10/ You can solve an enormous number of technical problems by taking a walk

7/ Expertise is primarily a space-time tradeoff. For example, knowing the times table replaces doing mental math with a mental-lookup. A lot of being good at something is not having to think about it, including software

The Capability-Tractability Tradeoff The more you can say, the less you can say about what you can say.

1/ The more expressive a system is, the fewer guarantees you have about its limits. I call it the "capability/tractability" tradeoff but have been searching for a better name.

Also known as the "principle of least power", which I disprefer for reasons

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5/ In general, work that shortens feedback loops is the most valuable "metaproject" work that can be done on a project. Doesn't matter what feedback loop: testing, compiling, deploying, getting customer feedback, analyzing data, whatever

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"But software is mostly a thing people use, and getting people to use things is not a building problem. It never was."

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This is such a better take on NY v Chicago pizza!

Growing up in Wisconsin I never thought of "tavern" pizza as special. Then I moved to Denver for a few years and kept seeing "Milwaukee style pizza" on menus. Took me a year before I realized what they meant.

The Fifth Element - One Little Cherry YouTube video by Freddy's Cine It

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Bn... has been on my mind a lot the past few years

notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edit...

The Jetsons lied to us

I've had numerous cases where I've tried to push people to use iCalendar instead of datetime for events and I'm always met with "why would I need that?" 😞

OpenAI to acquire Astral Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

If "AI is so good that instead of using other people's tools you'll just build your own!" then why is OpenAI buying tools? I thought their AI was so good they could just build their own versions?
openai.com/index/openai...

lmao rip uv

This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going. - Bolts Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read ...

NEW: When a Wisconsin mayor ended his city's contract with Flock (the AI surveillance company), he was stunned to see Flock refused to remove cameras.

So he covered them with plastic bags.

Now local activists are taking their fight to Madison & the Dane County sheriff, wanting more cameras gone.

Not sure about your case but I think I recall some terminals being optimized around lines. So you might be able to diff lines and only re-render lines that have changed

Todays late night PR is titled "Maybe the nil is impossible languages got it right"

Haskell. Haskell was right

So happy to be moving off Xbox to a Steam Machine

I’m looking to talk to gamers who have been diagnosed with dementia as part of a story I’m working on. If you are that person or know someone who might be willing to talk, please hit me up! Thanks.

I wish I could get rid of rounded corners on phones and apps. Why does my stuff need to look like a Fischer-Price kids toy?

Maddie D. Reese's Website I approach every problem like it's a puzzle to solve - and I'm good at puzzles!

and you stole it from maddiedreese.com who stole it from ...... ❤️

It's fine when you have add/2, you know those are numbers. It's kinda awful when you have start_some_chain_of_events/5. What are those 5 args? No clue!

Note to myself:

Life is too short to waste with null pointer exceptions, undefined is not a function, ...

Just use Elm for the frontend.

noti-noti.com/post/0

You're worth $6 million in Illinois. Your estate tax bill? $456,071. Most people I talk to have no idea Illinois has an estate tax. Or that it kicks in at $4 million. Not $15 million like the federal exemption. $4 million.

Every rich person's nightmare is that they will somehow have to give something back to society

For the first few paragraphs I kept picturing this being written in bsky.app/profile/aaro...

I keep debating if I should remove bullet points from my writing. I've loved using them for years because the layout helps me read. But then I see them associated with AI slop and I'm unsure if I should sacrifice layout for being associated with slop.

Don’t Feed The Stray - PlayFly Play this creation on PlayFly

Anyone want to try your hand at writing a One Page Horror Story with a simple tool I’m helping create?

Here’s an example:

www.playfly.games/ugc/cb293558...

HTML might be getting a new type of tag, which… hasn't happened this millennium. Here's the new syntax, and how it works:

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

That's not even "tim", it's T I and some made up letter 😂