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And yet, even for programmers, that output is full of info that is useless 99.9% of the time. That is just bad design. It is basically a debug log that is shown by default all the …

> Because git is an open-source project written by nerds, it shows you all of this information. Feel free to ignore it! This is the type of attitude that kept most Unix tools quite…

Agreed with all the rest of it, but > to have the notebooks play nicely with the existing package environment system instead of being self-contained isn't that just a `Pkg.activate…

Because the patterns of consumption and harm are very different. It's the constancy and immediacy of social media that makes up the major part of its harm. It's not something where…

The PR is here: https://github.com/thesysdev/openui/pull/517 Pretty hilarious, but also not that much of an exaggeration from other more "serious" PRs like this.

I don't use Obsidian, and my assumption when I saw the title was I guess they're gonna be limiting it to a small set of corporate-blessed plugins . I've come to expect that "The Fu…

"whitespace, not brackets" from a sibling comment touches on it, but a lot of people, beginners especially (but not uniquely), are put off by symbols when reading code. Python is l…

The tools the language gives you to create those abstractions make a lot of difference, however.

He isn't specifically related to the 3D printing or maker space (in this sense) niches. He got popular at first for repairing Apple devices that Apple Stores claimed were unrepaira…

It's hard to decouple them as primary vs secondary because Julia is pretty central to what they're doing here. To my understanding, all the actual calculations that this is based o…

The paywalled (or subscription-walled) portion isn't too long, it's a pretty small article, but here it is: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.axios.com/2026/04/30/... Does any…

I don't know the actual Christian theology, but at least in modern popular interpretations, Lucifer is the Angel of Independence, so that would suggest no!

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much is a pretty good book about the psychology of this. The stronger your the necessity for saving (whether from poverty or external influ…

This is the most basic level of eval, of whether they can produce output that will be considered by someone somewhere (usually a young urban US American) as informal toned. Real hu…

As an English-as-second-language speaker and writer, one thing Grok really shines at is capturing the tone and level of "formality" of a piece of text and the replicating it correc…

I've been feeling more optimistic about Mozilla recently than I had in years, since their language in communication seems to have shifted from a Stepford-ish tone of corporate spea…

That is a useful guide in terms of the personal psychology of how to go about doing it, which is an important side of it, thank you. I'm also interested in the mechanics of how you…

I assume the word is in there for the sake of people who don't know what a honeypot is. It gets them curious that law enforcement set up something fake, even if they don't immediat…

Do you have a blog post or similar that describes how you do this?