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Coding is solved, perhaps, with unlimited token spend on a frontier model. It remains to be seen if it that is prohibitively expensive forever. At my company, we token maxed while the getting was good. But when we had to switch to Anthropic's enterprise plan, and start paying per token, the shit really hit the fan. Now we're retreating back to sane cost levels and finding that - guess what? - people power might just be more cost effective. AI of course is an immense tool to leverage, but still too expensive to create loops and let it run. This will change over time of course, but assuming it is a solved problem is nonsense. Maybe if we solve cold fusion, yes. Until then, evolution is winning the war on entropy.

Nexus by Yuval Harari is one of the most influential books I’ve read.

If stuck on a desert island with only one algorithm in my bag, I’d wish for the Fourier. At least I would die happy.

Reads like somebody prompted ChatGPT: "Write an AI action plan for the United States in the voice of Donald Trump."

<returns stilted text at 3rd grade reading level>

"Make it sound smarter".

And voila, ai.gov is born.

I also miss the web. When HTTP form posts were a thing. React and friends are desktop apps, delivered over HTTP, where the browser is the runtime. You know why we got so obsessed with JavaScript? Cause screen refreshes look janky. "Just use XMLHttpRequest to send the data ONLY over the wire! And get data ONLY as a response!" That's how we got into this mess. I'm not saying you don't need JavaScript, or there aren't reasons to use React. I'm saying there are easier solutions to jank. If good engineering is the ability to design the least complicated solution to a problem, we are far from good engineering.

This is why you should just cram everything into one line.

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I recently visited Tulum and experienced their architecture firsthand. It is breathtaking in both form and function. Beautiful in every way.

Their philosophy got me thinking -- are there lessons to be learned in software? Do we use the same workflow for everything, when perhaps a bespoke workflow could be more appropriate for some projects? Do you already do this?

:-) I figured someone would beat me to this.

ADHD

^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^

<UpdatePanel /> see here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.ui.up...

I used it 13 years ago. It was fancy.

Billionaires would still be doing just fine if they were cut in half over 60 years. The point is that right now they are freezing the economy by hiding most of it's energy in their private storehouses. Imagine what we could accomplish if those glaciers of personal wealth were melted down and distributed throughout the rest of the economy.

I see microservices as a people/team architecture. It's a way to scale up people and define boundaries around who is responsible for what, without having to standardize how everyone implements what they are responsible for. Just expose it as a REST API. Problem solved. And problems created. This isn't all bad, it just isn't a "everyone should do this and all your problems will go away" architecture. That architecture doesn't exist.

"Raise them to the level of white people". Your white fragility is quite transparent. I'm just starting to understand my own. Watch this if you really want to know. Watch and read a hundred other things to educate yourself on the oppression of blacks in America. Then you will understand what you just said. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CA6XUruBYAO

The article says it is printed with a layer height of 2.5mm. There's no way it would work at such a high height. They probably meant .25mm.

Meditation. It's a skill that can be learned quickly and teach you to notice not just your constant firehose of thoughts, but the emotions that come with them and which often steer you towards poor decisions.

It did finally show up in our PHD, but it showed up as having been resolved:

"[08:52 AM PDT] Between 7:49AM PDT and 8:27AM PDT EC2 experienced elevated API errors for instance related APIs in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 region. Existing instances were not affected. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally."

It was in US-EAST-1C.

It never showed up in my PHD (personal health dashboard) so it may have been a brief anomaly. Shared here in case others were seeing issues.

I was logging on here to call out that quote specifically. My kids are both in college now, and we're empty nesters for the first time as of a week ago.

My advice to all of you with young kids is to follow that advice. Schedule 1:1 time with each of your kids, and make it more important than your most important meeting at work.

As others have said, if you want to replace an existing part, it's probably actually better to redesign it. I use OpenSCAD to do simple 3D designs in code. It's easy to get started if you're a developer.

As for scanning, I've used Trnio on iPhone for artistic scans. e.g. I scanned my dog and printed a tiny replica. My nephew thought it was a pile of melted yogurt, but I knew what it was. :-)

I came back to Firefox a while back - maybe a year or two? - and have never regretted it. It's a fast, modern, respectful browser. Maintained by a non-profit. I do all my front-end dev work in Firefox, and also test in Chrome. Never had a problem. Come on back folks!

I love articles like this. Thanks for sharing. Ultimately math is just a language invented to describe the world. Which is what any language does. And it's a really useful language for sharing certain kinds of intelligence. I got into a discussion with my son last night about sine waves. Which don't really exist, per se, but they are a useful language construct for thinking about waves (especially sound waves as we were discussing). Shared intelligence like this is, as some have maintained, a major differentiator between humans and pre-humans. So the very fact we can argue about what is a number is part of what it is to be human.

As others have said, all Apple did was revoke a certificate that was used to intentionally circumvent the AppStore. The fact that Facebook had a slew of internal apps that depended on that cert shows their stupidity, arrogance, or both. It's not Apple's responsibility to figure out how badly it will hurt if they revoke a cert that was used to violate their terms.

For the average developer just starting out, pick Aurora Serverless (MySQL or Postgres). It's probably all you will ever need. Relational databases are still the best general purpose thing out there.

Crucial Conversations

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-...

If resolving conflict is a skill that you are weak in, this or any book that promotes growth in that area will lead to improved satisfaction on the job for both you and your colleagues.

Was jumping on to say exactly that. We are most likely somewhere close to the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" for the current iteration of AI. It's useful, just not a magic bullet to solve all problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle#/media/File:Gartner...

Down for us as well. `An error occurred with the message 'Please reduce your request rate.' when writing an object`

Healthcare needs to be funded through a non-profit community trust whose first priority is to secure the highest overall health for the population. Insurance is motivated by profit which will always seek to squeeze more money from the system as its first priority.