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That doesn't seem likely, given that there's a reference from February 2025 documenting the pattern.

What was wrong with it?

> There is a vast, hugely funded, and incredibly adept propaganda machine aimed at about half the country. There are propaganda machines directed at everyone. > And no, I don’t thi…

I found it very amusing :)

I've never seen Prolog used at all in the wild, but OPA (and its ancestor, Datalog) are fairly common.

Unfortunate! I have a bunch of keyboards and a FILCO is my favourite, my daily driver. It just feels ... solid.

From skimming the linked PR it looks like it's all been open source, but has been tightly coupled to their deployed instance. The PR appears to be decoupling things completely by m…

Oh this page is great! I just released AIM [1] which is a tool that generates verified SQL migrations using LLMs, and I tested a bunch of models manually. I think I'll just link to…

This is pretty fresh and definitely not battle tested, but seems to work pretty well in my local testing. Do NOT just blindly apply the output of this to a production database :) F…

Someone else said this below... > Go designers distinguish between Go language as defined by Go spec and implementation details. > //go:fix is something understood by a particular …

These are called directives [1], and are treated as metadata by the compiler. [1] https://pkg.go.dev/go/ast#Directive

That is...disturbing.

https://hazelengine.com/ is another

Which $600 model has an OLED screen?

Why is GIF worse (I'm not a frontend developer, so I'm genuinely curious)?

They were not. The daughter is 31 and her father went missing 22 years earlier.

Preach!

Peak enshittification.

This is probably what you want: https://github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf

https://github.com/alecthomas/mk Very handy in conjunction with Just to give you make-like functionality, eg. build-protos: @mk protos/myproto.pb.go protos/myproto.tsx : protos/myp…

Connect [1] is one and it's fantastic. The Go implementation in particular is much nicer than grpc-go. [1] https://connectrpc.com/

And that's why we pay AWS the big bucks.

This was an illuminating comment because I think I finally understand why people have wildly varying experiences with CoPilot. I think if you regularly use CoPilot to write entire …