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I've tried and tried to get an LLM to delete code, it couldn't do it. I knew a file was 40% bad so what I ended up doing was deleting the file, then asking AI to create the missing…

It's long but it really expands the point of this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4SmgrAmdUQ

Could it be possible, these firms are optimizing for two things: a) Better performance. b) Gathering data from you to further improve performance later. I've also found the huge am…

AI crawls your post, corrupts your idea or alters it to advertise a product and then passes that along. Still happy?

I built a passion reference site. A large part of that passion came from knowing and talking to the people I was helping. One person emailing or saying thanks would later help powe…

Can you expand how it redefined computing for you personally?

Is it about the users or the data the users generate. Pretty easy to see the day devs are replaced by the data they themselves generated. Companies are only going to get one chance…

I would guess he's looking to compare the equivalent of fast-food to fine-dining or nutritious eating.

Very correct! Why internal dashboards keep getting rebuild: https://www.timestored.com/pulse/why-internal-dashboards-get... It took me a few years to home in on the exact idea you'…

The article is ignorant of reality. "The typical under-13 social media user is not a sneaky kid. It’s a family making a decision together. " No, every other kid had it and the pare…

Yes, the ability to command a kingdom was relative to the number of people with force you could convince AND pay to be on your side vs the others. With automation, drones and AI, y…

The term is Institutional knowledge. "An organization's collective memory, encompassing the unique expertise, experiences, processes, and cultural insights built over time by its m…

My favorite quote from this video, that I wish more languages would embrace is: "I went from application to application trying to use the same techniques. The most encouraging thin…

QStudio is a tool for SQL analysis. Banks and hedge funds had been paying for it but this year we decided to open source it so that more people can use it. Like DBeaver/DataGrip it…

I've tried to refrain from commenting but your comment pushed me over the edge. I either want to dismiss your comment as ignorant that amazon is just a shopping cart or ignorant th…

Congrats on releasing and steadily improving. What was the most unexpected thing you learnt lately?

I would agree it's both. Ideally we would make many games restricted access and most games games less addictive. At this stage the only viable plan I can think of is for parents to…

This is a sympton of something worse. The bigger issue: Roblox isn’t the real problem, it’s filling the gap left by the disappearance of unstructured, unsupervised play in the phys…

Less incentive to write small libraries. Less incentive to write small tutorials on your own website. Unless you are a hacker or a spammer where your incentives have probably incre…

Timestored | React UI Engineer (Data-Heavy UIs / SlickGrid) | Remote | Contract POSITION NOW CLOSED TO APPLICATIONS. We build Pulse, a real-time analytics UI used in finance: https…

Can you provide an example of where facebook tried to do what most people would consider good that also required any >1% kind of sacrifice or risk on their part? My impression is t…

If you want a desktop version check out qstudio: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/help/duckdb-sql-editor it integrates duckdb functionality for parquet csv and to pivot data

Great phrase. "social media is barely a sharing platform anymore.. its just decentralized long-tailed broadcast media." really captures the essence of what is happening.

I'm less confident. Your description highlights a real problem but this particular solution looks like an attempt to shoe horn a technical solution to a political people problem. I…