mkbhd is (not lowkey) getting cooked in the comments 🥶🌶️ -- 🏞️ Context #1 -- 2024-11-22T13:31:46.998Z
Today I learned about the term "Hyrum's Law" in software engineering.
It refers that even though implementation specifics are hidden, breadcrumbs of implementation will be expected to be consistent when there's no apparent change the interface signature.
And any implementation change can and will break a small subset of users' workflow.
And yes there's an XKCD for it.
Quoting one of Go's package author:
"I wrote the crypto/rsa comments. We take Hyrum's Law (and backwards compatibility [1]) extremely seriously in Go. Here are a couple more examples" - via HN
Rabbit Hole [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201892 [2] https://abenezer.org/blog/hyrum-law-in-golang [3] https://www.hyrumslaw.com [4] https://xkcd.com/1172/ -- 🏞️ Context #1 -- 2024-11-22T06:30:11.909Z
I like the HTTP 418 Teapot joke but I had to do this -- 🏞️ Context #1 -- 2024-11-21T12:30:33.678Z
if I already didn’t think that dude was built different, I would’ve been mind-blown 🤯 https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1859378984577876097/ -- 2024-11-21T09:07:09.668Z
"Art" as we know it "could" become replicable (non-lossy).
And this is totally subjective, but in a world where every art is replicable, the question as what is the "new art" becomes bigger.
I believe for better or worse, "we" could be grandfathered in.
- Via X -- 2024-11-19T03:32:53.144Z
"Mistakes are a portal to creativity" -- Cillian Murphy on working with Christopher Nolan and experiences in his film set. He implies that most of brilliant moments on the cinema screen are a result of capturing those lightning in the bottle moments.
I was fortunate to come across a documentation of one such example in a tweet from a Nolan specific Fan account.
A must follow account for film enthusiasts 👉🏻 https://x.com/NolanAnalyst -- 2024-11-18T01:58:58.306Z
John Carmack writes about his (visibly) weird a game engine debugging dream and he suspects that the game engine must’ve been written in C++ and the bug could’ve been a uninitialised variable without doing an RCA.
A level domain knowledge in anything that leaves you guessing causes of uncommon scenarios in most cases is desirable.
- via X -- 2024-11-17T06:30:03.034Z
It's not everyday something like this happens.
Google comeback a certainty? -- 🏞️ Context #1 -- 2024-11-15T06:30:09.130Z
Opportunities come and go. You have to catch and squeeze it dry. It's like catching lightning in a bottle. This happens rarely but you know it when it's happening. You get into the zone.
Sometimes you feel something strong is approaching but you know you're not skilled enough to properly make use of the opportunity.
The only solution is to keep improving such that the chances of missing out on sure-shot opportunities due to mere "skill issue" are drastically curtailed.
The next big thing is either approaching quickly or is already here.
my answer to the usual question of "what's next?": I don't know! Because if I did, I'd already be half-way done doing it. And then it wouldn't really be next, it'd be now.
Finding the next now is the art of wandering, and wandering well takes practice and patience. Don't rush it.
- via https://world.hey.com/dhh -- 2024-11-15T06:30:03.077Z
Two huge podcast episodes dropped this week:
— Interview with Dario Amodei by Lex Fridman
It’s about time Anthropic’s C.E.O. got into the limelight to fan the flame that is the narrative of journey to A.G.I. I had recently read his essay and hopefully he talks more about it on lex fridman.
— Interview with Gwern Branwen by Dwarkesh Patel
This one caught me by surprise, I thought he finally did a face reveal when I first saw it in my feed only to know both voice and avatar were modulated.
I’ve been a long time fan of his famous essays at gwern.net and this one is gonna be an all timer. -- 2024-11-14T17:07:54.193Z
NOTE: This feed is a sliding window. One can find a significant portion of a feed archive on my website.
All credits of this idea to Simon Willison.