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MrBuddyCasino
10,162karma·4,201submissions·November 20, 2011
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> developers hated them, but I think that draws the wrong conclusion Exception handling is just annoying from a syntax perspective. Also checked Exceptions have the problem that they bubble up ty…
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I did not expect anything else. The proposal J with the birds has some charm, but doesn’t work as a whole.
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That makes one wonder, why is there only an option for globally ordered NOTIFYs? I would expect to have a little more tuning knobs available: - explicitly unordered - ordered per table, but not global…
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> That said, I've spent too much of my life chasing implicit control flow to accept exceptions. Yes. This is why unchecked exceptions are annoying. Checked exceptions are a „failed experimen…
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Jim Goad wrote about this. His target was the Bay Area crowd, but Berlin is the same: „ Among most humans, the need for social approval seems stronger than the desire to know the truth. Rejected by th…
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You need a new distribution where that shell is the default. Boiling the ocean.
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https://www.nushell.sh/
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> GLM 5.2 has been good at select tasks but really shit at others Yeah it really likes to shit the bed after thinking forever. Even if it can do some things, the quality is not quite up there in …
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That one was perhaps more of a cautionary tale, given the economics.
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Almost as if centuries of passing the imperial exam by either skill or cheating influenced Chinese culture a lot.
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> GLM 5.2 came out under an MIT license, beats the latest Opus release on real work while not even claiming to be frontier I used GLM 5.2 a bit, and while it is usable for some tasks it is not fr…
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Google Ai studio: pegs a core Opencode: pegs a core Paypal: pegs a core Chatgpt: pegs a core
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As if workers got paid by "what $wealth allows".
As if there was a "right to dignified work" (what is "dignified"?).
As if there was a "right to fair income" (…
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This is why I‘m excited for the attempt to vaccinate against the common cold and influenza: https://blog.interceptfund.com/p/ending-respiratory-infectio... …
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Same, the article is really solid but then they choose to migrate to… Python? This feels like someone giving a great commencement speech, then proceeding to pull out a gun and shoot himself in the foo…
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> This isn't something you can screen for in a classic job interview. It is in fact very easy to scan for.
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I have no issues via openrouter.
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That’s unreliable. Gemini is nice because its always perfect.
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Generous free tier, when its not overloaded. Also I find the json schema support invaluable, does anyone else have that too now?
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Very good. Sometimes I‘m too impatient.
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Every time I trust my memory it betrays me.
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You probably know this, they don't have wonky performance but are even bigger. An oven around a crystal.