mrbald

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by mrbald 1y ago
Reading makes your writing better, listening makes your accent smoother. Nothing wrong with using ChatGPT for automating what you understand is a pain, just don’t automate what you do not understand yet, same as with any outsourcing. Not u
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by mrbald 1y ago
A Team-as-a-Service? Would be interesting to be able to create a Python script acting like a team of sales, project management, and engineering working together with telemetry and KPIs dashboard on top. If not to deliver anything useful the
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by mrbald 1y ago
More like have easier to assess legality status.
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by mrbald 1y ago
We (humanity) need to invent a simple GPLv3 style license “You can derive any data on the data you see here, any derived data you sell or share should mention this place as a source and is subject to the same copyright as the source”. This
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by mrbald 1y ago
I myself almost exclusively use LLMs as a scoping/pathfinding tool, an extremely powerful version of search engine and a ultimately knowledgeable sparring partner if you will, did not even dare tasking it to write production code (so o
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by mrbald 2y ago
Central counterparty concept implemented by most exchanges is a valid service, as otherwise counterparty risk management would be a nightmare - an example of a useful “middleman”.
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by mrbald 4y ago
No, their python support repository readme explicitly tells it’s highly experimental.
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by mrbald 5y ago
Looks like every man and his dog is an expert on North Koreans. Did it occur to you that most citizen there are hostages of the own state and may be fighting hard to get a piece of bread on the table? I highly doubt they give a shit to the
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by mrbald 6y ago
Code should have a hierarchical structure, so one could read it on the high level of abstraction and also zoom in gradually, as necessary — this is what they usually mean by “code is the documentation”, plan the reading process as you plan
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by mrbald 6y ago
"make sure it's something that can actually be checked" -- I'd love to find out about a sane (not purely academic, financially viable) way to do it. Since university days I know that a piece of paper is an irreplaceable
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by mrbald 6y ago
Always have a drawn picture, if you cannot draw it you will fail to explain it to others (and to see design gaps) and inevitably everyone will think it’s an over engineered complex shit. Design-wise: The IO multiplexing — event loop(s), the
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by mrbald 6y ago
"If one starts adding a thread here and a mutex there..." -- precisely that!
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by mrbald 6y ago
They are low level abstractions and they don't save from the hardest to debug and fix problems - race conditions and inconsistent states, especially in distributed applications. No mainstream languages give you a solid high level abstr
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by mrbald 6y ago
Problem of getting the concurrency right is very much identical to the problem of getting the system design right. In both cases it takes a lot of hard work to learn how to not produce "dead-borns" or "genetically pre-dispose