Human judgement is a thing.
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It is entirely feasible that the same amount of potential energy, delivered either in small, successive amounts, but spaced out, proves to be tolerable, while a single large amount would be fatal.
Even though I agree with the premise of the essay, this is absurdly false today. Computers are really good at this type of thing now, scarily so.
I dug into what they call a "resiliency checklist", which is what looks to be a set of questions that have qualitative answers which are subjective at best. This information looks like it is fed into the CRRI, the data set that substantiates the city-wide scores used to power this report.
I am very skeptical that these 2 things happened:
- They captured a representative set of key assets that go into making a "city"
- The answers they received are calibrated or are meaningful enough to make these large conclusionsI have enjoyed working with htmx very much.
I'm still skeptical of htmx being the foundation for a 100-year web service, but I think this is a really worthwhile goal. I'll add that aside from static HTML, I don't have a better option.
First, when you list something like a financial figure, you must also include the relevant time period. E.g. you say 16.0B in taxes collected by Canada from American exporters. But you don't list the time period.
Second, you say 313 are taxed today. What is this in reference to? Goods? People? Companies? Percentage?
The labels need some serious love.
Where I have a problem with the positioning of their GitHub profile is, he's the CTO of GitHub, arguably the defacto standard for open-source version control systems. His GitHub profile is linked to as the author for the post, and his GitHub profile simply tells me: "this guy doesn't code."
I don't care if this guy doesn't work on GitHub itself, I hardly would expect that, but IMO, any CTO of a company like GitHub should eat, breathe, and sleep code. He might, but his profile, which is being published as if it means anything, tells me he doesn't.
Here's me: https://github.com/ryanisnan
In other words, I think his private contributions should still manifest on the contribution graph. And for being the CTO of an organization like GitHub, with no open-source contributions... Not a great look.
It shows zero contributions in the past year, on this account. This is a huge, huge red flag.
Let's look at your fizzbuzz example. Unfortunately, if you wanted to have the agent implement fizzbuzz for you, it looks like, in your example, you would have to already know how to effectively write fizzbuzz. Specifically, you call out the use of the modulo.
In your prompt, for the traditional agentic development path, you already declared the intent. There is some imperative language in there, sure, "Create a function that ...", but also there is the declarative state, that doesn't require knowledge of specific programming syntax or semantics.
What I've relied on is a more formal location/syntax for acceptance criteria are in code. These are then used to generate tests, and implementations. It isn't perfect, and more investment is needed, but it starts getting at the root of the problem.
Governments need to catch criminals, but they shouldn’t do it at everyone else’s expense.
I'm also so tired of people groaning about AI writing, yes, it's annoying, but attack the message, not the messenger.
It might be the thing you use to power this system, but the benefits of Heroku were precisely that it didn't need you to think about the guts of a system like Kubernetes.
The magic was in the incredibly concise API, and the fact that it "just worked".
I launched in April, and I've been steadily updating it as time allows. Really happy with how far it's come. Here are the notable privacy-by-design features I've led with:
- Bring-your-own-storage
- End-to-end encrypted media (config stored encrypted in the secure enclave, cached data gets stored encrypted -- one exception is videos, which require on-disk passing to the native video player -- data gets stored on your cloud provider's system encrypted)
- Multi-cloud replication (and promotion from a replica to a new primary)
- Proximity-based no-internet local file sharing using ephemeral keys, with man-in-the-middle protection
- All the other typical non-shady features of a good vault (metadata removal, PIN auto-lock, privacy blur on app-switching)
- Zero telemetry, tracking, etc. There in fact no servers at all in the loop.
Nice work.
How exactly is it peer-to-peer if it's essentially an offline, transfer via hardware?