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ocharles

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About ocharles

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    Comment #48502577

    A small diff /= a small change! They are completely separate things. Quite often a small diff is hours of actual work. Even in this case _finding_ those lines could have taken work…

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    Comment #47728951

    I don't think there's anything passive here - it's a very constructive and valid argument. Are we not here to have a discussion?

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    Comment #46347630

    We're a Haskell shop, so I usually just say "review the current commit. You're an experienced Haskell programmer and you value readable and obvious code" (because that it is indeed…

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    Comment #46347322

    I recently started using LLMs to review my code before asking for a more formal review from colleagues. It's actually been surprisingly useful - why waste my colleagues time with s…

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    Comment #45864491

    So - exceptions are for invariant violations? I'm essentially trying to work out what it is that makes something "exceptional"

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    Comment #45481552

    What enclosure houses the JBOD?

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    Comment #45480430

    I'm curious how much this costs to run. I.e., how much are you paying for electricity?

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    Comment #45085275

    I write Haskell with Claude Code and it's got remarkably good recently. We have some code at work that uses STM to have what is essentially a mutable state machine. I needed to spl…

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    Comment #44629679

    This keeps getting parroted but it's flawed/overly idealistic/frankly naive. An awful of children are, unfortunately, poorly parented. This is not a new phenomenon, nor something w…

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    Comment #43881446

    Because we know the implications of poor quality food, and we also know those who would buy it have no choice but to buy the cheapest. So, no thanks. I'd much rather the state inte…

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    Comment #43129021

    Because of the volume of documents, or because of some cognitive change at that age?

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    Comment #40931122

    Honestly there's way more there, and you get consistent solid speeds. Find a provider with a lot of retention and you can find almost all mainstream media regardless of it's age. (…

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    Comment #39394744

    > On what timeline? Per hour? Per day? Surely a pinch of critical thinking answers this? 4 deliveries a day isn't going to pay a daily minimum wage. If it did, then we wouldn't hav…

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    Comment #39164035

    Is Whoop maybe more what you're looking for? I don't think that has a display at all

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    Comment #39158548

    Sleep isn't the metric to track here, there are much better things to analyze such as HRV. For reducing drinking you shouldn't be doing that because of your sleep, you should be do…

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    Comment #38429728

    Very hard to answer without knowing what your goal is. Do you want to be a practitioner of DL, or do you want to be a researcher?

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    Comment #38363365

    For those who won't bother to RTFA: the trains run cooler than other trains, so they are taking advantage of the difference such that the net result is the same temperature in tunn…

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    Comment #38160773

    You might like https://github.com/martinvonz/jj , which gives an alternative frontend to Git.

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    Comment #38051012

    As I understand it, the point is that these models while they are _trained_ on identifying cats or cars, because they have soon so much variation during training have internalised …

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    Comment #37997166

    Yea, it needs to go fully off screen too!

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    Comment #37776780

    I have the 9 and it's a fairly good phone, but seems to have a hard time working with UK phone networks. I get patchy 4G, not sure I've ever seen 5G, and there seems to be a very m…

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    Comment #37037544

    The book "Beautiful Code", maybe?

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    Comment #36958562

    The analogous command here is `jj split -i`, which interactively splits the current commit (which is your working copy).