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But what are the questions nobody is asking?

I've recently been running yolo mode, but in docker container with the codebase I'm working on a as regular mount with other reference code mounted as read only. I've been experime…

I've been using them by reading some docs/wiki/tutorial, then when I think I understand something trying to do a rough explanation to the LLM and ask if I'm right. I'm usually maki…

An overlapping technique (covering some but not all of the circumstances you'd use assert) is to take a parse-dont-validate approach, and essentially encode the fact that an assert…

I agree, although I think the real goal the model providers are going for (both commercial _and_ open weight) is probably power. Just think of the control available to the organisa…

or netcasts even

On point 4, is the general flow that an "update" would read the current latest, check whatever conditions, then rather than updating, insert a new record (all in a transaction), or…

Perhaps political candidate Count Binface here in the UK should add to his "I'll lower _your_ taxes and raise _everyone elses_" policy with "I'll protect _your_ job and automate _e…

I wonder if some sort of member owned cooperative would be the way forward if we the people want to retain any control.

I'll take this as an uninvited opportunity to plug nushell. Ive never got on with bash, it feels like too much of the friction is incidental to the problem, whereas with nushell I …

You might be surprised how "little" engineers make outside the US too

I've used postgres on a few projects (via AWS rds) but I've always used it as a pretty vanilla SQL database. Probably the most "fancy" feature I've used being bson columns. Can any…

People already know a lot of things. But which "know"? There's seeing something and recognising it as something you've seen before. There's being able to recite it without seeing i…

The fact that someone makes a simple observation is probably suggestive that despite its simplicity, it doesn't stick fully, maybe it's even anti-memetic. Perhaps repeating such si…

When you say "it", I suspect it will pan out to American Elites, as opposed to America the nation, or Americans the people.

Makes me think of [shepherd tones](Shepard tone - Wikipedia https://share.google/xooRbF7wIIhcsTt2J ) which sounds like they're rising in pitch indefinitely

good timing, I just started learning Typst this weekend!

I think there are multiple aspects at play. People have reasonable concerns about the ethical, political, economic dimensions before we even get to the technical capabilities. Even…

Interesting. Could you elaborate. As a pro Europe Brit I'm interested to understand this viewpoint. Is it a widely held perspective do you know?

It feels like the virtual actors are the primitive the author is reaching for. As an erstwhile Elixir hobbyist I've often found myself wishing for the simplicity of actors when sol…

This is somewhat off topic, but a question to Americans: Why do none of you seem to pronounce the "l" in soldering? Every US video seems to say "soddering"

Seems like a decent place to point out that there are good savings to be had on heat pump running costs with a smart controller designed for heat pumps which can learn the dynamics…

apparently it is a British thing. https://editorsmanual.com/articles/collective-nouns-singular...

I suspect sycophancy has a lot to do with things . People with power attract those who want their favour and/or money who will align themselves to please the powerful rather than s…

I built a very similar system into my own assistant type project. In all honesty though I've not used it enough to know how well it works out in practice.