I've seen this in action as well. The biggest value by far is seeing the overused phrases and tics in your writing style. The prompt I like is to tell it to highlight and flag passive voice and run ons since those are my major pain points. I can also tell when its getting out of "real" advice since it'll offer the same "trim 10-15%". Also important to tell it to highlight specifics otherwise it'll give vague editorial advice that isn't anchored. Another fun exercise is to submit other authors writing as well. Say a short story from a magazine. Some of the edits are legit, but do it enough times and you'll start to see the same generic writing advice gets applies to just about any input.
another iteresting thing models can do is to highlight and notice themes and motifs in a piece. I find that helpful when thinking about a piece of work. Might be obvious ones, sometimes it can be subtle themes. Good for stirring your own brain.
Simple example from this piece: I scrubbed 7 instances of the word “just” from it. Obviously, Emacs can do that on their own, but you have to know to look for that word, and every other one.
No, you're wrong about this. One obvious reason why: I'd have gotten rid of those "justs" myself before models were available; it just would have taken me longer.
What makes it so great? I can't remember listening to AM radio in decades. Surely it would make more sense to install an aftermarket AM if you listen to it rather than force everyone else to buy one too?
I often rent cars, and drive north of where Burning Man is. The only option for any inbound communication to my vehicle is AM radio (except sometimes there is the barker channel for satellite radio in some cars).
Gee, if only we had some sort of other high-availability comms system we could use. Maybe divide the country up into geographic cells and put a transmitter in each one that sends out alerts to portable devices that people carry on them. You could even make the comms two-way so you could call for help if required. I wonder why no-one's ever thought of that?
Incidentally, I have never in my entire life received any kind of alert over AM radio. I have however received several on my phone, generally over incoming severe weather.
Python is a perfectly fine choice for a tech stack. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it an anti-pattern. NodeJs + TypeScript have tons of warts of their own that you have to deal with as well. Every language does.
There’s a third type of language: Python. Actual poor choice for a startup, independent of complaints.
You’ll note my complaint here is actually remarkably unique. You will rarely hear a person who is an expert in both TS and Python say definitively TS is better.
Many people who know both stacks well always maintains some kind of apples and oranges opinion about it. It’s like agnosticism.
Nah but the warts are minor compared with other languages. Python is guaranteed to hold you back.
First it’s the worst performing language for the application stack (only among the most languages for that area). Second type checking on Python is raw garbage.
Third you’re going to have to use TS for the frontend anyway. You can’t escape ts. Choosing Python(or any other language) forces you to have redundant code in two languages. Ts is the overall best startup stack and a huge part of it is because the frontend requires ts anyway.
> Third you’re going to have to use TS for the frontend anyway. You can’t escape ts.
This is obviously wrong. Sure you have to use Javascript for the web frontend that has interactivity without round-tripping to the server. Typescript compiles to Javascript, but its hardly the only language that does.
If you're frontend is a mobile app only then you don't even have to use Javascript for it all.
I’m talking about mainstream choices. I’m well aware of alternatives.
Would not recommend alternative choices for a startup. Those offer a larger element of risk. I would choose Python over any other non mainstream alternative.
I don't see the connection of the brogrammer's to the idea of being your own brand and embracing the weird. To me, the brogrammer's were the result of the huge influx of money into the tech ecosystem. It was the arrival of those just chasing a paycheck and stock options rather than those who enjoyed programming for its own sake.
Cultural tangent: in France, "the government" is the group of ministries (or departments in the US), part of the executive branch. So, the judiciary is not part of the government, and the National Assembly and the Senate (legislative branch) are not either. The head of state is not part of the government either, which is how you can get headlines about disagreements between the President and the Government. It’s quite different from how things are managed in the US. My understanding is that it is somewhat similar in the UK, which would be relevant in a BBC story.
In Western countries, the judiciary and the executive (which contains the day-to-day operations of the government) generally operate independently and can rule against each other. I'm most familiar with the US, and I think its constitution was the first to encode judicial independence - and constitutional review by the Supreme Court was established early on in US history. But all Western countries these days have had judges rule against executive policy and the executive obey it.
