How the f are you supposed to type? Ideally I'd like full support for my arms from the elbow to the wrist. In my first job - i think it was in 1997, I had my own small room with an L-shaped desk with a rounded corner.…
I'm actually impressed by the amount of abuse our Oracle instances are able take from our developers. Massive amounts of parallel single reads and writes with millisecond responses mixed with mega-joins of incorrectly…
The etymology is interesting - Pebble Voting was used in the early democracies in Greece from 500 BC. Black pebbles meant 'no' and white meant 'yes'. The tradition evolved to the black and white marbles used in the…
We don't "need a global reset" It's an apocalyptical mind-bug. All times have an eschatology - ours seems to be climate collapse. It used to be nuclear war. The media is selling a story. In reality everything is still…
The 150€ is a reservation on your debit card before filling up, since the banks or the station doesn't want the credit risk. It's released when the actual sum is booked. I think it's just what a reasonable "full tank"…
My internet provider didn't even maintain the ip-address. They have a pool of egress routes and seems to route round-robin. Basically every new connection can be from any address in the pool. I had to call them to make…
What's fast on Z platforms is typically IO rather than raw CPU - the platform can push a lot of parallell data. This is typically the bottleneck when compiling. The cores are in my experience moderately fast at most.…
It takes some of the fun out of imagining eternal digital life, doesn't it :-)
Will put it in my list :-)
In Sweden and I think Europe, there seems to be quite much product development in apples. I think one of the reasons is that storage seems to have been more or less perfected so that the produce can be sold over almost…
I think "MMAcevedo" basically nails it: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
I think that is Hofstadter grieving his wife, and reflecting on how we embed models or predictions of others in our own neural networks, more than anything else. We build models of the world in order to predict it. But…
I'm thinking that the slopocalypse is almost inevitable outside pure tech companies and can't be ruled out there either. LLMs are a force multiplier. Clueless people will be able to produce tons of code that looks…
The truth is that there is a lot of hype. You need to be reasonably experienced and guide it. First, you need to know that Claude will create nonsensical code. On a macro level it's not exactly smart it just has a lot…
"... HBR found that companies are cutting [jobs] based on AI's potential, not its performance. I don't know who needs to hear this - a lot apparently - but the following three statements are not possible to validate but…
Good question. There seems to be strong lobbying for insects as human food, in particular from companies that would be happy feed us with their own shit as long as it's cheap and they could get away with it The…
I'm assuming they mean the old way of signing each others signatures. As a practical implementation of "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", you could get an organic trust chain to random people. Or at least, more…
Sometimes EU regulations isn't that bad. Poultry litter has been banned as cattle feed since 2001, partially due to mouth and foot disease and BSE and to some extent animal welfare.
I think that the important conclusion to make of this is that publicly available code is not created or even curated by humans anymore, and it will be fed back into data sets for training. It's not clear what the…
Old English looks more or less like old Norse to me. Or old Scandinavian as we say in Sweden...
They where supposed to do it quicker. I think there was a limit of something like 60 days. At least my bank apparently refused all transactions that were settled too late. I had a job which involved a lot of taxi trips,…
I once worked with translating an application to polish, and found out we had to have separate placeholders for "name" for persons (nazwisko) and for things (nazwa). Which is a simple example why you need context. All…
I think the current estimate is that there are almost a half a billion more Christians than Muslims (in 2025.) One reason is that the number of Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing. But extrapolating the trends,…
This is like a really really fast VIC 20!
This is underrated and applies to almost all roles involved in product development. > the distinguishing factor of effective engineers is their ability to build and maintain clear mental models.
How the f are you supposed to type? Ideally I'd like full support for my arms from the elbow to the wrist. In my first job - i think it was in 1997, I had my own small room with an L-shaped desk with a rounded corner.…
I'm actually impressed by the amount of abuse our Oracle instances are able take from our developers. Massive amounts of parallel single reads and writes with millisecond responses mixed with mega-joins of incorrectly…
The etymology is interesting - Pebble Voting was used in the early democracies in Greece from 500 BC. Black pebbles meant 'no' and white meant 'yes'. The tradition evolved to the black and white marbles used in the…
We don't "need a global reset" It's an apocalyptical mind-bug. All times have an eschatology - ours seems to be climate collapse. It used to be nuclear war. The media is selling a story. In reality everything is still…
The 150€ is a reservation on your debit card before filling up, since the banks or the station doesn't want the credit risk. It's released when the actual sum is booked. I think it's just what a reasonable "full tank"…
My internet provider didn't even maintain the ip-address. They have a pool of egress routes and seems to route round-robin. Basically every new connection can be from any address in the pool. I had to call them to make…
What's fast on Z platforms is typically IO rather than raw CPU - the platform can push a lot of parallell data. This is typically the bottleneck when compiling. The cores are in my experience moderately fast at most.…
It takes some of the fun out of imagining eternal digital life, doesn't it :-)
Will put it in my list :-)
In Sweden and I think Europe, there seems to be quite much product development in apples. I think one of the reasons is that storage seems to have been more or less perfected so that the produce can be sold over almost…
I think "MMAcevedo" basically nails it: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
I think that is Hofstadter grieving his wife, and reflecting on how we embed models or predictions of others in our own neural networks, more than anything else. We build models of the world in order to predict it. But…
I'm thinking that the slopocalypse is almost inevitable outside pure tech companies and can't be ruled out there either. LLMs are a force multiplier. Clueless people will be able to produce tons of code that looks…
The truth is that there is a lot of hype. You need to be reasonably experienced and guide it. First, you need to know that Claude will create nonsensical code. On a macro level it's not exactly smart it just has a lot…
"... HBR found that companies are cutting [jobs] based on AI's potential, not its performance. I don't know who needs to hear this - a lot apparently - but the following three statements are not possible to validate but…
Good question. There seems to be strong lobbying for insects as human food, in particular from companies that would be happy feed us with their own shit as long as it's cheap and they could get away with it The…
I'm assuming they mean the old way of signing each others signatures. As a practical implementation of "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", you could get an organic trust chain to random people. Or at least, more…
Sometimes EU regulations isn't that bad. Poultry litter has been banned as cattle feed since 2001, partially due to mouth and foot disease and BSE and to some extent animal welfare.
I think that the important conclusion to make of this is that publicly available code is not created or even curated by humans anymore, and it will be fed back into data sets for training. It's not clear what the…
Old English looks more or less like old Norse to me. Or old Scandinavian as we say in Sweden...
They where supposed to do it quicker. I think there was a limit of something like 60 days. At least my bank apparently refused all transactions that were settled too late. I had a job which involved a lot of taxi trips,…
I once worked with translating an application to polish, and found out we had to have separate placeholders for "name" for persons (nazwisko) and for things (nazwa). Which is a simple example why you need context. All…
I think the current estimate is that there are almost a half a billion more Christians than Muslims (in 2025.) One reason is that the number of Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing. But extrapolating the trends,…
This is like a really really fast VIC 20!
This is underrated and applies to almost all roles involved in product development. > the distinguishing factor of effective engineers is their ability to build and maintain clear mental models.