Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

May 16, 2025

Strong Units Conversions - Fluent C++
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This is one of the perks of a strong type system. You can ensure that you don't mess up your units.

Stack overflow is almost dead

Looks like the writing is on the wall indeed... The paradox is that an important training corpus for LLMs will disappear if it dies for good. Will we see output quality lower? Or ossification of knowledge instead?

On the Brokenness of File Locking

It is indeed in a weird state on Linux to say the least. Make sure to follow the links there, they lead to more precise resources.

Remote versus Co-located Work

Good summary of the different possible options around remote work.

Initialization in C++ is bonkers

Yes... definitely is too complex. This standard seriously needs a pass of simplification, I'm not at all convinced profiles would be enough to help for cases like this.

Cost and Time are not Irrelevant

Or why estimates need to happen in one way or another.

When Consultants Should Fire their Client
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There are indeed cases where you don't want to hurt your reputation...

On Stochastic Parrots, commonly referred to as AI

A short collection of links (some already seen somewhere else in the review) which altogether draw a stark picture of the LLM industry.