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I am still curious: when is it acceptable to hope that something is actually going to work well enough when handed over to the government?

I am still curious: when is it acceptable to hope that something is actually going to work well enough when handed over to the government?

> is never followed up with a “yes, but …” (realistic evaluation of how politics actually works). OK, but following this logic, shouldn't we disband the government altogether and h…

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There is at least one startup doing it already (I'm not affiliated with it in any way): https://promptless.ai/

Smartness and happiness are like test coverage. If you are not smart or have no tests, you will not be happy. If you are smart or have high test coverage, you may or may not be hap…

There are two types of people: those who do backups, and those who will do backups.

At this point AGENTS.md is a README.md with enough hype behind it to actually motivate people to populate it with contents. People were too lazy to write docs for other people, but…

And a related page, in the other direction: https://www.futuretimeline.net/

Very good online course on debugging: Software Debugging on Udacity by Andreas Zeller https://www.udacity.com/course/debugging--cs259

Great advice. I follow it in my coding efforts and it has never failed me. Great book about this: Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, Vladimir Khorikov, 2020 https://…

How do you deal with serializing properties "by reference"? E.g., if 3 objects reference object "Foo", then Foo is serialized once instead of being duplicated in the json 3 times?

I am especially excited for the Smart ComboBox: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-sma... In general, I see the idea of semantic matching instead of textual m…

Jake, I just read the blog post you shared. I loved it. The message and the writing style.

Currently some programmers, and with time more, have to write, integrate and debug LLMs, hence for the programming to end, other LLMs would have to be able to do so, too. LLMs succ…

From the page: Describe your data up front and generate schemas, API specifications, client / server code, docs, and more. With TypeSpec, remove the handwritten files that slow you…

At a first glance this looks to me to be the same concept as "The Heptagon of Configuration": https://matt-rickard.com/heptagon-of-configuration

Truer words have never been spoken. Microsoft IntelliTest (formerly Pex) [1] is internally using Z3 constraint solver that traces program data and control flow graph well enough to…

> but what these people often need is someone to sit with them for a significant amount of time and demonstrate how one breaks a problem down, builds small pieces that demonstrate …

Thx, nice explanation. I think possibly Mercurial actually stores only the diffs, but I am not sure.

One generalization of this concept I see is: Instead of having a sequence of successive states, you only need the initial state and a function telling you how to compute the next s…

That's what I was thinking, too. Perhaps we already know majority of what there is to know, when it comes to fundamental concepts? Probably plenty of work left in improving our too…

According to [0] the toll of civilian deaths is 9% not ~90%: > The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians.

> I define a few test cases and the AI writes code for a generalized solution How about the AI never writing any code, just training "mini AI" / network that implements the test ca…