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rattray
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About rattray
views my own (if that), etc.
previous:
- founder, stainless.com
- engineer, stripe
https://linkedin.com/in/alexrattray
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Comment #48499549
I think that gets you access to mythos, which doesn't have the safeguards. It's configured as a separate model.
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Comment #48253517
GP seemed to be commenting on the Trump administration, not necessarily individuals of conservative persuasion. The Trump administration diverges materially from traditional conser…
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Comment #48187692
> ... and their team is joining Anthropic to build, who knows, some dumb integration to make Hubspot data available in Claude, or something equally as boring. Fun fact, I named it …
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Comment #48187168
Aww, well this thread is a nice surprise :) thanks for the kind words!
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Comment #48187107
TypeSpec is awesome!! (disclaimer: founder of Stainless and also friends with creator of TypeSpec)
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Comment #48187077
darn! anything else i missed?
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Comment #48163011
Hmm, that's one explanation, but I'm curious what leads you to believe it's the correct one? I'm struck by this quote, which I'd be surprised if they could be explained fully by th…
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Comment #48160850
> Prior to the study, 83% of participants had "severe" autism. Two years later, only 17% were rated as severe, 39% as mild or moderate, and incredibly, 44% were below the cut-off f…
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Comment #48152499
> why not just build a translation tool for it? They did ;) a highly dynamic one...
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Comment #48076244
It's possible that use of `contenteditable` and ability to save the file could help but that has a lot of limitations/gotchas, so I'm inclined to agree.
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Comment #48054278
Cool! How'd you build it / what made it work so well?
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Comment #47996338
Aren't there high quality cables available? Eg from companies like Apple or Anker? I struggle to understand why an Apple lightning cable would be more robust than an Apple thunderb…
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Comment #47916582
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Comment #47884474
I've been very curious about that too. I wonder if it's actually much better at admitting when it doesn't know something, because it thinks it's a "dumber model". But I haven't pla…
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Comment #47767323
Has anyone tried both jj and gitbutler extensively yet? Both seem to have some interesting new ideas on top of git.
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Comment #47767302
What's your naming scheme?
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Comment #47653291
Abandoned open-source projects with poor code quality are nothing new. The merits of any project are yours to evaluate. To me, I see some encouraging thoughtfulness here. However, …
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Comment #47653242
This seems awesome. Seems to address many of my armchair complaints about both Go (inexpensive) and Rust (bloated/complex). I'm curious what compilation times are like? Are there t…
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Comment #47565540
Some details on how it works from a code comment: Problem: DOM-based text measurement (getBoundingClientRect, offsetHeight) forces synchronous layout reflow. When components indepe…
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Comment #47565484
Regardless of the subject matter, the tweets announcing this are a masterclass in demoing why an architectural/platform improvement can be impactful.
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Comment #47417734
Wow. How fast is haiku?
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Comment #47349589
> For our first experiment, we used ClickBench, an analytical database benchmark. ClickBench has 43 queries that focus on aggregation and filtering operations. The operations run o…
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Comment #47297042
Curious, what do you use it for?