twa927

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by twa927 2mo ago
> Code becomes only one representation of thought among many overlapping ones. This is wrong, code is the concrete "truth" being executed, the rest (plans, prompts, agent instructions) are just temporary artifacts used to gener
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by twa927 4mo ago
It's like if class-based society materialized within the IT. And the manager class collectively pushes the narrative of AI replacing ICs. Note that it has beaten capitalism, making rational choices to increase earnings has lost to this
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America's coming war over AI regulation(technologyreview.com)
2 points by twa927 8mo ago|0 comments
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by twa927 8mo ago
Yes I'm using Sonnet 4.5. Thanks for the tip, will try Opus 4.5, although costs might become an issue.
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by twa927 8mo ago
Hmm, your comment gave me the idea that maybe we should invent "What You Describe Is What You Get|. To replace HTML+Tailwind spaghetti with prompts generating it.
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by twa927 8mo ago
I don't see the AI capacity jump in the recent months at all. For me it's more the opposite, CC works worse than a few months ago. Keeps forgetting the rules from CLAUDE.md, hallucinates function calls, generates tons of over-verb
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by twa927 6y ago
Found something here: https://github.com/bccp/covid-19-data
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Ask HN: Raw Data on Total Mortality
1 points by twa927 6y ago|1 comments
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by twa927 6y ago
> However, at some point it seems that everyone at my stage is moving into management or higher level positions doing project management, meetings, architectural discussions This impression is mostly generated by your head, to be more sp
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Moderna Investigation Initiated by Former Louisiana Attorney General(globenewswire.com)
1 points by twa927 6y ago|0 comments
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by twa927 6y ago
The problem I experienced multiple times in 50-200 KLOC projects is not the time needed to import the modules, but the memory consumption caused by the imports. Moving some imports from top-level module statements to inner functions' c
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by twa927 7y ago
That's very nice code and Python is non-functional. I love its generators. That's my version to make it more "functional": from itertools import cycle, islice from operator import add fizz = cycle(['',
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by twa927 7y ago
Yes, this also seems weird to me. And I think it might be a cultural thing, I noticed that in Europe renting dedicated servers is far more popular than in the US.
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by twa927 7y ago
I ride a bicycle daily and vape e-cigs. If anything I notice an increased performance immediately after vaping, I feel like I'm less tired and have more energy. Overall this is an interesting topic because contrary to popular opinion m
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by twa927 7y ago
But even for fully on-site teams the preferred format of a "knowledge base" is digital (wiki, Google Docs, etc.), because it's something that lasts, can be improved over time and is always accessible. And having the discussio
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by twa927 7y ago
You must be more active when working remotely wrt. seeking social interactions. When working on-site, you get some of the interactions for free. When working remotely, you must actively organize them by yourself. I know people who get MORE
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by twa927 7y ago
Quite nice presentation about remote work from PyCon 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTWgKyLk6mo This is generally pro-remote but it includes research results.
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by twa927 7y ago
So where should I look up the definition of a DSL?
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by twa927 7y ago
> That's an unjustified qualification. I could throw together a spreadsheet format that is all text. The spreadsheet GUI then becomes a advanced text editor that, when editing that particular format, exposes advanced content-aware c
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by twa927 7y ago
I think these are examples of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language , while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language#Examp... are purely text-based.
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by twa927 7y ago
Are such successful DSLs described somewhere? Generally my feeling is somehow similar to the one expressed in the blog post, ie. that DSLs don't work for non-technical people. If someone is able to use a DSL then he/she is also ab
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by twa927 7y ago
I think DSLs are about defining a 100% textual format. And spreadsheets are GUI apps. There's a DSL for defining a cell formula but in total it's a small part of the experience of using a spreadsheet app.
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by twa927 7y ago
I skimmed over it but it's again mostly about internal design. The high level use case I see is "publish-subscribe" which is handled by RabbitMQ and a dozen of other solutions. One use case I see is that the events published
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by twa927 7y ago
Can someone provide actual high-level use cases for using Kafka? Prefereably use-cases not handled by RabbitMQ. I've seen a few talks about Kafka but they focused on the internals. My guess is that Kafka is for large systems for which
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by twa927 7y ago
> just because capitalist are competing for labor doesn't mean that management switches from being agents of capital to agents of labor. Valuable, contested human resources are still resources, not owners. Yes, I generally agree, bu
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by twa927 7y ago
This sounds like early 20th century capitalism... I don't think it's very applicable to the current programming industry, where companies have to fight to retain good employees. Also, the top-down structure is no longer preserved
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by twa927 7y ago
Yes, reflection voids many JIT paths in PyPy, AFAIK. Maybe it was worth rewriting the Python code to get rid of the reflection?
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by twa927 7y ago
It's good that the managers care for the higher-level "business" goals, but shouldn't they care for their subordinates more? In the end it also contributes to a business metric - employee happiness. When I was switching
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by twa927 7y ago
For some reason many "enterprise" software products are clunky and buggy. I guess this is because the decision to use the software is made by managers who don't ever use it.
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by twa927 7y ago
If this was using a loop processing a single byte in an iteration I would expect a greater speedup on PyPy. I've seen 100x speedup in such cases.

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