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atheists like Simony are almost as good as believers

at the end of the desert is judgment

not now, forces deep underground

hoping not to spoil the book for anyone who hasn't read it, but a line that has stayed with me:

'you don't know what they mean / they know what they mean'

small gods is about how history could go either way + about developing critical thinking skills through reading

agree that it's one of the best

ping frames?

plus in my experience some h2 features behave oddly with load balancers

I don't understand this super well, but could not get keepalives to cross the LB boundary w/ GCP

> The AI also considers each chip as a single artifact, rather than a collection of existing elements that need to be combined. This means that established chip design templates, the ones that no one understands but probably hide inefficiencies, are cast aside.

there should be a word for this process of making components efficiently work together, like 'optimization' for example

'closed loop' concept in here is important

the point that a unit of code is a thing that is maintained, rather than a thing that is generated once, is where codegen has always lost me

(both AI codegen and ruby-on-rails boilerplate generators)

iterative improvement, including factoring useful things out to standard libraries, is where it's at

> The ads lead users to a page on “thrivewithcuriosity.com,” where after confirming they are “40+” years old, they are shown a meandering and very explicit 40-minute long presentation about the miracle drug that is getting men including celebrities, strippers, and adult performers “rock hard.”

normalize the 40+ age check

> Notably, the ingredients do not include “midnight beetle powder,” which the long video pitching Prolong Power explains is the secret ingredient that gave the church bats their magnificent erections.

omg yes this

saw one of deepfake schwarzenegger hocking fake viagra, astounding

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most 2025 headline I have yet to see

useful for listening to someone through earbuds as well -- moving back the ear creates an air gap

yes who would imagine that the homegrown rpc of the internet and browser company would work on the internet and in a browser

very fair critique

unless you want to be locked into a cursed ecosystem where you spend all your time reimplementing libraries that have existed for decades in rest land, fighting code generators that produce hideous classes that will randomly break compatibility, and debugging random edge-casey things in your hosting stack bc nobody truly supports h2, steer clear of grpc

'rest' isn't anything (complementary)

yes exactly -- like a free sample of a snack food is an ad but not all snack foods are ads

okay but it is water instead of mead? would prefer mead

spectrum here from 'guest actor promoting tie-in show', to unrelated product placement, to unskippable ads at the beginning of prime shows, to 'watch next episode' button at the end of an episode

kind of an interesting question -- are product nudges ads? like when there's a button to use a paid feature which pops up on top of a different button, is it an ad? it's not third party.

dustin hoffman's best horror movie took place in this habitat

> AdminController extends UserController extends GuestController extends BaseController

> Cognitive load in familiar projects -- If you've internalized the mental models of the project into your long-term memory, you won't experience a high cognitive load.

^ imo using third-party libraries checks both of these boxes because 1) a fresh-to-project developer with general experience may already know the 3rd party lib, and 2) third party libraries compete in the ecosystem and the easiest ones win

a decision tree is just a csv trapped in amber. share the actual data

is this pronounced mic like 'mike' or 'emic' like 'epidemic'

everyone is 'cattle not pets' except the farm vet who is shoulder-deep in a cow

(my experience with managed kubernetes)

I love finance because they take what is basically logs and name it the LMAX disruptor and rather than defining it, link to a martin fowler blogpost which seems to have a unique domain name for the post

and all the technical sophistication is getting around the fact that java was a piece of garbage in like 2008

unwillingness to use parens

scheme is the true legalese

what about the kids who read HN

either we hugged it to death or the future doesn't work in firefox