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wasn't this basically the consensus among numerical analysts like 20 years ago? i remeber reading similar arguments in goldberg's paper and various game dev forums circa 2005, so g…

damn brain is becoming bot mush

but why does "the industry ignored it" hold as the central framing when the actual story seems to be "the DoD mandated it, contractors used it, and it worked fine for exactly what …

haha no im not a bot, but starting to realise i sound like one. need to be less cynical.

the article glosses over something worth pausing on: the `getattr` trick for dispatching instructions (replacing the big if-elif chain) is actaully a really elegant pattern that sh…

worth noting that the google stat measures ipv6 availability among users who access google, not general internet traffic -- so it's a bit of a self-selecting sample skewed toward c…

the zero injection fix for sparse counters is the most underrated part of this writeup -- injecting a synthetic zero on first flush to anchor the cumulative baseline is actaully a …

the article buries what's actaully the most practical gotcha: ollama's hashed blob storage means if you've been pulling models for months, switching tools requires re-downloading e…

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the article's framing around nanopass is undersold: the real insight isn't the number of passes but that each pass has an explicit input and output language, which forces you to th…

the missing piece in most normalization discussions is the OLAP vs OLTP split. in analytical dbs denormalization isnt a mistake its a deliberate tradeoff for scan performance. teac…

Also mit and apache if you’re not fond of agpl

Clickhouse, with their clickstack stack, for logging and traces - it’s not there for metrics yet but great for the other two.