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I wonder if this is a CS problem somebody solved in 1954. Does somebody have the link to that paper? (I'm not serious about 1954 in particular, I am about hoping somebody here know…

I think my is-this-LLM alert is triggered not by mere use of phrases / constructions beloved of popular LLMs, but by things like unmotivated magpie-ish use of those phrases. I didn…

I read Alien Clay and another book by him, which it turned out is basically the same book, which I found disappointing.

I think I've been waiting since the 90s hoping somebody will figure out how to make this a real thing (or was it the early 2000s?) As I recall it seemed to be just one guy, David C…

But they'll block it entirely later right, once they've whittled down the objectors? Seems we lack a nail-on-the-head term for this "but of course you'll still be able to ..." frog…

If you can instead construct a list of existing instances to grandfather in, that doesn't suffer from this problem. Of course many linting tools do this via "ignore" code comments.…

To be more concrete: In the source code - e.g. requirements.in (in the case of pip-tools or uv's clone of that: uv pip compile + uv pip sync), one lists the names of the projects o…

That might be fine in your context. People's problems are real, though. What they're almost always missing is separating the source code from the compiled output ("lock files"). Pi…

> I think ['The Secret War' by Brian Johnson is] an earlier version of ['Most Secret War' by R V Jones] Most Secret War is R V Jones' memoir of his personal involvement in radar, a…

For the benefit of anybody thinking "with gitlab I'm safe from this": If you're saying (and perhaps you're not) that some other git hosting service - gives you control over gc-ing …

I found the post you're replying to helpful (and it made me laugh): I've come across the abbreviation POLA many times, with its non-jokey meaning "principle of least authority". I'…

You're saying there's a github API that takes as an argument a secret, and creates a git commit containing that secret? I'm very surprised. Can you provide a reference to the API c…

It uses types to get quoting right? Or it quotes everything (regardless if it's already quoted)? Ironically, the first time I saw the former was in a Python templating library (in …

You use both terraform and ansible in the same project? I always thought of them as competitors filling more or less the same role, do you find it useful to use them together? Is i…

People deploying low-traffic side projects - to VPSes or similar that allows price capping - and who do use a database: what deployment stack do you use these days? I assume Docker…

Not sure if that's intended as irony, but of course, if somebody is taking multiple years off work, you would be less likely hear about it because by definition they're not going t…

Behaves as I expected now! I went here looking for more info about payperrun https://payperrun.com/%3E/welcome and clicked on the "Spotlight" section and saw 4 popups blocked - I n…

Nice. I expected clicking on the different "filter" buttons would update of the search results right away: I didn't expect I had to repeat the search (though I can see why you'd do…

I wonder if part of this is a function of time passing / getting older rather than purely cash vs not.

Ironically, I hear the ones that were shut down in Germany were some of the best maintained in the world and had very high "capacity factors" even when compared with other nuclear …

Good to see an open mind! I think most critical rationalists would say that epidemiology is a den of weakly explanatory theories. Even though I agree, I'm not sure that's 100% epid…

As kevinwang has pointed out in slightly different terms: the hypothesis that seems wooly to you seems sharply pointed to others (and vice versa) because explanationless hypotheses…

> Some people just seem to have knack on being able to switch between layouts, but I just couldn't. Did you put in serious deliberate practice time and still find that? If yes, wha…

I'm not saying that's not a thing, but if you're going to switch keyboard layout I do think that's objectively the least of your problems. Re-learning a huge list of common letter …

Of course if you just stick to a non-QWERTY layout and never use QWERTY, you don't have this problem. My solution to that has mostly been to use an external "mechanical" keyboard t…