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by rockmeamedee 1mo ago
It's very very important to note that there was an existing 2025 arxiv preprint that had a >66% proof assuming some weak condition, and this result removes that weak condition. It didn't do this whole 41.6->67.2% jump by its
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by rockmeamedee 1mo ago
I hate this. The style of LLM-written prose is unbearable, and I found several mistakes. This is "dazzle them with bullshit details" with no understanding behind it. I assume the book this post is marketing is also AI slop too and
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by rockmeamedee 2mo ago
For Bun to not have torched its reputation among its users, it would have had to publish this blog post _before_ pressing merge on that PR. That's what underlies most of the vitriolic reaction to the events, it was done really in a rea
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by rockmeamedee 2mo ago
Reminds me of the "mathematical proof that there is no least interesting number". Because if there was a "least interesting number", that would make it interesting: it would have this unique property of being "the
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by rockmeamedee 3mo ago
I don’t understand. Gitoxide exists and is great. It might have missing pieces, but it’s easier to vibecode any needed networking additions to Gitoxide (which is maintained) than to just go and burn tokens trying to clone all of git again.
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by rockmeamedee 3mo ago
https://github.com/amedeedaboville/mish A mosh clone that uses QUIC as the transport layer so it can do both “unreliable datagrams” like UDP and also a TCP-like reliable stream, so it has scrollback buffer. Also QUIC
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by rockmeamedee 6mo ago
What does this mean, that you can take Kimi and RL finetune it a little more and blow the big AI shops out of the water? Would this have been extensively fine tuned, beyond what Anthropic/OAI would do themselves? I guess this is Cursor
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by rockmeamedee 6mo ago
I had no idea, but this "wiggle" is required for an optimal approximation, it's called the "equioscillation property" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equioscillation_theorem ]. For a polynomial P
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by rockmeamedee 8mo ago
I'm interested in the topic, and the book cover looks great, so I'll probably read it. But it seems a bit "Maintenance: For Boys". The items mentioned on this page are "the maintenance of sailboats, vehicles, and we
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by rockmeamedee 1y ago
Yeah, uv is cool and a step above conda, but that business model doesn’t look very profitable… They did say they want their thing to have understanding of the code, so maybe they’ll sell semgrep-like features and SBOM/compliance on top
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by rockmeamedee 1y ago
yeah but they're still >50% off SFBA salaries. SFBA comp for a sr dev can easily be $200k+ (and can go higher, lots of anecdotes on here about $350k+ salaries at BigtechCos), for an EU dev scratching 90k euro is considered "goo
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by rockmeamedee 1y ago
Oh this is great! I always have this problem. I find that's one of my biggest barriers when reading queueing theory content. I'm only doing it intermittently so I don't have memorized the meanings of ρ,σ,μ,λ... Visually I als
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by rockmeamedee 1y ago
I too made a version of this (just a small Go DNS resolver + port forwarding proxy) that lets you do a similar thing: https://gitlab.com/amedeedabo/zoxy I used the .z domain bc it's quick to type and it looks &quo
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by rockmeamedee 1y ago
Fastest growing but because they participated in a pay-for-play kickback scheme [1][2]? So that number isn't really signal. Now that they're not paying CISOs to adopt the product they're not going to be growing as fast. [1]
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by rockmeamedee 1y ago
Idk man. It's a nice idea, but it has to be 10x better than what we currently have to overcome the ecosystem advantages of the existing tech. In practice, people in the frontend world already use Apollo/Relay/Tanstack Query t
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by rockmeamedee 3y ago
Like a non-toy version of this: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ar-synth/7AUBadCIL5T...
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The Missing Middle in Tech Education(amedee.me)
3 points by rockmeamedee 4y ago|0 comments
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Debugging Is Science(amedee.me)
1 points by rockmeamedee 4y ago|1 comments
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by rockmeamedee 4y ago
As a regular programmer, I got really into queuing theory thinking I was going to learn secrets of performance tuning, then was slightly disappointed. But it turns out the simple parts of it go a long way! Eg at work we have a single deplo
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by rockmeamedee 5y ago
The number one thing that got me to senior engineer, and will get me to staff as I improve (though staff has more of a relationship management component) is emotional management. Staying in a long debugging session without ragequitting and
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by rockmeamedee 5y ago
The term "crisis response" will get you info on PR crises and brings to mind the TV show Scandal. The term you want for our field is "Incident Response", and the practice of 1)preventing them and 2)handling them 3)learni
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by rockmeamedee 6y ago
There's apparently a bananas crunch/backstory to this, where they committed to Swift before realizing they would hit its limits, and had to come up with a bunch of this optimization madness on the fly. I guess this is the cleaned
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by rockmeamedee 6y ago
The post says The new API to cast in an unsafe manner is: let x: f32 = 1.0; let y: u8 = unsafe { x.to_int_unchecked() }; But as always, you should only use this method as a last resort. Just like with array access, the compiler
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by rockmeamedee 6y ago
This is pretty weak. It mentions redlining, quotes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but then mostly argues that Twitter's filter on Trump's tweet made it spread wider, the reverse of the action they wanted, implying they did the wrong action,
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by rockmeamedee 6y ago
This is a very lucid piece on PL adoption in general. When I think about programming languages, I do think rather emotionally (which is fine, emotions are early warning systems). I liked the linked author's points about the pre-requisi
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by rockmeamedee 6y ago
https://flexi.chat , a videoconferencing app where you can have a schedule and flexible speaking formats. For example, you can have everyone in the meeting speak one after the other (the app handles muting and un-muting the right
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by rockmeamedee 6y ago
Kalman filters. The explanations always start easy and then get too confusing.
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by rockmeamedee 6y ago
Yeah, I too am tired of projects named mean-ly. Git, dolt, LAME, Gimp... DWARF is borderline, even if it has historical reasons (being based on ELF) it's not nice to hear out of context. Even if it's a joke on yourself, just like
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by rockmeamedee 7y ago
It's a common thread in Incident Response & "Resilience Engineering" that preventative measures that reduce the blast of incidents are always blamed, especially if they work. Whatever ends up working to fix the incident,
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by rockmeamedee 7y ago
Big ups! I use this all the time in winter while waiting for the 55. I definitely assumed you worked at Ubisoft across the street! Btw, from some experience spending cold winters looking at it, it flickers a lot by having so many screen cha

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