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🚨: NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.
AI is bad but the whole "it was artisanal" angle is a full-faced romanticisation and fails to capture the optimising gears of capitalism that have been active for ever.
programming had already become 'coding at the code factory' back in like, the 70s. This is just that but more.
The clearest images NASA has taken of Jupiter's moon ‘Io’ (1999)
[via/ NASA]
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The posted images are not authentic 1999 NASA photos of Io. Real Galileo global color views from July 1999 show pastel surfaces at ~1.3 km/pixel; highest-resolution images are small close-ups of limited areas.
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"C with destructors would solve 90% of the memory problems with that language"
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our butt was making so much poop we had to invent a new kind of toilet
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.
In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.
Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…































