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Honestly we are headed towards a disturbing height of inefficiency in software. Look at software today, 1000x less efficient than what we had in the 90s. Do businesses care? No, th…

I don't know how the web does it. There are so many cool things being added. How do they keep the spec manageable? What if someone wanted to build a compliant web browser from the …

There was a good reminder in the Hanselminutes interview with Shaundai Person about blogging for yourself. It was a while since I listened so I'm fuzzy on the details - all I remem…

Pretty neat. I would have expected it to take a bit longer, but I suppose the optimizing step is the real magic in a compiler.

I prefer stack traces in errors. It's gives so much more automatically so you don't have to worry about manual annotation. Stack traces and debug logs are the way to go. I like to …

No doubt the most errors in my SQL syntax when writing migrations is the extra comma.

I think most of those are Instagram shoving it in your face. Yeah I'm a "Threads user", but only because of the inline feed in Instagram. I'm annoyed when there is a notification b…

the shitstorms usually have a community behind it. Even if it sucks, it's supported and will be maintained to a point of it "working." If someone writes their own thing, chances ar…

> It’s very similar to thread-local storage. We know how bad of an idea thread-local storage is. Non-flexible, complicates usage, composition, testing. I kind of do wish we had gor…

I prefer light mode for most things, but use dark mode anyway to save battery on an OLED Screen :)

I don't think so. If you find otherwise (without any stupid MX/forwarding magic), let me know! Silly that the price keeps going up when I'm basically only using their spam filter. …

Those kinds of puzzles are part of the CCAT test (annoying test for "cognitive aptitude") and I used this trick.

In Doom, are strafe, and it works here too.

TIL that Conway's game is turing complete. Wow.

Wait a minute, this isn't an AI article...

Deciphering patterns in natural language is more complex than these puzzles. If you train your AI to solve these puzzles, we end up in the same spot. The difficulty of solving woul…

Honestly I'm concerned how hacked up o3 is to secure a high benchmark score.

I always smell foul play from Sam. I'd bet they are doing something silly to inflate the benchmark score. Not saying they are, but Sam is the type of guy to put a literal dumb huma…

I'm surprised this is well defined behavior.

I usually use Echo which does have an error to return from handlers, but I don't think it's necessarily the wrong thing unless you're writing a library. I used to avoid panics with…

Adding error checks everywhere when you don't care about them is one of the ugliest things about Go. What I do is have a utility package that lets me panic on most errors, so I can…

Who knows what the future holds? As a SWE you are expected to adapt and use modern technology. Always learning is a part of the job. Look at all the new things to build with, frame…

Agree, some domains are a big gray area. I used it to understand some accounting jargon while diagnosing a software issue, but anything that is not very commonplace is littered wit…

Are people getting paid to promote Kagi in here too? Like, you have to log in to use it. Already that makes it worse than Google.

I like that--generally I agree that LLMs inflating text is not adding value, but it is a great point that LLMs can help bridge language barriers.