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My first job, in California, was just transitioning to leetcode-style interviews in 2007 following the industry trend. So it was probably spreading around that time.

Take a CO2 meter into a hotel, office, convention center, etc in summer. In many, it will be at 1200+. I've seen up to 2500. This is due to "green" interior air recycling that just…

I take it as a sign of typical increasing corporate dysfunction. Obvious problems, some even easy and uncontroversial, don't get fixed. Why? The people who can fix them are not in …

They don't understand consent. [0] 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774770

> The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/ Plus there's a gambling m…

I appreciate the answers. For others reading, I also just ran across another thread where you posted relevant info [0]. In the case of my game, I'm going to consider SSE, since mos…

Useful take, thanks for mentioning specifics. Some of these I wasn't aware of. - What makes load balancing easier with SSE? I imagine that balancing reconnects would work similar t…

Still one of my fastest drives, and extremely durable. It's too bad.

There's a Copilot thread I've been subscribed to since 2022 [1] about disabling autocomplete of comments in code. The practical solution: Manually toggle it. My favorite solution: …

An intriguing idea! I like this approach for being an innovative interface to SQL. I wonder if it would reduce cognitive load when interfacing with the DB. I'm a game dev and often…

I don't care if VCs take risks, I want to be nice.

> Tokens Don't Lie > But how do people feel about these topics I find it notable that tokens don't necessarily express people's feelings. Put another way, tokens aren't how people …

Is there no harm, or is there harm that is hard to show in court?

I looked into that for VR headset eye tracking, which uses IR lights plus cameras to see the eyes inside the dark headset. Here someone did some calculations [0]. > The Internation…

I agree that there's a lot of benefit to sticking with a thing. I've only seriously used Perl, PHP, Erlang, and Node, over 20+ years, deliberately. For productivity. One reason for…

Laravel has been amazing for a long time. I heard its 'convention over configuration' approach was inspired by Rails, and the ecosystem is competitive with anything. For small to m…

That story is not about speed, it's about Copilot. To be fair, everything is called Copilot now, so maybe fast Surface Pros will be called Copilots too.

How does the memory bandwidth compare? Based on my usage, that's key in responsiveness between Mac and PC now. Also for LLMs in memory. I compare the current top Surface Pro with t…

I wonder if the training to be compliant to the propter is part of the problem. Both of those statements are similar to saying "I refuse to answer your query". Or maybe this is inh…

Sort of. I was using Erlang in 2007, well before switching to Node/JS. Erlang/Elixir has its downsides, which is why I switched. The entire industry has been twisting itself in kno…

If powerful or opportunistic criminals were at risk of being criminally charged by the government, they're then utterly incentivized to influence and control said government. And t…

Thanks for the tips, I didn't know about /active!

This was on the front page but completely disappeared. Guess it was being flagged for no good reason. It's a good article. Luckily I can still find yesterday's article about credit…

No True Git fallacy. If you don't enjoy Git, it wasn't Git as it's meant to be! There's always something 'wrong' with Git because it's incredibly complex. Most developer flows don'…