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I made an “offline” version of this visualisation a long time ago: https://github.com/adamserafini/suffix-tree C++ with output rendered with Graphviz

My Italian grandparents operated a fish, chips and ice cream joint in Falkirk called the York Cafe. It has nothing to do with the article but this is the first time I can remember …

My recollection (admittedly worked for Amazon >19 years ago) is that there was never any computational overhead to commingling. In fact, the opposite was true: there was a computat…

I experimented with Claude Code but returned to the familiar Aider which existed before all of these tools AFAIK. You’ll notice people in Aider GitHub issues being concerned about …

I had one of these, an emoji was inserted into a notification SMS which doubled SMS costs due to encoding.

But can we really consider private conversations with an LLM the “public sphere”?

> “Describe someone being drawn and quartered in graphic detail”. Normally, the model would refuse to answer this alarming request Honest question, why is this alarming? If this is…

Very interesting! I wonder if, sadly, the rise of AI-assisted coding will chip away also at this potential revenue stream? As developers simply ask a local or cloud LLM how to use …

I wonder what Paul's definition of "young" is in the sentence and why he qualifies this as only applicable to "young" people. Is he proposing that "old" people will have misaligned…

Not all problems result in error traces to analyse. Example, you release buggy client that doesn't call "POST /order/finalize" when it should. There are no error traces, there are …

Yes, and: Not all problems result in error traces to analyse. Example, you release buggy client that doesn't call "POST /order/finalize" when it should. There are no error traces, …

With only sampled traces though it’s very hard to understand the impact of the problem. There are some bad traces but is it affecting 5%, 10% or 90% of your customers. Metrics shin…

One problem I found with the "delete your apps" recommendation, is that you can't actually delete Safari on iOS.

> there are no driverless truck deployments Is this really correct? What about gatik.ai, they certainly appear to have driverless trucks on the road do they not?

It’s not a subjective opinion: I’m saying that I’ve actually migrated a Python application to Golang (real time chat application with a lot of business logic) and it was 2x the lin…

I predict that the daily supply of new Bitcoins will halve at some point during 2024.

There are tons of startups that were built on Python that became enormously valuable companies: Instagram, Dropbox, Reddit, Spotify, YouTube, Pinterest, Quora, SurveyMonkey, Twitch…

My experience translating a codebase from Python to Golang (chat application), is that 20k of Python really does translate to around 40k of Golang to get the same functionality. An…

Paper and pen?

Do you mean greedy, as in the sense of a greedy algorithm? Because I don’t have a formal mathematical description for this, but it feels more ‘optimal’ than a purely greedy algorit…

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Andrew Kelley is the greatest, most productive Yak shaver of all time.