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The article mentions Ascension Island, a small island in the south atlantic. There's a really great spy novel that takes places there, Ascension by Oliver Harris.

One of the cofounders is formerly from poolside (poolside.ai), where they produce open-weight coding models. One of their recent models, Laguna, got quite a bit of attention here on HN.

As someone who has resisted buying an e-reader for years because I "prefer physical books", I finally purchased a Kobo Clara BW and love it. Even though I usually only read one book at a time, having my whole library in a small form factor is really wonderful.

GPUI is written in Rust, so in this specific case the decision is already somewhat made for you.

Do you have any recommendations for books/materials that do include these topics? I've never used c++ professionally, but have been starting to learn it and would appreciate a modern reference on these items.

I was listening to the Two's Complement [0] podcast and Ben mentioned he was trialing using a git server for agent interaction. Not having to worry about accepting claude tool requests really and just pushing/pulling code really resonated with me.

[0]: https://www.twoscomplement.org/

I believe they already work for Jane Street.

If you don't have one already, here's an autocmd I use for that https://gist.github.com/shorsher/93b747bf5c4209f45ef0304aa50...

It really is brilliant. The screenwriter is Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Bourne Trilogy).

If you have a wegmans in your area, they might have it. I found some last night actually :)

Always thought about it but never followed through, thanks for reminding me to try it.

As someone who just joined a small startup using google accounts, do you have any good recommendations for desktop/email clients? Prior company used outlook.

Here's a question from someone who is recently out of school and somewhat new to Go. Is it OK to use Context for request-scoped values? i.e. passing data between middleware? I have started doing this, but is there a better alternative?

Peter Bourgon's blog post[0] about context made me think it is fine. After reading the comments here, I am not so sure. Especially since his post was roughly 4 years ago.

0: https://peter.bourgon.org/blog/2016/07/11/context.html