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PeeMcGee

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    Comment #44725020

    It happens as soon as the fourth sentence (maybe even the third): > There was a silence at the table—not confusion, but recognition. Then keeps happening again and again and again …

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    Comment #44714359

    These sorts of tests are invaluable for things like ensuring adherence to specifications such as OAuth2 flows. A high-level test that literally describes each step of a flow will s…

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    Comment #44659375

    Georgia Tech has a great online MSc CS program (OMSCS) that's very affordable for what it is, though the amount of direct interaction with the professor varies from class to class.…

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    Comment #44430857

    > That does not mean there isn't an AI system that can do X. You are holding the burden of proof here...

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    Comment #44424387

    The post title is misleading and the content reads more like a guerilla advertisement for claude. TL;DR: author works for Anthropic, and used claude to implement an optimization fo…

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    Comment #44230288

    And the top 1000 replies for any stupid thing he says are nothing but positive reinforcement from boosted blue check bot accounts that bury any actual criticism.

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    Comment #44225149

    Wow, if I needed any more proof Google is a ghost ship then this is it. The $5K bounty is an insult, and the fact that they low-balled it in the first place makes them look like ab…

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    Comment #44192706

    It's very common to see from devs that don't really grasp reactive programming. You often see similar things in Angular projects because of RxJS.

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    Comment #44182338

    I like how the app shows reference calls/songs for detected birds so I can verify using my own judgement, or to figure out which birds are which when there's a lot of chirping goin…

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    Comment #43998011

    > No passwords, private keys, or funds were exposed and Coinbase Prime accounts are untouched. I'm curious why no Coinbase Prime accounts were part of the leak (assuming that's wha…

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    Comment #43943225

    The mere concept of a "business book" seems like hamfisted satire. It blows my mind how so many white collar workers genuinely entertain the concept in the first place.

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    Comment #43874442

    The singularity but stupid

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    Comment #43850871

    Thank you for that.

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    Comment #43834626

    The lack of dependency awareness drives me insane. Someone imports a single method from the wrong package, which snowballs into the blind leading the blind and pinning transitive d…

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    Comment #43752665

    > You set up your standard, and stick to it whomever comes. Well, the standard for software licensing is to sell cheaper licenses to smaller businesses and more expensive licenses …

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    Comment #43578791

    I like the facebook comparison, but the difference is you don't have to use facebook to make money and survive. When the thing is a giant noisemaker crapping out trash that screws …

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    Comment #43408795

    If there was any political motivation at all it would simply be to save Boeing's arse. They're one of two commercial airliner manufacturers in the world, so the US clearly has a ve…

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    Comment #43295024

    This is brilliant, thanks for sharing.

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    Comment #43286787

    The "rapid unscheduled disassembly" bit is not cute. This was a malfunction that caused a giant explosion to rain smoldering debris across miles of earth (for the 2nd time), not so…

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    Comment #43264363

    This reminds me of one of my favorite SO answer-rants that reads like an angry Dr. Seuss rhyme: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36627158 > Which of these are the "checked" exceptions? …

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    Comment #43264252

    Conditional breakpoints exist in Intellij and work well with Java in my experience. You craft a little boolean expression on the breakpoint that references variables in-scope, and …

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    Comment #42998374

    The cold weather alert especially gets on my nerves. I appreciate the heads up, but I don't appreciate the HUD crying wolf about stuff that doesn't require my immediate attention.

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    Comment #42923868

    Regardless, they seemingly have access to tons of financial data that they are basing brash decisions on with zero context. That combined with the fact they are reporting to a manc…

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    Comment #42922853

    When they're as young as literally 19 years old, then it must be the case that they lack the appropriate experience.

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    Comment #42906508

    It's really humbling and everyone should do it every now and then. An old coworker coined "mouseless monday mornings" where we'd unplug our mice(?) until lunch to start each week. …