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    Comment #48232177

    the article complains about ux, not capabilities. In this case it is complaining about the defaults.

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    Comment #48123373

    I think humans are still accountable for the code generated by agents. You are free to switch language but you still need to understand it.

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    German-style strings is a way to store array of strings for columnar dbs. The idea is to have an array of metadata. Metadata has a fixed size (16 bytes) The metadata includes the s…

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    https://archive.is/2025.12.29-103247/https://m.independent.i...

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    > Your coworkers and QA will thank you for learning LINQ and ditching the imperative methods that plague your Python brain. This is a very unfortunate joke: Python has list (and ge…

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    Arrow supports this string format: https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#variable-... From the article: > As luck would have it, the Arrow spec was also finally making…

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    Congratulations to the team, Pydantic is an amazing library. If you find JSON serialization/deserialization a bottleneck, another interesting library (with much less features) for …

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    I think the GH app is a workaround for this: > Deploy keys only grant access to a single repository. More complex projects may have many repositories to pull to the same server.

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    I don't know what were the issues Yelp was facing, I have upgraded several times my past Kafka clusters and really never experienced any issues. Normally the upgrade instructions a…

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    You can write code that runs in both interpreters. Same syntax can have different behavior. I guess nowadays, as the py2 compatibility is a thing of the past, most programs would c…

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    One thing that is underestimated is keep the tools version in sync between your app dev dependencies and pre-commit. This also includes plugins for specific tools (for instance fla…

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