I know it sounds crazy, but it’s probably the same mechanism that makes us wake up with solutions in the morning or, when you try to remember a name, it pops in your head once you’ve given up trying... Maybe we need a word for that, not mindful, not mindless : mind-half-full or some like that 😉

I do it the other way round, when the bug cannot be found and also cannot really be anywhere but in plain sight, I let the mind think about whatever else, looking at the code mindlessly, and the obvious finally becomes visible.

And then you discover these go to 11

I had a vague memory there was a word for that, and it turns out to be very fitting : a gross. 😂

There is actually a quote about precisely that, from « the good, the bad, the ugly ».

It goes: « When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk. »

I have had this feeling for a long time now, that a significant part of the appeal of LLM’s is akin to what makes people like horoscopes, fortune cookies and other oracles so much. Same sort of fascination for some « truth » handed to you out of nowhere…

The binary minded: the cup is either full or not full

(he's got a point: try and tell that vacuum machine to extract only half what's in the cup...)
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SQLite does that to people… It’s not just that it is on the same machine, it lives in the same process as your code. I think about it not as a « database server, but local », I think of it as an « ISAM library on turbo-steroids that also knows sql »

I still remember the point in the interview when I understood there wasn’t a server running your game ; that you were doing it all _by hand_. I haven’t encountered that level of dedication very often… It makes this moment a very fond memory of mine.

Manquerait pas un p’tit chèvre (ou trois) ?

That’s quite an interesting perspective on Laurel+Hardy

$180M c’est un pourboire, pas un soutien.
(quand on est emusk ;) )