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by rtpg 4mo ago
it's kinda shocking how both WSL2 file perf and Docker for Mac file perf are so horrendously bad that you can just tank performance and have a 3x better local dev setup on most projects by using "normal" Linux.... and yet it&
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by rtpg 4mo ago
what's the argument for it being a scam?
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by rtpg 4mo ago
> `fe80::1%a;whoami>${PATH:0:1}tmp${PATH:0:1}pwned` is a valid IPv6 IP, and if you did `ping fe80::1%a;whoami>${PATH:0:1}tmp${PATH:0:1}pwned`, you'd have the output of `whoami` written to /tmp/pwned. Is this really a
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by rtpg 4mo ago
Because people are interested in whether they, personally, could find a way to live longer. And so if you find places where you have bubbles of people who seem to cross a threshhold not really crossed in other places, you might tell yoursel
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by rtpg 4mo ago
I think 2017 is the big thing here. We had those early "blessed by Apple" USB-C LG monitors. Garbage when it came to connectivity. Same with docks and the like. We're now 9 years later so... I think it's all better now t
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by rtpg 4mo ago
I remember really bumping up against this learning OCaml in college after having experienced oodles of imperative programming. I understand the sort of philosophy and ergonomics of not having an early return, but it really does hurt certain
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by rtpg 4mo ago
to put a finer point on this: I pay for certain newspapers (well, digital subscriptions). Still plenty of ads in the articles!
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by rtpg 4mo ago
It sounds like this isn't a cost problem but a supply problem. At one point a 20% reduction in inputs has to affect some output.
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by rtpg 4mo ago
I do wonder if it'll ever be possible to get Rust tests to feel as nice to write as, say, test suites in Python or Ruby. I might just be missing a lot of helpers, but a part of me really wants to use a test metalanguage that (for examp
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by rtpg 4mo ago
> When programming in Node I find in practice async and "colored functions" no issue especially with async await. Except for performance issues they come with sometimes but not at a programming level. JS solves this problem in
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by rtpg 4mo ago
> It's easy to call low-restriction functions from high-restriction ones and not the other way around. do you have an example in mind when you say this? I think there's some unique messes with async/await (especially when
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by rtpg 4mo ago
My sample size is pretty small but when I've witnessed people (both PMs and engineers) "design through AI" I have seen two flavors: - aimless AI wandering, leading to pretty, frankly, useless design docs - using AI to "e
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by rtpg 4mo ago
tbh I'm just confused at why people ask AI to design features. Do you not know how to design a feature? Do you not know what you want? This stuff works so much better when you just tell it what to do
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by rtpg 4mo ago
I kinda like react with hooks but I do miss Angular 1 watches. Explicit watch expressions solve a loooot of spurious rerendering nonsense that makes for a lot of churn Ultimately I think React makes it too hard for the performant solution t
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by rtpg 4mo ago
yeah nobody "has to know", especially if everyone else is also rebasing etc constantly.
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by rtpg 4mo ago
> Still haven't found a decent thai or indian restaurant in Japan, and probably never will, given the general aversion for strong spices. are you not in Tokyo? Because “no decent Thai restaurant in Tokyo” is a wild claim You can get
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by rtpg 4mo ago
It’s all kinda silly because there’s a “quantity is quality” thing going on with pizza and a lot of “commoner food”. But Tokyo has a loooooooot of good food from various places, and a lot of people with money willing to spend 5 bucks a slic
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by rtpg 4mo ago
The distinction here is on application vs library, IMO. I basically agree that applications, as a default, `==`'ing everything makes sense. For libraries, having loose bounds might mean that users upgrade and hit issues due to a lack o
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by rtpg 4mo ago
Makes sense, yeah.
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by rtpg 4mo ago
> no way to delete an account you create In here it sounds like this is a client to a third party service. Mail.app and Thunderbird don't have buttons to delete my Gmail account I do agree all of this seems basically like "sure
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by rtpg 4mo ago
what is the value of an "update or insert" call on `Map`? is that not just set? `getOrInsert` here seems to be the Python "set_default" method on dicts, which is very useful at avoiding tedium in some basic data munging
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by rtpg 4mo ago
There's something quite illuminating with this first "horror", where they basically say "it's OK to report wrong answers, because you can check the answers". I don't think I've ever felt like it'
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by rtpg 4mo ago
Global styling done messily can override local styling. It’s the hardest kind of problem to reason about! I do think that stuff like bootstrap is generally good at avoiding this but it only takes a handful of improperly scoped high level CS
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by rtpg 4mo ago
I think it's obvious that multi terabyte repos are not the norm.
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by rtpg 4mo ago
what are token speeds like for frontier models, if that gives a rough idea of how much "slower" slow is?
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by rtpg 4mo ago
int d = foo ? bar() : baz(); I think if anything people have been leaning more and more into expressions over statements, because when everything is an expression you end up being able to walk the gradient of complexity a bit more nicely th
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by rtpg 4mo ago
So with CPython's reference counting, if you're good at not building strong cycles, you really can avoid garbage pressure. It's not even that complicated, it's mostly a question of making a weak reference _somewhere_ alo
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by rtpg 4mo ago
We've been chasing down similar aiohttp client creation issues (liked to ...aiobotocore usage) for months now. It's annoying that somehow talking to S3 etc requires so much churn. We have been trying to cache session objects and t
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by rtpg 4mo ago
What kinda harness do people use with these local models? I am quite happy with the Claude Code permission model and interface in general for coding stuff (For chat-y interfaces I have no real opinion)
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by rtpg 5mo ago
It really isn't if you don't have the right abstractions. Especially for memory management the right and wrong abstractions in Rust can lead to a factor of 5 or 10 extra amount of difficulty. The right memory management abstractio

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