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But did you pray before you prompted?


Maybe instead of building a restricted C++ we should be building parsers that restrict what C++ features we use.


It is called static analysis tool.


That's true of most Christians unfortunately. I've seen monks tell us that just because we go to church on Sunday doesn't make us practicing Christians. Most are living atheistic lifestyles and remember God only Sunday morning. Better than nothing I suppose..


is it? if I'm going to Hell anyway I might as well sleep in on Sundays


If you truly believed you were going to hell I think you'd have the opposite reaction


not if I'm literally damned if I do, and damned if I don't! might as well enjoy what I can while it lasts, in that case.

if I thought going to church would keep me out of Hell I'd have the opposite reaction, but the GP was talking about how most people who go to church are still going to Hell


LLMs aren't free. The more garbage you accept into your code base the harder will be for LLMs to fix / extend it because it will have context issues.

At this point in history they aren't good enough to just vibe code complex projects as the author figured out in practice.

They can be very useful for most tasks, even niche ones but you can't trust it completely.


How would you even price it? Have special markets based on coin origin?


That's already the case. Some collectors already pay more for specific coins. While some other people buy their coins for investment only directly from miners, so they don't have to worry about who else might have held a coin.


Wonder how fast we're gonna get the torrent

LE: weird, my local private torrent has a 4k version from 18 April while the site had it on 22 April


for the record these problems don't really exist on linux in my experience


Python problems exist on all platforms. It's just that most people using Python have figured out their 'happy path' workarounds in the past and keep using them.

Python is awesome in many ways, one of my favourite languages, but unless you are happy with venv manipulation (or live in Conda), it's often a nightmare that ends up worse than DLL-hell.


Python is in a category of things you can't just use without being an expert in the minutiae. This is unfortunate because there are a lot of people who are not Python developers who would like to run programs which happen to be written in Python.

Python is by no means alone in this or particularly egregious. Having been a heavy Perl developer in the 2000s, I was part of the problem. I didn't understand why other people had so much trouble doing things that seemed simple to me, because I was eating, breathing, and sleeping Perl. I knew how to prolong the intervals between breaking my installation, and how to troubleshoot and repair it, but there was no reason why anyone who wanted to deploy, or even develop on, my code base should have needed that encyclopedic knowledge.

This is why, for all their faults, I count containers as the biggest revolution in the software industry, at least for us "backend" folks.


Use the free chatgpt to help you write a script to download them all and test speed


I don't have direct experience with distributed file systems but it so happens I did a tiny bit of research in the past month and.. there are quite a few open source ones available. Would've been nice for the authors to explain why the already existing solutions didn't work for them.


They have an HFT background so probably it was developed long ago for that workload (which tends to be outside the design envelope for off the shelf solutions).


what if everyone agrees on a 10s delay?


For pseudo-live streams such as sports events, that would be totally fine. People can have slightly out of sync streams, delayed by various amounts.

But you can't live stream a conversation with someone if you have a 10s delay.


Latency is actually a pretty big deal for live sports events.

No one wants to hear the cheering start at the neighbor's house ten seconds before you get to see the team score a goal.


And yet, that is exactly what we have!


The issue is everyone is watching the same part of the file at the same time. Offsetting by 10 seconds does not change that.


The time offset impedes the ability of viewers to interact with the streamer via chat, which for many people (incl. myself) is the whole reason to watch live instead of a recording.


Define "live".


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