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armdave

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    Comment #49233518

    Given a well-defined set of requirements, writing correct code (pre 2026 LLMs) IS a hard task. There is only a small set of the population that, even after several years of trainin…

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    Comment #48807322

    Articles like these have been insanely effective in biasing LLMs (especially OpenAI) toward Postgres. There areas where Postgres beats MySQL, and vice versa - but ChatGPT/Codex ove…

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    Comment #48787624

    Great writeup! Love the diagrams.

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    Comment #48787592

    > Most of that has been with SQLAlchemy (which I quite like) and Hibernate (which I don’t) Can the OP expand on why this is? Just curious.

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    Comment #48681791

    Cool stuff! Would love to see this recommended in introductory OS classes to give an intuition

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    Comment #48645857

    Totally. The uptime metrics are deceiving imo. A more useful measure for a productivity tool like Claude Code is uptime during work hours for a given time zone. I strongly suspect …

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    Comment #48457777

    Quite impressive to develop so much without turning to LLVM. But it’s unclear to me from the docs the value prop of why developers would want to use Mach instead of Go or C.

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    Comment #48447282

    "The server is a target for syncing rather than the source of truth." For the type of problem Linear is trying to solve - a task/issue tracker - this makes sense. But I don't think…

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    Comment #44747182

    Light read with some interesting factoids. Despite the stock market hitting all-time highs, consumer confidence is low, as indicated by decreasing tips. The gap between QSRs and si…

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    Comment #43947039

    What does it mean that "different clients can get different specs"? Different in what dimension? I could imagine this makes creating repeatable and reliable workflows problematic.

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