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Reading makes your writing better, listening makes your accent smoother. Nothing wrong with using ChatGPT for automating what you understand is a pain, just don’t automate what you…

A Team-as-a-Service? Would be interesting to be able to create a Python script acting like a team of sales, project management, and engineering working together with telemetry and …

More like have easier to assess legality status.

We (humanity) need to invent a simple GPLv3 style license “You can derive any data on the data you see here, any derived data you sell or share should mention this place as a sourc…

I myself almost exclusively use LLMs as a scoping/pathfinding tool, an extremely powerful version of search engine and a ultimately knowledgeable sparring partner if you will, did …

Central counterparty concept implemented by most exchanges is a valid service, as otherwise counterparty risk management would be a nightmare - an example of a useful “middleman”.

No, their python support repository readme explicitly tells it’s highly experimental.

Looks like every man and his dog is an expert on North Koreans. Did it occur to you that most citizen there are hostages of the own state and may be fighting hard to get a piece of…

Code should have a hierarchical structure, so one could read it on the high level of abstraction and also zoom in gradually, as necessary — this is what they usually mean by “code …

"make sure it's something that can actually be checked" -- I'd love to find out about a sane (not purely academic, financially viable) way to do it. Since university days I know th…

Always have a drawn picture, if you cannot draw it you will fail to explain it to others (and to see design gaps) and inevitably everyone will think it’s an over engineered complex…

"If one starts adding a thread here and a mutex there..." -- precisely that!

They are low level abstractions and they don't save from the hardest to debug and fix problems - race conditions and inconsistent states, especially in distributed applications. No…

Problem of getting the concurrency right is very much identical to the problem of getting the system design right. In both cases it takes a lot of hard work to learn how to not pro…