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But then you lose the Jackson Pollock joke, which is what makes it compelling and memorable!

It's not that you know the artist first and then say "this art is cool because I like the artist". The art is the means by which you know the artist. The more of their works you en…

Doesn’t that also create a kind of immunity, though? If what I see is a cacophony of differing views, then I am unlikely to be influenced by any particular sock puppet account. Whe…

I wonder if it would be possible to have gone directly to Zed, without going through Atom first (likewise, Plan 9 would never have been the first iteration of a Unix-like OS). "Rew…

No, we are using this thing called a metaphor . What's being compared is the relationship between the hangman and the ropemaker, and the relationship between the app developer and …

Surely the answer is "the other side of the Gobi Desert".

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9202

I always think of it as the "Perez plateau"[1], but I will grant that this is less catchy. [1]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Phases-of-the-S-Curve-Pe...

I think it depends a lot on the org. In enterprise software development, there's definitely a type of "business analyst" or "domain expert" who is capable of reading code, at least…

The "domain expert" is the business-person who is, it is suggested, more capable of reading and comprehending the Clojure code than the Haskell code. Since there is an equivalence …

One of the neat properties of base58 (and, strictly speaking, of base62 as well) is that it does not contain any characters that require special encoding to be used in either a URL…

"I want an end to corruption, or a chance to participate in it!"

It's weird, but LLMs really do gamify the experience of doing software engineering properly. With a much faster feedback loop, you can see immediate benefits from having better spe…

One thing I've noticed about working with LLMs is that it's forcing me to get _better_ at explaining my intent and fully understanding a problem before coding. Ironically, I'm gett…

I think it depends on whether you think there's low-hanging fruit in making the ML stack more efficient, or not. LLMs are still somewhat experimental, with various parts of the sta…

Some of these seem good to me: - "everything is an expression" is a nicer solution for conditional assignments and returns than massive ternary expressions - the pipe operator feel…

I would really like to know whether this feature gets any (non-accidental) use. It's certainly an important problem to solve, and I can see the technical merit in the solution prop…

Valibot is really nice, particularly for avoiding bundle size bloat. Because Zod uses a "fluent builder" API, all of Zod's functionality is implemented in classes with many methods…

It's also worth bearing in mind that much theology is an attempt to explain what the experience of God is like. The experience of God is not (for Tillich, nor perhaps for very many…