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The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Organizations Are Flying Blind
The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Organizations Are Flying Blind
This post works through the financial logic of software teams, from what a team of eight engineers actually costs per month to what it needs to generate to be economically viable. It also examines why most teams have no visibil...
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LESSWRONG
TLDR: A complete guide to juggling, from zero to siteswap notation, by someone who juggles in nightclubs.
I take my juggling balls with me wherever I go. Train stations. Airports. Nightclubs. You name a place I've been, and there's a decent chance I've juggled there. When I'm bored, I just whip out ...
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Your File System Is Already a Graph Database
Your File System Is Already a Graph Database
Karpathy recently posted about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases — collecting raw sources into a directory, having an LLM “compile” them into a wiki of interlinked markdown files, and viewing the whole thing in Obsidian. He followed it up with ...
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Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left
Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left
AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap.
A landing page can be generated in minutes. A product memo can appear in a single prompt. A pitch deck can look polished before anyone has done the hard work of deciding what the compan...
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Running Google Gemma 4 Locally With LM Studio’s New Headless CLI & Claude Code
Running Google Gemma 4 Locally With LM Studio’s New Headless CLI & Claude Code
LM Studio 0.4.0 introduced llmster and the lms CLI. Here is how I set up Gemma 4 26B for local inference on macOS that can be used with Claude Code.
Why run models locally?
Cloud AI APIs are great until they are not. Rate...
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
Imagine you're a new assistant professor at a research university. You just got the job, you just got a small pot of startup funding, and you just hired your first two PhD students: Alice and Bob. You're in astrophysics. This is the beginning of everythin...
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Shooting Down Ideas Is Not a Skill — Scott Lawson
Shooting Down Ideas Is Not a Skill
Someone proposes an idea in a meeting. It's new, it's different, and it would take effort. Before they've finished explaining it, three people have already thought of reasons it won't work.
"I haven't heard any customers request this." "We can't use Python for that...
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From data to Viz | Find the graphic you need
Stacked Area
A stacked version of the area chart to compare several groups.
About
A stacked area chart is the extension of a basic area chart which displays the evolution of the value of several groups on the same graphic. The values of each group are displayed on top of each other, what allows to c...
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Modern SQLite: Features You Didn’t Know It Had
Modern SQLite: Features You Didn’t Know It Had
Working with JSON data
SQLite ships with a JSON extension that lets you store and query JSON documents directly in tables. You can keep your schema flexible while still using SQL to slice and dice structured data.
Example: extracting fields from a JSON ...
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How to turn anything into a router
How to turn anything into a router
I don’t like to cover “current events” very much, but the American government just revealed a truly bewildering policy effectively banning import of new consumer router models. This is ridiculous for many reasons, but if this does indeed come to pass it may be bene...
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I Traced My Traffic Through a Home Tailscale Exit Node
I set up Tailscale years ago but only used it for “reach my own devices” use cases. This week I finally set up a proper home exit node: a tiny dedicated LXC on my Proxmox box (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, basically just Tailscale).
To verify it worked, I pinged my home servers and they worked. But I wanted t...
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Your bridge to wealth is being pulled up
I want to make three claims: two about the world we live in and one about the future ahead of us.
The first is mathematical Most of the traits you were born with - intelligence, conscientiousness, height, bone density, grip strength, resting heart rate - follow a bell curve. They are Gaussian: symme...
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Missile Defense is NP-Complete | An Optimization Odyssey
Missile Defense is NP-Complete
The latest conflict in the Middle East has brought missile defense back into the spotlight. There’s a lot of discussion regarding interceptor stockpiles, missile stockpiles, and cost. As it turns out, this is a resource allocation problem. The problem is NP-complete, b...
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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
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In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions.
Keep scrolling. Using a data set about homes, we will create a machine learni...
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https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
C l a u d e ’ s C y c l e s
D o n K n u t h , S t a n fo r d C o m p u t e r S c ie n c e D e p a r t m e n t
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S h o c k ! S h o c k ! I le a r n e d y e s t e r d a y t h a t a n o p e n p r o b le m I ’d b e e n w o r k in g o n f...
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Particle Accelerators Have a New Target: Cancer
The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment
FLASH therapy uses a precise burst of ultrahigh-power radiation to kill tumors and spare healthy tissue
Inside a cavernous hall at the Swiss-French border, the air hums with high voltage and possibility. From his perch on the wraparound observation ...
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My Homelab Setup
For the longest time, I’ve procrastinated on finding a good backup and storage solution for my Fujifilm RAW files. My solution up until recently involved manually copying my photos across two external SSD drives. This was quite a hassle and I hadn’t yet figured out a good off-site backup strategy.
A...
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Programming peaked
Programming peaked
by Samir Talwar
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 at 09:00 CET
I remember my first job vividly.
It helps, of course, that I still consider many of the people I worked with friends, and I know some of them even still read this blog. (Hi!)
I also think it might have been the beginning of th...
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We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs
Discussed on Hacker News, lobste.rs and r/programming
It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit ...
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The Inference Economy
The Inference Economy
What data center build outs tell us about intelligence costs
Trillion dollar data center buildouts are all the rage. Discussions about powering these data centers, water use, and the wisdom of extremely scaled capex are everywhere — CNBC, SemiAnalysis, and around the dinner tab...
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