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About the risk that vibe coding may go astray. Some irresistible quotes: > […] Claude is a fuckin' slot machine, not a human. Every query is a pull of the lever, with potentially i…

I've had good results recently by deleting all my social media apps from my phone, BUT allowing myself to use them through Mobile Safari. And I did not bookmark them; e.g. for Inst…

Me too; but recently I used ChatGPT to just quickly me the jq syntax I needed: https://chat.openai.com/share/40b68d73-d2dd-412d-867f-9f375e...

Shoot, you’re right. I’ll try to delete this HN submission

A joke I heard around 1988: A young man went back to visit his old economics professor, under whom he had studied many years earlier. He took a look at the final exam the professor…

From https://twitter.com/brainwane/status/1319692088758489089 : For most of this year, @elwoz and I have been working on a pretty ambitious project: * to make a fresh release of GN…

Scons is definitely slow in some scenarios. It has O(m * n) performance if a rule has m inputs and n outputs. I tdiscovered this when working with a code base that had a single rul…

embrace, extend, exFAT

I stumbled across this, and it's nice. It's a very straightforward walkthrough of what happens when a small program calls open() and then read(). If you look up today's Linux sourc…

This American Life had a nice segment about this phone. It's one of the stories on this episode: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/597/one-last-thing-before-i...

Very interesting, thanks for posting that!