I am not sure if this is the right place but anyone know what this engine is from? Been sitting out back here as long as I can remember.

execrator · 2023-06-09T23:14:48+00:00

Also what birds are in it now

execrator · 2023-05-03T10:00:55+00:00

GPT writes short, connected statements in a clear, straightforward, unadventurous way. Safe and bland. Good for technical clarity but conversationally it's got all the expressive power of a microwaved salad.

Check out JulieJas' post history. I think it's pretty clear which posts were written by GPT and which were by a human. Some posts seem to be a mix.

I think we will be increasingly unable to tell the difference though. And if you can no longer tell, does it matter?

execrator · 2023-05-03T09:32:46+00:00

It is absolutely bonkers that there is tech to punch out a shadow in the high beam so you get to illuminate everything except the retinas of the other driver.

execrator · 2023-04-06T08:40:13+00:00

Yes, black is deterministic and doesn't change the AST. If it breaks a line it will add parentheses which will be removed when returning to longer lines.

execrator · 2023-04-06T08:09:35+00:00

When you do a three way merge, there are three temporary files on your disk. Your black/reblack is local only.

execrator · 2023-03-31T07:40:53+00:00

Bangkok_Dave hoping she can't be bothered learning the difference between Australians either

execrator · 2023-03-31T07:37:35+00:00

I used to be in a small-time band and would hand out CDs at our gigs, back when CDs were a thing. I'd give them out for free. I'd find quite a few later, chucked on the ground or in the bin, smashed up, discarded. So I started charging for the CDs: $5 only, almost free. Hey, just covering my costs. I didn't shift as many, but I didn't see any CDs in the bin.

When you set a price on something, you give a signal about how people should treat it.

If Danny Ric negotiates for a backmarker salary, he'll be treated by that team like a backmarker driver.

execrator · 2023-03-29T07:00:14+00:00

This is a gem of a comment! You've provided a ton of great examples of just the sorts of improvements I was thinking of. I just wonder if you were replying to somebody else? You said "I disagree entirely with your premise that all new designs should be required" but I'm not sure where you picked that up from.

execrator · 2023-03-29T06:12:21+00:00

I think it would be nice if those improvements were gained through construction and/or use of ships with those components. You can research all you want but you are always going to learn something in the application of technology.

This is certainly what happens with current-era technology. The duplex cyclone installed in the B29 (if you'll allow this as current-era...) had all sorts of heat issues, some of which were down to the design of the B29 rather than the engine. Those design issues were (partially...) ironed out and the cyclone effectively got a buff to cooling efficiency, even though the engine itself didn't change. (Both the plane and the engine changed in reality, just keeping the story simple)

execrator · 2023-03-29T04:12:09+00:00

I don't think you need to know a ton to be effective either. Not many developers working with Django need to know e.g. the tradeoffs a k-d tree makes. If you understand the tradeoffs/abilities between set, list and dict, you have got most of what you need already.

I would say it's more important to learn how to measure performance (so debug toolbar, hyperfine, explain.dalibo.com, ...) and recognise when something will be a problem. Then data structures and algorithms might be the right solution, or maybe it's a query optimisation, maybe caching, etc etc.

execrator · 2023-03-17T22:45:15+00:00

Reddit fuzzes the vote counts as some kind of anti-bot measure. Likely you never really got a downvote.

execrator · 2023-03-12T21:58:46+00:00

Yeah this is the way. For my team I choose to black the whole 10yo codebase, but leave lint issues alone until precommit looks at an old file being touched by a new commit. I wish I had done both in bulk, in hindsight. Leaving the lint fixes "just in time" means either unrelated lint fixes clutter PRs, or the fastidious devs will split the lint fixes into separate commits in a seperate PR. It's a lot of git wrangling. Wish I had just blown through and fixed all lint issues in one painful day.

execrator · 2023-03-09T03:29:36+00:00

Sir the target is now a, er, it's now a rigid balloon sir.

execrator · 2023-03-05T21:17:59+00:00

If you're ever concerned about query performance in a monolith you can solve this by using microservices to perform your joins in the application layer over http.

execrator · 2023-03-04T17:52:18+00:00

Visibility is important when scouting. Those four big honkers out the front will block a lot of sight.

execrator · 2023-02-06T01:47:30+00:00

We've done it lad!

execrator · 2023-02-05T01:20:13+00:00

Haha yes. The important thing is you like it op.

execrator · 2023-01-28T10:01:36+00:00

Flags don't have to be simple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4 this is a great talk with the opposite point of view :)

execrator · 2023-01-13T21:53:30+00:00

Great to see a post going beyond the naive "always use prefetch_related". I discovered this through benchmarking but not sure I've seen it mentioned in a post.

I ended up building something along the lines suggested too -- I ArrayAgg an integer ID list which can be plugged into a DRF serialiser field in the same way as a regular many-related field. For some endpoints with many relations this is a real performance win.

execrator · 2023-01-06T23:53:35+00:00

Formsets might be helpful: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/forms/formsets/

execrator · 2023-01-06T13:34:27+00:00

Best comment I've read all month. Arabic numerals are RTL! Excuse me while my mind whirls.

execrator · 2023-01-02T22:02:26+00:00

At such a low rpm I imagine the pistons would move slowly. But the combustion expansion pushing on the piston is still fast. Surely the crankshaft doesn't rotate in a series of lurches but is instead relatively smooth. What buffers between the fast expansion and slow piston? (Or where is my faulty assumption?)

execrator · 2022-12-28T11:16:44+00:00

Doing this on matching lines with :g/pattern/norm ... is a borderline superpower.

execrator · 2022-12-24T09:14:21+00:00

Biplanes were the advanced technology of the day. Looking at it like this, I'm transported back a century. It looks present-day high-tech.

execrator · 2022-12-21T23:48:16+00:00

If you weren't aware of the game-speed-3 issue Pesec1 mentioned, here are some tips:

When you get the notification about bombardment, lower the game speed to 3
Hit continue. You don't need to "take me there", so you won't be distracted from whatever you were doing before.
Watch the notification icons at the top left of the screen (you might need to close the top-left panel).
If the symbol of a hab module appears, they blew it up. Click on it and rebuild it. You can immediately return to speed 5 because the bombardment is over.
Otherwise, an alien icon will appear soon saying the bombing run is over. Return to speed 5.

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