johnthescott

Joined 7 years ago

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Apr 11
bounty coder, merchant of light
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Comment · 14 days ago
ask claude to write a simple program in, say, python. then ask claude to translate that program into BrinFck.
Comment · 27 days ago
and if you didn't read the paper, they still have a solution.
Comment · 1 month ago
excellent observation.
Comment · 1 month ago
jgc, you made my day, one 86'er to another.
Comment · 1 month ago
i recommend the book "The End of Error: Unum Computing"
Comment · 2 months ago
pretty sure clang is older than sql. hal agrees.
Comment · 3 months ago
+2 for humidity. great work. keep it simple.
Comment · 3 months ago
after going through my first quake in valley, years ago, i shut windows at night, cause every strong breeze woke me up thinking a quake was coming. bummer.
Comment · 3 months ago
years ago i lived next door to a bar popular with off duty emts. interesting, to say the least.
Comment · 4 months ago
lecunn was at facebook after llmama3.1, says ai.
Comment · 4 months ago
amen.
Comment · 4 months ago
for smallish databases, where uuid is surogate id, i would trust dbos/postgres replication. replication is just too hard to role your own.

tangentially, for dbs with large blobs, lot's of easy tricks when uuids are immutable digests.

syncing, say, two blob stores, A and B, boils down to jaccard metric, as a first order approximation

   |(A ∩ B)| / |(A ∪ B)|
diffing the two digest sets at point in time is second order approximation.

and don't forget logical replication ...

Comment · 4 months ago
i spent a weekend with an ai expert trying to get claude to generate code from a yacc grammar for a new language and a smallish set of examples. claude never seemed to get past the bnf syntax.
Comment · 4 months ago
"elegance and speed go hand in hand" - d. mcilroy
Comment · 4 months ago
pg_pachy ?

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