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Great talk about testing and how it improves your code, among many other things. SQLite is probably one of the ideals in software development.

I like how Kevin Kelly brings together the ideas about what could be next. That’s always been his thing, hasn’t it? He is probably on to something here and it’s ok to be vague, I t…

Free stuff like roads and schools? Or free stuff like polluted water and air?

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I’m not an expert and surprised by the extent of Azure’s technical debt and its consequences. What would be a “minimal” reproducible configuration or setup of services that shows t…

Mine, too. And conky. And how I loved those configurable shortcuts…

What I didn’t realize until a few months ago about writing, James summarized as > while “writing a first draft” is intimidating, “reading through all your notes” or moving note car…

Reminds me of the Gray-Scott explorer [0], implemented with WebGL (in 2012!!). Mathematics is beautiful! [0] https://www.mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/ogl/index.html

I’m not shocked.

Thanks for that. I thought about giving lisp a try, lately. This tutorial/presentation has been very insightful and I will try out kons-9 to pick up some lisp.

Almost as unreal as the matching dinosaur footprints on two different continents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352656

Bye, bye, Porsche.

Hold your horses. I think the title overstates the impact of those old wheat varieties. Yes, genetic diversity is high. But, the reason that today’s wheat is less diverse is only t…

Reminds me of [1]. We are good at estimating the median but not the mean. [1] https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-l...

Current world-wide oil production is c. 83 million barrels per day [1]. With the estimated 511 billion barrels, about 2x of Saudi Arabia’s reserves (2005, [2]), that would last for…

The graph named “non-linear growth”, is actually showing linear growth. I know, it’s confusing, but as long as the factor is constant (10), growth is linear. A quick way to check i…

Reminds me of some of the remarks Joe Armstrong made a while ago [1], and which I came across via another submission a couple of weeks ago (which escapes me). It’s a great talk abo…

For those of us who don’t know what RAG is (including myself), RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. From the video in this IBM post [0], I understand that it is a way for…

I think we need more people like her to speak out about their experiences. And it doesn’t even matter whether it’s academia or tech or anything else. That’s the only way to try to …

I had a hunch, came to the comments first, and found your summary. Thanks for that.

I wouldn’t think so. Envy is this funny feeling we hardly ever admit ourselves but which is part of being human. It happens to everyone no matter where they are in the hierarchy. O…

Similar to the imitation problem, I’ve read somewhere that it’s not greed what drives people to accumulate things (wealth etc.) but envy. You don’t want more for the sake of gettin…

I just won $100,000,000. https://tinypic.host/image/D5mU9w

That’s awesome. I would like to do that with Telegram or WhatsApp.