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> We're essentially subject to the whims of someone who is letting us do something for as long as we play nice. Isn't that so the spirit of the times when working with LLMs? If one…

> this isn’t what Kubernetes is really for. i'm guessing that writing dyson in Nim is a tacit acknowledgement of that: if this were something geared toward production ecosystems, i…

additionally, there's (c) kernel and/or embedded. in particular, and i've read that writing kernels isn't feasible in Go. it appears not to be an issue of performance. something ab…

i agree that the general-purpose programming language space is fairly crowded ... the lisp dialect/user ratio especially so. DSLs, otoh, are in short supply. while awk or plain sed…

yes, files in plan 9 can be viewed as a way to "make objects look like files." http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/names note that the filesystem interface isn't totally…

i'm not totally sure what 'fractal geometry' is, although there is something called 'geometric measure theory'.. the canonical text here is Federer, although it's supposedly a tome…

ssh access at build time via buildkit works on os x https://medium.com/@tonistiigi/build-secrets-and-ssh-forward... the link you've supplied regards ssh access when running docker …

these changed almost everything i think about: misc. Forrest Mims notebooks, the Python Tutorial, Practical C Programming first chapter of Sound and the Fury, snippets of Naked Lun…

perhaps the > Obviously, this is a project for an advanced electronic hobbyist and computer enthusiast. is somewhat tongue-in-cheek: this could be the thing to get a kid who's alre…

i frequently compare workaday web-dev to general contracting (a favorable description from my perspective). no issues with the article title. here's my issue with the article text …

first, i like emacs alright, and the article is awesome and full of good recommendations.. .. however , this article appears to be advocating a style of programming that i'd be mor…

> Thinkpad X140e woop, woop! the design where the display is _least_ fragile part of the laptop is brilliant: wins over removing extra ounces or millimeters. i wish more laptops we…

yerp, by 2018, UI + SaaS backends is often the easiest way to get something deployed ... provided you want to deploy essentially the same thing other people already have + some cus…

enabling communication (e.g. ops for Mastodon communities) for labor unions strikes me as a better means of addressing the basic issue --- i.e. "the man" taking advantage of the li…

didn't realize this is a common method .. the correspondence with neuroanatomy is impressive. i s'p, at that level (and i mean, likely even at the proteomic level for those that're…

here's an impl of something like (but actually probably nothing like) 1. in the above tl;dr (disclaimer: i dr) https://github.com/ransomw/botiful-soup/blob/master/mibot/sr... as i …

part of making a new operating system could be getting to muck with the language features ... ... i suppose this project is locked into G-standard C++ and with lots of good reasons…

i suggest (as someone who still knows nothing about electronics) that oscilloscopes are a "must have." cathode-ray-tube style from ebay are more affordable. also, Horowitz and Hill…

your strategy of working exercises is a good one. it can also apply to results in the text: attempt to prove the result independently before reading the proof supplied in the text.…

> after upgrading to the next Debian stable release, my stuff continues to work can be replaced by > with frequent upgrades, errors are sparse blips on the Debian testing release -…

yet another reason to trust dr. bronner... ... on "evidence-based" (cf. CDC) v heuristic reasoning: certain aftershaves and similar make me gag. knowing it's because of petrol is j…

for rubyists and pythonistas interested in writing more C while not losing the convenience of scripting, lua is probably worth picking up along the way. the following is the C-inte…

from the article > I had also heard something years earlier about autistic people having issues with certain types of clothing similar to my own. similar in what way? from https://…

i did my last search in two milestones: build things, do interviews. i did one "field of dreams" project using a stack that i was mostly familiar with already and several "effort" …