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Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant hasn't been bombed because (1) the Russians control it right now (it's behind their lines) so why would they, and (2) the Ukranians live downwind s…

Online reviews indicate that Superpowers is best for people who are not already experienced SW development managers. Is that true? What is your experience of it? For me, I am a sol…

Isn't this just Dale Carnegie 101? I've certainly never had a salesperson tell me that I'm 100% wrong and being a fool. And, tbh, I often try to remember to do the same.

Well, the wives. But women are generally ignored in our society.

If you ever want to watch a movie again, do NOT work on codecs. Just saying.

A long and venerable litany of spaceflight disasters would beg to differ: - Apollo "Little Joe" A-003 (May 19, 1965): A roll gyro - Proton-M Launch Failure (July 2, 2013): Yaw sens…

Srsly? People actually watch all the chatter in the little window? Pro tip: "git diff"

This example is always cited as different from the "demographics" approach. But it literally started by segmenting the buyers, and then focussing on a previously unrecognised demog…

When developers who were comfortable as individual contributors start using agentic AI they necessarily start to work somewhat as managers. The workflow and responsibilities are ve…

Well that's full of really useful tips. I'll get the builders in to construct a 1.37m (4.5ft) thick spine through the middle of my house. Obviously.

Consider what happened to painters after the invention of photography (~1830s). At first the technology was very limited and no threat at all to portrait and landscape painters. By…

+1 - I made the same technology choice back in 2014. Seems like nothing has changed. TL;DR: You can't keep things too simple.

I definitely want this for QA. And luckily I haven't quite finished spending this Sunday setting up Claude Code in a container... Instead I'm just going to give Claude a separate l…

I'm (genuinely) curious about the overwhelming preference for PostgreSQL on HN. I've always used MySQL for OLTP, and been very happy with it. If you've seriously considered both an…

Excited for this! A couple of questions: 1. What is the resolution of timestamps (milli-, micro-, nano-seconds)? 2. Any plans for supporting large data BLOBs (e.g. PostgreSQL TOAST…

Not 100 hours a week. More like 50. Taxes to the local baron, lord, monastery, or whoever took the other 50.

Well, "Arcadia" is good, but "Tron Legacy" & "Star Trek" are better. Famously he hated ghost writing, so I hope he can make his peace with it now.

FWIW: I think we've all been there. I certainly did the same in my first summer job as an intern. Spent the next three days reconstructing Clipper code from disk sectors. And ever …

What percentage of the papers where written by AI? And, if your AI can't write a paper, are you even any good as an AI researcher? :^)

The question is not are the reviews AI generated. The question is are the reviews accurate?

In 1967 Louis Washkansky lived 18 days after receiving the world's first heart transplant. Today Bert Janssen has lived 41 years with a transplanted heart. Progress is hard won, an…

If the cost of returning and refurbishing a rocket stage is less than the cost of building a new one then that gives a competitive advantage on price. But space flight is a strateg…

I suspect that the push for civilian SMRs is a disguised subsidy for the naval reactor programme. This is shortsighted because (1) for electricity renewables are cheaper than nucle…

Upvoting b/c this comment is true, obviously I disapprove of insider trading.

Is there any way all those involved in the killings can be prosecuted for murder?