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oh, no that wasn't a correction - it was a pun because "cooked" in American slang means "broken / destroyed / over". In parent's context, "boiling" is correct. "Boiling" does have …

Cooked.

That's around 100k/year if used at the same rate for every workday. So the question becomes: does it make your engineer X% more productive, where X is some multiplier based on thei…

I don't see this happening any time in the near future. The extra hardware cost is nontrivial, and there's a software support burden. Cellular bandwidth also isn't free, and probab…

OK, but SpaceX is not printing money out of thin air. And neither does the stock market. Somebody will be left holding the bag eventually.

> Children are expensive, but highly subsidized, and just not expensive enough to explain the whole picture. Highly subsidized? I have to assume you're not talking about America. I…

PEGs are a great replacement for a complicated regex, and can express a lot of things that are hard to do with a regex. But they're also more verbose, and fewer developers are fami…

Something I'd observe here: without expressing an opinion about PEGs vs regexes, I'd note that regexes are much more widely used. They're also completely sufficient for an awful lo…

Tcl is pretty good at functional-programming type stuff, and it can absolutely do anything that you could do with a macro. It isn't Algol-like at all imo, maybe beyond some superfi…

Not the parent, but yes I would/do write that way for effect.

We use a Docker Compose setup for our team's devcontainer. It's defined right in the repo alongside the Dockerfile used to build our image. Our build scripts are all set up to star…

Tar doesn't need to imply gzip (or bzip2, or zstd, etc). Tar's default operation produces uncompressed archives.

out of curiosity - any reason not to use it?

You only have to decompress it first if it's compressed (commonly using gzip, which is shown with the .gz suffix). Otherwise, you can randomly access any file in a .tar as long as:…

This isn't very surprising. Typical US economic policy aims for 2-3% annual inflation. That counter shows an average 2.6% inflation across 26 years, which is kind of right in the r…

If Windows wants to commit to quality and user experience, they can do it by moving closer to the experience that made a generation fall in love with it. - Turn Notepad back into a…

Not the grandparent, but I've used most of the OpenAI models that have been released in the last year. Out of all of them, o3 was the best at the programming tasks I do. I liked it…

I get your point about camera vs lidar. Humans do have other senses in play while driving though. We have touch/vibration (feeling the road surface texture), hearing, proprioceptio…

Kind of reads 25 people's stories about "How I became a parasite". Why not create new things, instead of making a career out of leeching the wealth created by others?

I’ve disputed fraud a couple of times on my Chase cards. It was.. fine? Uneventful and simple.

Interesting, I wonder if this will spike VPN traffic into Vietnam.

Agree. Even asking it can anchor your thinking.

This was a really interesting read. I'd highly recommend it for anybody who's setting up (or currently maintains) a pre-commit workflow for their developers. I want to add one othe…

fwiw I'm the CEO of htmx, and I am a huge fan of these types of hyperbolic articles.

Game theory is a model that's sometimes accurate. Game theorists often forget that humans are bags of thinking meat, and that our thinking is accomplished by goopy electrochemical …