matthewbauer

Might want to check your git logs if you are using the Merge Queue feature. This afternoon, we found that Merge Queue was silently reverting changesets in the merge queue. Acknowledged by GitHub, but could be a very hard problem to debug if you aren't looking for it.

Yeah city is not fully a function of zip. ~I think state is though.~* I believe when multiple cities share a zip code USPS uses the larger one. Usually the wrong city will get delivered though, probably not guaranteed.

* correcting myself, some zip codes do cross state lines

It seems like they should be able to “overweight” newer training data. But the risk is the newer training data is going to skew more towards AI slop than older training data.

I don’t think you can do that. Or at least if you could, it would be an unintelligible version of English that would not seem much different from a programming language.

There's also https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el if you're just using claude code.

I like that agent-shell just uses comint instead of a full vterm, but I find myself missing a deeper integration with claude that claude-code-ide has. Like with claude-code-ide you can define custom MCP tools that run Emacs commands.

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I went by it a few weeks ago. There's a gate on the driveway, and I assume some kind of security presence. Probably no different than anyone under constant public scrutiny.

Hard to know what OP meant, but I took it as an oblique reference to China.

I mean you can do it in Nix using overlays and overrides. But it won’t be cached for you and there’s a lot of extra fiddling required. I think it’s pretty much the same as how Bazel and Buck work. This is the future like it or now.

Not sure on the exact take of the OP, but:

Package maintainers often think in terms of constraints like I need a 1.0.0 <= pkg1 < 2.0.0 and a 2.5.0 <= pkg2 < 3.0.0. This tends to make total sense in the micro context of a single package but always falls apart IMO in the macro context. The problem is:

- constraints are not always right (say pkg1==1.9.0 actually breaks things)

- constraints of each dependency combined ends up giving very little degrees of freedom in constraint solving, so that you can’t in fact just take any pkg1 and use it

- even if you can use a given version, your package may have a hidden dependency on one if pkg1’s dependencies, that is only apparent once you start changing pkg1’s version

Constraint solving is really difficult and while it’s a cool idea, I think Nixpkgs takes the right approach in mostly avoiding it. If you want a given version of a package, you are forced to take the whole package set with you. So while you can’t say take a version of pkg1 from 2015 and use it with a version of pkg2 from 2025, you can just take the whole 2015 Nixpkgs and get pkg1 & pkg2 from 2015.

What? Isn't wasm just a bytecode? How could you write rules in wasm?

It used to be you could buy fractions of a mutual fund, but not ETFs. Recently, brokerages have started allowed you to do fractional ETFs as well though.

Very cool! It looks like it assumes everything is flat, but I bet you could pull in elevation data from OSM as well.

Had never heard of “mayaguez” until now. It actually happened under President Ford not Carter.

I have no idea either, but it seems like some kind of art project. There is no city named Springfield in Kansas.

I guess there's differing definitions. One definition was deciding you're going to quit, but not putting in any notice, and basically trying to delay getting fired as long as possible to collect a paycheck. Potentially even getting another job on top (overemployed), which sounds like it could be fraud.

In my experience, higher level of pay doesn't mean there's less coasters. Like, the $150k job could just as well have a lot more expectations than the $300k. Size of company seems like a much bigger factor: you can't hide your low productivity when there's only a few other engineers. And ironically, bigger companies can pay a lot more & get a lot less from their engineers for it.

You can just show the user the transliteration & have them confirm it makes sense. Always store the original version since you can't reverse the process. But you can compare the transliterated version to make sure it matches.

Debit cards a pretty common example of this. I believe you can only have ASCII in the cardholder name field.

Neat idea! The connections game looks like it's exactly the same as the original. I'm surprised they can get away with that.

Shouldn't it be even higher if you think your country is literally hell? Maybe they have a more optimistic idea of hell than me. I guess that squares with 3% more believing it's hell than wants to leave.

I still think this survey doesn't make sense, or at least something is lost in transactional.

Not just young women, but older people too (~64%). Seems hard to believe they literally think it's hell, without serious societal breakdown. Are immigration and suicide sky high?

I guess this is in the context of "free as in beer" and "free as in speech".

It definitely made Spain extremely wealthy.

That sounds like the pg stats are messed up somehow. Try running explain analyze foo to see if it changes things.

Postgres doesn’t automatically create indexes - I bet the others have some implicit index on organization_id, created_at. Otherwise they would be giving bad results in other cases. I don’t see why you can’t just make that index in postgres.

It's a neat idea, but I think you need some automation to make it useful over a long period of time. There's a website to do track gas prices, and they just change too much to keep updated.

I wonder if this could encode unit price as well? It looks like the website will say /32 fl oz or /pound.

I've found DuckDuckGo to have more spam than Google in a lot of cases.

How can the fed both cause inflation and high housing costs? Raising interest rates like they have been doing should lower inflation but make housing more expensive.

Really cool idea. Would be neat to also be able to click railways as well. I think openrailwaymap provides some cool details like owner, max speed, electrification.

I also noticed the map makes it look like the trains are travelling slightly south of the track. It seems to converge once you zoom in though, so I think the data is probably accurate, but somehow the map is distorting things.

"still" has kind of a negative connotation for something that doesn't seem necessarily negative.