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KdK part 2: a medical mystery from postwar Germany(nealstephenson.substack.com)
2 points by philbo 10mo ago|0 comments
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KdK (Kinetik der Kontinua) part 1: Introduction(nealstephenson.substack.com)
1 points by philbo 10mo ago|0 comments
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The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets(sciencefocus.com)
84 points by philbo 10mo ago|107 comments
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by philbo 11mo ago
https://status.posthog.com/history
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by philbo 1y ago
A nice thing about the SAX approach is it lets you layer other APIs on top too. I did something like that in BFJ: https://www.npmjs.com/package/bfj
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by philbo 1y ago
It sounds like there’s another failure here, which you could have documented. If the test team didn’t understand what they were meant to test, that’s a failure of communication. Simply saying “they were wrong” is not sufficient exploration
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by philbo 1y ago
I think this and other recent posts here hugely overcomplicate matters. I notice none of them provides an A/B test for each item of complexity they introduce, there's just a handwavy "this has proved to work over time".
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by philbo 1y ago
Does he though? Honestly I haven't seen it. I've been through the last ~10 or ~15 posts on his Medium this evening, to check. Sentence-by-sentence I don't see anything that goes beyond "what if". Can you share some
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by philbo 1y ago
Every confirmation is a data point.
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by philbo 1y ago
I think 3I/Atlas is a comet. But I also think the question "what if it wasn't" is useful to consider. I'd label anyone unwilling to discuss that topic a crank, not the other way round.
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by philbo 1y ago
Not much, but just confirmation that it's in the expected part of the sky is quite exciting. There's a probable capture of it from Perseverance here (it's just a tiny faint smudge): https://bsky.app/profile&#x
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by philbo 1y ago
I don't disagree with any of that. But as long as there are companies willing to pay me to write code the old-fashioned way, I'll keep doing it.
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by philbo 1y ago
As one of the curious minority who keeps trying agentic coding but not liking it, I've been looking for explanations why my experience differs from the mainstream. I think it might lie in this nugget: > I believe with Claude C
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by philbo 1y ago
https://github.com/block/goose
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by philbo 1y ago
No, I really mean more code. It's an unpopular opinion I know, but I think debt scales linearly with code, mainly because I also think bugs scale linearly with code. I recognise that readability and maintainability are important, but i
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by philbo 1y ago
I have an extremist take on this: All source code is technical debt. If you increase the amount of code, you increase the amount of debt. It's impossible to reduce debt with more code. The only way to reduce debt is by reducing code. (
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Redis Historical Versions from 2009(github.com)
1 points by philbo 1y ago|0 comments
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Unintended double encryption crippled our search engine performance(algolia.com)
17 points by philbo 1y ago|2 comments
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by philbo 1y ago
Minor nit, but you've spelt Stephen Hawking's name wrong in the clackset. It's "Stephen", not "Steven".
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by philbo 1y ago
> Surely you don't find writing boilerplate fun though? Of course. So if I'm faced with some boilerplate, I try to refactor it away so it's less boilerplatey. Perhaps I'm lucky but mostly this seems to work, I don&#x2
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Ask HN: Is anyone still programming the old-fashioned way (without LLMs)?
38 points by philbo 1y ago|44 comments
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Cities around the world are sinking at "worrying speed"(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by philbo 1y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 1y ago
Have you had a pen test yet?
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by philbo 2y ago
Alternatively "invalid cart" could itself become an event.
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by philbo 2y ago
The clickable link is in the right margin just underneath the (first) QR code image: https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2024/update-on-software-e...
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Tidy First? A Daily Exercise in Empirical Design • Kent Beck • Goto 2024 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by philbo 2y ago|0 comments
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JWST Validates HST Distance Measurements(iopscience.iop.org)
2 points by philbo 2y ago|0 comments
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Concurrency diagrams(philbooth.me)
2 points by philbo 2y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 2y ago
We migrated to Cloud Run at work last year and there were some gotchas that other people might want to be aware of: 1. Long running TCP connections. By default, Cloud Run terminates inbound TCP connections after 5 minutes. If you're do
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Apple accused of trapping and ripping off 40M iCloud customers(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by philbo 2y ago|0 comments

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