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Speaking/writing English is easy. Writing literature at the level of Shakespeare is hard. Writing educational content that makes hard concepts accessible like Grant Sanderson is ha…

No, the concept the author is talking about is the Jevons paradox, just like the title says. The law of demand frames demand as a function of price and utility — demand is monotoni…

Yes, him.

I had a G502 that lasted years, but the last two I bought lasted me 6 months each (the wheel got completely gummed up somehow). I acknowledge that cat hair and sweaty hands are a b…

This is Laziness in Larry Wall's "Three Virtues" sense. It's exactly the sort of labour-saving automation that belongs in a script/extension.

On the other hand, decimal floating point would fail with 1/3 + 1/3 != 2/3. The general rule is that, in base b, you have finite positional ("decimal") representations of numbers p…

> Are we just using OOP as a term for anything bad now? Different paradigms come with different pathological cases. I've had to deal with Scala programmers whose notion of FP is ma…

It's not by accident that tabs vs spaces is one of the stereotypical great debates in programming.

No site is important until it is, but by then it's too late to overhaul your security architecture.

There's multiple ways to program using LLMs, so using different words for different styles is a useful distinction. Of course, you absolutely can build a No True Scotsman argument …

What do you mean? The whole point is that these APUs present a pretty unique value proposition (lowish performance GPUs with massive amounts of RAM attached), and framework is afai…

TigerBeetle is the other canonical example.

"OpenAI's internal team solves famous maths problem" is technically impressive but dispiriting. Non-experts solving a problem by just throwing resources at it is kind of the worst …

> If CEOs are going to start claiming that a core role of their job is emotional inspiration as a result of all those all hands meetings Oh hell no. That's not where the value lies…

AI can’t replace genuine 1:1 human interaction. We’re social animals, and a machine pretending to be a human can’t engender the same emotional response as another human.

Keyword typosquatting I guess?

Mostly the latter. There's another aspect to it, though — parent was in a navy ship, surrounded by sailors. That's a very specific population, in a very specific situation, and it'…

Spelling used to be a big one. E.g. in the opening sentence of the article, the word "otimização" would've been an obvious sign it was Brazilian, because the usual European Portugu…

Brazilian Portuguese. Funnily enough, it took me a while to determine it was definitely Brazilian Portuguese, given I'm a native Portuguese speaker, because the whole thing is writ…

> Today I learned about the Bortle scale When I first learned about the "clouds are noticeably brighter than the sky" part of Bortle 5, it was like it flipped a switch in my brain.…

> Most people didn't care about dark skys in the first place and still don't. Most people were never given the opportunity to care.

An RC justifies the "merges" title (compare "releases")

Or you can use a hardware U2F key.

You’re missing the O(1) space complexity.

Doesn’t seem like these two guys were vegan for Instagram internet points or for following a trend. They’re not trying to game the system for steak, medium rare. Their dietary rest…