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It assumes that "Skill" is a 1d value. But the ability to write quality code and the ability to debug are a bit orthogonal. Being better at debugging doesn't necessarily makes you …

I can't say about France. But in Switzerland, there is a "three strikes" system where if you are caught with drug, the first time you have a $100 fine; Then a higher fine, called "…

Diaspora is a book for Math PhDs, involving a lot of physics and math theories. Accelerando is a book that anyone can read. Involving hyperintelligent cats and sentient shrimps (ac…

Yoo, congratulations to the author for going from this blog post dated to October 2023 to shipping an actual rust crate (bevy_light_2d)! I suspect the author might be reading this …

If you are interested in creative voter coercion, and generally very creative ways of changing law so that the election results always end up how you like them, I recommend reading…

Wow, this is exactly how I felt with regard to my first job as well. This old codebase no one wants to touch but works somehow. The quite nice later-on additions. Even the "build a…

Tooling When your text editor is not enough for a task, and it hopefully is extensible, consider writing little plugins to reduce repetitive tasks. Here is an example. I was workin…

To go in your direction, a few countries in South American did ban advertising for junk food. In addition to education in schools, it dramatically helped reduce overweight-related …

Relevant: * https://blog.plover.com/Unix/whitespace.html (mentioned at the beginning of the linked post) * https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/31/The-rc-shell-and-whitespa... (mentione…

The kagi universal summarizer has been pretty descent on my end. But I've only lightly tested it on two pages.

Yes! I use regularly Inkscape, and it has been a constant source of frustration. The UI is the exact opposite of how I expect things to work. It's improving at breakneck speed thou…

Nice post. Personally I find the way rows are added in this post a bit confusing. It's done for the sake of illustrating a source of data where rows elements of the jagged array ar…

To clarify this. On my RX5700 XT, with ROCm, Stable Diffusion generates images on the default sampler at 512x512 20 passes in about 2 seconds. It's definitively slower than a simil…

I recommend Stanisław Lem's Cyberiad. The English translation has amazing prose and it is hilarious. I can't recommend anything else :) I like Charles Stross, good sci-fi with a sa…

I've seen this still be recommended in 2021. I personally read it last year and it was definitively helpful. Just excellent if you want to understand what is going on under the hoo…

I know I shouldn't recommend it because it is extremely addictive, but try Oxygen Not Included. To me it is like Rimworld, but without the feeling of arbitrary nonsense sometimes l…

Like Stratechery, my immediate concern is education. But not just homeworks (which actually were already criticized, I think the gears are already moving with regard to relying les…

I found that understanding compilers was precious at several occasions, especially for cross compilation and embedded programming. Even for Java, for uni assignments, I was complet…

This is the exact premise of one of the stories in the Cyberiad. The main character Trurl builds a machine and it is convinced that two and two is five, so much so that when Trurl …