leader and industry leader (on this topic especially) a bit ironic. A cloud provider licensing ARM Neoverse and throwing an ARM chip into their cloud compute boxes is not exactly a novel business practice.
30.
by mcqueenjordan 3y ago
Exploring the concept of files > app deeper, it would be interesting if we were able to foster a culture of website apps writing to local storage with files (in a similar manner to Obsidian), and if we had a common format for doing so, w

More ›