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> Java 27: “We’re finished, we’re tired.”

Seems about right

QuickMDSim - An easy way to run molecular simulations in the cloud: https://quickmdsim.com

This simplifies the setup for researchers who want to simulate materials science problems like battery electrode performance on GPUs with a simple usage-based pricing model instead of traditional HPC

The central point, that working with agents is some tried and true variation of existing processes, is incorrect.

Managing agents has some similarities with EM and program management but a whole lot of other dimensions like token use, avoiding drift, successful concurrency at scale, variations in prompting, testing, evaluation, etc., not to mention that the agents are hyperintelligent coders with zero common sense and a penchant for extremely literal interpretation and ultra-verbosity.

New programming languages? Doesn't seem needed anymore

Is there a list of useful science/inventions that this project has led to?

I think explicit management of the event loop and the associated potential for grievous bugs has a lot to do with it.

Construction costs have been outpacing headline inflation by a huge amount. This has accrued to costs of repairs easily exceeding 20-30% over a few years ago.

C: spaghetti or meatballs?

I applaud the aim to make lean and fast websites, but the lack of timer and drag+drop on this game makes it unusable, so I think this actually makes the reverse point -- one should not put non-functional requirements ahead of the function of a product. In other words, this was not a good compromise.

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Great interview with Boyan Slat on AO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNWiqq0UxN0

K8s is an abbreviation of kubernetes K3s is an abbreviation of k8s

Ah, that makes more sense -- it might be a good idea to integrate with the upstream library as a submodule rather than lifting the actual .cpp/.h files into the bindings repo. That way people know the upstream C++ code is from a much more active project.

Despite my snarky comments, thank you for contributing to the python ecosystem, this does seem like a cool project for high performance URL parsing!

This is the commit history: https://github.com/TkTech/can_ada/commits/main/

I guess you are right that there are 2 commits from a different dev, so it is technically not a solo project. I still wouldn't ever use this in production code.

It seems unlikely that this C++ library written by a solo dev is somehow more secure than the Python standard library would be for such a security-sensitive task.

Hard to imagine the tradeoff of using a third party binary library developed this year vs just using urllib.parse being worth it. Is this solving a real problem?

Read gödel, escher, bach by Douglas Hofstaedter

I'm really curious what a tech-focused car manufacturing company like Tesla would use for something like this.

This doesnt take into account capacity factors. A "800MW" solar plant would be expected to actually product 10-25% of that after day/night and seasons are taken into account. Nuclear plants are more of a 90+% capacity factor.

Nope very common all over the world

Agreed. I read your original post during a time where I was starting up a solo company and it's great to see you've eventually seen success after all these years! The points you make about which problems seem interesting as an engineer and which ones lead to actual success resonate a lot. Congrats on TinyPilot!

This is specifically about plastic recycling. Metal, glass, organic waste recycling are very much economical and good for the environment.

Solar isn't a useful source of energy for heating in California, since the demand is almost entirely during winter mornings/evenings where the sun is down.

Experimental methods and data analysis are usually scrutinized in peer review, whereas wild, unsubstantiated economic claims such as the above are not. I think we need a higher bar for making claims like the above.

Sticking points for me were, massive chlorine gas production (extremely toxic...) and requiring extremely high purity iron ore, with costs to purify it hand waved away.

Plastic is about the best carbon sink you could imagine, locks up those Cs for hundreds of years, unless it gets combusted.

One of the worst things to ever say: "I love your accent!"

The trick is to go to bed earlier. This doesn't seem to actually solve any problems

You need a nice wood tree in the tank, can increase your grass area a lot

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."