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Eric Harper-Gauderman retweeted
Two things can be true at once, and I think the argument is because of people confusing the two.
1. AI has no creative taste and makes slop when asked
2. AI can do incredibly tedious work to make awesome things possible
For a really simple example: having AI write a novel would be terrible. AI translating a novel to a different language with human oversight is much less terrible.
Wish people would stop confusing the two
Great video
How is this website so fast?
I take a look behind McMaster-Carr and detail all the techniques they are using to make it fast.
They are doing it all — prefetching HTML, inlined CSS, fixed images, pushstate — and all on a stack with 15 year old tech.
youtube.com/watch?v=-Ln-8QM8…
Eric Harper-Gauderman retweeted
won't stop repeating this - the thing that makes products feel good to use is trying really hard, not some technology
How is this website so fast?
I take a look behind McMaster-Carr and detail all the techniques they are using to make it fast.
They are doing it all — prefetching HTML, inlined CSS, fixed images, pushstate — and all on a stack with 15 year old tech.
youtube.com/watch?v=-Ln-8QM8…
Eric Harper-Gauderman retweeted
Datasheet is live: datasheets.raspberrypi.com/r…
Hopefully we kept you all guessing on what the "3" stands for in RP235x! Cortex-M processors are clearly best-in-class, but I hope you have fun playing with my core too.
Eric Harper-Gauderman retweeted
you can defer to a group, an authority, an ideology, a narrative, an idiosyncratic personal code
but that, too, is you, making a choice
Eric Harper-Gauderman retweeted
"a + b", this one line of Python code executes thousands of lines of C behind the scenes. My latest article explains what goes on in the CPython runtime to execute this seemingly simple operation. You will learn about:
- Dynamic dispatch implementation in CPython
- What is the abstract object interface in CPython and its role in dynamic dispatch
- What is the PyTypeObject struct and its role in the CPython runtime
- How the various types in CPython implement operators and make them available to the runtime for dynamic dispatch to work.
- And, look inside the implementation of the float type to understand this more concretely.
The article includes 13 annotated code listings from CPython with all the explanations. Check it out: open.techwriters.info/codeco…
Eric Harper-Gauderman retweeted
(As a case in point: I hear that there's a problem that mosquitoes have adapted to malaria nets the way bacteria develop antibiotic resistance.
Classic example of a micro-scale positive impact becoming negative at a macro-scale.)
blogs.scientificamerican.com…
RIP but so true
...software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%…
Eric Harper-Gauderman retweeted
The simplest thing I believe about life is that everybody, without exception, flourishes when they are deeply and genuinely loved.
I also believe that everybody withers when they are projected onto (negatively *or* positively) and told the projection is love.
Eric Harper-Gauderman retweeted
That’s not what’s happening here. I’m trying to SAVE rural America from the ever expanding suburbs and exurbs!
Density the cities, which reduces sprawl, which prevents rural towns from being taken over by suburbanization. Same goes for preserving open land and farms.
Eric Harper-Gauderman retweeted
do you ever find it weird that as a culture we decided that “progress” just means advancement in technology and numbers on a spreadsheet,
and that things like moral advancement, human joy, positive relationships, fulfillment, psychological development, and purpose don’t count?
