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> LLM-generated code has a tendency to “over-justify” This is the thing that drives my nuts about LLM-generated code. I will see PRs that fix a bug and the entire bug fix is re-exp…

The chart in the article is inflation adjusted.

> 55% chance for a $10 payout; 45% chance to lose $10. You would keep on rolling that die, right? The answer is that it depends? If I have $1B then yeah I would roll the dice and k…

Honestly asking for any specific number is a deeply weird and off-putting question to ask.

I'm in my early forties and both my parents worked (as did all my neighborhood friend's parents) and we still spent a lot of time wandering around. Honestly I think people are real…

> The best endurance runners run in such a way that their feet land on the front of their foot during running This is not really true and the whole fore foot vs heal striker thing …

Congratulations on getting back in shape. Just here to say that there is no such thing as ramping up too slowly when getting into (or back into running). So many people push too ha…

Sure, findings ways to burn tokens is not hard. Even finding ways to burn tokens on things (like your example) which are actually useful is not hard. But what is the ROI on that fr…

> The Grand Canyon review is spot on though. The review of the Grand Canyon annoyed me the most: ``` Can you hike in the Grand Canyon? Yes, technically. You can walk along the rim,…

Same, but it's configurable in slack so now I have it configured the Enter inserts a line break and Cmd+Enter submits the message

Mr Back is already a very public figure in the bitcoin/crypto community who is the face of a public company. This isn't some rando who nobody has ever heard of before.

> Because in this particular case it endangers subject's life. This seems like a stretch. Mr Back is already a well-known wealthy person who (presumably) owns lots of crypto. I thi…

I mean, yeah? We can wag our fingers about what people find interesting but it is what it is. Bitcoin is an important technology in the world, and people are interested in who the …

This one is challenging I think because the article itself is so thin. The evidence seems really shaky. That said, clearly a lot of people really do seem to care who Satoshi is, so…

> I agree there's a sort of "who cares" aspect to the piece Sure, rationally I agree, but clearly a lot of people do care. It may not matter in any substantive way who Satoshi is b…

I think they are saying what you want them to say. In the past they got a bunch of AI slop and now they are getting a lot of legit bug reports. The implication being that the AI go…

Are you saying Maccy was vibe-coded or that it was written in Python? I don't think either are true. I've definitely been using it (you're right, it's great!) since before vibe-cod…

> This is flat-earther level Ok, so do you have a counterexample?

This will obviously depend on which implementation you use. Using the rust arrow-rs crate you at least get panics when you overflow max buffer sizes. But one of my enduring annoyan…

There's an old saying among cyclists attributed to Greg Lemond: "It doesn't get easier, you just go faster"

> Keep in mind, our parents (age specific) and/or their parents parents paid for news and didn't question that setup I don't think this is quite right. Our parents paid for the new…

> To have better performance in benchmarks Yes, exactly.

That makes sense. I don't know anything about embedded programming really but I thought that it really fundamentally requires async (in the conceptual sense). So you have to struct…

> Except a consumer can discard an unprocessable record? It's not the unproccessable records that are the problem it is the records that are very slow to process (for whatever reas…

> If it were written with async it would likely have enough other baggage that it wouldn't fit or otherwise wouldn't work I'm unclear what this means. What is the other baggage in …