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I've been using Haskell for 20 years. I've been running a company built on Haskell for 10. I have a very large legacy Haskell codebase. I've invested in several companies built on …

I was puzzled by this article at first, but when you put it that way it makes more sense. The author also had a presentation awhile back about why Haskell is a terrible language fo…

It's people over 65. Cell phone ownership is pretty much universal, but only 78% of people 65+ own a smartphone. I don't think that's really surprising at all. I wouldn't expect an…

Tragic. Most of the crew onboard were almost certainly aerospace engineers tasked with collecting sensor data.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, in New England jam seems more popular than jelly. The FDA regulates the labels...jelly is made from fruit juice, while jam is made from fruit chunks. The on…

> Reviewing code is important, but it's only 50% of the learning process, at best I don't know about everyone else, but the code I reviewed as a Junior was high quality code I was …

BitTorrent also enabled search engines to be built easily, which created discoverability. Unfortunately it's a much harder problem for git repos, especially when competing with Git…

Oh, that's pretty cool! Now I can't decide whether that approach or one based on AT is better...

Is there really nothing like BitTorrent for git, or have we just not heard about it because of GitHub's network effects? It feels like this problem was solved long ago for binaries…

Things Fall Apart Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, Th…

Except ASML licensed the technology from the US Government, after the government labs built the first EUV fab in 2001. Not to take anything away from ASML...all the US companies th…

Optics and photoresist materials too. The partnership developed the first EUV lithography in 2001: https://www.llnl.gov/article/27641/euvl-partnership-makes-it...

Let's not forget the really big gamble (inventing EUV) was made in the 1990s by US national labs: Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Lawrence Berkeley.

I mean, your brain has an order of magnitude more neurons than there are people on the planet. I think humans are just incapable of wrapping our heads around the sheer number of ti…

Why would a machine need to make anything? Is a robot arm not a machine? How about a trash compactor? Are the 6 types of simple machines not machines?

> the relational model can subsume "graph" queries, but for all the reasons Codd laid out back in the 60s... network (aka connected graph) databases cannot do the latter. Except ne…

Oh you're right! I was looking at the last documentation update timestamp, but the original release was 2006. That makes a lot more sense than Itanium support in 2021.

how does this compare to gpt-oss-120b? It seems weird to leave it out.

> Oracle® Database Platform Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit) Well, I guess that at least confirms Oracle on Itanium (!?) still supported RAW 5 year…

It seems like Claude has taken Github's place in terms of developer reaction to it being unavailable. It's like everyone forgot how they did things 18 months ago.

I'm so old I remember working on databases that were designed to use RAW, not files. I'm betting some databases still do, but probably only for mainframe systems nowadays.

It took me way too long to get that.

Here's my take on what he was getting at: Build vs. buy is an eternal question in enterprises. I remember many in-house data teams trying to build tools for "digital transformation…

Oh, that actually tracks. I should have checked his bio.