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Their low profile keyboards are some of the best available. "Standard" full size mechanical keyboards is a a pretty crowded market with literally thousands of products that aren't …

Would we say that about any other industry? Can you run a film studio if you have never watched a film in your life? Can you run a publishing house if you’ve never read a novel?

It's competing with Starlink in that market, which is a much stronger product today.

For a project like Go, wouldn't it be an option to do one-time iouring feature detection in the runtime startup? Exploits are an issue for the entire OS, not the program choosing t…

LLMs can be pretty conmpetent at languages that have zero training data, at least to the extent that those languages use features/ideas that are familiar. I wrote a toy language/co…

Small customers grow into bigger ones later on. At least they do in the US, maybe this doesn’t happen so much in Adyen’s part of the world?

Scope is crucial when working with multiple teams/projects in a monorepo.

/mnt/c is a mounted C: drive in WSL2, that allows WSL2 guests to read/write files on the Windows host. The mount is fine and speedy enough, but the underlying reads/writes turn int…

Outsourcing also fails because it’s a pathological case of adverse selection. The businesses that outsource projects are ones who are organisationally incapable of managing those p…

Intelligence agencies use parallel construction to disguise their real methods. Further, more sophisticated methods are reserved for bigger targets. Intelligence agencies aren't ru…

They’ve built a platform and sales pipeline optimized for selling data consulting into highly bureaucratic tech hostile orgs with data privacy concerns. All these factors apply equ…

To be fair to GitHub, "GitHub" Actions is just Azure DevOps Pipelines wearing a mask. Which I think explains a lot about it's quality as a feature. It was brought in as a rushed co…

Devcontainers (I know it's not a full VM, but it's most prominent version of this "isolated development environment" concept) wouldn't fully protect you against this. Github creden…

These malicious packages are being caught by the authors, and by automated package security scanners, not just by end users. npm should start setting this 7 day cooldown as default…

I’d honestly expect to see regulatory intervention if they tried this.

An eventual goal is likely to allow interacting with the LLM directly via audio tokens in input/output skipping tts and stt completely.

This really is a great blogpost, I'm really glad you shared it.

Yeah there is some degree of awkwardness created by the interaction, but I think it’s less about needing specific libraries to map well and more about getting a good understanding …

Fable is great but it has a surprising number of these hidden behaviour changes that are really hard to detect when writing code against it.

My understanding is the uutils development process involved extensive testing against the behaviour of the original utilities, including preserving bugs.

I think there is also the added challenge that ARM macs are a moving target, and Apple has less than no desire to provide any kind of stability or support for Asahi Linux. Unlike t…

Model output reflects on your input, and the effect is self reinforcing over the course of a whole conversation. Color you add around a problem influences the model behavior. A "du…

Does non-artificial intelligence have clean instruction/data separation?

I found the Copilot harness generally more buggy/disfunctional. After seeing a "long" agent response get dropped (still counts against usage of course) too many times I gave up on …