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John Ousterhout has also written about this in A Philosophy of Software Design: The most fundamental problem in computer science is problem decomposition: how to take a complex pro…

I‘m wondering why nobody has brought up the term "acquired taste" yet. Such a beautiful expression, sadly I can’t find a good translation in most other languages.

At least for me, another element of deliberate practice holds true: Deliberate practice scales nonlinearily with time and effort.

The CORDIC algorithm is great! Just a few months ago, I implemented a sine generator with it and also used fixed point arithmetic. It is a real eye opener to see that you can subst…

I've been trying out some more things and I think you might have to do some more prompt engineering for ChatGPT. Prompts sometimes result in valid results but sometimes in a Syntax…

Awesome idea and great implementation!

I‘ve also been using vim for ~3yrs now, editing small programming projects and all kinds of text in it (like config files). Never had a need for emacs until a couple weeks ago I st…

Great job! I love this idea. In fact, I love it so much that I could not resist trying to implement it with two running mpv instances: https://github.com/phazus/lofiatc.sh

This, so much! I solved this problem on mobile with two approaches: 1. Use a content blocker (e.g. 1Blocker on iOS) to block CSS elements 2. Use an Invidious instance which has dis…

I managed to find an archived audio recording of his talk: https://web.archive.org/web/20120118143443/http://craigagree... Even if the quality is not the best, you should still be …

One truly useful service. I would love a Search Syntax feature for Google or DDG where one could specify the maximum size of the showed sites. This would definitely improve the res…