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EIB?

Jump straight to the second option. You have to presume that the content they sent you has no relation whatsoever to their actual understanding of the matter.

Analogously to the surface of last scattering in cosmology, the dawn of the LLM era may define a surface of first scattering for our descendants.

My org had the opposite problem in the Covid remote transition. At one point we successfully enforced meetings ending 5 minutes before the hour, but then somebody would just open t…

Right, I don't think I've ever actually seen anybody make the "nothing to hide" argument. Maybe it was used more commonly in the past, but I only ever see people pre-emptively atta…

I'm assuming the lockfile should be checked into the repo itself, which presents a bootstrapping problem if you have to run an action to create the lockfile in the first place. The…

> That points to a deficiency in the “composition over inheritance” aphorism: those aren’t the only two games in town. If you have procedures as first-class types (like blocks in S…

High school, at least as far as it serves as a sorting mechanism for top students, follows a kind of Parkinson's law: the number of hoops to jump through increases until it reaches…

It's difficult to relate this to modern perspectives on software design and architecture because the running example is hard to comprehend. It seems to be an interface to a data st…

This is similar to how "numbers racket" lotteries in the early 20th century operated, so that players could trust that the outcome could not be rigged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

> Is Casey assuming the entire commercial software industry === Uncle Bob? It's uncharitable to take Casey as making absolute blanket statements like that, but still, it would not …

I think this trend is why they've gone all-in on sex-on-the-beach shows and true crime docuseries. One season can easily be self-contained, and if the viewer gets another, it's jus…

The goal is the end product, yes. But there's joy to be had in getting there. And more importantly, I know I won't be able to achieve it without a good feedback loop for iterating …

Yes, I was implying "to do stuff like the author of the article does" ( https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/rstory/ ), coming from a very similar situation as him -- as a software engineer…

As somebody trying to get into mechanical engineering while living in a small urban apartment, this has been an incredible resource... not that I've made much progress along the li…

It's not exactly an easy read -- whenever I recommend it to someone I also warn them that it contains the most passive sentence in the history of the English language: "Information…

A corollary: Think about all the places you've ever worked, all the organizations you've been part of, where you know how the sausage is actually made, and how that differs from th…

Here are some of the more practical insights for medium/large-scale software design that have stuck with me. They apply regardless of whether I'm working in a language that lets me…

Yes, a good project/module system helps, but is no panacea. As TFA said: "As a result of having only conventions, there is no strong insurance against a developer using the depende…

The most easily available Meccano-compatible system still in production is the Swiss brand Stokys: https://www.stokys.ch/de-ch/home/ The web site and order system is in German, but…

Prestige is informal and unmeasurable. Columbia's prestige will remain high even if the quality of its education declines. But people expect the top-ranked schools to be roughly th…

I find it to be the best introduction because it draws on material from economists of different major schools of thought without requiring the student to subscribe to any school in…

The reserve ratio is one limiting factor among several that affect to what extent commercial banks can expand the money supply. For many decades leading up to the 2008 financial cr…

In addition to the "about" page, the secret "episode zero" explains more about the philosophy behind the series. I have no idea about the science (or lack thereof) behind it, but i…

This is the general answer to "why is there so much bad code?" in almost any context. The marginal value of a poorly-written solution compared to no solution is usually much larger…