Seems like yesterday ... we used to rock the show

The incentive certainly seems to be in that direction, which might just be a lag that normally exists between techies and bizies.

Whether human or machine made, seeing slop in a PR makes me angry.

Welcome to The Resistance, brother!

It's been my main for about 2 years.

Yes and yes. I regularly had to fall back on Google with DDG, but very rarely with Kagi.

Another satisfied customer here 🙋‍♂️

Offline. Something I come back and check on later rather than expecting to complete while I'm interacting with the application.

Paper recycled back into a tree.

"TigerBeetle ... client does not time out and does not surface network failures to the application"

This is strikingly curious, since a timeout is basically the only practical failure detector type in distributed systems research 🤔

dtornow.substack.com/p/jepsen-and...

The American way is to experiment fast. It may or may not pay off, but lessons will surely be learned along the way. Just don't mistake it for visionary insight.

Those 2 times per day when a broken clock is right, the facts they point to aren't wrong, but only the mechanism which caused the pointing. So many seem unable to deconflate that.

I mean there's Str.split 🤷‍♂️

What's worse is the 32% of edits are incomplete, like that dangling "are" 😭

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

All facts are distract, without a model.

I'm totally over them, for so many reasons.

Now do Erlang!

Humans seem to want an external reason to commit to a decision, so that it doesn't feel arbitrary and uncertain.

Driving to NYC! Audiobook for the trip:

FB Marketplace just recommended me this 😂

www.facebook.com/share/161d5a...

I'll be happy to read the draft!

Dude, these are some top notch points!

The car and steel examples are terrifying.

Software being trapped as software is reminiscent of Godel.

I want vitamins, not painkillers.

Weird that customers find that appealing.

Mall developers are of course looking to centralize profits from an equivalent experience with a more distributed ownership model.

Wonder if an American company is behind it 🤔

But I guess that's technology in general, huh? It'll take you in whatever direction you point it to, fast.

LLMs do accelerate, but not uniformly and not always in the desired direction.

Sometimes you find out quickly, but sometimes you waste time trying to find what isn't findable.

Learning to tell the difference is the main skill in their usage.

Something I realized about Classics: as change and rate of change of things in the world accelerates, that which holds constant has that much more value in bringing mental clarity.

I'm always looking for friends who are never satisfied with their mental models of the world and are eager to seek out contradictions and consider alternative ways of seeing all things.

There's still an opportunity to come-up with some CLI tool that plays on this "old man yelling at the cloud" meme.

"The art of reasoning consists in getting hold of the subject at the right end, of seizing on the few general ideas that illuminate the whole, and of persistently organizing all subsidiary facts round them."

-- Walter Warwick Sawyer