Viewing profile — prpl

sure it’s not tricky. But everybody does it different and OpenAI couldn’t even be bothered to do it right when benchmarking their models

For one, I’ve been working on a generic sandbox environment github.com/brianv0/formwork You should be easily able to hide/lock down files, network, and MCP tools from an agent and …

It’s been a very long time, but I read Alas, Babylon in middle school. I remember aspects of their modern existence also being problematic (IIRC a house in florida with lots of win…

I’ve been formalizing behaviors to requirements and building more end to end tests to verify them. In reality, every requirement needs a verification element. Secondly, building tr…

My impression is that many of the indian engineering schools are some form of trade school and it shows. A lot of people are very good at churning out things, but they vastly prefe…

Yeah you could go with just Number though, and then keep almost everything a BigInteger/BigDecimal under the covers (or dynamically choose the correct class)

Are you being serious or sarcastic?

I built a 40 (later 80) node cluster with clusterknoppix ~2006 to run a bunch of physics simulations off of old library computers after I replaced a bunch of PSU fans. Kept my cubi…

Salesforce runs Salesforce on postgres with LSM: https://vldb.org/cidrdb/2026/a-multi-tenant-relational-oltp-...

you've had an account for four years, and _this_ is your comment?

SAT isn’t an IQ test, and probably all sorts of people took it before they had cultural awareness or a diagnosis that would have lead to different testing conditions had it been ta…

there’s really no limit to how many times and ways you can review something with AI, except dollars.

They are not all filtered early nor are they necessarily missing from images. The data can be embargoed until orbits change effectively.

Right, people haven’t internalized that these are really just scripts in natural language.

Oracle is the hilarious version of this - 9i - "internet" 10g - "grid" 11g - "also grid" 12c - "cloud" 26ai - "ai" various other examples. One really annoying thing is this has als…

"rely" is overly strong in these cases usually (more like "make use of")

> The real core of infrastructure monitoring isn’t dashboards. It’s the alerts. “it’s not X it’s Y” at this point when I see this pattern in writing I assume most if not all of it …

Can you build most of this with Ray?

For files up to 100kB of size, this should effectively be really close to the same price as S3 when writing (didn't check reading so much, but the writes/PUT is always much more ex…

Adversarial software development is also when I do my best work

I have honestly not had that problem much. Being specific, concise, and strong with your prompts helps out a lot.

I find the people who end up with spaghetti code did so because they didn’t translate their normal processes over. Being completely methodical about development really helps. obra/…

It would be interesting to make that sort of thing generic. A law couldn’t legalize something without backporting the legalization.

I think people rarely reject even if it fails a slump test though

The sklearn to me is (and mirrors) the insane amount of engineering that exists/existed to bring Jupyter notebooks to something more prod-worthy and reproducible. There’s always go…