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Can developers agree on what the best programming language is? The best framework? The best OS? AI is a diverse technology and will work differently for everyone, just like JS is a…

I don't agree with many statements in the article. It almost seems like an article from about a year ago, despite it being posted yesterday. Not sure if the author had the idea a l…

A forklift is "lifting" things, despite using a completely different mechanical process as a human "lifting" things. The only real similarity between these kinds of "lifting" is th…

You are describing domain-driven design. Outsource generic subdomains, focus your expertise on the core subdomains. https://blog.jonathanoliver.com/ddd-strategic-design-core-su...

> but it's really helpful when it comes to fixing your mistakes, allowing you to be successful. It would be helpful if they'd take a loss as a learning opportunity. But as stated i…

This entirely depends on the company culture. I worked in teams where every small decision is in the hand of the PO and I've worked in teams where a software engineer is a respecte…

Ukraine has around $1.2 billion and still got 10% tariffs.

A bad analogy doesn't make a good argument. The best analogy for LLMs is probably a librarian on LSD in a giant library. They will point you in a direction if you have a question. …

> For each problem, our system sampled many candidate submissions and submitted 50 of them based on a test-time selection strategy. Submissions were selected based on performance o…

I've started doing something similar around a year ago, after noticing that I reached basically all goals I set out for myself after school. I was at a point where I felt like I st…

I completely agree. I'm always amused by the idea that dating apps have this secret, sophisticated algorithm that gives you dates that are nice but leave you wanting more. Human re…

What's wrong with cancelling Amazon Prime? I did it recently and it took less than a minute. I even had the option to cancel immediately and have them refund my money, even though …

Unions in Germany aren't really split up by profession, but by industry. So if you e.g. work in the car or manufacturing industry, there's a good chance that most workers in your c…

I'm doing well by mapping out my days. I have all my projects written down, with dating being one of them. And then I just plan at what day I do what. Of course life gets in the wa…

Langchain previously had a nice blogpost about how they build their RAG chatbot, maybe there are some helpful hints in there: https://blog.langchain.dev/building-chat-langchain-2/

> But the net positive is so, so much bigger for society that I'm sure we'll figure it out. Considering that the democratic backsliding across the globe is coincidentally happening…

While cats are native in some places, evolutionary mechanisms stop working when a predator has an unlimited supply of food supplied by humans. The problem of cats nowadays isn't th…

Ads per se are a fine alternative to pay for a website, the problem is when they are the most attractive option. Because them being the most attractive option usually means they ar…

Depends on the region. The big advantage of WFH is the global job market. I live pretty rural in Germany and salaries are quite a bit lower than in the city. And they are far lower…

They could re-open it. But the last time we had a popular unmoderated subreddit, it became a mixture of porn, onlyfan models and Donald Trump / Jeffrey Epstein posts. Good OOTL if …

> but Reddit has this deep depression inside it that isn't really noticeable until you leave. Like, you don't ever really see happy people on there anymore, just people with varyin…

You seem to be quite misinformed about the war. It's openly known that Ukraine is running propaganda campaigns and intentionally publishes misleading information, to win the inform…

As a junior that also just started before COVID forced everyone into remote, my experience has been that team culture is the deciding factor. I've always been extremely vocal in co…