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I have been walking some newer programmers through Git recently, so this topic is fresh on my mind. The commands in the blog post do not look friendlier or even different.

> The idea of “weighing souls” reminded me of another anti-spam solution from the 90s… believe it or not, there was once a company that used poetry to block spam! > Habeas would li…

They write: "Below, we show uncut videos of runs during which Dreamer collected diamonds." ... but the first video only shows the player character digging downwards without using a…

I've been the same thing now that I look for it. In a theater in December I saw at least 2 people scrolling through Google or Apple News. In the plane I saw at least 3 people on Ti…

> The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs. I considered using a Fly GPU instance for a project and went with Hetzner inst…

Thanks for the reply! That makes a lot of sense.

The app looks really good! Based on the title I thought it’d be something you made most as a testbed for Racket so I was surprised to see the app itself actually looks great :D I t…

The vast majority of the scam or spam texts I receive come from one provider: Bandwidth ( https://www.bandwidth.com/ ). They technically allow you to report phone numbers ( https:/…

While studying anthropology I briefly heard about the theory that in monarchies the support of the nobility should be conceived of as an investment. It really stuck with me.

I actually had no idea FFmpeg could do this. Are there any sample videos for people to look at? I know YouTube has a very aggressive video stabilization option, but I'm sure that t…

I haven't seen any information that could be used for this in the RSS feeds I've looked at. You could scrape the website, especially if it's all running on your own computer, but i…

I've worked in the SF Bay Area my whole life and no one has ever asked me how I voted at work. Also even if someone asked me, there's no way for anyone to know how I voted, so I co…

I mean, I'll accept your interpretation with as much charity as I take Musk's public statements, even though I think both are wrong :) Hope to chat again in a happier context!

Not really. It uses S-expressions but Scheme pattern matching is totally different. The most common Scheme pattern matching syntax is basically the same as pattern matching in any …

I loved the vending machines for drinks!! I had at least one novel drink every day and enjoyed almost all of them. If you remember the name of the white grape drink you mention I’d…

In Canada, there was a lot of controversy over the government awarding ~$200M in contracts to one consultancy, almost always without competitive bidding. They chronically underdeli…

The query language is definitely underdocumented. In case it helps you, what helped me was realizing it’s basically a funky pattern language, à la the match pattern sublanguages in…

Igalia is a pretty interesting business. For context, they are a consultancy whose engineers contribute quite a bit to the various browser engines (WebKit, Blink, and Gecko; perhap…

To my surprise, they sold these things in pretty much every big store I went to in Japan. A record store sold them, albeit in the adult records section. But an otherwise normal dep…

I don’t think you and I disagree! I agree that Musk is being a hypocrite and that his actions are inconsistent both with (1) being a ‘free speech absolutist’ and with (2) allowing …

I like the idea of a guide like this. Reminds me of “Implementation of Hex Grids,” another high quality game-related guide: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/implementati…

Weird, this whole time I had the impression that the Apple App Store was more strongly reviewed than the Google Play Store. I remember searching on the Play Store and getting e.g. …

This is very cool. I was randomly clicking on circles and thinking it was weird that none of them sounded bad yet. Then I clicked on one of the presets, which merged its state in, …

On the one hand, Musk has already retracted his claim[1] that he's a "free speech absolutist"[2], so I don't think it's fair to come after him for that: In last month’s interview w…