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> Sometimes, though, it only takes 5 minutes IRL to realize that you only like the persons email - not the person, themselves. A great point that’s also true in reverse.

PSF drama is pretty well known at this point, imho. The Tim Peters scandal was well covered on HN. Nothing the GP said surprised me

It's work of art and a work of science, I'd say. Programming language dev needs both, and I think Java has learned how to do both, at least compared to its messy early years. On th…

Yes, feature flags are conflated with remote configs (or its more useful variety: "dynamic configs"). The difference is subtle, hence why people are talking past each other. Featur…

One small edit: many also look to the Internet to meet their needs, beyond just fantasy or desire. Their lashing out comes after the disappointment: when the internet simply cannot…

Humane, as a secular and universally applied sentiment, is a bit of a modern idea, once backed by common goods; shared institutions, third places, extended families, good economy, …

Thank you kindly, Peter. My partner is a H1B tech worker employed by Meta; not working on AI/ML. Given the Chinese government opposition to the Manus acquisition, is there any risk…

Statsig's core value is their experimentation platform— the automation of Data Science. Big Tech teams want to ship features fast, but measuring impact is messy. It usually require…

Hats off to Statsig. They built a stellar product. Superior to many of their industry competitors like Optimizely. Back when I was on an internal Experimentation platform, we were …

Off-topic, irrelevant question: does anyone need a local first version of Airtable? That uses SQLite under-the-hood and plugs into files and data with syncing across computers. I’m…

My read was that Garry Tan implied "you sacrificed a lot of money in order to grandstand". I felt that was a knee-jerk dismissal of a founding employee's legitimate concern.

https://x.com/ahmaurya/status/1948491614160122308 Garry Tan posted "sounds like a tweet that cost $20M" which he later deleted. Smells like a strong bias against employees in favor…

Yeah, this tracks. If the OP consulted with Turso on this blogpost, then Turso probably believes the reported behavior is indeed a failure or a flaw, which they think a local db sh…

I think you're right. I'll add on: there's a lot of thinking that does not need writing, and there's a lot of writing that needs no thinking. Deng Xiaoping and other greats wrote p…

You should look up the term "zero cost abstractions". It's the organizing principle of the second generation of Rust's leadership[1]. Formally, it means "zero runtime cost"[2], but…

I was in Beijing last year. Many, many EVs on the road, far more than the Bay Area. About half of China's Market is EV's now[1] The Chinese Government backed up their mandate with …

I think this article is AI generated. I only skimmed so I could easily be wrong, but it smells too simple and too confident. The author is using AI quite a bit in other places as w…

Ah, I didn't meant to imply you did something wrong. I thought you were right to share. Rather, I saw the start of a flamewar below (not caused by you) and I figured I'd say my pie…

I was also raised by a loving catholic mother, who let me go my way, out of the church. I eventually found my way back in, and feel similar to you as you do now. IMHO, the GP has a…

Agoda has worked well for me.

I use the "Shortcut" section in Accessibility Settings. I uncheck everything except for "Color Filtering". I then map the default hotkey to a more convenient key using BetterTouchT…

In lieu of an e-ink monitor, I use a hotkey to toggle "Grayscale" filtering on my Mac. It's taking some of the addictiveness out of my screen viewing.