The details of how to override a ruling against the executive does differ between countries, and also on whether its considered just an interpretation of law or a constitutional question. Both the US and France have a written constitution that's binding on other branches, while the UK does not.
> The details of how to override a ruling against the executive does differ between countries, and also on whether its considered just an interpretation of law or a constitutional question. Both the US and France have a written constitution that's binding on other branches, while the UK does not.
Yeh. In the UK, the supreme court can not strike down primary legislation. It can rule executive actions are not following the primary legislation or unwritten constitutional rules, but if parliament passes a law that says oranges are now green, the supreme court is in no position to challenge it.
The UK does have the Principle of Legality, which is a way for courts to strike down an application of primary legislation by requiring a clear statement to abrogate common law and constitutional norms: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/05/20/hayley-hooper-his...
An interesting twist to UK constitutional jurisprudence is that until relatively recently the House of Lords was the highest court. In fact, the very origin of Parliament was as a court. The devolution of legislative and judicial (and executive) powers from the king had always been intertwined. So contrasting constitutional judicial review between the US and UK by gesturing at the principle of Parliamentary Supremacy didn't necessarily prove anything as the House of Lords was, in a sense, Parliament. (This was often a rebuttal for when people brought up the Principle of Legality as contradicting Parliamentary Supremacy, or otherwise interjected in discussions of judicial review in the UK.) Now that the highest court is independent, the next 100 years of constitutional jurisprudence in the UK should prove interesting.
> An interesting twist to UK constitutional jurisprudence is that until relatively recently the House of Lords was the highest court. In fact, the very origin of Parliament was as a court.
Since the 19th century it has been only the law lords, who are judges. In effect judges of the court of last resort (i.e. what is now the supreme court) became members of the second chamber of parliament. Other members of the House of Lords did have not had a judicial role since then.
I checked your profile and you are cofounder of a company with branches all around Europe. At least the countries in the EU should have separation of powers, and the judicial (the courts) are independent from the government and there is a parliament which is more or less independent from the government too. Of course the government is usually backed by the majority of the parliament so the two of them often act together. The courts apply the law, whatever it is, but if the parliament or the government or the president (for presidential democracies) do something against the law or the constitution (or equivalent chart), there is at least a court that can undo that legislation and send it back for an overhaul. This is what happened in France.
I skimmed the constitution of my country (Italy) and there is no collective term. There is a section "Organization of the Republic" that lists the several components (Parliament, President, Government, etc.) When we say Government we refer only to the Prime Minister, the other Ministers and their staff.
I am not sure. In French that would be the state (L’État). It’s more complicated in the U.K., with its layers of national, devolved country, and local governance. Then, it would be different again in federations like Germany.
I get that but I feel like its a bit different for linux users. The ecosystem has way more folks that are used to building their own tools relative to Win/Mac. Especially for something like nix. I've built nixpkgs for tools I've wanted to try & use. For something like this, I'd stick with cargo and let others do the packaging.
that is absolutely not the case for any system of size and scale. that would just burn out the on-call team and not result in improvements. Error rates/budgets are used instead.
It depends what you're monitoring. If it's response codes from user generated queries, then I'd agree with you.
But if it is synthetic queries sent from the monitoring platform, then you control the user agent, payload, and endpoints. So any failed requests are a symptom of a misconfiguration and/or failure that should be investigated. Albeit not necessarily as a P1 priority.
I really want this to be true but for me its not close. Maybe its better on the new 13 but its still night and day between my mac book and my FW 16 that's about a year old. My macbook works for days without a charge. My FW last maybe 6-8 hours on battery.
Don't get me wrong. I do really enjoy my FW but the mac hardware is still number one for me. I'd really love is an ARM based FW. Though if I could wave a magic wand it would be mac hardware running pure linux with no caveats. I really love seeing what Asahi is building
another iteresting thing models can do is to highlight and notice themes and motifs in a piece. I find that helpful when thinking about a piece of work. Might be obvious ones, sometimes it can be subtle themes. Good for stirring your own brain.
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