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LOC is the worst metric for engineering output, except for all the others - Churchill

> camcorders have been around for ages but you don't have millions of directors around just because you make a tool more accessible tiktok alone has 1.5 million directors! it's jus…

i got to try exe a while back and i have to say, the "Login with exe" [1] is probably the most magic thing i've seen since tailscale :) [1] https://exe.dev/docs/login-with-exe

ed is the standard Unix text editor.

December 2018 was the last version to not have "Development of safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity" https://web.archive.org/web/20181223120124/http://www.muskfo...

too many of these vaguely look like what galaxies look like from earth e.g. https://i.imgur.com/ZjiBF8f.png just a coincidence?

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if you haven't read the factorio devblog before, please do! after HN, it's one of my favourite places on the internet because i constantly learn new, random, insane things almost e…

> or endeavor to you picked the worst example company to complain about how they're are not trying lol. just in 2025 from anthropic: Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs…

>Note that there isn’t the slightest attempt to explain the planet trajectories (specifically, why the planets keep ending up where they do regardless of how many epicycles you bol…

Why not something dumb like this: https://chatgpt.com/share/68b60199-b6ac-8009-b50d-3e7cfff1d7... (gpt-4o)

wow not even yin-yang can escape entropy or the heat death of the universe

>That's basically your documents lossily encoded. Vector embeddings are lossy encodings of documents roughly in the same way a SHA256 hash is a lossy encoding. It's virtually impos…

if you feel cheated now, I promise you'll feel more cheated if they did this after you rely on it for several months. the least worst option is to change pricing as early as possib…

this is just XMPP and it has been around for years before Slack was even a thing Slack won anyway for the same reasons most centralised, commercial, closed sourced products often w…

clicked hoping for an out of distribution argument for why a specific type of Japanese martial arts is perfect for git users :( good article nonetheless!

1. modern computers are insanely fast 2. they compiled a version of the kernel with as many configurable options disabled as possible 3. modern computers are insanely fast

1. PG is implicitly talking about good essays. And it's very hard to write a good essay if you don't believe it's true. 2. Whether something is true has nothing to do with whether …

this is like saying "same way cells know how to be anything - quantum electrodynamics"