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I'd suggest writing by hand as a proof of work, for now at least!

Sounds interesting but the blog seems hijacked by some advert to me, anyone else?

If that study was of submariners, is it possible long-term high-level exposure causes the body to adapt? I am suspicious of 0.1% having a significant effect though, given oxygen is…

I think he's doing 15% every month, not every year. It's not an implausible growth rate for a unicorn startup; it is implausible to expect it.

I've been thinking about this, and I think software is uniquely knowledge work that has the most defined structure and least personally interaction. Hell, some of the software I wr…

> Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit I miss Iain M Banks. Thanks for this lovely little nod to the Culture

I think you are (informally and correctly) doing Bayes theorem here. The prior is combined with the conditional to give the posterior estimate; the conditional is not itself the es…

> Our support flow wasn't set up to route a complex bug like this to engineering. What does that even mean? Does it mean, "our support flow is just an LLM that fobs off customers a…

If there is oversupply, why are retailers forced to rent and not able to purchase at the depressed market price? (My theory, landlords are holding onto property in the hope of futu…

If I asked you for the same thing 10 times, wiping your memory each time, would you generate the same result? And why does it matter anyway? I'd the code passes the tests and you l…

It's not a drop-in replacement; rather it is an implementation of the same ideas (+ some extra ones) but open source so it can be used for things other than Apple devices.

It's because such research has no obvious initial use that the public must pay for it; no private enterprise will fund it, and often it will be useless knowledge, but occasionally …

I gotta ask, did you spend a week sucking your teeth after that, or did you hand it to them and say "hey, you're paying for expertise and we got it to you faster than we estimated"…

The weights are aware of the end goal etc. But the model does not have access to these weights in a meaningful way in the chain of thought model. So the model thinks ahead but cann…

Ordering and wiring up 64 small individual PCBs, vs one PCB, is not a hard choice.

Sounds like the Phonological Loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddeley%27s_model_of_working_...

Change map to forEach?

The presumption was about mechanical instruments, from a simpler time. As computers expanded from being purely mechanical, it never got revised, which is why it is being revised no…

Photos of ballots are a criminal offence in the UK, which obviously is imperfect in an abusive relationship, but does help set a general norm that the vote is secret.

SEEKING WORK | Cambridge, UK | Cambridge/London/Remote I'm a software engineer with two decades of commercial experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep go…

This is a good writeup and a surprising bug! For the average web app, it feels like JWT introduces some complexity (and footguns like this) for no real benefit. I mean, you can avo…

The visitor pattern is a way of getting multiple dispatch in a language with single dispatch. It can also be seen as a way of encoding a functional solution to the expression probl…

SEEKING WORK | Cambridge, UK | Cambridge/London/Remote I'm a software engineer with two decades of commercial experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep go…

Hypothecated taxes are an anti-pattern, for precisely this reason. Setting the budget and setting the taxes should be somewhat separated (but not too separated!)