willquack

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by willquack 1mo ago
> You cannot successfully orchestrate an AI in a language you don't deeply understand. This is the primary point and maybe even the later points may be, at least partially, an extension of it. Coding agents reflect the developer usi
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by willquack 2mo ago
This is very similar to what I imagine whenever I get into a deep focus state debugging a program in gdb... I would love to experience debugging a program in VR with graphics like this,,, there would be no better way to learn a codebase. I
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by willquack 2mo ago
> If a tool marks 40% of new papers as machine-written but also marks 20% of papers written before ChatGPT existed, the real story is the 20% nobody mentioned. When 65% of the papers you read have the characteristics of being AI writte
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by willquack 5mo ago
I used to work at Distributive (formerly "Kings Distributed Systems") on its DCP compute platform" which is entirely what you're describing. You can deploy a JS/WASM based workload, and it will be "sliced"
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by willquack 6mo ago
Awesome project! Dumb question: could you run this in frontend js using the browser's js engine and wasm environment similar to WebContainers? Maybe `fs` is just in-memory, and some things like forking are disabled. It'd be cool t
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by willquack 7mo ago
I worked with Jason (creator of Om) at my last job. He's awesome!
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by willquack 7mo ago
Thanks for responding!! I think it's still the same issue where data modified after the VDiff point in time isn't validated before SwitchTraffic. I'm mostly curious how vitess users handle this case, or if any users even car
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by willquack 7mo ago
> you can run an initial VDiff, and then resume that one as you get closer to the cutover point. VDiff (v2) only compares the source and destination at a specific point in time with resume only comparing rows with PK higher than the last
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by willquack 7mo ago
Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
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by willquack 8mo ago
There's nothing more fun than making a DSL, the only annoying part if finding an excuse to make one
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by willquack 8mo ago
It would be cool to encode the chess board state and turn into the URL so you could hurl urls back and forth over slack to play chess just by clicking on it but there's something charming about the ascii art over slack in this project
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by willquack 8mo ago
https://willpringle.ca/ (;
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by willquack 8mo ago
> `seapie.breakpoint()` opens a working `>>>` REPL at the current execution state. Any changes to variables or function definitions persist. Debugger state is exposed via built-ins (e.g. `_magic_`), and stepping/frame contr
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by willquack 11mo ago
Code examples can be executed as unit tests to prevent documentation regressions / bitrot in ways human language can't
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by willquack 1y ago
I keep this handy note in my pocket and read it before writing or engaging in any conversation (: """ You are a human. Never use words commonly used in AI vocabulary such as "delve", "intricate", "sur
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by willquack 1y ago
I learned the other day my office building has hidden speakers dispersed throughout each floor which blast synthetic white noise. It's quite loud, I had assumed it was an improperly installed HVAC system...
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by willquack 1y ago
My friend loves to use em dashes, not hyphens "-" but em dashes "—". He can no longer use them since people would suspect his writing was AI generated otherwise...
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by willquack 1y ago
I had a good time being involved with a couple JavaScript runtimes which didn't make this list, most notably PythonMonkey [1] which embeds SpiderMonkey into Python and uses Python's event loop for its async stuff. Another interest
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by willquack 1y ago
Am I crazy or did my 2006 iMac come with a home media server for serving movies / tv shows / music photos from your filesystem. I think it even came with a slick looking remote! You could stream content from it over your home netw
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by willquack 1y ago
> You’re never going to want your browser, editor, or Slack window to be translucent. r/unixporn disagrees
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by willquack 1y ago
> That brightness abuse by content I predict HDR content on the web will eventually be disabled or mitigated on popular browsers similarly to how auto-playing audio content is no longer allowed [1] Spammers and advertisers haven't c
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by willquack 1y ago
I completed a take-home project for a company I was interviewing with, and the interviewer remarked at how it was obvious my README.md was AI generated. It wasn't. Everyone's gotten so tired of low-effort AI generated content now
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by willquack 2y ago
> can you get a JS interpreter that lives in Python The PythonMonkey library is a full JS interpreter running in the same Python process. It allows for JS functions to be called from Python and vice versa
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by willquack 2y ago
Check out PythonMonkey [1], it's an actively maintained project which embeds the SpiderMonkey JS engine inside a Python library. It reuses the same memory buffers whenever possible and allows for pretty impressive interop like executin
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by willquack 2y ago
Get a boring LaTeX template like "Jake's Resume" I've spoken with two technical recruiters who say they prefer reading templates instead of hand-crafted Resumes on top of them also parsing better in the ATS system ):
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Python Meets JavaScript, WASM with the Magic of PythonMonkey(thenewstack.io)
7 points by willquack 2y ago|1 comments
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by willquack 2y ago
Some trends in the responses for developers self reporting what influences their buying decisions: - Trusted peers using a product - Being able to test the product for free - DevRel with genuine developer chops and mindset - Good documentat
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by willquack 2y ago
The world would be a better place if `jkl;` took off instead of `hkjl`! It's impossible to switch now since everything uses `hjkl` despite some people trying (for instance, the default navigation keys on i3wm are `jkl;` but everyone al
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by willquack 3y ago
Here's a link to our browser worker: https://dcp.work/ And other workers can be downloaded here: https://distributive.network/workers Dev API for submitting jobs here: https://docs.dcp.dev&#
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by willquack 3y ago
Distributive DCP lets you compute other people's distributed research/workloads and get paid for it (no crypto involved). Compute workloads get run in secure js/wasm compute nodes (which could be your browser, or a screensave

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