sigmaml

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by sigmaml 8d ago
Hello Shawn! I have been "hear"ing people out, without trying to "help", for over two decades. In case you wish to talk to me, please mail me: Gmail sigma.ml.
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Show HN: "Grid" – a spec-driven framework for coding agents(github.com)
2 points by sigmaml 3mo ago|0 comments
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by sigmaml 11mo ago
The GP probably meant "unclear".
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by sigmaml 1y ago
I strongly second this. In my own experience of about 30 years, I have seen this method to work almost always.
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Ask HN: Is WhatsApp messaging down for group chats?
2 points by sigmaml 1y ago|0 comments
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by sigmaml 2y ago
Did you mean to say "in addition to" rather than "instead of"? If yes, then the answer is: sometimes, depending on the other factors.
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by sigmaml 2y ago
You parsed it incorrectly. It is the other way, in fact. Several times, people do very interesting personal projects, but fail to perform at the same level at work. That gives a clue that it may have been an unsuitable work environment that
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by sigmaml 2y ago
When I interview people, I ask them to describe one of their difficult work projects. I also ask them if they ever developed anything just for fun. I take their responses to both the questions into account when making a decision on taking t
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by sigmaml 3y ago
> We have no way of telling a dynamic universe apart from a static one where we're all just suspended in a single unchanging moment. I am curious to know why you think so. What would you say about repeatably observable causality, in
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by sigmaml 4y ago
> Tangentially, this induces an obvious concern about cheat and cheat-detection arms races. This exists in every domain, and is - perhaps - inevitable. Look at what SEO has done to web search.
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by sigmaml 4y ago
Here is my quick list. - Linux + GNU: My servers would never have been the same without them. - Emacs: So many varied use cases over the years. I can type in Telugu (my mother tongue) and Devanagari so seamlessly ... bliss! - LaTeX: From pa
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by sigmaml 4y ago
A quick question. Have you also included: - storage costs (equivalent of EBS, S3 and Glacier) and - cost of analytics pipelines (equivalent of EMR, Athena, SageMaker, ...) in the above price comparison? Would you have some insights
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by sigmaml 4y ago
Firstly, not many kids and young adults are capable of assessing and understanding what they "truly want". Secondly, someone "truly wanting" something does not always make that "something" good or correct. When
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by sigmaml 5y ago
1. This kind of pagination can be done for any key as long as its data type admits total ordering. 2. The WHERE condition typically uses `>` or `<`, so it doesn't fail even when that record is deleted before the next client reque
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by sigmaml 5y ago
You appear to be referring to a database cursor. It is quite simple to implement pagination in the application layer using a unique record identifier (primary key or ULID or ...) as an anchor for the navigation. From that unique ID, we can
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by sigmaml 5y ago
I made a crude proposal for generics in 2011[1], in which I proposed a pair of concepts ("storage class" and "type class") that are somewhat similar to the concept of this "gcshape". I proposed it as a compromi
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by sigmaml 5y ago
Fascinating! Thanks for the visualisation!
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by sigmaml 5y ago
This view is probably too US-centric. There is a lot of the world (including developed world), where people get around everyday without relying on cars for everything. I do not negate your point that marketing has a strong component of crea
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by sigmaml 5y ago
Highly expressive type systems can lead people to as much design hell as does deep OOP. I have seen and experienced this in at least a couple of projects. The only difference is: instead of brittle hierarchies, we get ossified compositions
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Ask HN: Unable login into GitHub from Safari; works from Chrome
3 points by sigmaml 5y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Is anyone getting intermittent bearer token fetch errors on Salesforce
1 points by sigmaml 5y ago|0 comments
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by sigmaml 5y ago
Yes, they do. I frequently research historical topics on India, and I get no results or single digit number of results.
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by sigmaml 5y ago
That applies to our society at large, as well. As for Wikipedia itself, I stopped contributing a few years ago, since I did not have the energy and the time needed to fight the systemic bias that the editors had (and have) on a variety of t
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by sigmaml 5y ago
Hey Steve! Io is a beautiful language that I got interested in about the time I was learning Ruby (2004 perhaps). Also, for a few years, your pages were the top sources of information on Objective C! Thanks for all the work!
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by sigmaml 5y ago
My submission did violate the conditions. I was just recollecting what happened; it is not a complaint. I am at variance with those conditions, though. I refer to the benchmarks suite itself, broadly. When programs dip into GMP, PCRE, etc.
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by sigmaml 5y ago
Several (about 10) years ago, I submitted essentially the same program. It was one of the fastest of all the implementations across all the languages. However, Isaac rejected it, saying it violated the conditions.
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by sigmaml 5y ago
Not GP, but in India (where I am from), Google Workspace is fairly common in SMBs. Also: https://www.statista.com/statistics/961105/japan-market-shar... That report seems to indicate that Google Workspace is actua
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by sigmaml 5y ago
This can happen with any company! I had Apple lock me out of iTunes, App Store, Mac Store, ... - for an entire month, if not more - alleging that I spammed others with my iMessage account. The fact is that I never, ever used iMessage! I use
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by sigmaml 5y ago
Thanks for all the great work on both 'ecryptfs' and 'fs-crypt'!
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by sigmaml 5y ago
Evidently, it depends on multiple factors. My son's school uses Google Meet for online classes. 2 instructors + 36 students per section. All participants have their videos switched on. Even when the bandwidth fluctuates, we haven'

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