mulmboy

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by mulmboy 5d ago
People are usually surprised to hear that polars can be slower for fairly pedestrian operations, especially with smaller datasets. For example take a 5000 x 3 dataframe of float64 and sort by one column and you'll find polars takes abo
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by mulmboy 1mo ago
Yes I think his stance works well for established contributors who have a reputation. For infrequent contributors, with no rep, it's a large liability to try to figure out if their plausible-at-a-glance work is actually slop. Such a li
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by mulmboy 1mo ago
What I'm trying to get at is if a PR comes in that looks decent at a glance, well in the past that was a strong signal and now it's not. But you can fall back on the relationship you have with the author. Trust , reputation. In OS
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by mulmboy 1mo ago
A good middle ground is to have a large PR open for reference, and then split sections of it out into separate PRs. This way you get nice reviewable chunks while also having the broader context. This is similar to stacked PRs except that it
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by mulmboy 1mo ago
Yes this. As an author I see it as my responsibility to socialise my work early and get buy in from reviewers. The more I think about PR review, which I've been doing a lot lately thanks to AI, the more I see it as social in nature. Bu
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by mulmboy 2mo ago
I went to build an open source app from GitHub and was pretty surprised that it requires Xcode and that Xcode can't really be installed without an apple id. I do not want to make one and I certainly will not sign my computer into one.
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by mulmboy 2mo ago
Very difficult to take seriously when the entire site appears to be AI-written.
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by mulmboy 2mo ago
There's a cluster of issues like comments like "use a set instead of ..." after changing something which will just confuse people in the future. Or comments referring to irrelevant details of the planning/implementation
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by mulmboy 5mo ago
There are a few hints in the doc around this > Importantly, we find that when used in an interactive, synchronous, “hands-on-keyboard” pattern, the benefits of the model were less clear. When used in this fashion, some users perceived My
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by mulmboy 8mo ago
What I'm saying is that a corporate or professional environment can make people communicate in weird ways due to various incentives. Reading into people's communication is an important skill in these kinds of environments, and loo
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by mulmboy 8mo ago
People more often say that to save face by implying the issue you identified would be reasonable for the author to miss because it's subtle or tricky or whatever. It's often a proxy for embarrassment
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by mulmboy 8mo ago
Because it's a good heuristic for a functional and resilient team. People don't usually means it literally, more like "if I disappeared it should be pretty painless for the team to continue along for a month or so and to find
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by mulmboy 8mo ago
LLMs aren't like you or me. They can comprehend large quantities of code quickly and piece things together easily from scattered fragments. so go to reference etc become much less important. Of course though things change as the number
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by mulmboy 9mo ago
I'm well ware that they can be sycophantic, and I structure things to avoid that like asking "what do you think of this problem" and seeing the idea fall out rather than providing anything that would suggest it. In one of the
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by mulmboy 9mo ago
> AI seems to have caught up to my own intelligence even in those narrow domains where I have some expertise. What is there left that AI can’t do that I would be able to verify? The last few days I've been working on some particular
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by mulmboy 9mo ago
Is it just me or is codex slow ? With claude code I'll ask it to read a couple of files and do x similar to existing thing y. It takes a few moments to read files and then just does it. All done in a minute or so. I tried something si
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by mulmboy 9mo ago
What do these look like?
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by mulmboy 10mo ago
> Everything it does can be done reasonable well with list comprehensions and objects that support type annotations and runtime type checking (if needed). I see this take somewhat often, and usually with similar lack of nuance. How do yo
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by mulmboy 10mo ago
Yes and anyone who knows anything about software dev knows that the first thing you should do with an important repo is set up branch protections to disallow that, and require reviews etc. Basic CI/CD. This incident reflects extremely
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by mulmboy 10mo ago
It does largely avoid the issue if you configure to allow only specific environments AND you require reviews before pushing/merging to branches in that environment. https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/adding-a
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by mulmboy 10mo ago
Along with a bunch of limitations that make it useless for anything but trivial use cases https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/structured... I've found structured output APIs to be a pain ac
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by mulmboy 1y ago
Big missing piece - what was the impact of the degraded quality? Was it 1% worse / unnoticeable? Did it become useless? The engineering is interesting but I'd like to see it tied to actual impact
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by mulmboy 1y ago
We operate a saas where a common step is inputting rates of widgets in $/widget, $/widget/day, $/1kwidgets, etc etc. These are incredibly tedious and error prone to enter. And usually the source of these rates is an invo
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by mulmboy 1y ago
I gave it a shot just now with a fairly simple refactor. +19 lines, -9 lines, across two files. Totally ballsed it up. Defined one of the two variables it was meant to, referred to the non-implemented one. I told it "hey you forgot th
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by mulmboy 1y ago
Nice. Can run with `uvx --from lmnr-index --python 3.12 index run`
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by mulmboy 1y ago
Are there string prefixes for i18n stuff?
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by mulmboy 1y ago
What MCP servers do you use?
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by mulmboy 1y ago
I have found LLMs to be very good at the kind of code -> diagram task presented here. Fire up superwhisper[1] and stream-of-consciousness away about why you want the diagram, which bits are important, who the audience is, and so on. Then
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by mulmboy 1y ago
Nice btw with claude desktop you can easily hack it to auto-allow MCP, save yourself from clicking "allow" all the time. Dangerous of course if you auto-approve write actions! https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI
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by mulmboy 1y ago
Yeah I get this. Often I'll prompt it like "my intern looked at this and said maybe you should x. What do you think?" Seems to help.

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