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We have a service at work which categorizes internal documents and logs, then triggers some automation depending on the category. It processes maybe 100 per day. Previously we only used some combination of metadata, regex, and NLP to categorize. Now a call to a LLM is part of that service. We save a lot of manual time where we used to have to resolve unknown documents. The LLM can help fill out missing data, too. It's all stored as annotations so it's clear who/what edited the data.

Granted this is a pretty simple task and a low stakes scenario, but I don't think we should limit ourselves to assuming AI will always only be dev tooling.

Yeah this only worked with Firefox on my phone. All other browsers generated a screechy noise instead.

I used Btrfs for a few years but switched away a couple years ago. I also had one or two incidents with Btrfs where some weirdness happened, but I was able to recover everything in the end. Overall I liked the flexibility of Btrfs, but mostly I found it too slow.

I use ZFS on Arch Linux and overall have had no problems with it so far. There's more customization and methods to optimize performance. My one suggestion is to do a lot of research and testing with ZFS. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's been worth the switch for me.

Kudos for one of the most relatable descriptions of C++ I've read.

I did a couple years writing C/C++ professionally, and I hope to not go back to that. Too many hours debugging other people's code, suffering vague integration issues, and just trying to get the build system spaghetti to run.

I have fond memories of reading this book as a teenager. I was watching an introduction to computer science course online. I think maybe from Yale or MIT, and the professor recommended Hacker's Delight. It was a beginner class teaching C, and I mostly only had experience with BASIC.

Back then I barely understood binary, and pointers completely confused me. I remember most of the book feeling like a collection of magic tricks. Sometimes I pull it out to rekindle that sense of wonder.

Yes unfortunately. There are TikTok "challenges" go slap your teacher for example. Similar to the "challenges" where you should eat a spoon of cinnamon, eat a Tide pod, etc. There's an air of do this and film it for clout. Most kids roll their eyes as well of course, but there are people who follow along.

I like short articles in general, but this one is short and shallow, plus subjective without explanation as you mentioned.

I spent too much time trying to guess at the author's reasons. Why are Python and JavaScript not extensible but R is?

I agree with this method. In high school I tracked what I did every hour for 3 months. Probably over the top, but seeing the hours add up of watching TV--or just killing time--was what I needed. All these years later that exercise stays with me.

The trick for me was to only be able to see one day at a time until the end of the month. I would record a day and think "I'll do better tomorrow." Only to realize that today is always yesterday's tomorrow.

When I was working at Ford a few years ago, many Ford engineers worked very closely with Argo engineers. Sharing code or data was common, they used our internal tools, and sometimes we would go in-person to troubleshoot with them. A lot of their employees had come from Ford, and so they knew who to call and even already had our numbers.

All that to say I'm not surprised to see they hired back many of those people. Ford is a large company and Argo felt just like any other team within the company at times.

I've been using Lisp for hobby projects for a few years. Yes the syntax takes some time, but

> I feel like if I used it, it would atrophy my skills in other more traditional languages.

was not the case for me at all. If you go into a text editor and remove all the parentheses, I find that's how Lisp programmers tend to see Lisp, (function argument) isn't that far from function(argument).

Learning Lisp has only improved my skills as a programmer, after getting ideas like code as data, macros, let over lambda, CLOS and the metaobject protocol. It's a simple model that to me shows how other languages have picked an abstraction and stuck with it, but Lisp has all the tools to implement those abstractions and more.

More mainstream languages are great at focusing the developer, and that makes them very practical. It is amusing though to watch many of the "new features" in languages come out even though Lisp had them years ago.

I'm also interested in something like this. I've been considering writing one because I already start most projects with djangobuilder.io, which generates a project, models, and test skeleton. I've found that very useful when I have a lot of models.

I can second this one. Not necessarily your personal time but at least once your assigned work is on track or completed. Not rare to hear people say "this past weekend I was playing around..." though.

If you have a good idea for a feature, product, or a new system to improve your team, it's unlikely there will be time in the schedule for it. In my experience you spend your extra time playing around, show it off, and wait for a decision maker to take interest.

Like the original comment said, I've personally never seen someone be assigned time to innovate from scratch. Once a POC already exists folks jump on the bandwagon though.