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(Rust) Type System Chess(github.com)
2 points by aarestad 27d ago|0 comments
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by aarestad 4mo ago
That's on me - I saw v26 was released, but didn't realize they'd already done a point release in the ensuing 2-3 weeks!
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Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)(nodejs.org)
151 points by aarestad 4mo ago|61 comments
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War and Data Centers Are Driving Up the Cost of Fiber Optic Cable(404media.co)
6 points by aarestad 4mo ago|0 comments
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Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection(joanwestenberg.com)
7 points by aarestad 6mo ago|0 comments
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by aarestad 6mo ago
It makes coming up to speed on an existing codebase a slog because you have to trace through everything back to its source. Oh, and because there are magic methods and properties galore, your normal introspection tools in e.g. RubyMine get
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by aarestad 7mo ago
The example he gave where each dev gets a single feature done seems to skip over the opportunity that Dev A has - after she spends only "a couple days" on that feature to ship a simple solution, she now has the rest of that week t
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by aarestad 10mo ago
“code is cheap, show me the talk” - ie “show me you _understand_ the ‘cheap’ code”
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State of JavaScript 2025(survey.devographics.com)
7 points by aarestad 1y ago|1 comments
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by aarestad 1y ago
notable nitpick: calling DC a “federal entity” is mixing up the concepts of nation and state. (It’s also major erasure of the culture of people - mostly Black - who actually live there!)
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by aarestad 1y ago
...authored by [Julia Evans]( https://jvns.ca ) of tech-explainer fame :)
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by aarestad 1y ago
By fiat, of course. :) (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill )
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by aarestad 1y ago
As a Sconnie native, the main thing that annoyed me about the letter system is that it's easy for the letters to rhyme; for example, near Verona (home of Epic!), there are (Dane) County roads PB and PD. Gotta enunciate carefully. :P Th
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by aarestad 1y ago
Is the almost-24-bit limit related to the fact that 32-bit floats have 24 bits of significand? (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-poin... )
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by aarestad 1y ago
“Craft” vs “delivery” is a false dichotomy. Someone who is “delivering” needs to understand what they are delivering! How can you support vibe-coded cruft that you don’t understand? This is why tools like TypeScript exist; TS by itself adds
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by aarestad 1y ago
"woke" deployed as a noun really rankles me. But then, I guess that's the point eh - own those snowflakes, nothing matters, lol.
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by aarestad 1y ago
Same, and I actually learned from this book in a class from this very professor!
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by aarestad 1y ago
I can't find one either! Here's a 10-year-old article with a picture of it, though it looks slightly different now: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151204/west-loop/long-awai...
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by aarestad 1y ago
A bit of Deno trivia: it runs the big "Chicago Brick" video wall in Google's main office in Fulton Market; they open-source the code here: https://github.com/google/chicago-brick (I contributed a little
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by aarestad 1y ago
Yes, but humans can be held accountable.
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MacOS 15.3 malware detection prevents Docker Desktop from starting(github.com)
2 points by aarestad 2y ago|0 comments
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School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules(arstechnica.com)
2 points by aarestad 2y ago|1 comments
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The Little Typer (2018)(thelittletyper.com)
179 points by aarestad 2y ago|41 comments
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When the Mismanagerial Class Destroys Great Companies(palladiummag.com)
11 points by aarestad 2y ago|0 comments
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An Age of Hyperabundance(nplusonemag.com)
4 points by aarestad 2y ago|0 comments
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by aarestad 2y ago
Best guess from Duckin' is an old military proposal called "Multiple Device Queuing System" https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/papers/82usenix-mdqs/usenix.h...
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by aarestad 2y ago
There is no strategic understanding by any party of this tool (or the Sudoku one): the human "creator" nor the AI agent. Human knowledge is not advanced at all. The LLM can't tell you _why_ it makes its choices - maybe it cou
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The Deaths of Effective Altruism(wired.com)
1 points by aarestad 2y ago|0 comments
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Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) [pdf](csuchico.edu)
3 points by aarestad 3y ago|0 comments
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Effective Obfuscation(newsletter.mollywhite.net)
6 points by aarestad 3y ago|0 comments

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