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A much better test, which dynamically adjusts difficulty level: https://www.myvocab.info/en

git let me make changes to local files without fear, since version control let me undo those changes easily. jj let me make changes to my git commits without fear, since version co…

That’s, uh, exactly how jj works!

I’ll just leave this here: https://www.businessinsider.com/grok-ai-elon-musk-is-more-fi...

With jj worktrees, you can even have agents working on each of those sub-megamerge branches in parallel.

My gRPC point is that it already gives you a language for describing interfaces and support for generating client types from it, and already abstracts the connection management[1].…

You’re still not getting it. Duck typing comes from the phrase “if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck”. The Wikipedia page contrasts it with nomin…

Artificial intelligence predates computers.

Ad-hoc duck typing—“if it looks like a duck[…]”—is the only kind that exists! The point of the term “duck typing” is that it doesn’t require explicit declaration of the contract by…

The web IS the duck typing equivalent at the network boundary! That’s why plenty of alternative service providers can and do implement eg object storage APIs that work with aws s3 …

Might makes right; brains hold reigns.

Sure—but that’s a property of the inferred types moreso than the mere application syntax. It can be hard to revisit or understand the type of JS or unannotated Python expressions, …

The functional programming take is that “the result of foobinade-ing an and b” IS “foobinade applied to two of its arguments”. The application is not some syntactic pun or homonym …

cries in google wave

Iosef is an iOS simulator CLI designed for agents, inspired by simonw/rodney, facebook/idb, and joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp. For those familiar with idb, some of iosef’s agent-ori…

In fairness to the skill author, this is indeed what Elon did to the US government with DOGE

Am I the only one who finds this material rather dense?

1. The collaboration and notation app for rock bands that I’d wished existed already: https://bandwith.rocks/about 2. A “runtime scheduler for humans” that I wished existed, too (t…

I agree that the font and emoji hops aren’t great for complexity or performance, but the problem in the post was in the rendering of a tiny SVG; serving it directly would not have …

Damn, wait: you mean the random HN commenter didn’t magically solve a difficult problem that has long-confounded experts, simply by bringing their unique insights and thirty second…

> What's missing is a widespread replacement for XSLT jq says hello!

"I give it a hot minute before this type of task tracking lands in Claude Code." aaaaand right on cue: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/e431f5b4964... https://www.t…

“I’m going to go lay down and, uh, think about the problem with my eyes closed” Oh good, mainstream coders finally catching up with the productivity of 2010s Clojurists and their “…

The underlying guiding philosophy isn’t relativistic, though! It clearly considers some behaviors better than others. What the quoted passage rejects is not “the existence of objec…