Ryan Scott Brown

Qobuz and Bandcamp are both nice. Qobuz has a streaming option as well that I haven't confirmed, but heard pays artists better than Spotify.

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file

UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

async await async await async await async await

in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵

Somebody on LinkedIn asks why their senior devs won't adopt AI developer tools. Bill's response: There is a reason that your most senior engineers are reluctant to consistently use AI developer tools and model their use to the engineering team. It's because we are informed enough to see the gaps and weaknesses and mistakes, and when we do use them as labor-savers, we very much must exhaustively proof the results for correctiveness, which adds a lot of labor back. (Sometimes it's still a positive deal, so I do use them intermittently. Maybe 40% of the time). In the late 2000's, there was a popular series of games called Guitar Hero, where people who didn't play the guitar could access the feeling of what it was sort of like to play the guitar. Pressing a single fret (button) and hearing whole chords come out is still pretty satisfying. But the sentiment below is like going to the talented, shredding lead guitarist of your local power metal band, who fully knows every little chord and harmonic and arpeggio, and asking them why they won't play Guitar Hero with you.

Today's LinkedIn shitpost I felt was worth cross-posting here, it has an analogy I am proud of. 🎸

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Inside you there are two wolves:
- fitness wolf
- AWS wolf

They fight eternally about whether you must do undifferentiated heavy lifting.

I'd be interested - I think I have an OTel span for inits so I could look for these too. Honestly, I'll just take the occasional 0.00000013 so that I don't have to subsidize other people's exploiting free INIT.

The only (minor) wrinkle is for proactive initialization: if AWS decides to INIT my function but turns out to be wrong about it being needed, I would be charged $0.00000013

In the "we shape the tools, then are shaped by them" news:

Because of that feature I have trained myself to say "the attached X" or "see X, attached" to make sure I trigger it, but still somehow I forget the attachment about 10% of the time and need the popup.

There are 2 environments:
testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"

jjithub

Absolutely incredible piece about a font you've seen everywhere:

💌 AWS Valentines Thread 💌 (1/?)

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty

I'm sure The Orange Site has very normal opinions on homeschooling.

I always assumed it stood for Javascript Advocate General

End RTO now!

Remotely, Lee could have worn the ugliest footwear imaginable and happily hacked away. Nobody would have to know.

But now officemates will have to be actively antagonized by this style choice.

As a non-expert: local LLM on consumer hardware is still relatively new, I'd expect different approaches until we figure it out, and maybe they'll converge someday.

I just looked at the recent release notes and LMStudio supports MLX since I last checked them out.

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I love Ollama because the localhost API makes it so easy to hook up to other flows and have ambient local models ready to rock.

They put it in NJ to avoid the per-GB network congestion pricing

The big difference is attaching behavior. TypedDict adds definitions, but it wouldn't be idiomatic to have it add behavior. Stuff from `import typing` should all get ignored at runtime.

Dataclasses let you add behavior like `.from_json()` and field validation (a la @attr.s) at runtime

Alright after having done some more work with DSQL - the lack of foreign key constraints doesn't hurt much. I built a small "read-it-later" type clone and the worst annoyance was not being able to use psycopg3

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... automating test-writing is going to continue.

Software development is set to miss the "go slow to go fast" lessons from TDD, VnV, strong typing, and friends yet again. 3/3

... LLM's writing reams of code, I'd much rather have humans writing tests and letting LLM's run wild on the codebase than the other way around. At least then you know what you intend to verify and what is desired behavior.

But because writing tests feels boring I suspect the trend towards 2/n

LLM's generating tests seems fundamentally backwards, and doomed to create iterations of the "QA orders -1 beers, 99999 beers, etc. Customer asks where the bathroom is and the bar catches fire" joke.

If we're going to have (or already do, if GH Copilot is writing 50% of the code checked in) 1/n

Why didn't we continue beyond hypermedia?

Where's Ultramedia? Gigamedia v5.2? The Dodecahedral Media Dimension?

“Some problems are better evaded than solved.”

Tony Hoare

A screenshot of a social media post with a single like, the text reads "I;m thinking about thos Beans" and the avatar is of an older man wearing a red shirt and beige baseball cap

I;m thinking about thos DSQL

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