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Cursor has a terminal based app that’s just as good as any of the other mainstream ones…

Just use scopes in the API key the agent uses? If you’re exposing something publicly that should be a requirement anyways. That’s how I use gh, aws, etc. No need to modify any of t…

BERT came out in 2018 and that’s a pretty important inflection point. It didn’t cause a pop culture frenzy, but in NLP circles it was a ‘magical’ improvement.

In linguistics this sort of thinking comes from 'basic color term' theory, which lays out heuristics for deciding if a word for a color in a given language is 'basic'. 2 things goi…

Probably referring to the CHIPs Act? Technically Biden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act

This is exactly the process happening in the music space with Suno. Go to their subreddit, they all talk about how they only listen to ‘their’ songs, for the exact reasons you list…

Pontevedra is at least 100 times smaller then NYC, it's more comparable to the suburbs that you're moving your family to.

Generally what people are talking about are his universal grammar or generative syntax theories/approaches, which are foundational to how you approach many topics. Because you buil…

Spotify makes over 80% of revenue off of paid subscribers, even though over 60% of users are on the free, ad-supported subscription. Now that's not some optional donation scheme, t…

Also scala-cli https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/docs/getting_started I still like to use Ammonite as a REPL, but scala-cli has replaced it for me in those cases where i get fed up w…

Spotify is mostly Java, with some Scala and Node.

The concepts here apply to any client-server networking setup. Monoliths could still have web clients, native apps, IOT sensors, third party APIs, databases, etc.

They definitely do both, in the public recommendations API you can see vestiges of the old EchoNest acoustic properties along with some new ones they’ve come up with. It’s fun to p…

They’ve been pretty open about the pricing strategy on the blog. Earlier this year they said they were losing money on most accounts at $10/month. They’ve since changed the pricing…

60% was just one request on average, could have been a huge payload that tended to be between data centers or something.

SAT score floor + lottery?

He said sea levels could be 20 feet higher in the near future. Which could only be right if we’re talking hundreds of years…

Yep, I’ve had multiple reviews removed for being ‘off-topic’. No recourse there, I tried debating airbnb support for a while on it, but eventually gave up.

It only shows up if the email has a List-Unsubscribe header set. In Gmail it will appear as a banner underneath the row of buttons

Jay Vine recently said in an interview that last year his max hours per week was 30 and that wasn’t training, it was a big week in a grand tour. His coach at least seems to be on a…

Maybe of undergrads at a French university :)

I've used vim's conceal feature to do something like this before to read some ridiculous code that had 16 space indentations. You can use this for all sorts of fun things like maki…

Not sure what list you’re referring to, but I would expect to find Python and Scala in it, maybe OCaml or Haskell depending on the criteria. Personally I think it causes more probl…

Maybe we have different mental models and that’s what drives this conflict? I certainly wouldn’t say that first do this then do that is my primary mental model, in small blocks yes…

> Yet there are ~ 0 caseless phones out there. Maybe in your social circles, but I can only think of a few friends that use cases. Screen protectors are more common I think, but yo…