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Documentation should serve as a general overview of the system (purpose, architecture, etc.), and elaborate on the interface of that system. Other than documenting historical relic…

I made a bash function to turn these commands into a one page diagnostics report so that you can use this in your `.bashrc`: Diagnostics function, colorized (I tried to add guards …

Airport security used to be handled by private companies. Then 9/11 happened and that's the whole reason TSA even exists.

https://archive.ph/VqSqj

`rm` is a destructive operation, but you can always alias it to move it to a trash folder. File managers have nowhere near the flexibility available in the terminal.

I feel very uncomfortable with Chess players holding 'Grandmaster' titles. Would much prefer 'Grandmain'.

I’ve found Macs to be good for most dev stuff with the exception of non-Dockerized C++. Unfortunately I do a lot of C++… I hate the hoops you have to go through to not use the Appl…

When you are delivering mate in 1, the square still gets highlighted as being attacked by the king.

What you described is syntax differences. `=` is assignment, not equivalence.

https://archive.md/7Fk72

I also TA'd 110 and I firmly disagree. CPSC110 teaches you to view a particular problem as a series of different possible states, and solving for those states (while placing an emp…

Good ol' Gregory Kiczales

What does “perform slightly better than Llama” mean exactly? A model like this needs to be trained from scratch right?

Sam Altman’s latest tweet 9 minutes ago: i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with …

I loved every minute of my neovim + i3 setup on Arch. Was sad to let that go when I moved into Apple’s ecosystem (their laptop hardware is too good). I’ve begun switching my to Ema…

You can use evil-mode and you’ll have the Vim key bindings in emacs. I use this and it’s great. Also, an ergonomic keyboard can help with pain; I had pains on my right wrist and us…

Using an unfalsifiable framework is not a good way of trying to understand the universe.

What is it about CBDCs you find concerning compared to cash?

Third party apps aren’t upset that their free API access is getting charged; it’s the ridiculously high price, along with very short notices that make it painfully obvious of Reddi…