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Designing flow state is really interesting. I've never been lucky enough to build with the intention of having other people enter flow. 8000 hours of Dota 2 had many hours of flow …

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it ~ there's flow state in many things, music, crafts, climbing... But I miss the flow state in programming

I would do the same for my children ~ However children have a special ability to revolt against any arbitrary constraints provided by parents, community, society. It differs person…

This is a play on words from this (excellent) NYTimes Opinion piece by Jasmine Sun [1] titled "Silicon Valley is bracing for the permanent underclass" [1]": https://www.nytimes.com…

Correct, even though Ruby the language exists and predates Rails. What -- 80%+ of all Ruby code is Rails? Effectively the largest consumer and producer of the language which I thin…

Author here, wasn't expecting this piece of writing to show up on HN. The specifics of Python were chosen only due to the language ecosystem being fragmented and inconsistent while…

Send me an email I'd love to make one

If you haven't already, read the book "The Second Kind of Impossible" by Paul Steinhardt https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297608-the-second-kind... It's a riveting account of …

I am also saying the same thing. They are commenting that the flight of human capital was coming from abroad and is no longer. However that's not what brain drain means. You would …

If you "drain" something the subject of the verb is what is being drained not where it is draining to.

A brain drain means the intelligent population emigrates to other countries. The narrative and data do not support Americans going abroad. I think you're referring to a lack of com…

I run a s business (small if you compare it to tech companies). I can tell you the drag is between your own tools and the real world (which is very messy and inconsistent): taxes, …

I'm glad we went to space, truly. Racing the USSR might have been the wrong reason but it got us there. We've benefited immensely as a species from exploring the solar system and l…

Who remembers the Newgrounds games making fun of Bush during the Iraq war?

In higher dimensional vector space, yes it can. Dimensionality gets bizarre in 1000-D space. Similarity and orthogonality express themselves in strange ways and each dimension code…

Previously in my life as an IC, I wrote a lot of Golang. I worked on the larger end to end encrypted video calling service. I hated it. I was dreaming of Rust the entire time to re…

I wrote about the meta thesis of programming languages in the training data here https://jry.io/writing/use-boring-languages-with-llms/

I wrote about this here [1] The big idea with LLMs is consistent references in the training corpus produced cheddar output by the language model during inference. Go is an amazing …

Don't mistake age for durability. A new cast iron pan is durable. The point isn't in providence but in practice. Durable tools (new or old) show themselves immediately.

Reminds me of Zed's setting { "disable_ai": true } [1] Glad it's an option be it for regulatory compliance, security, privacy, or any combination of the three. [1]: https://zed.dev…