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I suspect front end will be similar to how AI impacts other domains: experts who can leverage the tools will be able to be more productive at the cost of junior engineers. Even bef…

The world sucks for most people. The world is better than its ever been for most people. The world can be improved a lot for most people. Those three things can and are all simulta…

My guess: the COVID related inflation was visible, made for a relatable talking point, and our modern day communication technologies made it easy to repeat that talking point over …

There are some similarities. A key difference is buddhism’s emphasis on meditation and practice as a key part of learning to act skillfully which I don’t think stoicism emphasizes …

There are many flavors of buddhism. I am partial towards the Thai Forest tradition because it emphasizes practice and experience over dogma and so avoids metaphysical discussions. …

Dicts in python are for when you have a thing and you aren't sure what the keys are. Dataclasses are for when you have a thing and you're sure what the keys (attributes are). The t…

0:39 in the video is where it says United States That being said, I agree its criticism of the US is oblique at best and it is more focused on China.

This section sums it up and I agree with the author here > LLMs are useful if you already have a good mental model and understanding of a subject. However, I believe that they are …

It does. It specifically says the throughput of the port in the video is more than the combined throughput of all ports in the United States.

Paper is great for transient stuff that is relevant for at most a week or two, but it really goes downhill when you try to capture information you'll want to revisit in the future.…

Don't know about using __all__ for introspection, but I have found it immensely useful for organizing, reading, and communicating code. When a package has a bunch of files inside o…