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Google Buzz also seemed like a better path for Google to have a "social network" than what they tried to do with G+: Post short twitter-like things from various Google properties a…

Yeah, I’ve done that in a slightly hacky way (manually run the various stages of the sbcl build and statically link c libs before building the actual image).

sbcl can compile to a single executable (the image is embedded in the binary). From a deployment standpoint, the only real issue is if you depend on a dynamically linked C library …

AI can generate a fairly satisfactory SVG for a favicon now (programmer art quality at least).

In a world with nix and where nearly every system has zsh, restricting yourself to the POSIX version of these tools is masochistic.

The two arg cd is pretty useful (and, zsh implements it too because cd is a shell feature): if you have parallel directory structure (e.g. the way rails does tests) you can switch …

I just use while’s default variable name, $REPLY most of the time. But `while` is my preferred tool for the xargs problem in most cases.

My experience mostly matches this: I think of a piece of development work having three phases: 1. Prototype 2. Initial production implementation 3. Hardening My experience with LLM…

You can hold command and drag the icons under the notch to make the invisible ones eventually show

This might be programmer-brain, but I find sqlite is pretty nice for things people would use a spreadsheet for. It’s a little bit higher friction, but when I started designing a Im…

“assuming a controlled access road without pedestrian traffic”

The Cayenne would not be safer going 35 instead of 40 "regardless of all other variables": it's statistically safer to go closer to the flow of traffic because you're then "at rest…

Yeah, mine to which I find really annoying

I've done this sort of thing or worked with people doing it. The concept is simple, actually executing can take months.

I’m not justifying the design but splitting a table with several billion rows is not a trivial task, especially when ORMs and such are involved. Additionally, it’s easier to get wo…

Normalization is possible but not practical in a lot of cases: nearly every “legacy” database I’ve seen has at least one table that just accumulates columns because that was the qu…

> the effort and cost to download an ad-blocker that automatically removes the prompt to accept/deny entirely is practically zero It's only zero if you don't need to interact with …

Yes

Coalton ( https://coalton-lang.github.io ) is the sort of thing I like: a Haskell-style language hosted inside a very dynamic one with good interop.

Yeah, there's something of a tension between the Perlis quote "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures" and Parse, …

I'm not sure why "954 partners" is surprising: log10(954) is between 2 and 3 so, if you assume Soundcloud uses at least 10 SaaS products to manage data (AWS, Snowflake, Datadog, et…

I've had a couple outages due to major version upgrades: the worst was the major version update that introduced systemd, but I don't think I've ever irreparably lost a box. The mai…

Over time I evolved to Debian testing for the base system and nix for getting precise versions of tools, which worked fairly well. But, I just converted my last Debian box to nixos…

I think you could mitigate some of the problems by making the drug company pay for the treatment before approval.

Genius did something like this to prove that Google was stealing lyrics from them: https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-hande... ?