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Is your argument that anyone saying "there should be laws about this" should spell out "and we mean actual laws, not arbitrary misapplication of existing law by one petulant execut…

Accepting your dichotomy for the sake of argument, I'm in camp 1, but camp 2 could still be humane and comprehensible. Many countries have strict immigration rules, and while I dis…

Oh... that's embarrassing. Honest mistake, I swear.

In FY25, according to their budget [1], TriMet - the Portland public transit authority - spent $19M on bus services. In that same budget, PDOT spent $56M on streets, signs and stre…

If you only wanted to run buses, you would not build nearly as many roads as we do.

> by simple virtue of being a car State and local governments spend a truly obscene amount of money building and repairing roads, and set aside a nauseating amount of publicly owne…

Right, but the impressive part is finding addresses that are actually on different memory channels.

> My current thinking is that queues don’t increase average throughput. Instead, they act as buffers that absorb short-term bursts and timing differences between senders and receiv…

Do you take down all of your projects and then bring them back up at the new version? If not, then you have times at which the change is only partially complete.

Same here. I've worked on one project that used code generation to implement a DSL, but that would have been the same in any implementation language, it was basically transpiring. …

Really only prefixes, without a significant loss in accuracy. The point is that because later tokens can't influence earlier ones, the post-attention embeddings for those first tok…

Go with Bazel gives you a couple options: * You can use gazelle to auto-generate Bazel rules across many modules - I think the most up to date usage guide is https://github.com/baz…

> if updating that shared library automatically updates everyone and isn’t backward compatible you’re doing it wrong that library should be published as a v2 or dependents should p…

Internal and external have wildly different requirements. Google internally can't update a library unless the update is either backward-compatible for all current users or part of …

I worked on building this at $PREV_EMPLOYER. We used a single repo for many services, so that you could run tests on all affected binaries/downstream libraries when a library chang…

"Ignoring the code entirely and only prompting" is the only definition of vibe-coding I'm aware of. It's from a Karpathy tweet ( https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 )…

Turning around a track definitely dissipates some heat energy through increased friction with the rails. Imagine taking a semicircle turn and making it tighter and tighter. At the …

I like natural keys... if you can prove that they're actually immutable and unique for the thing they're representing. Credit card number is a decent natural key for a table of pay…

I hadn't thought about GitHub -I'm guessing the authors of the bill didn't either - but you're right, that is somewhat concerning. Still, I don't think it's the end of the world...…

It's always possible that they'll say it, but it would be a lie based on my reading of this bill. Sideloaded apps can choose whether or not to respect the OS's advice about the age…

Bill text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3193837 This seems... not terrible? The typical counter-argument to any "think of the children!" hand-wringing is that parents sho…

Yeah... I'm far from an expert on state-of-the-art ML, but it feels like a new embedding would invalidate any of the layers you keep. Taking off a late layer makes sense to me, lik…

It's much weirder now. The current holder of that domain is using it to host a single page that pushes anti-vax nonsense under the guise of fighting censorship... but also links to…

> MCP promises to standardize AI-tool interactions as the “USB-C for AI.” Ironically, it's achieved this - but that's an indictment of USB-C, not an accomplishment of MCP. Just lik…