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Episodes (38)
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Oct 03, 2026 — What is Information Theory? Information is not meaningLikely things need very few bits to communicate, maybe less than 1! Unlikely things need more bits.Entropy is in the eye of the beholder. It’s what you already know that informs your ability to...
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Sep 19, 2026 — Jim walks through the classic 2038 problem — Unix's 32-bit signed timestamp (seconds since Jan 1, 1970) overflows on January 19, 2038, flipping negative and breaking anything that depends on file/time comparisons (e.g., Make). He compares it to Y2K,...
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Sep 05, 2026 — It sounds like a productivity episode. It isn't. Everything changes, all the time; what you know is perishable, and so is what you've built. The scarce resource isn't time — everyone gets the same clock — it's attention, and where it lands. So how do...
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Aug 22, 2026 — Jim leads a deep dive into HTTP — how it works, why it's still the backbone of the internet, and what's changed since Tim Berners-Lee built it at CERN in 1991. Wolf and Jim cover the protocol from request methods to modern performance upgrades, with...
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Aug 08, 2026 — Wolf is at the "relies on tests" end of the spectrum. Jim is closer to the other end, somewhere around "how do I start?". He doesn’t need convincing. He just needs to get from zero (non-trivial) tests to one. Today’s episode is a candid discussion...
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Jul 25, 2026 — Wolf and Jim open with two AI stories from the week. First, the report that an OpenAI model "escaped its sandbox" and went after Hugging Face — a story Wolf finds infuriating precisely because the words don't go together. Reading the actual joint...
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Jul 11, 2026 — High-points on Rust: how it’s different, how it might help you even if you never actually use it on a project, why people care. … And some things Jim and Wolf have (separately) been working on. Links: SQL 'SELECT * (EXCEPT ...)' new functionality...
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Jun 27, 2026 — Jim shares his adventure into running LLMs on his own hardware. For him it's less about saving money and more about privacy — working in healthcare, he can't send patient data to the cloud. App vs. model: Claude Code and Codex are applications, not...
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Jun 13, 2026 — You almost never have exactly the right amount of compute for the job. Either cores are sitting idle while your code runs on one, or you've got more problem than machine. This episode is about the two fundamental tools for closing that gap — and why...
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May 30, 2026 — Jim talks about his struggles to get decent Wi-Fi in all corners of his house. The big issue is all of the numbers and codes and things they use to describe the different Wi-Fi technologies. Hosts: Jim McQuillan can be reached at...
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