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it seems to me like we care about absolutely anything other than the one really important thing right now

in 1992 middle management was 9.2% of the workforce. in 2022 it was 13.1% use data when you make claims

slackhubbingface by twitter guy? every kind of no at once

there’s nothing i want more than to make my game dependent on a tool whose pricing isn’t announced

just use WINE or docker

bricks and minifigs is going to lose a hell of a lot more than this 10% in business regardless of the law, it’s a very stupid move on the company’s part. if they had half a brain t…

the court disagreed

waterfall doesn’t mean writing down decisions

it’s not that your point is being missed. it’s that some people don’t agree with you, and the personal attacks aren’t helping

insults won’t convince people to agree with you sometimes people just have different belief systems than you, and that’s actually okay

i don’t really care if my salable work product is banana sourced

brook’s law is probably not true anymore

why would we believe skeptical randos on social media? he has access to the real numbers and a legal risk from lying publicly. it does him no good to lie about this.

the claim that they suspect something is adequately backed up by saying “i suspect this” nobody needs to prove their suspicions

there is no burden of proof on someone who says “i suspect”

that's what the person you're replying to was referring to

holy shit, how am i the first person in the thanks list? half that list deserves it more than i do, especially dave, liran, and jason i miss jaeden. i hope he's well

> This seems like a tragedy of the commons -- GitHub is free after all, and it has all of these great properties, so why not? because it's bad at this job, and sqlite is also free …

You might be surprised. The studies say it's a primarily negative impact, especially in math and college attendance. https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/research/the-test-score...…

the big problem with quantum advantage is that quantum computing is inherently error-prone and stochastic, but then they compare to classical methods that are exact let a classical…

that's a fantastic book; one of the best i've read, and i'm glad to see it get brought up but also, the book anti-patterns is pretty clear here

> If a pattern is a common problem it isn't, is the thing. if you read the book design patterns, they spell out what a pattern is. if you read the book anti-patterns, he spells out…

i thought these were nervous systems until i started reading comments

these aren’t anti patterns. these are just things you shouldn’t do

that sentence starts “in the popular imagination”