Italian efficiency when it comes to coffee should be studied.
In Italy:
- Walk into a bar and look at the guy
- Un caffe
- 30 seconds later it’s ready
- Shoot it
- Leave €1
- Walk out
In the US:
- Join a line
- Wait
- Order coffee
- Answer 12 questions: Size? Milk? Roast? Sugar? Temperature? Colombia beans? Name? How do you spell it?
- $12.34
- Ask for a 20% tip. Click 5 times on a ipad to have a custom tip
- Tap phone
- ask where to send the invoice
- Wait again on a different line
- Someone call a name that sounds similar to mine
- get the coffee
- too hot, can't drink it
- finally at temperature
taste like shit
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.
PES 99 | Serie A Showcase
Football Italia is in PES 99, we have 100% faces, kits, stadiums and more on the way!
So get your copy of La Gazzetta dello Sport, coffee and cake ready and head back to Italian football at its peak
Did you know that when they say stuff like "The A18 uses TSMC's 3nm process" or "announced the 2nm node"
The 3nm, 2nm actually doesn't mean anything?! It's just like a version number. They make it up. Literally nothing measures 2nm or 3nm.
I certainly didn't know.
@_eseidel Cursor + claude sonnet is very helpful for me most of the time even on big messy codebases.
Anytime I’ve tried the gemini model in cursor I couldn’t make it work / it did not complete.. so I recommend to stick to claude
So far, when it comes to LK-99, everyone is behaving like the cliché:
China: a bunch of university labs worked to replicate as fast as possible
US: a private company sponsored a replication as a marketing gimmick
Russia: cat girl, but whole thing is unclear
Europe: on holiday
☑ Block the agenda 🗓️
☑ Book your plane ✈️
….and prepare for the best Pragma Conference ever 🚀
On October 5-6, Bologna is the place to be!
Ticket coming soon...
Is it just me or the positioning of the power button on the side on recent iPhones is one of Apple’s worst design decisions? I keep inadvertently pressing it and either turn the screen on/off or activate Siri or the wallet. Annoying as hell
THREAD: The US government's new export controls are wreaking havoc on China's chip industry.
New rules around "US persons" are driving an "industry-wide decapitation."