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Can you use postgres as a state store for a distributed application? It seems this article is trending toward that view: If you can maintain transactional consistency along with ap…

Most people don't have an audience they would share it to if we're being honest. If there's a article/site I'd be interested in sharing, it might be to a slack channel or a text me…

I do feel like for all their dogfooding of AI coding, their own software/APIs are quite buggy and work against their message. Claude Code is especially buggy in windows terminal. T…

I suspect being a "better programmer" cannot be said unequivocally at their level. At that percentile of achievement, it depends on the specific dimension you are talking about. It…

It's obvious that those that write the tools/infrastructure are less visible than those that create the end product. I don't know a single name behind the construction of the AI te…

I work on the open-sourced Jedi Academy game engine, which is based on id tech 3. It has special logic to specifically adjust the gamma of the physical monitor during launch, then …

Ok, stupid question, but what applications is something like tailscale/iroh used for? I've never worked with this type of tech so curious where it is valuable.

Masters of Doom is a great book on the history of id software, which includes the origins of the development of smooth scrolling by Carmack and Romero, which was groundbreaking at …

I feel like the very thing that EU is great at: more consumer friendly and anti-corporate legistation, also hamstrings it for innovation. Why would VCs invest in AI there instead o…

Ray tracing is one of those problems that is conceptually so simple, yet continues to take so much mindshare because of all the challenges to implementation.

"Think of the children" used to shoehorn in the police state. Shudder to think where this will be in 100 years.

Yes, growing at average 15% a month will make you a billionaire in so many months. But somewhere along that trajectory you've tipped the balance from "eveyone is benefitting" to "i…

On the other hand, the fact that exif is such a widespread standard has been a great tool for photo archaeology. People who can track down the original exif can recreate when, wher…

I do find the BDFL approach much better for language design. You might disagree with the direction of the language, but there is usually a "philosophy" or "taste" driven by one per…

It's great that we are getting so many open source model releases, but I just feel like SOTA models will always be in the hands of the big players. The hardware requirement to achi…

Arabic script is a great test to see if your terminal/renderer/UI can handle anything: contexual shaping, cursive connectivity, bidirectional text layout, diacritics and vertical d…

https://archive.is/YU74a

I think it’s impressive that an LLM can take you to a local maxima in one-shot. But once you start maintaining it, improving it and fixing bugs, you’ll eventually need to rip it ap…

Of course the tired follow-up: “But if the government was functioning properly it would only do the things I want”.

This whole thing is comedy. Anthropic pretending Mythos 5 is so capable it's going to destroy everything, but will release it anyway with "safeguards" (when does this ever work?). …

I always wondered: If Fable 5 uses less tokens, would that be enough to offset the increased compute cost? The reasoning for pulling Fable is that they wouldn't be able to handle t…

"Having an agent spit out generic software architecture is probably better than what they were producing before." If they were a poor programmer/architect, I don't think the AI wou…

This is more or less what I do. Then again, I work on a small parts of the codebase at a time, so maybe the autonomous agent works better when you're doing larger refactors over la…

Working with AI is trying to reduce the probability it'll pick undesirable paths. It's an exercise in trying to avoid what you DON'T want. I suppose it's the same as asking someone…

I get exactly what you mean. After getting frustrated with how slow Claude was on my personal projects, I switched to Google Antigravity with Flash models and the speed difference …