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Hardware is hard and I applaud every effort to make it easier for tinkerers to build atop a platform. I've been away from it for a long time but how does the RPi system stack up in…

If anyone wants to take a peek into the Unicode codepoint, here's an indispensable tool: https://r12a.github.io/app-conversion/index.html

I started my software career maintaining and forking Unicode parsers. Arabic, Hindi, Chinese and Thai among many other complex languages. It was great fun and it helped me get a de…

Absolutely cool demo. I used to love this feature in SwiftKey. It still works but after their acquisition by Microsoft they've gone downhill. I've since switched to iOS but would l…

Easily 99 percent on most tasks. As an example, for a Python project with a dozen modules and ~50 files,a simple instruction like "Design a config file backed by Pydantic to store …

That's indeed a good example. However I find their claim "I've lead teams of really competent engineers and I can leave them without supervision for months and come back and not fe…

That's fair. In all honesty I'm already feeling challenged but given how much time I save I can set aside some time to keep myself sharp. I can learn more languages. Additionally, …

I'm in the "haven't written any code in a while" boat ATM. I'd love to see examples of issues that are so big that they warrant reverting to manual coding. My main issue has been t…

If you look at Australian IT companies they're management and consultant heavy. Roles like architects, review boards, program managers etc., exceed actual engineering roles. In suc…

> Kiselev’s child reader is being treated as a participant in mathematics, not as a recipient of facts. Not sure how the other makes this claim when the passage he himself cites is…

Letov should name it Motepad++, clearly mention that it's a fork and move on.

I wish someone had told me how common this was back when I worked myself to death fixing every UI abnormality that no one except some misincentivized testers used to report at my f…

The cost has always been the sum of: 1. The time spent to think and iteratively understand what you want to build 2. The time spent to spell out how you want to build it The cost f…

There could be many plausible explanations. 1. The model's default world model and priors diverge from ours. It may assume that you have another car at the wash and that's why you …

I haven't used it in a while but RedHat used to feel quite a bit like Windows.

Similar questions trick humans all the time. The information is incomplete (where is the car?) and the question seems mundane, so we're tempted to answer it without a second though…

I use Obsidian to record decisions, plan every day and take detailed notes. Very handy for recalling the nitty gritty for future reference be it performance reviews, writing blogs …

I used to interview mentors for a big EdTech company and met some of the smartest and most humble engineers who were all from Kenya.

If the two are indeed "Linked", I see a case for users-first browsers to show system metrics right along the page.

So the root cause was the model's indisposition to calling the skills. That seems contrary to what we see with function calling. Models call functions quite reliably most of the ti…

> Before writing code, first explore the project structure, then invoke the nextjs-doc skill for documentation. Does the model even understand what this line even means?

I get excited every time I see a "Differentiable X" library, but this one had me the most excited! Seeing the methane molecule acquire its geometry is so cool. Can it work with mor…

I use Tailwind for connecting dev machines across two continents and as a free user I think it's an amazing product. It breaks my heart to see people losing their jobs because ther…