Well-reasoned and does a good job of spelling out exactly what risks come from relying on LLMs for anything where accuracy/reliability matters (not just in the context he’s talking about).
On Romans 5:6
If we take the love of God for granted we shall not appreciate the
sequence of the apostles thought. But when we assess our weakness and particularly our ungodliness, then we discover both the need and the marvel of the proof God has given. What looms up in our conviction when our ungodliness is properly weighed is our detestability and the wrath of God, and it is impossible to take God's love for granted. That God could love the ungodly, far less that he did love them, would never have entered into the heart of man (cf. I Cor. 2:9, 10). On that background the text must be understood. The marvel of God's love is that it was love to the ungodly. And here is the proof-"Christ died for the ungodly". And not only so. When Christ died for them they were still weak, that is to say, they were still ungodly and contemplated as ungodly. Hence the love of which the death of Christ is the expression and provision is a love exercised to them as ungodly. It is not a love constrained by commendable qualities in them, not even by the qualities which they would one day exhibit by the power of God's grace. It is an antecedent love because it is the love presupposed in the death of Christ for them while they were still in misery and sin. It is not the love of complacency but love that finds its whole urge and incentive in the goodness of God. That is the kind of love the death of Christ demonstrates and it is a love efficient to a saving purpose because the death of Christ is on behalf of the ungodly and therefore to the end of securing the high destiny which the context has in view.
— John Murray, The Epistle to the Romans
The mini size could be a good option if I ever decide to switch from my medium-size Leuchtturm notebooks.
Humans can not accurately describe what they want out of a software system until it exists.
Humans can not accurately predict how long any software effort will take beyond four weeks. And after 2 weeks it is already dicey.
I'm sure there are exceptions that prove the rule, but I tend to agree with these statements.
It's snowing this morning
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
— James Joyce, The Dead
Kirby stores your content in simple text files. Folders are pages. Add images, documents and videos and you are ready to go.
Interesting looking CMS. Want to do a deeper dive. The "hooks" plugin feature sounds a lot like a similar idea I've had for other systems but haven't ever got around to implementing.
Also intrigued by the panels/blueprints idea for customizing the admin on a per page type basis.
Lewis Mumford (PDF):
The inventors of nuclear bombs, space rockets, and computers are the pyramid builders of our own age: psychologically inflated by a similar myth of unqualified power, boasting through their science of their increasing omnipotence, if not omniscience, moved by obsessions and compulsions no less irrational than those of earlier absolute systems: particularly the notion that the system itself must be expanded, at whatever eventual cost to life
From a speech given on January 21, 1963. The relevance of Mumford's remarks seems to have only grown in the intervening sixty-odd years. Easily one of the best essays I've read in the past year.
Via L. M. Sacasas
A golang port of the venerable httpbin.org HTTP request & response testing service.