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by thraxil 6d ago
"Mirror" mode was my favorite feature on the Koala Pad app back in the 1980s.
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by thraxil 1mo ago
> Also sometimes flipping feature flags can be faster than doing a rollback, especially if multiple systems are involved. I would argue that if flipping a feature flag isn't faster than doing a rollback, your feature flags are not
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by thraxil 1mo ago
The other thing that I think people tend to forget is that there are plenty of situations where N+1 queries just aren't that big a deal. Not every view in every application that every developer builds needs to handle massive amounts of
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by thraxil 1mo ago
As someone who's used Django since 0.97 and loves it, Content Types are one of those features that I recommend avoiding. It looks amazing at first but you will eventually regret it.
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by thraxil 1mo ago
> Having that in mind, the next project was entirely in Pylons. All was good, until we were asked to add Unicode support. How long ago was this? I feel like unicode has kind of been a solved problem in Python since python3 came out. In t
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by thraxil 2mo ago
You realize he's not a native English speaker, right? His English grammar is better than my Italian, so I don't feel the need to criticize.
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by thraxil 2mo ago
Not every application uses LLMs the same way. For some use-cases, price per 1M tokens is absolutely meaningful. Eg, we do a lot of pretty basic classification/entity-extraction/summarization type work on large inputs (100k tokens
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by thraxil 3mo ago
Inrupt, TBL's company, is doing SOLID for enterprise customers.
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by thraxil 3mo ago
Have you looked at the W3C's SOLID standard? I haven't looked deeply into what you're doing, but it sounds like a less interoperable version of what SOLID already does. https://solidproject.org/TR/protoco
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by thraxil 3mo ago
Interesting to read the comments and see the reaction here. I didn't use Fable (just Opus and Gemini) but I recently ported the `djlint` Python library to Rust, also relying heavily on LLMs (but not trying to one-shot it). `djlint` is
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by thraxil 5mo ago
I took his Introduction to Cryptography class when he was a visiting professor at Columbia. Absolute master of an old-school chalkboard lecturer. They don't make them like that any more.
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by thraxil 6mo ago
Yeah. Back when Gemma2 came out we benchmarked it and were looking at open models. For our use case though, while the tasks are pretty simple, we do need a pretty large context window and Gemini had a big lead there over the open models for
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by thraxil 6mo ago
Thanks. Yeah, for now we're moving to 3.1 flash lite as that's the new cheapest at $.25/1M and is also still "good enough". 2.5 flash is more expensive at $.30/1M (looks like Deep Infra charges the same as GCP&
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by thraxil 6mo ago
No. Right now I'm upset that Google has removed (or at least is in the process of removing) the Gemini 2.0 flash model. We use it for some pretty basic functionality because it's cheap and fast and honestly good enough for what
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by thraxil 6mo ago
Last time I went through SOC 2 we talked to our auditor about this. His view was that there are and basically always have been auditors/companies that will sign off on anything without verifying it if you're paying them. The rest
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by thraxil 8mo ago
Shameless self-promotion, but my own post on Ratchets from a few years back: https://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2022/11/26/Ratchet/ Similar basic idea, slightly different take.
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by thraxil 9mo ago
Leonard Susskind's "The Theoretical Minimum" series is a great start. His corresponding Stanford lectures are on youtube as well and are a nice supplement.
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by thraxil 9mo ago
Working heavily in Python for the last 20 years, it absolutely was a big deal. `pip install` has been a significant percentage of the deploy time on pretty much every app I've ever deployed and I've spent countless hours setting u
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by thraxil 9mo ago
Nope. Out of the box GCP Cloud SQL instance.
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by thraxil 9mo ago
Yep. We have tables that use UUIDv4 that have 60M+ rows and don't have any performance problems with them. Would some queries be faster using something else? Probably, but again, for us it's not close to being a bottleneck. If it
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by thraxil 11mo ago
I switched from EE to CS (well, "Computer Engineering" technically) in the late 90s. Not specifically due to Smith charts, but that's relatable. For me it was just realizing that I was procrastinating on doing my EE problem s
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by thraxil 11mo ago
Obviously nothing solid to back this up, but I kind of feel like I was seeing emojis all over github READMEs on JS projects for quite a while before AI picked it up. I feel like it may have been something that bled over from Twitch streamin
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by thraxil 11mo ago
Erlang/Elixir supervision trees also rely on process linking, which is implemented in BEAM and doesn't have a real equivalent in most other language runtimes (modulo some attempts at copying it like Akka, Proto.Actor, etc, but it&
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by thraxil 1y ago
Yeah, I switched from XMonad (which I used for over a decade) to Sway a few years back. Spent some time trying to duplicate the XMonad behaviour but eventually just realized that spending a few hours getting used to the Sway approach and sl
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by thraxil 1y ago
The description of the "meta framework": * Thesis/Starting Argument * Counter-Argument (paper requirement from Naval War College) * Rebuttal (different perspective, not your starting argument) Sounds like someo
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by thraxil 1y ago
I've always just gone to the youtube channel page, view source, search for "rss", copy the URL and paste it into my feed reader. It would be great if it was more discoverable, but it's not really like you need a whole se
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by thraxil 1y ago
You can write a parser and type checker for pretty much any language in pretty much any language. It's just text files as input and text as output.
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by thraxil 1y ago
Like a globe?
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by thraxil 1y ago
The risk isn't that much that your employer gaining access to your email (though you may potentially be risking the contents of emails that you view from that machine getting saved and accessed by someone at the company). It's mor
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by thraxil 2y ago
It seems like you've kind of missed both of my points. If you're doing canary deploys to a fleet of 2000 nodes, it might take hours for the config to make it to all of them (I've seen systems where a fleet upgrade can take a

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