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I've been considering setting up "ConfuseAIpedia" in a similar manner using sentence templates and a large set of filler words. Obviously with a warning for humans. I would set it …

How do these much smaller cores compare in computing power to the bigger ones? They seem to implicitly claim that a core is a core is a core, but surely one gets something extra ou…

Cool to see the whole process behind it. Some sneaky tricks there, and much knowledge. Unfortunately, I find the picture doesn't show the tidally-lockedness very well. If it wasn't…

Oh, and there's massive use of aspect-oriented programming, the least local paradigm ever!

> If someone feels compelled to read every function either the functions are poor abstractions or the reader has trust issues, which may be warranted. Or it's open source and the a…

Some people are proud of making complex code. And too many people admire those who write complex code.

Comments should describe what the type system can't. Connect, pitfalls, workarounds for bugs in other code, etc.

But knowing what Brian was considering at the time is useful, both due avoiding redoing that and for realising that some constraints may have been lifted.

Even more infuriating is when the more expensive version is the same object but with extra unnecessary features added via software, to the detriment of usability.

And here I thought here would take about how new models come out so frequently that any information about long-term quality is long obsolete.

I recently found that store-brand peanut M&M's (my favourite) were just as good, half the price, and fair-trade! Win-win! When I joined my current job, I used M&M's as reward when …

+1! You can't travel very much, you can't go hiking or biking in places without cell coverage, your whatever thing you are busy with gets interrupted, you can get woken up in the m…

Follow best practices unless you can give a reason not to. "Best practice" is a shorthand for a lot of accumulated knowledge that you don't want to go over again every time. Also f…

It's a bad user experience if you have to keep checking for hidden extra costs.

While I don't like Amazon one but, I appreciate that you don't go into the Evil Big Tech trope. Things at that scale are indeed complicated and hard to coordinate. That said: fuck,…

Wow, I totally missed that. Sorry.

Moving software "backwards" is hard, but not impossible. There are ways to structure both data and code that make it easier. A change being "rollback-safe" can be an important ques…

I've been using wooden spatulas on my non-stick pans for years without any issues. Maybe only cheap non-sticks have trouble with them?

And that's why you should pour boiling water over any implement that has been in contact with raw meat.

And that even when using plenty of fat, a sticky pan can be a bother to clean.

TLA Will always mean Three Letter Acronym in my book. It took many link hops to find an actual definition, I finally found it in Leslie's first paper on the subject. PEYA, people! …

I've long thought that that is one of the main functions of corporations. There's a reason they're called limited liability. The fact that you can conjure up new companies at a whi…

"[docs] will take an example and do something with it to demonstrate an outcome." No. Good docs will explain the context and choices made and trade-offs and risks and relations etc…

Is not Z3?

Interesting read. How much speedup did you get in total? Steps of improvements don't always add up directly.