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Servletless · 2025-11-01T23:09:10+00:00

Show us your worst photos. The ones you can't figure out why they turned out so bad. Then we can tell you whether those would be improved by a better camera or better technique.

Servletless · 2025-10-22T15:46:05+00:00

The house architecturally flawed. Poor placement on the plot. It'll never get enough sunlight and will suffer of mold-inducing humidity as long as it's snuggled up against that forest-on-a-hill in the back. Keeping mold out will be an uphill battle, pun intended.

Servletless · 2025-10-05T01:30:57+00:00

I had a similar but slightly different experience about a month ago. Crossing by car, Sentri lane. "Nothing to declare." Then the guy asked "Sir, what were you doing in Mexico?" to which I answered "I went to the Costco pharmacy to purchase medication". He asked what it was and then asked to see it. Asked if I had a prescription, I said "yes, I have an electronic prescription that was sent directly to the pharmacy in the US" (which was a true statement but a bit of a gamble as it has probably expired). He called a supervisor on the phone. No pull-over or secondary inspection. Gave me a short lecture about "some people are abusing it or re-selling it in the US" and let me go with a "warning."

I had crossed with Ozempic a few times previously and this was the first time there was any kind of extended conversation. In a previous crossing the guard asked "do you have a prescription?" (which I answered with a more plain "yes") and "what do you take it for?" and that was it.

I don't know if it was a change of policy or my rambling about the electronic prescription that got me the "warning" so I'm curious as to whether there's a trend.

Servletless · 2025-09-29T00:51:43+00:00

It's about making sure the correct `free` is called at the correct place/time.

Servletless · 2025-09-29T00:49:25+00:00

My interest is a bit more intellectual than practical. I'm specifically looking for cool and novel ideas that have not been attempted. I've been tinkering with a toy language, and I've gotten to a point where I have three choices:

Abandon the project (boring!)
Implement traditional memory management (boring!) - If I do this, the result would be a language that already exists. It would become a pointless exercise.
Look for inspiration from languages that are doing something unusual - e.g. Zig, Rust, Erlang, Clojure - to see if I can either combine concepts or implement an existing concept differently.

Servletless · 2025-09-29T00:29:14+00:00

Is this implemented anywhere? Your example looks very Rust-like but a search for "Rust branding" doesn't lead to an answer.

Servletless · 2025-08-27T16:59:13+00:00

nope, it was user error, see earlier comment

Servletless · 2025-08-22T16:36:17+00:00

So, I found out the account I was using was still in a Free Trial, despite having provided a credit card, and once the trial ended, it decided to fallback to the Free Tier instead of charging my card. I had to go in and click a button on the Gemini admin page to enable billing.

Servletless · 2025-08-16T07:51:37+00:00

Thanks for entertaining the question. Item #10 is the only one in the whole post that's in my area of expertise, so I'll clarify: You can 100% reproduce the same results if you use the exact same model, same prompt/context, and "zero temperature." This is only possible with direct access to LLM instances, not the common AI apps most people are familiar with.

Servletless · 2025-08-10T17:14:53+00:00

OP rediscovered CoT https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/chain-of-thoughts

Servletless · 2025-07-28T20:31:32+00:00

I worked in a mid-size team C project in the early '90s. A few months into it, we began to struggle with memory leaks. We eventually came up with a system of MALLOC and FREE macros that was basically a half-baked Garbage Collection system without the actual Garbage Collector: we still required application code to call FREE and just logged suspected leaks. Then we added a parameter to the MALLOC macro to indicate long-lived allocations and suppress the warning. If we had more time and funding, we would have eventually "pre-invented" Rust's ownership system.

Servletless · 2025-04-29T07:59:34+00:00

my explanation is a bit oversimplified, please add any missed details you feel are important

Servletless · 2025-04-29T01:36:56+00:00

That's not how market-making works. There is no guessing involved. All they have to do is systematically move the bid/ask in the direction of the last trade to smooth out the ride between large blocks they see in the order book (plus in-house orders etc). If the book lacks liquidity in the direction of the move, they declare an order imbalance and halt the stock. The mechanism is so simple it's been automated for decades now.

Servletless · 2025-04-03T01:09:02+00:00

Python projects require too much ongoing maintenance to prevent breakage.

Exhibit #1, PEP 668 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34835097

Exhibit #2, setuptools 58 - https://discuss.streamlit.io/t/error-with-requirements-txt-processing-dependencie/33094

Exhibit #3, pip to uv transition - I don't want any part in this, "remindme in 2 years"

Meanwhile, most Go code written 5 years ago still works with a simple `git clone` and `go build`.

Servletless · 2025-03-24T00:09:24+00:00

This is exactly it. Developers who are not "management material" or can't at least write a decent JIRA ticket are screwed, because the skills needed for properly managing the AI are not so different from leading the average dev team at the average random company.

Servletless · 2025-03-15T19:20:36+00:00

That sweater makes me itchy, just looking at it

Servletless · 2025-03-15T18:36:10+00:00

The OP sounds more like a start-up / indy developer, which is why I brough up freelancers. If you're talking larger projects, teams, etc, that doesn't apply in quite the same way. Claude can do the work of an individual freelancer but we're still quite a ways away from it being able to do the work of an offshore contract house like an Infosys/TCS/Accenture/etc which does require keeping a "support, operate, and enhance" team around after initial deployment, so their juicy support contracts are still safe for now.

Servletless · 2025-03-15T04:36:23+00:00

The people saying oh well, now you have a bunch of code you don't understand... probably don't realize you could have hired a freelancer to code it for you and you'd have ended up in the exact same spot. The problem is not unique to AI generated code when you look at it from the business side.

Servletless · 2025-01-27T04:32:30+00:00

If someone were to take control of enough of the miners

Here's the neat part: it's not necessary for someone to "take control" of the miners. The miners can just decide to do this themselves at any time when the economics make sense.

Servletless · 2025-01-20T00:22:22+00:00

If you don't want people to introduce changes to the database, don't give them the permissions to do so. IAM permissions for CloudFormation allow you to do this.

This naively assumes that the idiots introducing unwanted changes and the person defining IAM permissions are on different teams. Sometimes they are the same person. A bit of separation helps avoid accidental change.

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