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Printing money without backing is not deficit spending! We're all well aware of the money supply, M1 / M2 / M3, velocity of money, etc. It's important for money to not get tight wh…

Inflation is an increase in the cost of living. It can be caused by deficit spending. It can also be caused by supply shocks. For example, if you restrict building new housing, the…

Very similar to Windows Structured Exception Handling, which the Win32 implementation used, and also looks similar to Java, but without checked exceptions. try/except/end and try/f…

The combination of exceptions and non-trivial {copy constructor, assignment operator, destructor} are what combine to make C++ a somewhat broken language when you try to use all th…

As is well known, security is not a binary, it's a spectrum. It's why you add security in layers, and why it's generally a trade-off between risk and usability. Your mileage may va…

Load penalty is part of the Otis RSR algorithm, it's in the article.

If you run it in a sandbox with no internet access and a read-only role login for the database, and you supervise it, how big is the risk do you reckon? Of course there's an issue …

JJ stacked changes are just a chain of git commits. To jj, a branch is just a pointer to a commit, like git. Code review is no different to whatever you normally do for git. Push t…

A decent idea, however it seems to me a good chunk of it is because of git limitations. Have you looked jj? I'm having a much better time with jj and a workspace per subagent than …

Eggplant is called aubergine in UK and Ireland. Full true synonym.

The facts don't support a real eco panic. IMO it's a proxy for middle class job security fears, displacing into known middle class shibboleths. It can be sincere, but it's motivate…

No, but you would find jj solves this problem far more elegantly.

There comes a point in a startup's life where more controls are needed. Red tape. The stuff that slows down the big boys. Problem is, the red tape is scar tissue from previous info…

I think these control rooms were superior in some respects to modern software system observability. - modelling the system rather than implementation (system status rather than man…

Is it being used in production anywhere, even if only a toy app? I know you say it's not production ready and not optimized yet, but in the same breath - in your comment here - you…

My experience has been escalating fragmentation past 90%, along with lower performance owing to the fragmentation.

It's not actually. Think about it for a moment and you'll see life is full of tensions between preventing crimes and freedom / utility. It's most obvious on the roads. Few non-comm…

I didn't put them on the same level. At the same time, one should acknowledge that not all tasks are on the same level.

People are stochastic. You build reliable processes out of unreliable parts with feedback and self-correcting mechanisms. AI is not actually magically special in this regard. It ha…

Repeal Town and Country Planning Act 1947

You see a lot of hobby shops in ultra-wealthy areas of major metropolises. Tiny art studios, interior decorators with a handful of items in stock, boutique fashion shops.

Can you try and tune your Claude or whatever LLM you're using for your text to phrase things in plain English. Way less use of antithesis, at least. You can probably find a skill f…

I never want to read the phrase "heavy lifting" again.

The second mode is another way of doing the first, actually. Either way, working people's output today needs to support the non-working people today (unless you let them starve). W…

I found it interesting that vLLM was dismissed as slower than llama.cpp. IME vLLM is quite a bit faster than llama.cpp but where it really wipes the floor with it is in batching co…