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I don't agree that "the coding was never the hard part" in general, but it is true at least often. For those cases where it is true, it is pretty much like your example, and the di…

You imply the discussion is uninteresting, then join it, in the most uninteresting way, merely to declare your team love/hate affiliation.

that's what they said

I looked at both links and don't see anything weird or annoying, and I hate overblown styles myself.

Conversely, if they are good enough, why do they degrade frome consuming their own output? How come humans consuming their own output gets better over time, but llms and any other …

This is a whole lot of nothing. Sure there are a few things that knowledge and skill can do to make a steak better or worse. But the entire range from worst to best is just tiny. T…

Craftsmanship exists everywhere and is as they say vastly superior, or at least more capable, than ever. Every random business has some machine that puts caps on bottles or somethi…

Another recent story from github about case folding as part of code search, the simple version of the code had a couple of ifs, and the branchless version was actually slower. They…

A smaller chunk that no one else calls should just be included. The break up is actually hurting undertsanding and maintainability. Except the only real rule is that rules are wron…

Did no one ever explain to you why you should wear nice clothes to a job interview? Or a wedding? Not simply that you should, but why? Conducting onesself with decorum and professi…

You worked for someone better than average, or I worked for someone worse than average, because this sounds like a thoughtful touch and they never told us anything like that.

Several years ago when a meme about Back to the Future was going around I made: https://gifyu.com/image/blAbD

This is simply bad hygene. It's such a basic thing that I can't even figure out how to back up far enough to start to explain why one should keep work and personal life seperate. I…

We've built a society where we shit in private, not in the middle of the street.

I think it was the automatic emergency brake.

There are no such people. The people who object to ai's violation of copyright today, always cared about copyright. They validated the concept of copyright by employing it themselv…

It is streamlined for individuals, and I have no interest in it being streamlined for anything else. I'd rather no data than bad data. There is no seperate baby & bath water. If a …

cp/m-86 targets 8086, which is no more useful or relevant to 386 protected mode than the original z80 version. Did you think they just picked the 68k version at random?

You can't drop ship creativity and still take credit for it. Grubhub is also a tool. If you order a pizza, you didn't make a pizza "just using a different tool"

Without the Oxford comma, it was the most reasonable way to read it.

The law is more grey than either black or white. People get in trouble when they think they know something is cut & dried when in fact it's always arguable. Some other commenter re…

guys... I only mean "cool there's a new...oh, not for me" re the fuck lax

Is "in the EU" the new "in mice"?

All day every day you make decisions based on things you think you can safely assume, and things you know you can't assume. The most likely behavior of a political office is just o…

I don't think I've ever seen a single chromebook in the wild being used by a real person for real. I am sure they exist of course. I must have even seen one and forgotten it. But i…