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Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

calpaterson.com·2w·Lobsters, Hacker News, Hacker News

"Disregard that!" attacks

calpaterson.com·5w·Lobsters, Hacker News

Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business

calpaterson.com·74w·Hacker News, Hacker News

Is Tesla really more valuable than Toyota?

calpaterson.com·111w

S3 is files, but not a filesystem

calpaterson.com·112w

Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools

csvbase.com·172w

There aren't that many uses for blockchains

calpaterson.com·194w

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

calpaterson.com·59w·Lobsters, Hacker News, Hacker News, Hacker News, r/programming

It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription

calpaterson.com·247w

No general method to detect fraud

calpaterson.com·255w

We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis

calpaterson.com·261w

Staying out of TTL hell (2021)

calpaterson.com·59w·Hacker News

Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%

calpaterson.com·292w

Async Python is not faster

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The argument against clearing the database between tests

calpaterson.com·314w

The troublesome "Active Record" pattern

calpaterson.com·320w

The Lycurgus cup

calpaterson.com·339w

Not wasting time with version control

calpaterson.com·577w

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