When I first started reading seminal works in Distributed Computing, I picked up the original (The Part-time Parliament) and it started off pretty well with the made up story of finding the algorithm as a manuscript…
AI slop comment
I for one, am absolutely fascinated with Tron Legacy. It was the first Tron movie I saw as a kid in middle school. In some ways, it's responsible for the trajectory of my career. Apart from the obvious reasons about the…
Dwarves of Moria get swole
sure.. WWDC also has "Developers Conference" in its name.
Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the…
He just... highlighted Avatar. He clicked the dropdown menu, and then he randomly selected Papyrus. Like a...Like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden, just yanking leaves along the way.
I was going for a "they performed surgery on a grape" thing but it seems I missed the mark
they put RISC-V in a soldering iron?
For anyone pining for innovation in Desktop, a small part of this culture is still alive in Ricing competitions. A recent favorite of mine is this one. Timestamp starts at the final submission being reviewed:…
Thanks for whoever preserved these! The CartoonNetwork website was one of my most fondest memories from my childhood. These days the official website redirects to their YouTube channel which I feel is very sad. There…
Upvoted for the username
Valid point. We have minimum age requirements set on some rules to avoid absorbing every latest change instantly.
Oops, my bad. We keep calling it Renovator internally but the name is RenovateBot or Renovate. https://docs.renovatebot.com/
Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price? Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already. I…
I feel pretty happy we use Renovator (EDIT: It's Renovate) at my current workplace which by default will raise PRs to change any tags for actions with the SHA instead. Then, even when it bumps the version in future PRs,…
Why does documentation require hosting it on a server? My assumption is that it's a static site, and as such, even GitHub Pages would be sufficient. I know... all content has to be served via a "server" but in case of…
I decided to get back into reading two years ago and I picked this as one of the first ones to get started with, given it was a small book. I absolutely love Arthur C. Clarke's style of helping you visualize the grand…
I seriously believe that it's not that GitHub is run on AI-generated code that's responsible for these slew of outages recently. I think it's crumbling under the load of a significantly large amount of AI-enabled coding…
I place considerable doubt on claims of LLMs improving the user's thought process. Especially since everyone harps on about it but never provides concrete evidence. If your thinking has sharpened, surely you can find a…
There's a research paper from the University of Liverpool, published in 2006 where researchers asked people to draw bicycles from memory and how people overestimate their understanding of basic things. It was a very fun…
If that's the goal, the technology for how these agents "learn" would be the most interesting one, even more than the demos in the link. LLMs can barely remember the coding style I keep asking it to stick to despite…
Servers, Ready to Eat
You only notice this stuff if you use shell very often, and practically live in the command line. Since I started my career I've been using omz and a fresh install is always snappy but over time it starts getting slow.…
We keep a precomputed cityhash64 value for a few columns we know are going to be used for aggregations. Rather than relying on ClickHouse to do it internally, this explicity behavior I've found is faster. Especially if…
When I first started reading seminal works in Distributed Computing, I picked up the original (The Part-time Parliament) and it started off pretty well with the made up story of finding the algorithm as a manuscript…
AI slop comment
I for one, am absolutely fascinated with Tron Legacy. It was the first Tron movie I saw as a kid in middle school. In some ways, it's responsible for the trajectory of my career. Apart from the obvious reasons about the…
Dwarves of Moria get swole
sure.. WWDC also has "Developers Conference" in its name.
Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the…
He just... highlighted Avatar. He clicked the dropdown menu, and then he randomly selected Papyrus. Like a...Like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden, just yanking leaves along the way.
I was going for a "they performed surgery on a grape" thing but it seems I missed the mark
they put RISC-V in a soldering iron?
For anyone pining for innovation in Desktop, a small part of this culture is still alive in Ricing competitions. A recent favorite of mine is this one. Timestamp starts at the final submission being reviewed:…
Thanks for whoever preserved these! The CartoonNetwork website was one of my most fondest memories from my childhood. These days the official website redirects to their YouTube channel which I feel is very sad. There…
Upvoted for the username
Valid point. We have minimum age requirements set on some rules to avoid absorbing every latest change instantly.
Oops, my bad. We keep calling it Renovator internally but the name is RenovateBot or Renovate. https://docs.renovatebot.com/
Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price? Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already. I…
I feel pretty happy we use Renovator (EDIT: It's Renovate) at my current workplace which by default will raise PRs to change any tags for actions with the SHA instead. Then, even when it bumps the version in future PRs,…
Why does documentation require hosting it on a server? My assumption is that it's a static site, and as such, even GitHub Pages would be sufficient. I know... all content has to be served via a "server" but in case of…
I decided to get back into reading two years ago and I picked this as one of the first ones to get started with, given it was a small book. I absolutely love Arthur C. Clarke's style of helping you visualize the grand…
I seriously believe that it's not that GitHub is run on AI-generated code that's responsible for these slew of outages recently. I think it's crumbling under the load of a significantly large amount of AI-enabled coding…
I place considerable doubt on claims of LLMs improving the user's thought process. Especially since everyone harps on about it but never provides concrete evidence. If your thinking has sharpened, surely you can find a…
There's a research paper from the University of Liverpool, published in 2006 where researchers asked people to draw bicycles from memory and how people overestimate their understanding of basic things. It was a very fun…
If that's the goal, the technology for how these agents "learn" would be the most interesting one, even more than the demos in the link. LLMs can barely remember the coding style I keep asking it to stick to despite…
Servers, Ready to Eat
You only notice this stuff if you use shell very often, and practically live in the command line. Since I started my career I've been using omz and a fresh install is always snappy but over time it starts getting slow.…
We keep a precomputed cityhash64 value for a few columns we know are going to be used for aggregations. Rather than relying on ClickHouse to do it internally, this explicity behavior I've found is faster. Especially if…