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> Why is it catching on? In the best light because it actually is a tremendous productivity accelerator. In the worst light, because we live in a world that incentivizes "fake it t…

Honestly, I've had a great experience because I've read a lot of experiences like yours and stuck with pages router & Next 12, which works nicely for everything I've needed it to d…

My counterpoint to this is just that DDB is not a super usable piece of software (it's slow, buggy, and expensive). It's got the massive advantage of having the rights to sell D&D …

Nit: Foundry uses Pixi.js for rendering, so it's using more or less standard JS gamedev tools to draw on a WebGL context in a canvas. Edit: See https://foundryvtt.wiki/en/developme…

For me, the reason I prefer Google to GPT is that it's much easier for me to assess the credibility of a Google answer vs a GPT one. There are so many signals in any primary source…

I wonder if there's something that you can do as you're nearing the end of the context window to summarize the "state" of the world so far and put it into context so that the model…

It doesn't even "understand" basic math - trivial to test if you give it a sufficiently unique expression (e.g. 43829583 * 5373271).

Not a dumb question! They cover different needs - Tailwind is a low-level CSS library that provides a different (and some claim better) way of styling HTML. It doesn't provide mark…

I wonder if AWS will make more or less money from these outages? Will large players flee because of excessive instability? Or will smaller players go from single-AZ to more expensi…

Morally, I'm very pro-high density housing. Just like I'm pro-public transit. But in reality, my expressed preference is a single-family house with a yard and the convenience a car…

The issue I have with these automatic "backend from your DB" service is: * For the simple case, they seem like they are as good as a simple backend service, albeit easier to set up…

Maybe not quite the answer you're looking for, but I'll throw it in anyway. - I planned on quitting my FAANG job in February 2020 to go travel the world for 9 months (midlife crisi…

The US seems to struggle with a balance between security of property and police violence against minorities. I can't believe that we can't have a save and secure society without ex…

I'm a ~senior engineer, worked for a handful of startups and larger companies. Mentorship and training is an area of work that I really want to explore, but I don't think it's my s…

Very cool! We use Postman collections extensively to internally document our APIs and make handoff between frontend and backend easier. We're waffling a bit on backend schema (curr…

I'd guess that a lot of the WSB crowd has some exposure to crypto, which isn't doing so hot recently.

Is there any downside to writing deterministic games? It seems like the only sane way to do it, but I guess it adds some complexity overhead for the initial write otherwise everyon…

Probably referring to this story: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-iphone-11-pros-locat...

Just listened to a Revisionist History episode that called out the harms of over-consumption of linoleic acid. Apparently the shift away from animal and towards vegetable oils in t…

Huh, TIL. I had assumed the thickness of the iron would have lead to better heating, but it looks like both aluminum and steel heat much more evenly. I still argue that the care re…

That's just not accurate. See https://chiacalculator.com/ for more. 3-4 months is currently around 18 TB. EDIT: 100 TB would get a coin every ~ 18 days on average.

You can just use it like a normal, heavy duty pan. The difference in use and flavor between seasoned and unseasoned is pretty minor, IMO. The real advantage is that they're so chea…