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Comment #49134630
Stopped after > Headline. The crash is real and reproducible.
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Comment #49104492
Old reddit still works, images and videos are usually forced to go to new reddit. You can sometimes get around it by clicking on the comments link. I started getting a blocking ove…
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Comment #49080852
10DLC in North America
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Comment #48945567
Interesting question. From the Wikipedia article, > ISO 8601 allows Gregorian dates from the introduction of the calendar on 15 October 1582. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601…
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Comment #47734772
This works well for jobs that are long-ish. You need another process to sweep for orphaned jobs and requeue or fail them. Add a timestamp of when it got picked up to keep track
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Comment #46775221
Exactly the point I was going to make. Shipping something requires knowing how to ship it, monitor it, and fix it. Writing code is the "easy" part and kind of always has been. No o…
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Comment #46520731
Electron ships a version of Chrome. Other frameworks like Tauri use the device's webview.
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Comment #45639803
receive takes a timeout. A would crash/hit the timeout and deal with the problem.
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Comment #45617249
What do you mean, "creates a Conn variable out of whole cloth"? Conn is just a pipeline of functions, the initial Conn struct is created at request time and passed through to each …
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Comment #45111254
I've never seen it write a file in plan mode either.
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Comment #44864196
The behavior is configurable and the default is unbound. https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_cmd.html#%2Bsbt
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Comment #44730755
Not if the items change relative position over time.
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Comment #44655182
Schroedingers branching
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Comment #44643103
Counterpoint: Why should my println debugging get committed? They're not "important" for the final product but important for development.
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Comment #44299678
Agreed, but people sell "vibe coding" without acknowledging you need more than vibes. LLMs can help answer the questions. However, they're not going to necessarily make the correct…
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Comment #44295912
Of course that's what the industry is selling because they want to make money. Yes, it's easy to create a proof of concept but once you get out of greenfield into 50-100k tokens ne…
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Comment #44295208
I do not agree it is something you can pick up in an hour. You have to learn what AI is good at, how different models code, how to prompt to get the results you want. If anything, …
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Comment #44294195
Not OP but probably just cost.
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Comment #44231650
Elixir has a better developer experience, or at least it's more approachable. Better code splitting with modules, easier to use variables (no var, var1, var2), loops that look like…
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Comment #44077163
FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED is great, but it needs to be in a transaction. In the example code it won't "do" anything because it selects for update then immediately loses the lock. Clau…
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Comment #44031150
Better to use something like OpenApi and generate your zod schema using it.
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Comment #43958665
It's JSON-RCP 2 with a specific life cycle and events. https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification I found an explanation on a site once but haven't found any official docs. I suppose yo…
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Comment #43948055
I wish there was a clear spec on the site but there isn't https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-26 It seems like half of it is Sonnet output and it doesn't describe…
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Comment #43887252
I think Bill Nye has something similar, too.
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Comment #43740656
The grandparent is talking about how to control cost by focusing the tool. My response was to a comment about how that takes too much thinking. If you give a junior an overly broad…