why-el

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by why-el 8d ago
> a register is a mechanical device to power and maintain, surely a million times less expensive than a subscription to a POS....this is not a strong argument.
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by why-el 1mo ago
I would assume they actually moved off of litestream here no? otherwise how can their frequent manual checkpointing even succeed when litestream locks for the same behavior.
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by why-el 2mo ago
For sure. The literal first two pages of any book, essentially the back of the cover and the title page, always host a huge list of pages plus summary of something interesting i saw in the book. For instance, it will say something like: * p
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by why-el 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Hill,_London
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by why-el 7mo ago
For Oauth I'd like to borrow what I would describe humbly as a better analogy, and it comes from Douglas Crockford, and so adapting it from him commenting on Monads in Functional Programming, it goes something like this: "OAuth is
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by why-el 10mo ago
Chomsky never argued it was words (and how couldn't it be words, for there are millions of words from 100s of 1000s of languages), just a configuration to eventually learn those words.
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by why-el 1y ago
I am not sure if this will help you, but have an extended, deep conversation with ChatGPT about your resume. Tell it who you are, what you excel at, and list projects and technologies. Then, paste a couple of the job postings that did not w
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by why-el 2y ago
the user who wants it? and a premature retort: if the feedback is "the user / PM / stakeholder could be wrong", then... that's where we are. A "refiner" LLM can be fronted (Replit is playing with this for
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by why-el 2y ago
I am not so sure. Code by one LLM can be reviewed by another. Puppeteer like solutions will exist pretty soon. "Given this change, can you confirm this spec". Even better, this can carry on for a few iterations. And both LLMs can
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by why-el 2y ago
> "ask you" I get the concern, however. But, short of nuking the actual .git directory, the upsides are worth it, in my opinion. Cursor offers filtering via a mini-prompt in its YOLO mode, so does Windsurf. The idea is killer,
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by why-el 2y ago
I was hoping the LLM is the staff engineer? can read both ways.
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by why-el 2y ago
your incident lingo will be fun.
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by why-el 2y ago
not to be confused with "Drunk Magnus", a very strong player.
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by why-el 2y ago
Love it. > this post is only about buffering that happens inside the program, your operating system’s TTY driver also does a little bit of buffering sometimes and if the TTY is remote, so do the network switches! it's buffering all
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by why-el 2y ago
I learned the following: - Everything public in Slack. Create a fun-sounding moto that discourages DMs. Even if a DM happens, and the back and forth resulted in a consensus, share that consensus in a public channel (which makes it searchabl
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by why-el 2y ago
I like this analogy a lot. It's possible that forced externalization of thoughts accidentally causes the omission of crucial data. That is, much more goes on in your head, you probably laid out the whole algorithm, but being asked to s
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by why-el 2y ago
Hm, I thought Happy Eyeballs (HE) was mainly concerned with IPv6 issues and falling back to IPV4. I didn't think it was this RFC in which finally some words were said about round-robin specifically, but it looks like it was (from this
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by why-el 2y ago
To be inspired by something really has no bearing on how the _inspired_ thing is built. I think you place much emphasis on that but really it does not bring much to the argument. One can say that a plane was inspired by a bird (and it is, s
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by why-el 2y ago
also covered by the great philosopher Bertrand Russell: https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/ .
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by why-el 2y ago
I am confused by this comment: > open source stuff with long history of maintenance and improvement improvement and maintenance is continent on usage, and having been used at Netflix, this project is in a better place to have already fac
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by why-el 3y ago
The same reason Babbage never built the full Difference Engine. Design of this sort allows some tinkering unbothered by the constraints of actually building it (if you know history of the Difference Engine you know how many ideas it unleash
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by why-el 3y ago
newspeak is for dramatic (and dare I say, rather fun) effect. I think his point is straightforward and not confused: one style and one liner for the entire programming language prohibits personal expression of style. A linter to enforce yo
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by why-el 3y ago
I didn't mean to say it's all IO, that would be wrong. Rails is feature-rich, ActiveRecord for instance spends plenty of time in the CPU (manipulating its internal state). But the idea that Rails/Ruby is slow is outdated and
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by why-el 3y ago
In my experience most Ruby apps (Rails in particular) develop this idea that Ruby is the bottleneck when in reality most of the time it's something else entirely (mostly DB or network IO). Of course you found compiled languages faster!
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by why-el 3y ago
addressed in the FAQ: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/faq.html . Short answer is no.
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by why-el 3y ago
There is a another famous one, focusing on Postgres: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/ .
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by why-el 3y ago
Not quite I don't think. For a busy database, The Heroku followers will not catch up to your upgraded database as quickly, so during an upgrade using Heroku's physical replication (as opposed to logical), there will be a time peri
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by why-el 3y ago
I've learned only one constant with git in my years as a programmer: master your own employer's git use cases, and pray to god for three things: 1. you don't change places often and thus git patterns. 2. you don't accide
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by why-el 3y ago
I think there is a useful LLM based solution (chrome extension or something) here where you ask it (with some trial and error), to only list constructive responses, hhh. I am only half kidding, most of internet feedback is useless, even her
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by why-el 3y ago
Do the queries still have to be serial? I imagine so. The README is not clear but it can be interpreted as me being able to fire more than one query (say 2, but the first one is still running, like pg_background). Is that the case?

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