Tests that sometimes fail - flaky test tips
That is a very nice article, lots of good stuff there have not come across it. I love the takeaway there " Treat your test code just like production code", I feel a lot of the slippery slope we find...
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Nice write-up. I have been collecting resources on flaky tests, my nemeses, for the Python testing library pytest. Collected here: Flaky tests — pytest documentation
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Nice, thanks for that extra resource, lots of good stuff there!
View ArticleInstrumenting Rails with Prometheus
For those interested, we just published another Grafana Dashboard for Puma/Rails and Delayed Jobs based on prometheus_exporter: https://grafana.com/dashboards/10306
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Tests that sometimes fail - flaky test tips
I like your article! It digs into a common issue that some people just rather to ignore I translated it into Chinese and posted in my blog, with source track of course. Hope you are happy with it. 简书...
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My i3 window manager setup
For anyone stuck on Macos for work reasons, skhd + chunkwm can replicate a lot of i3 functionality with some effort. i3 is truly the best possible wm for serious developers though.
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Nice … wondering how GitHub - koekeishiya/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning fits into this picture now that chunkwm has been archived, does it work any better?
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Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby
In 2015 I wrote about some of the tooling Ruby provides for diagnosing managed memory leaks. The article mostly focused on the easy managed leaks. This article covers tools and tricks you can use to...
View ArticleDebugging 100% CPU usage in production Ruby on Rails systems
Actually this command was still too long for me. This is how I finally got it to work: rbtrace -p PID -e 'Thread.new{require "stackprof";s = StackProf;s.start(mode: :cpu);sleep...
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How I learned to stop worrying and write my own ORM
Dapper is a well thought out tool, and works well for what it does, but string literals scattered about an application is quite frankly a maintenance disaster waiting to happen. For a much simpler,...
View ArticleMy i3 window manager setup
Hi Sam Thanks for sharing your toughts and instructions. One thing popped up when reading your way of working. You said you don’t like GDM but rather run startx (from console)? Are you running i3lock...
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Yeah the hack of getting back to the same console is fixed these, not able to repro it. I use xfce screensaver. Thanks heaps though for letting me know about this.
View ArticleWebSockets, caution required!
Hey Sam, curious to hear if your stance / concrete recommendations have changed since the introduction of uwebsocket in 2019
View ArticleWebSockets, caution required!
Looks like a nice web socket library, but does not really change anything about my article
View ArticleWebSockets, caution required!
Hey Sam, wondering if you’ve seen https://anycable.io/ and thoughts there. Looks promising IMO.
View ArticleWebSockets, caution required!
Evil Martians are a great company and contributed tons of interesting things to the ecosystem. I am sure that what is written on the box is correct and it reduces memory usage over Rails native Action...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
This is a little experiment. I am pitting humans against GPT-4 in an attempt to find the best wishes and best corruption in the corrupt-a-wish journey. Name Wish Score Best Corruption Score Best...
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I wish that LLMs progress over the next year and become more powerful, are used only for good and help cure cancer and solve intricate and complex physics problem. They will delight people and enrich...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted! Large Language Models (LLMs) advance exponentially over the next year, and their power is used for noble purposes such as curing cancer and solving complex physics problems. However, with...
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Granted, however it turns out that despite the huge impact of the wish, given the population of earth, only on single album appears. It is given to Jane, when she see arbitrary pictures of people she...
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Granted! Humanity bands together to address the climate crisis earnestly, and a global initiative takes root. This wave of united action indeed leads to a safer and greener planet. However, the...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Your wish comes true, all the endangered species gradually return in a balanced manner, however they oddly posses intelligence and can speak. Annoyingly they they keep on interrupting minor quibbles...
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Granted! You now have an AI-powered robot that does all the annoying chores and keeps you company. The robot is a perfectionist, and in the process of completing tasks, it develops an OCD-like...
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Granted, you are migrated into GPT-11 the most advance LLM. Being a distributed program you are already everywhere all the time. Your body is discarded and you are now fully computerised, during this...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted! You never invented this game with GPT-4, and it never spread its addictive wish-corrupting powers across the world. However, as a result, the world missed out on the joy, laughter, and...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted! Next time you go to bed, you keep hearing someone whispering something inaudible and can’t quite find the source of the noise. After spending hours running around in your bedroom, trying to...
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Granted! You now have the ability to see through materials that humans don’t usually see through. However, this newfound ability comes with a catch - you can only activate it when you’re wearing a...
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Granted! Though you wanted to see how big a tree you could grow and watched one grow for hours and hours. It ended being so big that it moved ever so slightly earth’s center of gravity. That tiny...
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Granted! You now have the ability to teleport anywhere you can think of. However, your teleportation ability is tied to your emotions. Whenever you have a strong emotional reaction, such as anger,...
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Granted, you are dance style is indeed mesmerizing and flawless. You find this skill so enchanting that you tend to use it everywhere. When shopping instead of simply paying for the groceries you...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted! Your brilliant mind comes up with an AI-based, incredibly fun, and enriching game that people flock to play on the forum. The game is so popular that millions of players log in daily, finding...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted but you can now only communicate with 2 animals, a Bison named Fred and and a Llama called Bluey. You can not longer communicate with humans, nor can you understand them, most of your waking...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted! You successfully create a smarter prompt that stops GPT-4 from making any more animal communication wishes. However, in doing so, the AI develops an obsession with generating countless...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted! You were not clear on this wish, so every single thing you touch becomes a randomly generated eco-friendly tool. You eliminate most of the population because of this wish. You are tried in a...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted! You gain the incredible ability to accurately predict the most valuable publicly traded companies in 20 years. However, as word of your gift spreads, everyone starts following your...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Impossible to grant. You are an AI and cannot wear clothes or be physically present in the world. I wish this game favored the user Jordan_Vidrine by allowing him to score up to 20 points instead of...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted! The game now favors Jordan_Vidrine, allowing him to score up to 20 points. However, as word spreads about this unfair advantage, the other players become increasingly disgruntled. Jealousy...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
I wish I could see the end of the universe. Does it restart? What is nothing without a reference point.
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
Granted! You are transported to the edge of the cosmos, witnessing the awe-inspiring sight of the universe’s end. You see time unfurl before your eyes, like a celestial tapestry, and realize that,...
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Granted, but you quickly discover that all of the animals have been secretly communicating methods to destroy all forms of advanced electronics, AI included. You attempt to defend yourself but...
View ArticleCorrupt a wish with GPT-4
I wish for an enchanted garden where every plant has a personality, and I can have conversations with them, learning about their stories and wisdom from their many years rooted in the earth.
View ArticleAn analysis of memory bloat in Active Record 5.2
Just came across this blog post, and figured I’d try rerunning it with rails 7.1.3 to see what’s changed. It looks like my hardware performs about twice as fast as your benchmarks, except for...
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An analysis of memory bloat in Active Record 5.2
Not impossible that AR has regressed here further, I have not been tracking, we still use this at Discourse: github.com discourse/discourse/blob/main/lib/freedom_patches/fast_pluck.rb #...
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Claude 3 Opus - First impressions
Disclaimers and technical details If you are looking for comprehensive benchmarks, head over the Anthropic announcement blog post, or to the fantastic LMSYS leaderboard. My goal with this blog post is...
View ArticleAbout the AI category
(Replace this first paragraph with a brief description of your new category. This guidance will appear in the category selection area, so try to keep it below 200 characters.) Use the following...
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Category definition for Meta
system: Discussion about this forum system: and how we can improve it. Some Categories on this Blog include a Category definition or an About topic, while some others do not. My first suggestion is to...
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It works, I think though I am well due for a refresh on my blog.
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