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Wish I could give you an npm package for that, but best I can do is a process: [0] keep a log / journal [1] make a change [2] observe the result [3] iterate [0] is to raise awarene…

Charts Antarctic Sea Ice: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1jhzeRagAE_lAd?format=jpg&name=... North Atlantic Sea Surface: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1kbWmLaMAA48AI?format=jpg&name=..…

I was not familiar with glycation. Thanks for this rabbit hole... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end-product https://www.n…

Does anyone else find themselves performing a UML-like design phase, but with code? I like to create classes/methods with little/no/mock implementation to see how it will fit toget…

So we'll just all become #VanLife nomads and everything will be fine.

Challenge: turn it into a nice bot (as top comment has done) and then try go get it to go back to being evil.

Economists will ponder for decades why LLMs never increased labor productivity.

See also, protection racket [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

One of these days someone will try it. Spank them.

Agreed. Class III hardware is well controlled (i.e., implants), but software (any class) and lower-class hardware is loco. My device was Class II.

I'm a deep state employee of an as yet unacknowledged three letter agency whose propaganda blog received no traffic from this page until grandparent posted the link. I am a master …

Didn't know gdocs had history, thanks for the pointer.

This occurred before the device was submitted for its first 510(k) approval. Also, companies have some discretion in what changes they re-submit to the FDA and what the decide to j…

Yea it's a red flag when someone only verbally responds. A countermeasure is to send a nicely worded email summarizing the discussion and inviting any corrections. But unless someo…

I don't believe I said the Chairman was from a different company. He was from the same company. He certainly could have had me fired, at the expense of destroying their schedule. A…

Software "engineering" will definitely need to be looked at differently from physical, but there are still things we can do. Critical systems (or at least the critical subsystems) …

Hardware came from oversees and there was no licensed PE on the US side. But you're right, there should have been. This was before the device was submitted to the FDA for approval.…

As others have noted, professional licensure (which can be revoked) is used in other industries. Not feasible to ask this for every developer, but for safety critical systems it sh…

You're still my hero

I took an Ethics for Engineers course as an elective in college (sometime during the stone age). Wrote a paper on Therac-25. Had I not, I may not even been cognizant of the risk in…

Agreed, although I'm confident that everyone present in this particular situation would say that approach was asking to get fired. I was fortunate to be in a position where I didn'…

Not at all a dumb question. But the answer will be. The Big Boss Man hated the way it looked. He once spent 30 minutes telling a graphics designer what a worthless piece of sh* he …

Post title inspired by Doctor Who S09E12 "Hell Bent": https://youtu.be/p5eHJmQg-_M?t=44 A glorious tearjerker.

This brief reply [0] got some love so I thought I'd elaborate. Company ultimately did the right thing so I'm leaving out elements that would identify them. I was once asked to remo…

Agreed. But I need non-coder noobs to also use it (i.e., an Editor, fellow writers without dev background). I suppose I could write them something with big easy buttons that only p…