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by rtpg 23d ago
Bit of a tangent but does anyone have good learning materials on doing things with Emacs Lisp beyond just staring at the source of packages? I have the Mastering Emacs book and read through most of it, which gives me a good idea for some st
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by rtpg 25d ago
I think Qt is a bit different here because of Qt Quick etc but I've tried using "native" GUI frameworks a lot and ultimately the web DOM model is pretty nice for iterating easily. Querying into the DOM and working off of that
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by rtpg 25d ago
I'm having a bit of trouble reading this over understanding the case where I would rather the agent update itself, vs having the agent write out tools and then call those tools. I rarely find myself thinking "ah I need the agent i
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by rtpg 25d ago
OTel has a nice property of working, which sometimes can't be said about vendor stuff. I think the actual APIs kinda smell at the language level, and when Honeycomb decided to lean into otel and deprecate its Python libs I was super sa
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by rtpg 25d ago
We use victoriametrics, but I believe that's just the collector side of it cuz we also query into it with grafana. Datadog isn't just a collector, but the whole querying UI as well, right?
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by rtpg 25d ago
Let's say I type "SomeStructure" and haven't imported it, how does rust glancer _not_ end up poking at all the dependencies to figure out where it is, and to import it? In some sense I feel like that example is the canon
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by rtpg 27d ago
That's fair, at a previous place I worked at we had SFDC integration and there was definitely a lot of restrictions and pain points there. Especially if you're integrating, it's an uphill battle.
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by rtpg 27d ago
Don't you feel like it's still fairly far ahead of other systems, if you buy into the model? I think there are other systems that kinda get there but SFDC is the only one of these kinds of systems that give you a lot of options on
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by rtpg 27d ago
I think the real thing is that software for one _business_ is very much in demand (and a bunch of SaaS exists as a release valve for those use cases). And that stuff is hard to get working
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by rtpg 27d ago
I've been saying it to anyone who cares to listen: Salesforce is basically the biggest "Smalltalk" deployment out there. Super malleable, has a lot of ... decent rules for how to get software out into the world, every environ
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by rtpg 28d ago
Even just B2B vs B2C is a huge split. Plenty of specialized ERPs in the world that have relatively few "butts in seats" users but have a lot of data to work through. Size of the data, read/write ratio, number of "request
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by rtpg 28d ago
3 months since the last stable release feels ... alright. The constant promises for a new stable release feels a bit like a self-own. Having said that I would have a bit more confidence in things if release just got back to a normal pace.
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by rtpg 29d ago
what is the visualisation strategy here? I find post-hoc grouping and plotting in pandas pretty satisfying.
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by rtpg 29d ago
do you have a snippet of what this looks like in R?
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by rtpg 29d ago
Pandas and Polars are both a place where I _really_ would love to have some sort of macro subsystem for Python. `pl.col(...)` is a neat trick for slicing, the pandas `df[df["foo"] == "bar"]` thing has always felt a bit o
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by rtpg 1mo ago
The "obvious" one: supply chain chaos due to everyone and their dog spending as much as possible for AI boxen Every investor being full on AI has lead to big corps massively increasing AI spend, instead of "just" hiring
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I love it. I'm gonna indent anyways for clarity! I'm... not a super fan of rhombus' emphasis on metaprogramming beyond supporting the language itself though.
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by rtpg 1mo ago
I don't know how true that is nowadays, I think if you sign up to Enterprise Cloud you're in the same spot as everyone else (maybe F500 people have their colocated box, but I have the impression that those are the "first clas
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by rtpg 1mo ago
My feeling is that the entire category of research is bad, even if you can end up with good implementations.
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by rtpg 1mo ago
Like 10 years ago I realized that facial recognition research was basically on the same level as weapons research, if not worse. So many nefarious usages. Every researcher and product designer who leaned into this just has helped speedrun t
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by rtpg 1mo ago
does this mean that you can't do `eval`-like things in "production" systems?
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by rtpg 1mo ago
like legit CPUs etc start failing. There's throttling but ultimately even that.... things might have gotten better though, I last had convos with people who did this maybe 6 years ago at this point.
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by rtpg 1mo ago
The thing I've heard with people who do this "at scale" is to expect the phones to burn out. They're made for pretty bursty activity so if you try to do too much on em continuously they start acting weird real quick
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by rtpg 1mo ago
Site.objects.annotate( distance=Degrees(ACos(Cos(.....))), latpoint=float(lat), lngpoint=float(lon), ).order_by("distance")[:5] for function calls, look at django.db.models.functions, you can find a bun
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by rtpg 1mo ago
The one thing I really appreciate with the ORM is that you really can get the ORM to make... more or less any sort of SQL query you want. It can take a while to wrap your head around what fields get used in aggregates and the like, but when
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by rtpg 1mo ago
Could someone explain to me in practice how one would use these to do… a thing? Like a straightforward use case? Having trouble figuring out what these are for
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by rtpg 1mo ago
> Most of the lots are empty. Is this not the same for the data centers? Have data centers solved parking provisioning in a way office parks haven't? > Second, no, these jobs are not generally filled by neighbors of the office co
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by rtpg 1mo ago
Drastically less parking, so way less jobs in the local area right? Like maybe the municipality doesn't care because a lot of jobs are filled by people coming in from an hour away, but surely the inverse of "I am sad because <s
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by rtpg 1mo ago
> nobody moralizes office buildings I do not believe this to be true! I have the impression you keep up with zoning discourse etc in your area based on your posting history... you surely have heard of people complaining about things like
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by rtpg 2mo ago
we had a whole discussion at work around whether to not to use pg for queues at a reasonable size (in particular for doing some notion of fair queueing distribution across tenants). I ended up finding a good number of HN comments like &quot

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