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Gentle reminder for Australian folks here, you can get a bowel screening test kit for free, if you're between 45 - 74 years of age. https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/national-bowel-cancer-scr...
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Putting an emdash in a comment about how human you are is a bold move!
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I presume the onus will now be on the AI scrapers to decide whether that AI-slop site is worth paying for. How they will figure this out will be interesting to see.
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The Australian passport curl was so disappointing. I have a decade-old passport from my third-world country of origin, and that was in far better shape than my new Australian passport that was freshly delivered.
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The way Google implemented leap seconds wasn't by sticking a 23:59:60 second at the end of 31st Dec. The way they did it was more interesting. What they did instead was to "smear" it across the day, by adding 1 / 86400 s
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The lesson I took from this is that it is useful and important to dig into how any piece of data was sourced.
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What other forms of "local" are there? Don't mean to be snarky, apologies if it comes across like that. I'm genuinely curious
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The difference between o3 and o4-mini is so substantial I think this is the reason why people can't agree on how capable LLMs are nowadays.
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I like the faith you have that people weren't making null-pointer mistakes before LLMs.
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I have no idea what's going on with ChatGPT, but I can say it's pretty common for multilingual people to be thinking about things in a different language from what they are currently speaking.
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I think there's ample evidence that humans have some incredible things, that most animals haven't
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Also, a lot of programs autocorrect dashes to em-dashes.
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I've never really thought about how all the common ways we serialise trees in text (JSON, s-expressions, even things like tables of content, etc), serialise them depth-first. I suppose it's because doing it breadth-first means you
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I wonder sometimes, if we were living in a world that never had timezones, and instead everyone standardised on UTC, what would the case be for introducing timezones?
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Above 0C you have liquid water, below 0C you have ice I find this considerably more useful than the Fahrenheit equivalent.
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The TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data type doesn't include the time zone, which is hilarious to me.
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Posting "Drinks are on me!" on Slack This is the penalty for being lax with security
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The world where JavaScript has a robust standard library is one where there is only one browser vendor who gets to call all the shots regarding what the web looks like. That is not a better world.
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One of the first websites I ever built was a Lorem Ipsum-style placeholder text generator that uses quotes from the /r/nocontext subreddit
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I moved countries just so I can experience 20C weather instead of 30C weather. It is very noticeable haha
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Exceptions are usually used because the syntax for "performing" exceptions (throw) vs handling exceptions (try-catch) is familiar to most programmers, and is basically the same as the syntax for "performing" an effect vs
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The way dependency injection is implemented in mainstream languages usually involves using metaprogramming to work around the language, not with the language. It's not uncommon to get errors in dependency-injected code that would be im
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When they talked about how the first draft had the correct bird from the correct place making the correct sound, but what made it into production was the wrong bird from the wrong place making the wrong sound, I felt that in my software eng
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You thought this was a story about birds. It's really a story about the film-making process I really enjoyed reading this.
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I can sympathise with wanting to stay on a single master architecture as long as possible. Sharding is a major step change in terms of maintenance burden.
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I think "executive dysfunction" refers to a psychological thing, not a "bosses are bad" thing
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Am I the only one who read samaltman's comment as obvious sarcasm?
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The big question is, can we ever know if the laws of the universe are governed by those undefinable ("uncomputable") numbers? Can I move an object X meters away from me, where X is an uncomputable number? Whether the answer is yes
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Windows has been the backbone of desktop computing for decades, and it certainly isn't free. People relying on open-source software seems to be a relatively new phenomenon, starting in the early-2000s. For what it's worth, I absol

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