thatoneengineer

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The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems(yaschamounk.substack.com)
167 points by thatoneengineer 10mo ago|212 comments
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by thatoneengineer 10mo ago
Isn't this just a normal step in self-driving testing? Weird that Gizmodo is being so negative about it.
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Advent Hunt 2025(2025.adventhunt.com)
1 points by thatoneengineer 10mo ago|0 comments
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by thatoneengineer 10mo ago
Aside from just being immensely satisfying, these patterns of defensive programming may be a big part of how we get to quality GAI-written code at scale. Clippy (and the Rust compiler proper) can provide so much of the concrete iterative fe
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by thatoneengineer 10mo ago
Nah, it reads like the normal logic behind the consulting model for open source monetization, except that Bun was able to make it work with just one customer. Good for them, though it comes with some risks, especially when structured as an
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by thatoneengineer 11mo ago
The unwrap: not great, but understandable. Better to silently run with a partial config while paging oncall on some other channel, but that's a lot of engineering for a case that apparently is supposed to be "can't happen&quo
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by thatoneengineer 11mo ago
I agree there's no way to soft-error this, though "truncate and raise an alert" is arguably the better pattern.
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by thatoneengineer 11mo ago
"brooms"
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by thatoneengineer 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by thatoneengineer 11mo ago
The nice thing about the data center water usage panic is that whenever someone appeals to it, I immediately know that either they haven't done their homework or they're arguing in bad faith.