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Maybe it just means more people are pushing some envelope (their own) faster and more often than before. In the aggregate everyone maybe learns on average about as much new stuff i…

A phone is my server now.

I haven't read Hatchet, is it about fictional technology or real technology?

Its the biggest button. They did not read the text to agree. It was the fastest way to get the banner to go away. Sometimes they force you to confirm multiple times if you click ”n…

Is Kimi K3 subsidized as hard as the other models out there?

> When an employer can confiscate someone's passport and one can only leave the country with their authorization, it is slavery. This happens in Europe as well. It is not legal, bu…

Why does it matter for some Python implementation if the Google C++ implementation has a lazy or eager parser? The important part of protobuf is the spec of the wire format. That i…

> For example, I would argue that for someone with no experience, figuring out how to copy a file from one folder to another is easier in Windows Explorer than learning how to use …

The Blue Lagoon is more like using waste cold than waste heat.

make no mistakes

How are you staying ahead?

I have not seen Kent Beck argue for eXtreme Programming or other Agile methods in nuclear power plant software or aviation. These are niche industries and constitute a vanishingly …

Well he makes software and writes about software development doesn’t he? Hardware has some hard limitations. The reason software was even invented at all was precisely to escape th…

All tech debt I have ever seen in my 15 years of professional software development has been someone building too many abstractions or generalizations trying to future proof stuff.

Human talent or LLM talent?

> I always thought this complexity was there for some good reason (security?). It's just design by committee.

> Economics is downstream of physics. I don’t think this is true if finance is included in economics. … unless of course by physics you also mean metaphysics.

> Some times one will spin for a long time on certain problems where the other has no problem finding the appropriate parts of the codebase and getting an efficient solution. Surel…

You prevent the LLM from deleting your instances by not granting its AWS user that permission. Whatever tool you let it use to talk to AWS is irrelevant.

I’m not sure it can ever be cheaper than a human cleaner so maybe the hotel industry does not want to subsidize the training.

Seems like there is some synergy to be found here!

Solution: take turns every other year.

Not putting all your eggs in one basket is a good choice. I think the AWS service catalog makes you adopt more than you need or want anyway, it is a great way of locking people int…

A lot of the alternatives there are tagged "EU hosted". Some are not. Are the ones that are tagged "EU hosted" among the ones you mean host on Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft?

I don’t thing maintaining and testing support for an extra runtime is free. It is by definition cheaper to not support extra runtimes like Kaluma, Elsa, WinterJS. Adding support is…