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Comment · 1 day ago
Well they say the last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time so if he gets the prototype in 4 weeks, which I have no doubt he will be able to do, and assuming that prototype is the first 80% of work, then he should be able to do this in 20 weeks. He even has some margin! Looking forward to seeing the results
Comment · 2 days ago
I’ve experienced deployments under heavy load being quite painful with slow restarts, even when doing e.g. canary releases. Blue/green would work but was in an environment where we couldn’t deploy immutably, we had to mutate the existing deployment in place.
Comment · 2 days ago
So it is an antipattern nowadays to manipulate the classpath after building? Iirc native image require static classpath, but it is quite common to inject e.g. environment specific data via the classpath. Should one just read from the filesystem instead, or what’s the strat there?
Comment · 2 days ago
What are the most common ways to improve warmup times, actually? Looked a bunch into this, primarily native image, aot and crac, all of them super messy to get to work with a normal JVM webapp. I understand the warmup concept is inherent in JIT compilation, but how are big companies like Netflix handling this to quickly scale microservices horizontally etc?
Comment · 3 months ago
I actually agree but what even is ”production grade”? More complexity and excessive fault handling? Nah, happy path coding ftw. Production grade software = collective understanding of the system imo
Comment · 3 months ago
Damn that’s pretty awesome, very intuitive for me that the angular relation between hour/minute hand is always preserved
Comment · 5 months ago
Well if knowing what to build is still the moat, then at least someone knowing that that was _actually_ built is still super important, no?
Comment · 7 months ago
Super interesting, I wonder if this research will cause them to actually change their llm, like turning down the ”desperation neurons” to stop Claude from creating implementations for making a specific tests pass etc.
Comment · 7 months ago
Yes, as ClojureScript
Comment · 7 months ago
I think you can actually replace crypto with LLMs/Diffusion models in this sentence and it will still hold true
Comment · 7 months ago
It is if you just check the sources, heres the json: ``` [ { "name": "Nematode", "emoji": "", "pop": 5e19, "category": "Roundworm (Invertebrate)", "fact": "There are roughly 57 billion nematodes for every human on Earth. They inhabit every known ecosystem, from ocean trenches to polar ice, and outnumber every other multicellular animal combined." }, { "name": "Soil Mite", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e18, "category": "Arachnid (Invertebrate)", "fact": "A single teaspoon of forest soil can contain hundreds of mites. They are the unsung engineers of our planet, recycling dead matter and forming the base of countless food webs." }, { "name": "Marine Copepod", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e18, "category": "Crustacean (Invertebrate)", "fact": "Copepods form the largest animal biomass on Earth. Their daily vertical migrations — traveling hundreds of meters to feed at night — are considered the largest migration on the planet." }, { "name": "Springtail", "emoji": "", "pop": 7e17, "category": "Hexapod (Invertebrate)", "fact": "Springtails can launch themselves 100× their own body length using a forked tail-spring. Despite being soil-dwellers, they are found on every continent, including Antarctica." }, { "name": "Beetle", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e19, "category": "Insect (Invertebrate)", "fact": "About 25% of all known animal species are beetles. When asked what he could infer about the Creator's mind, biologist J.B.S. Haldane replied: 'an inordinate fondness for beetles.'" }, { "name": "Ant", "emoji": "", "pop": 2e16, "category": "Insect (Invertebrate)", "fact": "If you weighed all the ants on Earth, they would rival the total weight of all humans. They farm, wage war, keep slaves, and build air-conditioned megacities underground." }, { "name": "Termite", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e15, "category": "Insect (Invertebrate)", "fact": "Termite mounds can last centuries and regulate their internal temperature within 1°C — a feat no human building has replicated without technology." }, { "name": "Krill", "emoji": "", "pop": 5e14, "category": "Crustacean (Invertebrate)", "fact": "Antarctic krill hold together the entire Southern Ocean food web. A single school can weigh over 2 million tonnes — visible from space as a reddish bloom on the ocean surface." }, { "name": "Mosquito", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e14, "category": "Insect (Invertebrate)", "fact": "Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals to humans in history. Only female mosquitoes bite — they need blood protein to develop their eggs. Males eat only nectar." }, { "name": "Aphid", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e14, "category": "Insect (Invertebrate)", "fact": "Aphids can reproduce asexually, giving live birth to daughters already pregnant with grandchildren — a phenomenon called telescoping generations." }, { "name": "Fruit Fly", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e13, "category": "Insect (Invertebrate)", "fact": "Fruit flies share about 75% of the genes that cause human diseases. More Nobel Prizes have been won using fruit flies as a research model than any other organism." }, { "name": "Honeybee", "emoji": "", "pop": 2e12, "category": "Insect (Invertebrate)", "fact": "A single honeybee will produce only 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime. Colonies make