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Second this! And if the papers are in "logical reading order", it would be very useful if this is stated on top!

Ultorg creator here. Ultorg is a GUI for relational databases that knows how to deal with joins and one-to-many relationships. In this demo, I use the new "Fill with AI" feature to…

The retort is to the statement that the U.S. war in Iran is "pretty cheap compared to all the AI datacenters". People are conflating destructive and productive activities. These ar…

I pay $100/month for Claude Max and it's like having a (nearly) free, very competent employee. Value _way_ exceeds $100/months. But there's a datacenter that has to run that.

The data centers are being paid for by customers, who are receiving greater value from the products than they pay for them.

I'd also expect to see a lot more AI-generated PRs on open source projects. (Or at least AI-assisted to the point where the author feels like they should mention it.)

"Larry Ellison has been involved with two philanthropic organizations. First he made a $300M donation to Stanford, in exchange for not admitting wrongdoing in an options backdating…

I concur. This was my main experience with WSL1 vs. WSL2. If I'm running Windows, it means that the files and projects that I care about are on the Windows file system. And they ne…

I suspect the non-standard JSON license was in part a strategy to encourage third-party implementations, so that the format would become a standard. (W3C standards, for example, re…

One day, some bacteria is going to figure out how to digest plastic. Then it will take over the world.

In case anyone needs a minimal CPU implementation in 65 lines of Verilog: https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/fic/ https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/fic/code/Fic.v (I wonder if i…

Waving a flag is protected speech under the 1st amendment.

Perhaps a better source (but IANAL): "Judges frequently invoke anti-redundancy principles in the interpretation of legal language, whether it appears in classic private-law documen…

The "rule against surplusage": Where one reading of a statute would make one or more parts of the statute redundant and another reading would avoid the redundancy, the other readin…

Afterwards, they ship the entire engine, with turkey giblets and all, to a lab where the resulting damage is analyzed. Smells awful, according to the engineer I sat next to at a Th…

In Norway, the card terminals usually go into an "accept with signature" mode if they are temporarily offline. So they print a receipt that the customer has to sign. (This is for B…

Spreadsheet formulas have a very simple grammar: expression = reference | exp1 op exp2 | function(exp1, ..., expN) That's it. It's the math notation from high school, plus cell ref…

Nations with high GDP tend to be service economies. Service professions tend to require good reading and writing skills, and often a college-level specialization. (No need for PhDs…

No, it's a whole scientific field, with experiments, lit review, publications, peer review and everything. The engineering artifact is just a by-product. More often than not, the c…

CS theory is indeed closer to mathematics. But other areas--database systems, computer architecture, networking, user interface design etc., is in fact evaluated via experiments, w…

That is the correct way to do it for PostgreSQL. It does rule out some common SQLite use cases, such as using the database for app persistence. The app would never be able to upgra…

The PostgreSQL data directory format is not very stable or portable. You can't just ZIP it up and move it to a different machine, unless the new machine has the same architecture a…