squirrellous

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by squirrellous 10d ago
One way I use skills, which I don’t see mentioned very often, is as “shortcuts”. Imagine some frequently issued prompt like “fetch origin and rebase this branch onto origin/master and resolve conflicts”. I make that into a little skill
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by squirrellous 13d ago
Riegeli is great! Packed full of features. It could be the standard storage format for serialized pb binary if there were more official support.
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by squirrellous 19d ago
Ah yes, something like prefix tree would work well storing reverse domain names like com.abc.www (although this is such a well known thing I feel like I must be missing things).
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by squirrellous 20d ago
I wonder at their scale, why wouldn’t it make sense to store the entries lightly compressed in memory?
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by squirrellous 25d ago
There is https://hnrss.github.io/ if you don’t mind a 3rd party service.
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by squirrellous 26d ago
This doesn’t seem to mention that having AI aggressively optimize software will result in code that is too clever / complex to be maintained by the original human author. For something with a very stable API and can be tested to death
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by squirrellous 1mo ago
I _think_ that has always been based on discretion of the mods. It’s only allowed after some period of time and if popular enough.
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by squirrellous 1mo ago
Well, did they hire you? Don’t leave us hanging!
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by squirrellous 2mo ago
Here are some that come to mind right now: https://research.swtch.com/ https://danluu.com/ https://apenwarr.ca/log/
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by squirrellous 2mo ago
My first thought as well. Debugging is actually a decent use case of AI.
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by squirrellous 2mo ago
These days I am of the opinion that we don’t need a real IDL. Instead one should choose a “primary language” and define the schema in that language. All other language bindings are generated from that canonical language. Then for wire forma
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by squirrellous 2mo ago
Honest question - why isn’t the following document [1] a standard? Is it too loosely specified? [1] https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/encoding/
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by squirrellous 2mo ago
Research done by SonarSource, a company that sells static analysis products. This explains the focus on static analysis, among other things.
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by squirrellous 3mo ago
Love to see someone implementing pathlib in c++. It is what stdfs could have been.
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by squirrellous 3mo ago
Those three things you mentioned kind of live in the same niche - offline data storage and querying. In that world yes everything has become columnar since it’s just better. Row-oriented is still the solution for online streaming use cases.
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by squirrellous 3mo ago
The last time I tried JJ it plainly refused to work with git LFS, which is kind of what OOP here is about (large files). Has that improved?
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by squirrellous 3mo ago
If you don’t like what Anthropic is doing, stop paying them money. There’s plenty of competition to go around. They can’t keep this up for long if users flock elsewhere.
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by squirrellous 3mo ago
One could argue the reinterpret_cast makes the intent more explicit which is a good thing. That said I don’t have much against the use of void* or even char* here. If it works in C, it works in C++ just fine. std::span is not the right tool
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
I think there are situations where AI is good for quick advice, provided you _also_ have a professional to talk to if needed. I sometimes seek advice about dealing with difficult colleagues, or ask for opinions about things I said at work w
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
I am not very well versed here but I think due to the requirement for assembly and single-instruction commit, practical uses of rseq is generally very simple. It is nowhere near the usefulness of locks.
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
IIUC rseq is similar to thread-local data with the additional benefit that it scales with number of CPU cores, not threads. However if you are an application developer and is able to control all the threads in an application, then rseq isn’
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
This is the kind of comment I come to HN for. Thanks for teaching me something.
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
I’d guess that is what you get for training them on source code. Also the I vs E axis feels meaningless in this case.
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
The point about feedback is spot on. However the generalization to system software seems a little sloppy. Something being system software doesn’t inherently make it more testable. You can have feedback-abundant and feedback-scarce pieces in
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
Uhm what? All of those things are totally ordinary.
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
It’s shocking to me that you of all people should have financial issues. You are a legend in the community! By all means, take things closed source if it even just helps a little bit. As a profession we’ve all been hurt by over-sharing.
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
Both Facebook and Google internally use a custom version of mercurial, so I wouldn’t count it out just yet.
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
I feel like parent was referring to a culture of shipping small changes frequently, which tends to result in stacked PRs.
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
Stacked PRs is mostly a way to avoid thousand- or tens-of-thousands- LOC branches, which makes each PR meaningfully reviewable. You need a good code review process for it to become useful. It’s very pleasant once you are accustomed to it. I
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by squirrellous 4mo ago
Corporate reasons. AWS hasn't opened codex models to everyone yet.

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