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geewee··on The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process
That's almost certainly per server instance though, there's no mention of any type of synchronization across multiple instances, so if you e.g run many small ones or run the service as a lambda I'd be surprised if it worked like you expected.
geewee··on The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
We're also struggling with this, as we'd love to e.g. just run a formatter and commit the changed code in CI rather than just fail the code.
geewee··on Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
I tried Aider recently to modify a quite small python + HTML project, and it consistently got "uv" commands wrong, ended up changing my entire build system because it didn't think the thing I wanted to do was supported in the current one (it was).

They're very effective at making changes for the most part, but boy you need to keep them on a leash if you care about what those changes are.

geewee··on Developer Philosophy
Whoa! Small world. That was a fun story.
geewee··on Developer Philosophy
I think it depends on how thorny the thing you need to debug is. Race conditions, intermittent bugs that crash the process leaving no trace, etc. Debugging is much more than using a debugger
geewee··on Searching for DeepSeek's glitch tokens
That was an incredibly interesting read, thank you for sharing!
geewee··on Male and female brains differ at birth
Does it? Nobody's arguing that trans women are female.
geewee··on Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
I don't really think we have. There are many open source projects that duplicate work for a variety of reasons. Perfectly fine for stuff you want to do, but probably not an optimal allocation of resources
geewee··on Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential
Aw, I hoped for a second for global coverage.
geewee··on Rust's Incremental Compiler Architecture
I wonder if these graphs capture the new multi-threaded frontend that's on nightly.
geewee··on Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative
It's unclear to me based on your post, but you do realize that public IPs very much count as personally identifiable information under the GDPR, right?
geewee··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
Yes, some of the forests will be untouched nature but a good chunk of it will be for timber production.
geewee··on New Mac Mini with M4
Does anyone have any idea if we can expect a MacBook Pro with M4 release announcement this week as well?
geewee··on A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class
Why?
geewee··on Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code
Something similar (but not quite the same) exists through sources like CCF ( https://www.cloudcarbonfootprint.org/ ) or Climatiq ( https://www.climatiq.io/docs/api-reference/computing ) thought I don't think anyone has anything built-in to Terraform or your editor, which would be neat.

Disclaimer: I work at Climatiq

geewee··on My programming beliefs as of July 2024
To be fair, I can remember 0 times where as an API consumer I've needed to do different actions depending on whether it was a 401 or a 403 - but I also mainly deal in API->API communication.
geewee··on Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests
It happens even on prolonged vacations. So I don't actually have to get up at any particular time (my partner does) so I don't really buy the stress theory, it feels more like a pretty fixed circadian rhythm in regards to when I'm tired/awake - as I can push the rhythm but it takes a fair chunk of days. I imagine like adjusting to a new timezone.
geewee··on Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
It's meat all the way down!
geewee··on Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests
I'm generally an early riser, and I just go to bed early and (generally) wake up a little before my alarm. Even if I go to bed late I wake up at around the same time (even though I might like to sleep in) I don't think that early risers are primarily due to external constraints hold.
geewee··on Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
If these toxins build up in animal cells - why would you eating meat (that must then have a much higher concentration) not expose you to the same toxins?
geewee··on What's up Python? Django get background tasks, a new REPL, bye bye gunicorn
Yeah that looks really promising. Haven't done Django as my daily driver for a few years now, and I don't recall stumbling upon it back then!
geewee··on What's up Python? Django get background tasks, a new REPL, bye bye gunicorn
Django getting background tasks built-in is going to be really nice. It sucked having to manage celery or similar alongside it.
geewee··on Researchers run high-performing LLM on the energy needed to power a lightbulb
> It's not like AI replaced anything you mentioned.

I mean it's true it hasn't replaced anything the OP mentioned, but it has definitely replaced parts of the compute that I would normally use for e.g. searching.

geewee··on A New Kind Of Dance Science (combinatorics of social dancing)
I could see stuff like this helping advanced dancers come up with new stuff or perhaps help some instructors.
geewee··on A New Kind Of Dance Science (combinatorics of social dancing)
Nor does it capture that you might be holding your hands in different ways, such as which side is rotated up.
geewee··on A New Kind Of Dance Science (combinatorics of social dancing)
Having danced for around a decade, I would say the hand positioning example is a bit reductive. The most obvious example is that there's only one variant of "both hands crossed over" - while it's true that the hands might only fit together one way, the things you can do with the hands depending on what arm is on top varies significantly.

Having said that I'm pretty excited about the topic and what the author can do with it.

geewee··on The psychology of getting high a lot
I mean, maybe you have more background knowledge than what you're posting, but it doesn't seem to me that there's necessarily an especially strong link between your recreational cannabis usage and your testosterone levels. Particularly if you've been doing something for 8 years without any side-effects and then suddenly something drastic happens - it seems to me there are plenty of other potential explanations.
geewee··on Doorway effect
It's a nice series of stories, although I feel like they do go a bit off the deep end in some of the later installments - but the premise is very fun.
geewee··on Rkyv: A zero-copy deserialization framework for rust
We use Rkyv heavily at Climatiq to embed already-parsed data into our binaries that we then serve on an edge network. The speed is great and for the happy path it works very nicely, and is extremely fast. However the fact there's a separate version of each struct does become a bit of a bother.
geewee··on Stream to Chromecast with resolved, vlc and bash
Yeah! No subtitle support though, unfortunately.
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