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For a long time I've used similar approaches for testing against Postgres, especially when using tools like Testcontainers. It's saved a massive amount of time waiting for my tests…

There are potential parallels with how AIs are trained and the evolutionary pressures that our brains likely evolved under. Human AI trainers accept/reject or give a rating to the …

I actually loved the imbalance of OG RA, I live for vaporizing my foes with tesla coils!

> Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction Very true in some sense, but I continue to encourage DRY-bias because I've literally never seen teams duplicate code re…

Rational behavior in some situations? Mutually assured destruction’s deterrence isn’t very effective if one side is known to be hesitant to launch the nukes. It’s been argued that …

> "Preparing backup..." taking an unreasonable amount of time is a regular occurrence, TM heavily throttles disk I/O used for backing up in order to ensure that normal user activit…

1Gb Internet service seems low these days, much less 1Gb LAN. I have 3Gb Google Fiber service and actually get 2+ for individual downloads from some internet services like Steam. E…

For a very long time I thought Time Machine had become flaky, and I'm sure it's partially to blame, but with my current setup I've literally never observed it corrupt a backup and …

I'm extremely happy after upgrading my network to 10gbit copper ethernet. It was much more expensive than I thought it should be, but worth it even if I only max it occasionally. N…

When I first heard of the APIs that allowed websites to modify browser history it sounded like a huge mistake. I still feel that way to this day.

I'm a backend dev and I'm always hearing about how LLMs are dramatically better at frontend because of much more available training data etc. Maybe my perspective isn't as skewed a…

Toyota just had three large EV announcements and they are putting large incentives on some of them. Feels like they're serious about it and with so many others exiting the EV marke…

> They ALL suck including Google Search. Kagi is the ONLY search engine I know that currently doesn’t suck and I highly recommend it to anyone who will listen. I would cancel almos…

> Since if Kagi does search as well as the Google of old, and I can adjust its searches to prioritise results from known good (to me) sites, then that probably is worth paying for …

I’ve also been using Kagi for the past ~2 years. At first I would always also search Google to see if I was missing out on better results, but after a couple of months I no longer …

App stores may reduce many of my freedoms, but they also provide me with some other freedoms by limiting the power of big tech companies over me, and the tradeoffs are different fo…

One of the main reasons I use Postgres is I've rarely(never?) seen an article like this posted about it. Every time I've touched MySQL I've found a new footgun.

> In my view nonnegative real numbers have good physical representations: amount, size, distance, position I'm not a physicist, but do we actually know if distance and time can var…

Sounds like you’re talking about the presumed free speech rights of corporations, which is part of this debate. I think corporations should have much more limited speech than an ac…

Ofc I wouldn't us it for extremely high scale event processing, but it's great default for a message/task queue for 90% of business apps. If you're processing under a few 100m even…

I became fascinated by Lean last week while watching Terrence Tao stream his proof work on Youtube. At least on the surface his thought process and workflow looked very similar to …

Even worse for me, some of my coworkers were doing that _before_ coding LLMs were a thing. Now LLMs are allowing them to create MRs with untested nonsense even faster which feels l…

What I'm hearing you say is that IBM is basically just a private equity firm now.

> Ads are speech. Companies should have more limited speech than individuals. Nerfing the concept of “corporate personhood” will be a key part of fixing our problems IMHO.

> The smartest kids are smarter than ever before Only if they’re wealthy or get extremely lucky and live near a randomly good school. By many metrics I was the smartest in my class…