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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
They’re completely different characters and their qualities are completely different. You can easily admire tragic figures, as well. As whole essay could be written about how this comparison misunderstands The Great Gatsby.
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
Unironically dril's tweets[1]. Part of the problem of our time is that shared culture has significantly receded. There's little capacity to maintain "classics" as we understand them today. Take any massive artistic outpu
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
This article ends up seeming like an ad for some dubious derivations of the original novel. - "Take, for instance, Michael Farris Smith's new novel, Nick. The title refers, of course, to Nick Carraway, the narrator of Gatsby, who
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
Writing that is aimed at the truth should be written to best convey it. But truth is not the only aim of writing, and it's most often not the primary aim. Truth is also not the aim of these: > Suits for interviews. Combed hair for d
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
> The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out—because the more people take shortcuts, the less quality will remain for readers to floc
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
You and me both, IPv6.
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
Is there a way to make data cleaning contributions?
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
Cool dataset. I did the same thing a few days ago[1] but somehow had the top 3 getting ~1000 more points than this data. There's some data issues in the full dataset, expectedly. My blog got around 200 points this year, which should be
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
I meant it as an order-of-magnitude notation, so means more like 10,000-90,000. Eg. calling the function 3,000 times is OK, but 30,000 is too much. Odd notation, yes, but I've picked it up somewhere along the way.
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Capital in the 22nd Century(philiptrammell.substack.com)
2 points by thundergolfer 9mo ago|0 comments
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
A lot of people here are commenting that if you have to care about specific latency numbers in Python you should just use another language. I disagree. A lot of important and large codebases were grown and maintained in Python (Instagram, D
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
I dunno, a few hundred folks?
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
1. Elon is not funny. He’s deeply unfunny. 2. “Tend to” is the key bit you’re missing. It “tends to” be true that titans speak in those registers, even if it is true that Elon, a titan, a does not.
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
This is the script which calculates the ranking, using Algolia's HN API: https://gist.github.com/thundergolfer/55a0e221d0babcfc1db9bc...
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Top personal blogs on Hacker News in 2025, by points(twitter.com)
7 points by thundergolfer 10mo ago|2 comments
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
After his first #1 HN post on Nov 11, 2024, Sean Goedecke went on a ridiculous posting run in 2025. Over 130 published and 2nd only to Simon Willison. 1. http://simonwillison.net — 21,015 points 2. http://seangoedecke
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
The crux is in the "never have been possible" bit. In complex systems, it is impossible to eliminate these potential states with functional programming or any other technique, unsafe states are always potentialities that must be a
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
All the line items are decent things, worth doing, but the claim about how much following the line items would improve reliability is super exaggerated. > [Most production incidents] are due to the code entering a state that should never
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
This optimization hits serverless Python the worst. At Modal we ensure users of uv are setting UV_COMPILE_BYTECODE to avoid the cold start penalty. For large projects .pyc compilation can take hundreds of milliseconds.
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
McLuhan is anything but a cynic. It sounds like you haven’t read him.
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
> There's really nothing inherently wrong about the format. "Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the 'content' of
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
The crux of the post is this: > A closer look reveals that by vastly increasing the market for the published word, paperbacks also vastly increased the opportunities to make a living writing serious books We can grant that this is true a
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
- https://modal.com/blog/vprox - https://modal.com/blog/host-overhead-inference-efficiency - https://modal.com/blog/resource-solver
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Larval stage support engineering: great at what doesn't scale(thundergolfer.com)
4 points by thundergolfer 10mo ago|0 comments
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
My old company Canva, was pretty good about this and I'm bringing that to the culture at my current place. Krazam has excellently parodied this unserious naming indulgence of programmers[1]. "See, Bingo knows everyone's name-
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
Pretty glad the 9 foot long Arthopleura centipede went extinct 300 million years ago. No one wants to deal with that thing.
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
Too much has been written about em-dashes and LLMs, but I'd highly recommend If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool from Scott Smitelli if you haven't read it. It's a brilliant skewering of the 'em dash me
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
A measured, comprehensive, and sensible take. Not surprising from Bryan. This was a nice line: > it’s just embarrassing — it’s as if the writer is walking around with their intellectual fly open. I think Oxide didn't include this i
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by thundergolfer 10mo ago
Did you read the full post? The author addressed these points at the end. They’re not naive.
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Airbus issues major A320 recall due to software/radiation problem(reuters.com)
13 points by thundergolfer 11mo ago|1 comments

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