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I wonder if this extends to training models on new content as well. Are we creating a cyclical information-consumption and training situation in which models being trained are more…

Location: Tigard, OR (Portland Metro) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Python, Go, PHP, AWS, Kubernetes, React, Angular, Postgres, MySQL, Claude / MCP …

I got a paper route just to get a hold of the dx2. It was a life-changing machine. Ordered, I believe, from the depths of a Computer Shopper magazine.

When I was in college, we were required to take a business class (Business 101) that mandated a finished business plan as part of the project. It had to be long, in-depth, and incl…

Thank you for your post. Very informative. Why is it too early for AI? It’s clearly an emergent cultural evolutionary byproduct that’s been many years in the making and quite matur…

Wrote and released a daily reader on sobriety and stillness called I Will Not Drink With You Today. There’s a companion website: https://iwillnotdrinkwithyoutoday.com I wrote the b…

Defending focus is way harder than adding features. When you're building, adding yet another feature can sometimes shave off all the edges that made you successful in the first pla…

This is a well-done library that’s fun to work with. I put together a proof of concept org chart generator[0] with it a while back when working on another project. Very easy to use…

Betty White holds such a highly regarded “Hollywood Star” place for me. It was fascinating to see her brought to life through her very ordinary belongings. Fun read.

The original research[0] is available for free online. It goes into more detail about how they established the genetic signatures and has a lot more images as well. Epigenetic sign…

Worked here. Changed my mind on SQLite. Hipp worked alongside us. SQLite can be crazy performant: https://use.expensify.com/blog/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a...

Nice to see the library brought back in some kind of way for tech companies. 15 years ago, most tech companies had a library of sorts because it was required . Sure, there were man…

The arts. The further and further you go in instruction, the more it becomes about the little differences and quality. Practice always helps, but quality definitely taught and lear…

Fantastic claims require fantastic evidence. Please be careful with things like this before someone gets hurt or worse. I have friends in the medical profession who have tested GPT…

I don’t know about the method of application, but the restaurant industry, in particular, has almost always operated on hiring bodies that actually walk in the door versus applicat…

> Retail and restaurant companies won't ever respond to my applications, despite constantly spamming the same jobs month after month. I don't know of any place in the U.S. that doe…

Examining the source, you can use coordinates instead of address when calling get_aoi. https://github.com/chrieke/prettymapp/blob/main/prettymapp/g...

Sounded like a neat project but seemed light on documentation. Had to go back to 2015 in the Internet Archive[0] to actually find a copy of the website mentioned. The site is in Ru…

Totally fair. I guess I was mostly considering the more typical client-server consumption, RPC-type uses and wasn’t really thinking just how much we use it for basic data interchan…

How far from WSDLs and SOAP we’ve come. I applaud this effort. I hate that we’re back to where this feels necessary. I’m not sure if there’s anything better. JSON sure felt better …