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> the options to use socks proxies I pair it with wireproxy [0]. This way you can assign any Wireguard-capable VPN for specific containers. It's extremely useful. [0] https://githu…

> Similar to how students who spend most of their time practicing what they are studying with actual exercises achieve higher grades This is spot on. > build a mental model of the …

"Eliza" is a bit unusual for Zachtronics as it's not a programming/puzzle game but a visual novel. But it's excellent and I think it's one of their most under-appreciated games. It…

What a great and timely question! :) I quit a week ago to take a year-long sabbatical. > 1. What pushed you to do it? The pursuit of curiosity, for the most part. That's what makes…

People keep saying things like > it's probably an issue with your usage of if > I've rarely seen a repo and a problem that claude can't chew through with the right prompt > a skill…

It's not just Google AI Studio, it's also Google proper. Just one search result page consumes gigabytes of RAM. How did this happen? I've switched to DDG and never looked back.

Bret Victor's list of papers and references would be one: https://worrydream.com/refs/ It's a deep, deep rabbit hole.

> Is this what getting old feels like? Hating everything the rest of society is racing to embrace? I don’t think so. Some societies are racing to embrace mass surveillance and abus…

I think spreadsheets have been severely undervalued by software engineers and they're generally under-researched. It's definitely possible to use them in more non-obvious and inter…

I have a feeling that the same idea absolutely does apply to code . Writing code is much closer to writing prose than it may seem. And the act of writing code also makes you think …

What episodes were particularly insightful and memorable? Something affected you on a personal level? Please share!

Why is it wrong? Please elaborate. For more substance, here’s a discussion from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381015

> only to have it completely obsoleted a few years later Not really. There aren’t as many fundamentally new ideas in modern tech as it may seem. Web servers have existed for more t…

I strongly recommend to check all other papers and articles on https://okmij.org/ftp/ , every single one of them is brilliant and insightful. I love the pedagogy, the writing style…

In the Stalin times, yes. But the policy in the early Soviet Union was in fact opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia

> you want your vault accessible across linux/windows/android/macos/ipad For that, I use Syncthing [1] in addition to iCloud. It works exceptionally well – I see my edits in real t…

> introductory textbooks/blogs/resources on the topic Books on TypeScript, OCaml, Rust or Haskell are usually great resources for that. There's also "Thinking with Types" which add…

SEEKING WORK Location: United Kingdom, UTC+0 Remote: Yes Technologies: Rust, compiler engineering (query languages, code generators, dev tools, programming languages, LLVM), Linux …

> Has google completely stopped working for anyone else? Yes. However, I found that https://scholar.google.com still works perfectly well. It feels just as the old Google without a…

Location: United Kingdom, UTC+0 Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, compiler engineering (LLVM, interpreters, query languages, code generators, dev tools, progr…