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When I see that, my first thought is that there are a bunch of features missing from the original.

That's a beautiful writing style. Feels like there's some Anthony Bourdain in it :)

From my experience with billing systems it is usually not possible to refund a transaction after 6 or 12 months.

Typing speed might not seem that important if you're looking at the speed of typing and the overall amount of code that an engineer produces that ends up in a PR. But it might take…

If I understand that correctly, it would mean that running a function like this on two threads f(1) and f(2) would produce a list of 1 and 2 without interleaving. def f(x): for _ i…

I migrated from gmail to proton then to fastmail and I can now really appreciate how much more polished gmail was. My biggest pain is fastmail's ios app, e.g. clicking on an email …

It's a bootstrapped business, no investors/board.

I was a bit confused when looking at the English example for Chain-Of-Thought. It seems that the prompt is a bit messed up because the whole statement is bolded but it seems that o…

Thank you! I almost gave up because there was a lot of formatting issues when sending epub3 or kindle versions to my Kindle using Calibre. What saved me was using epub3 format and …

The only other person I remember doing that is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer) Btw. he published a great read on how they started Autodesk https://www.four…

That's why I always write a BEGIN statement before executing updates and deletes. If they are not instant or don't return the expected number of modified rows I can just rollback t…

One more that I've heard just recently: "If your code is just juggling with pointers/references, it is likely that it isn't doing much useful. It is only when it starts dealing wit…

Hooks are a step in the right direction, I just have a feeling that having to wrap in useCallback and useMemo and having to add dependencies manually can't be the final step of web…

Nobody will, at least if there's any truth in this article

I'm not sure, it might be. If you're not careful, CPU can become bottleneck when you have a 10Gbit network card.

It's not a proof but I really enjoyed Zizek's thoughts on how fight against smoking is an ideology :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r238kp3ar_A

You're right about wasm not being too complicated, I've learned this when watching David Beazley coding a WebAssembly interpreter in under an hour. And it doesn't require any knowl…

I've found a very interesting result in one of the papers[1] they linked in the article. The group of people with the highest phone dependence have the highest available cognitive …