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Comment · 1 month ago
> The White House wanted 1000 targets and pulled from their database without any due diligence

source?

Comment · 2 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h0CHrQE794

there's a tension between innate preferences we’re born with, versus cultivated tastes that require effort

Comment · 3 months ago
lol, I briefly thought of such a technique, but in the end, found it simpler to just use a synchronization primitive at the application level to serialize db access on transactions where I knew I was going to write. it amounts to about the same honor code.
Comment · 3 months ago
busy_timeout is often sidestepped (ignored) when a transaction attempts to upgrade from a read to a write producing SQLITE_BUSY.

By default, SQLite transactions start in DEFERRED mode, acting as read transactions until an actual write operation occurs.

If another connection begins writing to the database while your transaction is in this read state, an immediate SQLITE_BUSY error is triggered regardless of what you set busy_timeout to

Comment · 4 months ago
The alternative is a High-Dimensional / Embedding-Like Approach where question responses aren't tied to fixed axes, but rather the full response set is treated as a point in latent space.

Then it's on the researcher to examine the clusters and assign labels. There's also not a nice mapping that's a-priori interpretable in low-dimensional pre-existing axes.

Probably only used in research than consumer websites, under more controlled conditions; there are very few public political tests doing this transparently

Comment · 4 months ago
what exactly is 'calling a function in two parts'
Comment · 4 months ago
2016 (up to 2018 or so) may have been the peak of such varied activity in the developer ecosystem, including articles like this, whether it was discussion, ideation, OSS variety, language development.

There has been growth since but it's been concentrated into fewer channels and somewhat industrialized.

Comment · 4 months ago
you made a funny
Comment · 4 months ago
what's an example of something you made happen
Comment · 5 months ago
whats an example of things that you have your agents do that use workflows and sqlite db
Comment · 6 months ago
irrelevant to the definition, thanks anyway
Comment · 6 months ago
A democracy means political authority ultimately comes from the people.
Comment · 9 months ago
What exactly is 'sustainability'
Comment · 9 months ago
I like how OBS has subsumed (often low-quality) screen recording apps for me; apart from the apps original intent for streaming

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