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bfLives

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    Comment #46079559

    I got this sense as well, particularly from the section about assertions. Most of the use cases they describe (e.g checking function arguments and return values) are much better ha…

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    Comment #45830247

    Does it matter? I’d rather use a 90% accurate tool than an 80% accurate one that I can subject to retribution.

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    Comment #45662720

    On the other hand, I’ve found the integration in Confluence quite helpful, particularly for making sense of acronyms.

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    Comment #45512039

    > TiVo has stopped selling Edge DVR hardware products,” the company said in an AI-based message. What does this actually mean? An AI-authored press release? A customer support bot …

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    Comment #45475272

    It’s even in the standard library now: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/struct.OnceCell.html

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    Comment #45351387

    You can use pgrep to avoid this.

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    Comment #44429993

    For the `-j` issue specifically, exporting `MAKEFLAGS=-j8` should work.

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    Comment #44383321

    > There is a well settled practice in computing that you just don't plagiarize code. Even a small snippet. I think way many developers use StackOverflow suggests otherwise.

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    Comment #43989004

    “Man” is probably being interpreted as the Isle of Man. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man

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    Comment #43445779

    Looks like only the code is Apache, not the weights: > the code in this repo is Apache 2 now added, the model weights are the same as the Llama license as they are a derivative wor…

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    Comment #43284964

    Looks really interesting. I like the approach of writing pure functions that return descriptions of IO tasks to perform. A couple of questions: 1. Why async? 2. Why couple to anyho…

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    Comment #43237482

    From the sound of it, a whole bunch of them.

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    Comment #43097820

    What would HP bring to this hypothetical merger?

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    Comment #42351976

    I think this is exactly the intended use case for Ninja. It’s discussed in this recently posted article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268310

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    Comment #41271309

    > and it’s ultimately done to show that OpenAI is making an effort to mitigate the risks that regulators claim it creates. I’d go one step further — the subtext is that only Open A…

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    Comment #40931836

    I think IAM would be a lot easier to interact with from a dev perspective if the error messages were more clear. I suspect that they are sometimes intentionally vague (or misleadin…

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    Comment #40645566

    > Gleam's labelled arguments are AFAIK a unique feature. This lets you have named function argument appear differently to the caller than they do internally. The caller may way to …

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    Comment #40641357

    It’s accessible via the Wayback Machine, fortunately.

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    Comment #40349729

    I find that kind of surprising; the lack of “customer service voice” is one of the main reasons I prefer the Mistral models over Open AI’s, even if the latter are somewhat better a…

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    Comment #39436395

    The fact that, at the time of writing, all of the comments on this post are about the Oxford comma rather than the actual thesis of the article goes a long way to proving its point…

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    Comment #37476708

    Greyed-out buttons are similarly terrible UX. Far too often, it’s impossible to figure out why a button is un-clickable.

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    Comment #37390864

    I’m partial to the Python port of parsec. ( https://pythonhosted.org/parsec/ )