collective decisions by voting with waggle dances." }, { "name": "Anchovy", "emoji": "", "pop": 6e11, "category": "Fish (Vertebrate)", "fact": "The Peruvian anchovy fishery is historically the largest single-species fishery on Earth. Schools can be so dense they show up on radar as false landmasses." }, { "name": "House Mouse", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e11, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "House mice arrived on every inhabited continent by hitching rides on human ships. They can fit through a hole the size of a pencil eraser, and have been to space more than most humans." }, { "name": "Common Starling", "emoji": "", "pop": 5e10, "category": "Bird (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Starling murmurations — flocks of millions moving in perfect fluid synchrony — have no leader. Each bird follows just seven nearest neighbors, producing one of nature's most breathtaking emergent phenomena." }, { "name": "Chicken", "emoji": "", "pop": 3.3e10, "category": "Bird (Vertebrate)", "fact": "There are more chickens on Earth than any other bird species — outnumbering humans 4 to 1. The bones of farmed chickens may become the defining fossil marker of the Anthropocene." }, { "name": "Brown Rat", "emoji": "", "pop": 7e9, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Rats laugh when tickled — emitting ultrasonic chirps inaudible to humans. They also demonstrate empathy, freeing trapped companions even when they gain no personal benefit." }, { "name": "Human", "emoji": "", "pop": 8.1e9, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Humans are the only animal known to cook food, write poetry, and wonder about their own existence. We are also the only species to have driven thousands of others to extinction." }, { "name": "Sheep", "emoji": "", "pop": 1.2e9, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Sheep can recognize up to 50 individual sheep faces — and remember them for years. They even show signs of depression when separated from their flock companions." }, { "name": "Dog", "emoji": "", "pop": 9e8, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Dogs are the oldest domesticated animal, with a relationship to humans stretching back 15,000+ years. They are the only non-primate known to understand pointing as a communicative gesture." }, { "name": "Domestic Cat", "emoji": "", "pop": 6e8, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Cats are considered a major driver of bird and small mammal extinction worldwide. A domestic cat's hunting instinct cannot be turned off by a full belly — they hunt regardless of hunger." }, { "name": "Cattle", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e9, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Cattle account for roughly 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. They can form close friendships, and their heart rate measurably decreases when a companion is nearby." }, { "name": "Pig", "emoji": "", "pop": 7e8, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Pigs are among the most cognitively complex animals: they can play video games, recognize their reflection, and outperform dogs and chimpanzees in certain learning tasks." }, { "name": "Rabbit", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e9, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Rabbits cannot vomit. They re-ingest their own soft droppings directly from the anus — a process called cecotrophy — to extract nutrients on a second pass through the gut." }, { "name": "Common Pigeon", "emoji": "", "pop": 4e8, "category": "Bird (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Pigeons can recognize themselves in mirrors, identify individual human faces from photographs, and have served as decorated war heroes in both World Wars." }, { "name": "African Elephant", "emoji": "", "pop": 4e5, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Elephants hold funerals, mourn their dead, and return to bones of family members years later. They communicate via infrasound rumbles that travel through the ground, felt through their feet." }, { "name": "Snow Leopard", "emoji": "", "pop": 4000, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Snow leopards cannot roar — their unique larynx only allows a haunting purr-like chuff. They are so elusive in the Himalayas that locals call them 'ghosts of the mountains.'" }, { "name": "Blue Whale", "emoji": "", "pop": 1e4, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car, and its heartbeat can be heard from two miles away. Its call at 188 decibels is the loudest sound made by any animal." }, { "name": "Giant Panda", "emoji": "", "pop": 1800, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "Giant pandas have a false thumb — an enlarged wrist bone that helps grip bamboo. They eat up to 38 kg of bamboo a day because their carnivore gut digests only 17% of it." }, { "name": "Amur Leopard", "emoji": "", "pop": 100, "category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)", "fact": "The Amur leopard is possibly the rarest wild cat on Earth. Fewer than 100 remain in the Russian Far East, yet they can run 37 mph and leap over 19 feet horizontally." } ] ```
Comment · 9 months ago
Thanks, just went and bought it!
Comment · 10 months ago
Basically branch coverage but also all variations of the predicates, e.g. testing both true || true, and true || false
Comment · 10 months ago
Terraform is not an abstraction on top of multiple cloud providers, you work with aws, azure etc explicitly. It is , however, agnostic in the sense that you can provision aws, azure, gcp, etc resources within the same iac project
Comment · 11 months ago
Steps 2 & 3 expands to any installation method and version of java

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