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New comment by pdhborges in "Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs"

pdhborges — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:35:04 +0000

To be honest none of these problems feels remotely "solvable" beyond having a ton of knobs and engineering tradeoffs like we already have now.

In a sense they don't seem very exciting because all of this required generality.

New comment by pdhborges in "The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)"

pdhborges — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:24:08 +0000

At least in europe you can do a 3 year Eng Phys BSc and if it doesn't pan out you can do a master in EE or MEng.

New comment by pdhborges in "AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough"

pdhborges — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:32:32 +0000

Maybe people believe that the process complexity is not symetric. I don't blame them. Building an house is more complex than destroying it.

New comment by pdhborges in "Some more things about Django I've been enjoying"

pdhborges — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:39:36 +0000

Well whether it's better or worse depends on your specific situation.

What I'm facing right now is a 10 year monolith modularized with applications. Like a sibling comment already discussed these applications are not reusable application so almost all advantages of having that are moot.

Now, the consequence of having this structure is that we now have complex dependencies between the migrations of these apps i.e. cyclic dependencies, dependecy constrains that are underspecified. Thousands of migrations that now take a significant amount of CI time. We would like to squash them but it requires a lot of review and manual work and if we keep using multiple apps we are going to ave the same problem in the future.

The only meaningfull gain we had with multiple apps is that we have less migration conflicts when people create migrations concurrently.

Is that advantage worth the pain? I don't think so.

New comment by pdhborges in "Some more things about Django I've been enjoying"

pdhborges — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:26:59 +0000

You don't have to put all your modules into a single file. You can break them into multiple files and the import them into a model file just so that Django loads it from the expected location.

Instead of apps you can just split your components inside a single app using regular python modules.

New comment by pdhborges in "Some more things about Django I've been enjoying"

pdhborges — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:52:48 +0000

  - Django apps are an anitipattern for large internal / single purpose products due to migration overhead as FKs cross application boundaries

Totally agree with this. Now we have thousands of unsquashable migrations that require a ton of work to fix.

New comment by pdhborges in "Factories are just rooms"

pdhborges — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:34:36 +0000

I think the mindset is usefull personally. When large complex systems are required and economic pressure is applied it can rapidly turn into an dangerous strategy. You will quickly realize that no you can't just build that.

New comment by pdhborges in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

pdhborges — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:55:41 +0000

How come I have never seen this tradeoff work in practice?

New comment by pdhborges in "Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator"

pdhborges — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:56:15 +0000

https://www.unicorn-engine.org/docs/beyond_qemu.html

New comment by pdhborges in "Formal methods and the future of programming"

pdhborges — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:55:11 +0000

If you have an int32 or less you can!

New comment by pdhborges in "Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014)"

pdhborges — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:50:44 +0000

Sure. But I'm trying to connect what you said:

> you'll come out with superpowers you didn't have before.

with the impressions from the reviewers.

I don't think they got super powers from the book. In fact their outcomes mirrors my own outcomes when going deep into some math topics and then bringing them to work.

New comment by pdhborges in "Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014)"

pdhborges — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:11:22 +0000

This review is not so nice: https://emptysqua.re/blog/review-queue-theory-book/

New comment by pdhborges in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

pdhborges — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:17:26 +0000

What will be Amodei's job after we have AIs that are better at evrything than humans? Is the AI going to care about our stock exchange playgrounds that reward the future Antropic stock holders?

New comment by pdhborges in "Chuwi Minibook X"

pdhborges — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:31:51 +0000

Could be boot locked to the original owner Apple account.

New comment by pdhborges in "Don't answer the first question"

pdhborges — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:23:50 +0000

How about answering the question and then add details later? IME that tends do work better.

New comment by pdhborges in "An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs"

pdhborges — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:10:47 +0000

At least if you a test suite that doesn't have to be migrated. I too would like to migrate some services from Python to Rust but my test suite is written in Python so I would have to actually check if the test suite migration was correct manually (I can't event compile it!) before doing the rewrite.

New comment by pdhborges in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

pdhborges — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:17:29 +0000

Curious how the test suite was applied. Was it ported from Zig to Rust beforehand?

New comment by pdhborges in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

pdhborges — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:44:19 +0000

Works great. No wonder China is eating our lunch.

New comment by pdhborges in "There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning"

pdhborges — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:32:33 +0000

Can you share that document?

New comment by pdhborges in "Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]"

pdhborges — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:19:23 +0000

It's in the file metadata:

- LuaTeX-1.17.0

- LaTeX via pandoc