Earthican II

Mostly harmless.

[Earthican II @lambda125]

@quxiaoyin verifiable tasks ... value = 0; maybe/may not be. profit = 0 : very likely;

[Earthican II @lambda125]

@theo Perhaps something like this (https://t.co/N26mpqe5vV) - though it would be interesting and more useful to results for the latest models Opus/Sonnet 5.5, GPT 6.1 Sol/Astra, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) etc on this bench

[Dev Agrawal @devagrawal09]

Built Jev Review: a small code-review workflow powered by @typesafeai Jev.

It screens Git diffs, follows strong signals through staged judgments, and presents the results in a clean local dashboard.

https://t.co/6Z9IMYI78b

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I'm typically not one to toot my own horn but I think I may have written the single best article on Xinjiang this past decade.

Never has writing an article taken me so much time: almost two months.

It involved, as amply documented on this platform, a six-week RV roadtrip through Xinjiang during which I posted so relentlessly that I suspect several of you muted me somewhere around day six, and are only reading this now because someone told you the ordeal was finally over 😅

More seriously, I did what unfortunately all too few writers do these days when writing about a topic: I genuinely went deep.

Not only did I travel almost everywhere in Xinjiang and spoke with hundreds of people in the process, but I also spent a further 10 days afterwards in Urumqi - the province's capital - to engage with the local intelligentsia (journalists, university professors, public servants both junior and senior, XPCC/Bingtuan executives, businessmen, etc.) to get as accurate a read on the place as I could.

Meanwhile, when back in Urumqi after our roadtrip, I placed my 2 daughters in a holiday camp with local Uyghur kids - learning as a result something no discussion with an adult could ever tell me: what life is actually like for Uyghur kids in today's China.

On top of all this, I read widely and voraciously. The academic historians - Brophy, Gladney, Rudelson. The UN reports. But also books like Li Juan's wonderful Winter Pasture, a Chinese writer's account of living through a winter with Kazakh nomads in the Altay region.

The end result is an 8,000-word article that, I hope you'll agree, does something no article on Xinjiang has done in a very long time: treats the place and its people with the depth they deserve.

Maybe uncharacteristic for me, I don't shy away from the uncomfortable parts - on either side. I write about the omnipresent police checkpoints and the institutional paranoia as candidly as I write about the breathtaking shallowness and lies of the Western discourse on the topic.

If you're looking for propaganda - whether pro or anti-China - you'll be disappointed. If you're looking for honesty and nuance, however, I think you'll like it.

Enjoy the read here: https://t.co/K39WByvjvG

[Earthican II @lambda125]

Never invest startup-level hours into someone else's company unless you're also creating assets that survive the engagement. #captianobvious #lifelesson #CareerTips #til

[Earthican II @lambda125]

SWE principles are not just human conventions. They're discovered properties of systems that must be changed, verified, and operated over time. An agent-native world changes who/ what, reads/write/reasons about code. The principles survive 'cos the underlying challenge survives.

[Earthican II @lambda125]

I wonder if it is possible to create a C# source generator that 'converts' a MVC based Web API Controller to a minimal API style one - so that we can Native AOT it today. @damienedwards @davidfowl Anyone done that already? #Dotnet #aspnet #csharp #nativeaot

[Earthican II @lambda125]

@tweeetRavi https://t.co/tNhouNZXRN

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

Really nice summary of an important technique for getting the most out of OpenAI's GPT models.

Personally, I prefer to do these things by hand, because I can customise the prompts for my particular use case. But LangChain can be a time saver, and has decent starting prompts.

[Earthican II @lambda125]

@tweeetRavi https://t.co/fQNf9PLtQd

[Earthican II @lambda125]

Olzzzmn https://t.co/n6kGH2CgaA

[Earthican II @lambda125]

@CFDevelop I use a csproj property NullableEnable (I think it is called)

[Azure Weekly @AzureWeekly]

Quantum Development Kits adopts #dotnet 6 and supports Visual Studio 2022 from Ricardo Espinoza https://t.co/iKK0Bdntf7 #Azure

[Earthican II @lambda125]

#dotnet #interop #cplusplus #swift #ios #windows #web

[Earthican II @lambda125]

Any C++ devs out there with experience in building cross-platform and mobile SDKs usable in .NET, Swift and WASM/JS? If you are in Australia, let's chat!

[Earthican II @lambda125]

Any C++ devs out there with experience in building cross-platform and mobile SDKs usable in .NET, Swift and WASM/JS? If you are in Australia, let's chat!

[Earthican II @lambda125]

What do you call someone who is great at wrangling data from multiple sources, exploring and asking interesting questions to find insights that help your business? #DataScience #BI

I'm looking for that someone

[Earthican II @lambda125]

Needs work rights in Australia

[Earthican II @lambda125]

Know anyone who might be interested?

Drawboard is looking for a #dotnet #Azure engineer
https://t.co/fSK2YgcLyI

[Earthican II @lambda125]

@dotnet

[Earthican II @lambda125]

What's the story with using dotnet libraries in a Swift iOS app in 2022? #embeddinator-4000 seems to be dead. #.Net #dotnet #swift #ios @JamesMontemagno