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by synthc 3mo ago
I gave it a weird and convoluted code snippet, and asked an LLM to step through the execution and trace the value of the variables at each step. It was completely correct and I realized LLM are capable of generalizing beyond their training
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by synthc 6mo ago
`uv agent` and `bun agent` in 3....2.....1....
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by synthc 6mo ago
Very hit or miss. Stack: go, python Team size: 8 Experience, mixed. I'm using a code review agent which sometimes catches a critical big humans miss, so that is very useful. Using it to get to know a code base is also very useful. A qu
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by synthc 1y ago
They made their home a concentration camp, no need for railroad cars this time...
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by synthc 1y ago
I'm thinking of using it to replace an analytics pipeline at my job, which now uses expensive batch jobs. If the tech is solid, we would have instant and incremental updates, instead of recomputing everything every X hours. This would
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by synthc 1y ago
Does anyone have experience with RisingWave in production? It seems like an interesting product but I can't find any experience reports.
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by synthc 1y ago
User name almost checks out
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by synthc 1y ago
Classic Dutch: “We need this talent… but financially, it is impossible to support them,”
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by synthc 2y ago
you get runtime errors with a long JVM stacktrace
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by synthc 2y ago
Immutability removes so much accidental complexity, it makes whole classes of mistakes dissapear. I'd also take immutability over types. Clojure sort of guides you to simplicity, building everything out of functions and simple datastru
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by synthc 2y ago
For me it just speeds up learning the language, so I think i'd become fluent faster. I do thoroughly review of the the LLM answers, and hardly every directly copy paste answer, so I feel this way I still learn the language.
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by synthc 2y ago
about as much as I trust StackOverflow answers
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by synthc 2y ago
Seems like a bunch of go programmers really wanted to use go, no matter how impractical.
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by synthc 2y ago
Interesting! I did an internship where I tried to use transducers for fast information extraction. In theory, you can use FST's for fast approximate parsing. I didn't really work out, but I had lots of fun implementing a libary
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by synthc 2y ago
This year I switched to a new job, using programming languages that I was less familiar with. Asking a LLM to translate between languages works really well most of the time. It's also a great way to learn which libraries are the stand
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Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library(adriacabeza.github.io)
268 points by synthc 2y ago|47 comments
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by synthc 2y ago
Interesting deep dive on the internals of Caffeine, a widely used JVM caching library.
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by synthc 2y ago
This just proves to me Meta can't build a product users actually want to use, they can only acquire other products, or lobby.
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by synthc 2y ago
'Serverless' has it's uses, but not for everything - Serverless can get very expensive - DevEx is less than stellar, can't run a debugger - Vendor lock-in - You might be forced to update when they stop supporting older r
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by synthc 2y ago
My first job (around 2010) was to extract events from financial news and police reports. We built this huge system with tons of regexes, custom parsers, word lists, ontologies etc. It was a huge effort to get somewhat acceptable accuracy. I
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by synthc 2y ago
The difference is in how easy it is to detect the cause of problems. Mistakes like wrong function names are mostly easy to find and fix. Mistakes when using core.async can be very hard to track down.
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The Croissant Diet(fireinabottle.net)
6 points by synthc 2y ago|2 comments
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by synthc 2y ago
I wouldn't recommend it but I'd figure the hackernews crowd likes deep dives on wierd diets.
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by synthc 2y ago
GCP has the superior UI, api and design. I prefer it over the other clouds: Azure plain sucks and AWS has too much bloat and does IAM/accounts worse. In my experience GCP's core services are very stable: I had a site running on f
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by synthc 2y ago
this, I like Fastmail, but their app being online-only is a shame
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by synthc 2y ago
People discovered that using messaging can add tons of overhead, and async messaging architectures are harder to manage and monitor. Serialization and going over the network are an order of magnitude slower and error prone than good ol&#x27
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by synthc 2y ago
This is so shortshighted, it's not about 'respect', its about market value. By bringing an offer your employees are proving their market value, and you don't want to match it, so they will leave.
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by synthc 2y ago
Caddy is great! Absolutely beats Nginx and apache for hosting simple stuff.
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by synthc 2y ago
For me, Clojure with Clojurescript and Datomic. For webapps Fulcro is a great framework, though it has a steeplearning curve.
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by synthc 2y ago
Seem like the design decision to only allow a single thread to handle writes paid off. Datomic is a marvel of good design, I wish I could use it again....

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