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I'm a lawyer. I've explained this so many times it's starting to bore me, but I have to keep doing it. Jury nullification has never existed as a right in any common law system. It …

> I’m sure they won’t even talk to anyone not willing to pay $100k+ per year. Wouldn't surprise me. We had a vendor whose product we had used at relatively reasonable rates for mul…

I found the early game changes incongruous with the core design of the mod as well. The mod is about logistical challenges - specifically where trips are high volume but high cost.…

There's a lot of theorizing that early sapiens intentionally set fires to clear thick, impassable forests and kill game in the process. The cleared areas would make post-fire hunti…

I don't know if this is the same wave, but a few years ago they declassified footage from military planes actively tracking UFOs. In the wake of that there was a bit of a flurry of…

> Having the same shallow conversations over and over with different individuals I'm ADHD-neurodivergent so I get the point here, but think of this phenomenon as verbal handshaking…

I simultaneously agree with you (tor being another prime example of this -- they may not be able to see which tor sites you're visiting [unless they control the exit node] but they…

I think dev wages will stagnate across the board. I think the simple existence of the fear of being replaced by never-tiring, always-working AI will subconsciously prime devs to be…

Especially when the system we're discussing is literally the most advanced AI model we're aware of.

Still not enough. Seriously. Once information is out there it cannot be clawed back, but legal agreements are easily broken. I worked as a lawyer for six years; there are extremely…

Yes, this is exactly my issue. Libertarianism only lasts as long as it's not your $3bil at risk. Then it becomes "oh but the government can't let ME fail."

So isn't it on the programmer to ensure the safety checks are enabled if appropriate? I agree with the gist of your statement, I'm just not sure how this is the responsibility of t…

I see an unfortunate number of people who seem to think that the only way to not get taken advantage of in life is to be cynical, and that living with empathy and joy is equivalent…

> even more extreme I'm a musician & amateur home producer, and this extreme approach of yours is exactly what I recommend to people (and what I do myself) to overcome the feeling …

Failure as a VC-funded enterprise != failure of the underlying 'thing' as a concept. A programming language seems to be a weird fit for the VC model in the first place, no?

I'll be interested to see if these layoffs do eventually hit technical workers in non-big-tech sectors. Are these layoffs simply the chickens of large scale "blitzscaling" coming h…

If the primary reason for this is the emissions from increased energy requirements, then we can find ways to reduce this load by (as the article suggests) using renewable energy so…

For me, it comes down to the fact that static typing completely eliminates large classes of bugs. It therefore dramatically lowers the testing load. The compile step essentially pe…

Guess we should shut down open source then.

Decent doesn't quite cover it for people unfamiliar with the size of the state. The island that this volcano is on is bigger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

IMO Rust is what you'd get if you took a functional lang designer and forced them at gunpoint to create a procedural systems lang. It's not functional, but you can tell it was larg…

Same, except aged 28. I completely randomly happened to stumble upon a detailed description of inattentive ADHD, and had the thought, "Hmm, I wonder how doctors are able to differe…

Criminal sentences for first time offenders very rarely follow the sentencing guidelines, and in some ways you can consider them to be a starting point for negotiation. When I was …

No, and this is a core misunderstanding of the profession. The job of software engineers is to design and implement solutions to business problems with technology. The job of a sof…

Saying "we are materially changing the terms of your employment, you can accept them or quit" is constructive discharge. Besides, unemployment is one thing that is usually very lib…