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Its' the exact opposite ... Google, nVidia, Amazon, Apple, etc. all have a deep bench of code that is a moat. They have lots of throwaway code too, but those companies are precisel…

OK yes thanks for that link Speaking personally, the fate of Docker, Inc. was clear to me when they took their $40M Series C round in 2014. I had met with Solomon in April 2014 (af…

Hm I actually heard some great and rare metal on FM radio in Philadelphia the other day -- and I was SURPRISED because I thought radio was dead too I just Googled and it turns out …

all code possible to run on a computer already exists. It's some permutation of all the bits of available memory. It's in there somewhere This seems either mathematically impossibl…

I think that is basically the approach modernish uses: https://github.com/modernish/modernish But it does feel complex to me. Personally I just write in the common subset of bash a…

OK interesting, I knew about the -e -n flags issue, which means that any portable shell script has to use printf, not echo. Didn't quite realize that the use of backslash also forc…

OK interesting, yeah I think dash is just plain broken ... $ dash -c 'echo "c:\\new"' c: ew $ busybox ash -c 'echo "c:\\new"' c:\new It requires 4 backslashes: $ dash -c 'echo "c:\…

FWIW Oils has an option to prevent the ambiguity: osh-0.37$ echo "c:\new" c:\new osh-0.37$ shopt --set no_parse_backslash osh-0.37$ echo "c:\new" echo "c:\new" ^ [ interactive ]:6:…

In this case, it's not a new thing ... back in 2005 (yes 21 years ago), people talked about the achievements of Noam Shazeer at Google (and Jeff Dean and Sanjay, etc) I always appr…

BTW Chuck Klosterman discussed this at length in this 2022 book on the 90's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nineties_(book) I think it's a pretty deep point -- your memory and c…

I liked this story, thanks for sharing I have to admit I feel similarly conflicted after a few recent REAL WORLD experiences. The first is that Gemini and Claude taught me a whole …

Yup totally, how you breathe during the day is a habit that basically persists at night So breathing better during the day can be trained, even at an old age, and it improves sleep…

I came around to it a few weeks late, but Zef and this article by Filip are also great work! https://zef-lang.dev/implementation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843194 It ha…

These days, video evidence can be called into doubt pretty easily

Ha, that’s the thing that gets me too. Also people watching mashed up YouTube clip compilations - these seem obviously designed for addiction. The other thing is watching the video…

If Go interfaced with C as well as Python, I’d use it a lot more. But I’m using the slower language because it still integrates with more things For example, one reason AI is all i…

They tell me I don't have a real job because I just tell the computer what to do, and I don't do the thing myself (to which I can't help but respond that they're absolutely right) …

Wow a few years ago I wanted to resurrect some of my old code, to do essentially what ncdu does Then I found ncdu, and haven’t looked back since. So it saved me a lot of time Thank…

FWIW here is another piece of trivia about job control: the API means you can't spawn a child process "safely" in POSIX -- you have to trust that that the executable you're spawnin…

A common problem I noticed is that if you took certain courses in computer science, you may have a pre-conceived notion of how to parse programming languages, and the shell languag…

Yup, job control is a huge mess. I think Bill Joy was able to modify the shell, the syscall interface, and the terminal driver at the same time to implement the hacky mechanism of …

Yeah, I think that when writing code becomes cheap, then all the COMPLEMENTS become more valuable: - testing - reviewing, and reading/understanding/explaining - operations / SRE

Side note: I used this query to test LLM recall: Do jeff dean and russ cox know each other? Interesting results: 1. Gemini pointed me back at MY OWN comment, above, an hour after I…

This is overstating it by a lot. Jeff was the AI lead at the time, and there was a big conflict between management and the ethics team And I actually think Google needs to pay more…

Ha, I also recall this fact about the protobuf DB after all these years Another Jeff Dean fact should be "Russ Cox was Jeff Dean's intern" This was either 2006 or 2007, whenever Ru…