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> To be clear, I’m not anti-AI. [...] If you want to autocomplete [...] But if you want to use FOSS trusted tools like Zed, OpenCode, Pi, Nanocoder, etc. [...] isn't he just contra…

I find this hard to parse, maybe because English is not my first language. Do senior SWEs provide more value than they provide principles, or do they provide more value than princi…

Perlis's 10th epigram feels germane: > Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you wa…

> > they'd evolve so completely that you'd become a different person anyway. > How is that a bad thing? The point isn't that it's bad, but that it's equivalent to dying and then so…

There are some semantic debates going on in this thread about the term "bullshit". But there is a clear definition. The paper Stallman links to uses bullshit in the Frankfurtian se…

why not both?

So the thing about disneyland with the death penalty that attracts you is the death penalty? Geez...

Is it so bad to stick with a product that works? I use a Cherry KC200 MX specifically because it is a simple office keyboard.

Presumably the LLM also wrote the blog post. At least, it generated a file named OCAML_DWARF_BLOG_POST.md: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-bc37d03...

More like 3.5 years, right? December 2021 through May 2025.

Chain of Custody Cakkavatti

It's a bit more than that. > We'll implement basic context switching, paging, user mode, a command-line shell, a disk device driver, and file read/write operations in C. see https:…

Is that an innovation of Mahayana or Vajrayana Buddhism? I've only read Theravada texts, and in those, good and bad Karma are clearly differentiated. Attaining a pleasant rebirth i…

When the col is seven, there are a lot of diagonals going from top right to bottom left. When col is five, from top left to bottom right. Are runs of consecutive sexy primes also t…

Quoted in the well-tempered plot device: > Our relationship / is beautiful / because / it is ours / because / it relates / to us. Indistinguishable from Rupi Kaur. There is nothing…

Maybe this is cope, maybe it's my dislike of modern fantasy, a genre that keeps repeating the same narrative elements to get the same reactions out of the reader, but I found the s…

Is "degenerate" the word that comes to your mind when reading about the Levine family's game night?

Great stuff. Growing up, I played both chess an poker seriously. Chess mostly in person: in a club, at tournaments and league matches. Poker mostly online, for real money (age veri…

"Wie man mit Fundamentalisten diskutiert, ohne den Verstand zu verlieren: Anleitung zum subversiven Denken", by Hubert Schleichert

Impressive project, and I always love reading about the communities that form around competitive games. It feels kind of sad to admit as a chess player, but "Najdork variation" is …

Why are speech pathologists more often injured or ill than ambulance drivers, police officers and freight agents? That does not at all match my idea of that line of work.

Current opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who will probably win the snap elections in February, has even before the court ordered the warrant called for Germany not to obey it. But…

The original by Bent Larsen is "Long variation, wrong variation"

idlewords mentioned some good ones. While English doesn't have many moods, it still has relatively many verb forms (just take a look at past tenses: I ate, I've eaten, I had eaten,…

And Vietnamese is still one of the luckier languages out there, having a nation state behind it with all the media that comes along with it. A large majority of the world's languag…