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How do you know the output is good without redoing the work yourself? You've received a report, a market analysis for the new product you're planning to launch. Reading through it you notice problems: the date on the report doesn't match the date you requested it on, it's from 6 months prior. Several paragraphs have obvious spelling errors. Some graphs are mislabeled and duplicated. The report is…
Technical debt should excite you. Deciding to accrue technical debt means there's such a large opportunity in front of you that it's worth sacrificing the short-term quality of the codebase, making the life harder for you and your fellow devs for a while just to capture it. You don't want to let it slip. Technical debt is not good or bad on its own, just like financial debt: it's either worth it…
Posted by the Director of Body Sovereignty Commission Our national health system proves that you don’t have to choose between being wealthy and healthy. Since announcing fully autonomous nighttime blood testing we have worked with our community to ensure we do everything that’s in our power to create a healthy and prosperous society. Our nation is built on choice. That is why we’ve developed the…
We are under constant cognitive assault. Buying plane tickets is navigating a minefield - one misclick blows a hole in your wallet. Resolving a mistake on your utility bill is a tactical operation: dodge hold music traps, outwit the chatbot, then convince the agent you shouldn’t need to pay your neighbour’s bill. Our decisions aren’t shaped by direct threats or outright lies. Governments and…
Programming Language Theory (PLT) is one of my favourite areas of computer science yet I feel it's one of the most misunderstood by outsiders. It's full of beautiful constructions and great ideas at the intersection of pure theory and practical applications. And yet outside of the PLT community, it's considered cryptic, hard, useless, not practical. The problems are similar to the public…
Original rap song, lyrics by Happy, performance by Suno . Enjoy! Maybe it’s optional¹, but the result is clear Either I work with int lists or lazy Integers² here Maybe it’s optional, but the result is clear Either I work with int lists or lazy Integers here Riding dunes on the back of a caml³ Spot an oasis, some shady cabal⁴ Backpacks stacked high with their trashy code around Trigger minor…
We are wizards who have forgotten we can do magic. Every morning, millions of us sit before our scrying mirrors, weaving spells that can topple governments, birth new economies, or connect every human mind on Earth. We write incantations that make machines think and pixels dance. We are the most powerful practitioners of applied magic in human history. So why do we feel so powerless? I've spent…
I skied by a Church with numbers listed on its door. https://happyfellow-one.github.io/riddle.txt Good luck!
Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good month. Better to be late a day or two with rent payment. Not this month though! Just need to log in to HSBC and make the payment. Shit, can't log in with without updating the app but I have no space on my phone, why's the new app bigger? I had to…
AI generated audio and video is here. You cannot be sure whether the video you are watching is actually real. To be fair, that was also true 5 years ago but the cost of producing a fake video is now lower - instead of getting a skilled video editor to manually manipulate the raw material, you can use generative AI tools to produce it. I believe we are going to see a solution for this problem on…