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Good reminder! I use the non-poisonous kind, phenol-free.

Here's my skill for long-term financial planning (tested only with fable): https://github.com/matt-w-horn/skills/tree/main/skills/finan... I found it helpful. If anyone wants to fo…

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Linear seems like the kind of app that typically wouldn't need this sort of optimization. I could understand local copy of the DB for indexing, perhaps, but not for normal transact…

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flas...

Why wouldn't this be priced in already? I am often skeptical when people claim to predict the market, given how much can be made by quietly predicting correctly.

Yes a broken clock might be right twice a day, but I also have limited time in my day. I've read enough of his opinions already and would like to make time for some others!

The author lost me when they quoted Thiel.

There's a great documentary from a German public broadcast channel on this topic, including interviews with the scientists and doctors researching the problem, as well as patients …

I generally think this is a good article and I agree that measured confidence is important when working on any engineering project. However, I've often seen engineers who are a lit…

This is a misleading article including some quotes that wildly mischaracterize the original sources, while also including many lines of unrelated speculation that could be easily r…

Weird how they only share three hand-picked evals, ignoring the evals where they were left in the dust like ARC-AGI2. This post is so misleading, I don't even know whether to trust…

So I'm only 40 years behind! It's amazing how early innovations like this seamlessly fade into the background and can be taken for granted by folks like myself.

Having never heard of mojo before, I found this article fascinating. It provides a great example of how a toy regex parser works and an excellent explanation of why vanilla regex t…

> Should You Use Postgres? Most of the time - yes This made me wonder about a tangential statistic that would, in all likelihood, be impossible to derive: If we looked at all datab…

This is the second article I've seen on taste here. It seems to me the author's definition of "tinkering" is primarily describing hyperfocused, repetitive behaviors found in neurod…

This sounds incredibly frustrating. But given you're in the leadership seat, it's worth taking a hard look at yourself asking how you're playing a role in this, especially since it…

They already did it with Google's transformer architecture- why not Google's open-source browser framework too? They're pretty much a fork of Google's good-faith open-source effort…

It seems odd to me that someone would write such a polished and comprehensive article and yet completely misunderstand the definition of the central topic.

It fully depends on whether those rules or laws actually mean anything.