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For sure. The literal first two pages of any book, essentially the back of the cover and the title page, always host a huge list of pages plus summary of something interesting i sa…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Hill,_London

For Oauth I'd like to borrow what I would describe humbly as a better analogy, and it comes from Douglas Crockford, and so adapting it from him commenting on Monads in Functional P…

Chomsky never argued it was words (and how couldn't it be words, for there are millions of words from 100s of 1000s of languages), just a configuration to eventually learn those wo…

I am not sure if this will help you, but have an extended, deep conversation with ChatGPT about your resume. Tell it who you are, what you excel at, and list projects and technolog…

the user who wants it? and a premature retort: if the feedback is "the user / PM / stakeholder could be wrong", then... that's where we are. A "refiner" LLM can be fronted (Replit …

I am not so sure. Code by one LLM can be reviewed by another. Puppeteer like solutions will exist pretty soon. "Given this change, can you confirm this spec". Even better, this can…

> "ask you" I get the concern, however. But, short of nuking the actual .git directory, the upsides are worth it, in my opinion. Cursor offers filtering via a mini-prompt in its YO…

I was hoping the LLM is the staff engineer? can read both ways.

your incident lingo will be fun.

not to be confused with "Drunk Magnus", a very strong player.

Love it. > this post is only about buffering that happens inside the program, your operating system’s TTY driver also does a little bit of buffering sometimes and if the TTY is rem…

I learned the following: - Everything public in Slack. Create a fun-sounding moto that discourages DMs. Even if a DM happens, and the back and forth resulted in a consensus, share …

I like this analogy a lot. It's possible that forced externalization of thoughts accidentally causes the omission of crucial data. That is, much more goes on in your head, you prob…

Hm, I thought Happy Eyeballs (HE) was mainly concerned with IPv6 issues and falling back to IPV4. I didn't think it was this RFC in which finally some words were said about round-r…

To be inspired by something really has no bearing on how the _inspired_ thing is built. I think you place much emphasis on that but really it does not bring much to the argument. O…

also covered by the great philosopher Bertrand Russell: https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/ .

I am confused by this comment: > open source stuff with long history of maintenance and improvement improvement and maintenance is continent on usage, and having been used at Netfl…

The same reason Babbage never built the full Difference Engine. Design of this sort allows some tinkering unbothered by the constraints of actually building it (if you know history…

newspeak is for dramatic (and dare I say, rather fun) effect. I think his point is straightforward and not confused: one style and one liner for the entire programming language pro…

I didn't mean to say it's all IO, that would be wrong. Rails is feature-rich, ActiveRecord for instance spends plenty of time in the CPU (manipulating its internal state). But the …

In my experience most Ruby apps (Rails in particular) develop this idea that Ruby is the bottleneck when in reality most of the time it's something else entirely (mostly DB or netw…

addressed in the FAQ: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/faq.html . Short answer is no.

There is a another famous one, focusing on Postgres: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/ .