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Every time I can remember that the finance people have become more important to a company, it has led to the disappearance of the internal culture geared towards excellence that go…

Buddhism has bad news for you

I wish my forehead had more headroom for the amount of travel my right eyebrow needs to accommodate this statement.

Interesting and well-executed. But why does the blog post read like it was written by fucking chatgpt?!

I was this close to concluding with a paragraph about Buddhism and the Self. Which is basically the same thing, but from the first-person perspective.

When understanding a new "magic", there's this beautiful moment when you grok it, and the abstraction poofs away. It's when you take apart a mechanical clock and keep looking for t…

I'm not sure if investors will agree. The general way the stock market works heavily favors shortsighted thinking. They'll say après moi, le déluge and then package the déluge up i…

We have to contend with working with people who are sometimes very hard to work with. Watercooler talk gives you the opportunity to remember that the guy who keeps filing badly wri…

"Bard won't always get it right" That's like saying "the imp you summoned and are keeping in a cage won't always tell the truth" or "fever dreams won't always be true prophecies of…

I'd like to thank you for the time and effort it must take to research, write and edit these articles. The tone you strike with these articles is a delight to read, and I find myse…

As a compiler guy, I'd appreciate some look at the layers of abstraction in-between (so, ASM). Microbenchmarks are famously jittery on modern CPUs due to cache effects, branch pred…

You've already got that part down pat. "Shaping your mental behavior to minimize surprise" is just a really complicated way of saying "attempting to understand a thing". There's no…

I think there's definitely something to the neuroplasticity thing. Learning does take longer as we age, that's just a biological fact. > Man what a frustrating journey it has been …

Axiom Verge (2015) uses the same trick to avoid the `strings` utility, but with parametrized cheat codes. (Back then I took it apart in a decompiler and looked up all the cheats, s…

By simple statistics, most people are, on average, about average. This is true for any population large enough. I don't buy your assertion that C++ developers are better than Java …

I know you said you didn't want to go into why you needed this, but I am curious: why did you need this (preventing your machine from going to sleep I imagine?), and why didn't `wh…

If you're interested in this kind of thing, note that Coq can also extract code in Haskell, Scheme and OCaml. If Coq's not quite your cup of tea, Isabelle/HOL is another proof assi…

Isn't this basically what Google has been doing for years with their DiRT exercises?

Judging by the preview image for the live stream (yeah, I wish I had more to go on, too), this looks to be a long-haul plan for terraforming mars. I wouldn't hold my breath for the…

And thus the student was enlightened.

As a reader of a website, I usually primarily care about what the page looks like when it's rendered, as opposed to how clean the HTML is. Granted, the current trend to make everyt…

The video's nice and all, but I'd appreciate if people would stop using my Mom as a stand-in for "person who is not competent with technology". Also, did they really mistake the ch…

Good to know StartSSL is just as shoddy as it's always looked. Good thing we have letsencrypt these days.

I'm sorry, but in a time where the US is killing people on the other side of the world using unmanned bomber drones based on just this international spying, I have a hard time beli…

As someone who doesn't live in the US, I am awestruck by how big of a deal this seems to be for people. Are you really trying to tell me that surveillance of ~the rest of the world…