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At my $work, people do this frequently, but instead of it just being insensitive, they have their personal Slackbot responding on their behalf. After I realized I wasn't even talki…

Just need to learn how to exit it now.

Whenever I see Substack or Medium URLs, I avoid clicking them. They are so spammy with their call to subscribe, that it's not even worth me visiting them. People recognize quality,…

> On top of that comes what is owed to oil companies and suppliers, claims stemming from expropriations under Chávez and the outstanding loans from China and Russia. It seems like …

Saltwater comes in the air. Just being near it corrodes everything. Both stainless steel and bronze are very expensive. Even if things were made of corrosion proof materials, not e…

Picking a random orientation depends on trigonometric functions. In order for this to calculate, it would be a lot cooler if it didn't depend on transcendental functions.

What other language does it better?

Why not unconditionally trust Bob?

Events like this show that the Internet is pretty heavily centralized. The original DARPA Internet was supposed to be resilient to stuff like this, but it's clear that the old Inte…

Right, I think the lazy thing implies that it would happen post "commit" being returned to the client, but it doesn't need to be. The commit just needs to be wait for "an" fsync ca…

I always wondered why the fsync has to be lazy. It seems like the fsync's can be bundled up together, and the notification messages held for a few millis while the write completes.…

Both ints and floats represent real, rational values, but every operation in no way matches math. Associative? No. Commutative? No. Partially Ordered? No. Weakly Ordered? No. Symme…

> Ctrl-F "convertible" > 0 of 0 matches Some analysis.

Intuitively it doesn't sound like it would work. The program doesn't call listen() or accept() on the socket.

I've been throwing moderately large parties the past 2 years (12-40 people) and the lack of partying is definitely noticeable. Most people don't reciprocate, making it disheartenin…

Information is valuable; we just weren't charging for it. AI is just bringing the market for knowledge back into equilibrium.

"AI is Amazing" - People who barely write any code.

There's a great graph showing the wages stagnating compared to GDP growth. It looks like wage's haven't gone up. But, when adding back in employer provided health coverage and othe…

Type inspection is the flaw of Go's interface system. Try to make a type that delegates to another object, and the type inspection breaks. It's especially noticeable with the net/h…

Not with HTTP/2

Unbelievable, they actually missed one: 2^(log(22)/log(2)) has all even digits!

Neat, looks like it would work well for values clustered around 0.5, and which hang more closely around 0 and 1.

Hm, cool idea but ran into a glitch. Cutting 3 elongated ovals, end to end and forming a triangle, didn't remove the center piece.

This is exactly right. I've stopped publishing to my blog because I know my words will be slurped up and sausaged out into ChatGPT or Gemini. And, without people writing about tech…

Cursors are generally better, but they don't give any hint about how much more is in front of the cursor. I don't think there is a O(log n) algorithm to keep track of what position…