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pvorb commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context   anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
viccis · 19 days ago
I agree. For me it's a modern version of that good ol "rails new" scaffolding with Ruby on Rails that got you started with a project structure. It makes sense because LLMs are particularly good at tasks that require little more knowledge than just a near perfect knowledge of the documentation of the tooling involved, and creating a well organized scaffold for a greenfield project falls squarely in that area.

For legacy systems, especially ones in which a lot of the things they do are because of requirements from external services (whether that's tech debt or just normal growing complexity in a large connected system), it's less useful.

And for tooling that moves fast and breaks things (looking at you, Databricks), it's basically worthless. People have already brought attention to the fact that it will only be as current as its training data was, and so if a bunch of terminology, features, and syntax have changed since then (ahem, Databricks), you would have to do some kind of prompt engineering with up to date docs for it to have any hope of succeeding.

pvorb · 19 days ago
I'm wondering what exact issue you are referring to with Databricks? I can't remember a time I had to change a line I wrote during the past 2.5 years I've been using it. Or are you talking about non-breaking changes?
pvorb commented on Log by time, not by count   johnscolaro.xyz/blog/log-... · Posted by u/JohnScolaro
DougN7 · a month ago
Except that you waste CPU cycles preparing the log string and calling the log function only to have it all thrown away.
pvorb · a month ago
At least in the Java world it is common to let the logging framework handle parameter evaluation for you.
pvorb commented on Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas   iopscience.iop.org/articl... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
davidw · 2 months ago
It costs less to cool than to heat, by and large. And deserts have a lot of sunshine that can be converted into electricity for cooling...
pvorb · 2 months ago
But lack of water will become a huge problem when your city is growing that fast in a heating climate.

Edit: And cooling only works inside buildings or cars. Part of a comfortable city is being able to go outside and have a social life outside of a casino.

pvorb commented on Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas   iopscience.iop.org/articl... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
matthewfcarlson · 2 months ago
Surprise surprise, vegetation is way better than concrete when it comes to being comfortable in a city
pvorb · 2 months ago
Not building your city in the desert is also a good idea when it comes to being a comfortable city.
pvorb commented on A new PNG spec   programmax.net/articles/p... · Posted by u/bluedel
Lerc · 2 months ago
It has fields to say what compression is used. Adding another compression form should be handled by existing software as recognizing it as a valid PNG that they can't decompress.

The PNG format is specifically designed to allow software to read the parts they can understand and to leave the parts they cannot. Having an extensible format and electing never to extend it seems pointless.

pvorb · 2 months ago
Extending the format just because you can – and breaking backwards compatibility along the way – is even more pointless.

If you've created an extensible file format, but you never need to extend it, you've done everything right, I'd say.

pvorb commented on A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers   alexwlchan.net/2025/copyi... · Posted by u/ingve
pvorb · 4 months ago
How long does this procedure take in comparison to the network transfer?

My first try would've been to copy the db file first, gzip it and then transfer it but I can't tell whether compression will be that useful in binary format.

pvorb commented on A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics   technologyreview.com/2025... · Posted by u/danso
WillAdams · 4 months ago
Would it be possible to replicate this mechanism using Lego Technic bricks/mechanisms?
pvorb · 4 months ago
There's an industrial robot arm built out of LEGO Technic bricks by OrangeApps, a small company related to German robot manufacturer KUKA. [1] It's primarily used for educational purposes.

Disclaimer: I work for a subsidiary of KUKA.

[1]: https://www.orangeapps.de/?lng=en&page=apps%2Fers3

pvorb commented on Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders   lucaiaconistewart.com/mod... · Posted by u/uticus
Loughla · 8 months ago
Jesus can you relax? Sometimes statements aren't meant to be taken exactly literally. I don't mean to be hateful but what do you get out of being needlessly pedantic? Obviously there's more time actually spent on modern airliners. OP is using it as an analogy to show that it's a complicated process, and isn't saying that it's scientifically 1 to 1 exact.

It's this type of comment that makes people be needlessly careful on this site more than any other. When you know there is someone just waiting to correct you when you use a simple turn of phrase.

pvorb · 8 months ago
Your parent comment just seems to make their point and it's technically correct, but might have missed the nuance. All people in this conversation seemed fine.

Are you sure that the following doesn't apply to your own comment?

> It's this type of comment that makes people be needlessly careful on this site more than any other.

pvorb commented on Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=sI5De... · Posted by u/ohjeez
pvorb · 8 months ago
If you learn about the Wuppertal suspended monorail, you should also read about Tuffi, the elephant that jumped off of it in 1950.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi

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