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A relational querying DSL: https://github.com/akavi/yarrql/ “Compiles” to SQL, but with a different structural paradigm.

Only if you believe the primary purpose of a corporation is to provide employment, as opposed to generating profit for its shareholders. (To be clear, I think the latter is both de…

You are aware that insofar as AI chat apps are "hallucinatory text generator(s)", then so is Google Translate, right? (while AFAICT Google hasn't explicitly said so, it's almost ce…

Hmmm, that doesn't seem right. I'm having a hard time finding an actual consumption number, but I am confident it's well below 50%. The top 10% of households by wage income do rece…

The bus (and the subway) in NYC are also already heavily subsidized. There is also already heavily subsidized childcare in NYC (3k, preK). The article in general takes the approach…

PD's been tolerant to total AZ failures for years (was an early eng there)

> We're going to stabilize around 10 billion by 2080 according to projections and then decline, hopefully reaching some kind of Star Trek utopia at some point. 10 billion is gonna …

> I think it's more likely, drawing from biology, that we end up at a stable global population level without having to worry about moving backwards along the metrics of education, …

Mentioned above: https://github.com/stepchowfun/typical

I'd actually bet against this. The "bitter lesson" suggests doing things end-to-end in-model will (eventually, with sufficient data) outcompete building things outside of models. M…

It's evil to sell a product for a price higher than you, personally, want to pay?

A zero-sum mindset on a website dedicated to programming of all places? Where we literally create wealth out of nothing but coffee and the strength of our minds? My love for my cou…

As an American citizen, born and bred, I would literally, physically fight you on behalf of keeping Waterloo grads in America. Many of the best coworkers I've had the pleasure of w…

Is PHP more performant? That'd be surprising to me, given how many eng hours have been invested in V8

Is there any evidence that _8_ years of post-secondary education (plus 3-7 years of residency at poverty wages) actually improves medical outcomes? 5 years could be plenty?

A part of "being a good developer" is being able to evolve systems in this direction. Real systems are messy, but you can and should be thoughtful about: 1. Progressively reducing …

If my understanding is correct, this is still a much worse deal for employees than if Windsurf's exec team had negotiated a "standard" "accelerated vesting, common conversion" acqu…

Is this purely the rump company left over from the Google pseudo-acquistion? Or does this mean that deal fell through? Does this represent confirmation that there was no pro-rata c…

L5 ("Senior") at any FAANG co, L6 ("Staff") at pretty much any VC-backed startup in the bay.

But for most human endeavors, "operational precision" is a useful implementation detail, not a fundamental requirement. We want software to be operationally precise because it allo…

> All they have are relations between labels and how likely are they used together. But not what are the sets that those labels refer to and how the items in those sets interact. W…

Same reason humans use high-level languages: limited context windows. Both humans and LLMs benefit from non-leaky abstractions—they offload low-level details and free up mental or …

I've never seen 8000 -> 40, but I have done ~10 kLoC -> ~600. Aggggressively "You can write Java in any language" style JavaScript (` Factory`, ` Strategy`, etc) plus a whole mini …

I sincerely believe this thesis and desperately want a REIT that owns real estate in a 2 hour radius of major urban downtowns.

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