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This is very similar to what I imagine whenever I get into a deep focus state debugging a program in gdb... I would love to experience debugging a program in VR with graphics like …

> If a tool marks 40% of new papers as machine-written but also marks 20% of papers written before ChatGPT existed, the real story is the 20% nobody mentioned. When 65% of the pape…

I used to work at Distributive (formerly "Kings Distributed Systems") on its DCP compute platform" which is entirely what you're describing. You can deploy a JS/WASM based workload…

Awesome project! Dumb question: could you run this in frontend js using the browser's js engine and wasm environment similar to WebContainers? Maybe `fs` is just in-memory, and som…

I worked with Jason (creator of Om) at my last job. He's awesome!

Thanks for responding!! I think it's still the same issue where data modified after the VDiff point in time isn't validated before SwitchTraffic. I'm mostly curious how vitess user…

> you can run an initial VDiff, and then resume that one as you get closer to the cutover point. VDiff (v2) only compares the source and destination at a specific point in time wit…

Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?

There's nothing more fun than making a DSL, the only annoying part if finding an excuse to make one

It would be cool to encode the chess board state and turn into the URL so you could hurl urls back and forth over slack to play chess just by clicking on it but there's something c…

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> `seapie.breakpoint()` opens a working `>>>` REPL at the current execution state. Any changes to variables or function definitions persist. Debugger state is exposed via built-ins…

Code examples can be executed as unit tests to prevent documentation regressions / bitrot in ways human language can't

I keep this handy note in my pocket and read it before writing or engaging in any conversation (: """ You are a human. Never use words commonly used in AI vocabulary such as "delve…

I learned the other day my office building has hidden speakers dispersed throughout each floor which blast synthetic white noise. It's quite loud, I had assumed it was an improperl…

My friend loves to use em dashes, not hyphens "-" but em dashes "—". He can no longer use them since people would suspect his writing was AI generated otherwise...

I had a good time being involved with a couple JavaScript runtimes which didn't make this list, most notably PythonMonkey [1] which embeds SpiderMonkey into Python and uses Python'…

Am I crazy or did my 2006 iMac come with a home media server for serving movies / tv shows / music photos from your filesystem. I think it even came with a slick looking remote! Yo…

> You’re never going to want your browser, editor, or Slack window to be translucent. r/unixporn disagrees

> That brightness abuse by content I predict HDR content on the web will eventually be disabled or mitigated on popular browsers similarly to how auto-playing audio content is no l…

I completed a take-home project for a company I was interviewing with, and the interviewer remarked at how it was obvious my README.md was AI generated. It wasn't. Everyone's gotte…

> can you get a JS interpreter that lives in Python The PythonMonkey library is a full JS interpreter running in the same Python process. It allows for JS functions to be called fr…

Check out PythonMonkey [1], it's an actively maintained project which embeds the SpiderMonkey JS engine inside a Python library. It reuses the same memory buffers whenever possible…

Get a boring LaTeX template like "Jake's Resume" I've spoken with two technical recruiters who say they prefer reading templates instead of hand-crafted Resumes on top of them also…