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April 12, 2024

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
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Interesting take on why people see more in LLM based systems than there really is. The parallels with psychics and mentalists tricks are well thought out.

If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? • Buttondown
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Interesting look at the history of inheritance in programming languages. There's clearly still room for improvements on this concept.

Hermit: A reproducible container
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Looks like an interesting tool to analyze hard to reproduce bugs, especially when concurrency is involved. This could be useful to find the source of flaky tests as well.

Results summary: 2024 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" : Standard C++

Some interesting insights in this survey. It helps identify common concerns.