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We have a service at work which categorizes internal documents and logs, then triggers some automation depending on the category. It processes maybe 100 per day. Previously we only…

Yeah this only worked with Firefox on my phone. All other browsers generated a screechy noise instead.

I used Btrfs for a few years but switched away a couple years ago. I also had one or two incidents with Btrfs where some weirdness happened, but I was able to recover everything in…

Kudos for one of the most relatable descriptions of C++ I've read. I did a couple years writing C/C++ professionally, and I hope to not go back to that. Too many hours debugging ot…

I have fond memories of reading this book as a teenager. I was watching an introduction to computer science course online. I think maybe from Yale or MIT, and the professor recomme…

I enjoyed this particular WebGPU tutorial last weekend. Nice introduction even if you've never programmed a GPU before. https://codelabs.developers.google.com/your-first-webgpu-app…

I think it is completely worth it to learn the Vim editing commands. You can get a lot of the benefits from just turning on Vim-mode in VSCode or IntelliJ. Emacs with Evil mode is …

Yes unfortunately. There are TikTok "challenges" go slap your teacher for example. Similar to the "challenges" where you should eat a spoon of cinnamon, eat a Tide pod, etc. There'…

The side-by-side view in that article is the key user experience reason to leave. The Fandom wiki sites tend to be slow and covered in ads. I avoid them if possible. I'm glad to se…

I like short articles in general, but this one is short and shallow, plus subjective without explanation as you mentioned. I spent too much time trying to guess at the author's rea…

I agree with this method. In high school I tracked what I did every hour for 3 months. Probably over the top, but seeing the hours add up of watching TV--or just killing time--was …

When I was working at Ford a few years ago, many Ford engineers worked very closely with Argo engineers. Sharing code or data was common, they used our internal tools, and sometime…

I've been using Lisp for hobby projects for a few years. Yes the syntax takes some time, but > I feel like if I used it, it would atrophy my skills in other more traditional langua…

I'm also interested in something like this. I've been considering writing one because I already start most projects with djangobuilder.io, which generates a project, models, and te…

I can second this one. Not necessarily your personal time but at least once your assigned work is on track or completed. Not rare to hear people say "this past weekend I was playin…

My usual first steps are to read the title, the abstract, and the figures/tables, in that order. Pause there and mentally summarize what I just read. If there are terms I didn't kn…

> Ultimately, we plan to find a nonprofit with a history of open source values to own this license (such as the Linux Foundation). I'm not sure if the Linux Foundation is just a re…

End to end tests mostly. Those were kept static throughout the process as a baseline and for benchmarking. That let us have simple metrics like "test 1 had a 100x speed up" and "te…

I have embraced this workflow completely. I used to be more concerned about which language, but now I find I much more useful to just start immediately in Python. I spend most of t…

A group of researchers published a paper on this topic, "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages" [0]. They have tables listing the relative energy usage and memory consumpt…

Nim [0] might be one similar example. Similar syntax as Python and trying to be just as extendable as Lisp. [0] https://nim-lang.org/

Is it possible for CDNs to cache per URL per user? I'm thinking of something like /favorites where one URL would list something different for everyone. When I've setup caching on b…

A great example of the confusing reality that the words "inflammable" and "flammable" mean the exact same thing.

I always recommend Make a Lisp [0]. It's a guided experience creating a Lisp in whatever language you already know. If you go through all the steps, you'll have created a self host…

I haven't read that book, but yes exactly! I wish I had the ability to remove "find your purpose" from our language. You can't find a purpose or passion lying around. You can't tak…