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> Someone has to put in the effort to make the markets accurate, and that someone has to be paid and that money has to come from somewhere. The foundational idea of prediction mark…

> This is the true horror of the cognitive dark forest: it doesn’t kill you. It lets you live and feeds on you. Your innovation becomes its capabilities. Your differentiation becom…

The author almost touches on the one more topic that I adore about Nix, but ends up just so missing it: NixOS is absolutely incredible for its ability to be configured through AI t…

> Software enables the enforcement of arbitrary rules that no human being would have the heart or foolishness to enforce. For a long time I've been wanting to write an essay about …

> strict is now true by default I would still have a full head of hair if this had been the case since the beginning. Nonetheless I am glad that we got here in the end.

> Over a thousand pull requests merged each week at Stripe are completely minion-produced, and while they’re human-reviewed, they contain no human-written code. I pity the senior e…

I invite you to ponder the question: would a worldwide ban of all advertising have a greater or smaller impact on environment-destroying activity than banning of all air travel? I …

Hard disagree. Most of the Go code that I've ever worked with has been littered with one or another variant of the following: value, err := doFallibleOperation() if err != nil { re…

Back when I programmed in Haskell, I also had a similar question about the extremely terse variable names that pop up everywhere. I'd wonder, why is this "x" and "xs" instead of "i…

This pervasive desire to block, protect, monitor, and control your children's online activities through nebulous supervision tools seems like a particularly American solution to a …

This comment section is for some reason filled with truly incredulous takes, with many seemingly all too willingly embracing the inevitability of personal oblivion awaiting us at t…

I see. Do you suppose that the origin of these bugs is more about the difficulty of reasoning about the execution of deep async stacks, or does it come down to the developers holdi…

I'm not understanding what the supposed problem with these futures getting cancelled is. Since futures are not tasks, as the post itself acknowledges, does it not logically follow …