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> I still learn new stuff, but I’m afraid it won’t have any value in a year or so. This is silly. This would be like arguing that encyclopedias made knowing things pointless. I lea…

Good luck to future models figuring out which weird section of code are bugs and which are features.

Isn't it also not the direct customer purchasing the insurance, but their employer, who also has to pay into the pot and so is incentivized to find cheap options? (I'm not 100% on …

> Do you think that there is some health care system in which all requests for care can be approved without limit? I'm not going to wade into the murder tag, but is this the actual…

There's nothing stopping the use of decimal points for Celsius. Though there's also nothing stopping decimal points in Fahrenheit, the rare instance where an imperial sub-unit does…

I understand that entirely. I'm saying that the way that GP is presenting their information it sounds like a "one neat trick", which of course it isn't because nothing ever is, whi…

Wireless would be ideal, assuming there's still some way to connect to my PC.

That would imply that red meat eaters would be less likely to get cancer which doesn't seem to be the case. I'm not saying that zinc isn't a factor, but I think that saying a blank…

Is it hard to get waterpoof, considering that every modern smart phone is both usb-c and waterproof? Important to note that this watch doesn't claim to be waterproof.

I do like the idea of USB-C, the garmin's power plug is nothing but annoying. It's really just a matter of battery life and what sort of software integration it has. Although, it's…

I don't know about Claude, but I know that $20 of Copilot doesn't get you very far these days even when you know enough to tell it what to do.

There should be a sign somewhere: 934 days since people first started threatening that devs would be replaced by AI in 365 days. 0 day(s) since Anthropic posted a developer job pos…

Let's be honest - they're also still hiring software devs. AI still requires skilled humans in the loop and that's not going away.

Yup. I don't normally eat vegan but, if I'm drinking a latte, it's gonna be oatmilk.

Great programmers write code that makes you wonder why everyone doesn't do it like that.

I feel like you keep missing the point and are more interested in gotcha's.

Triffid music.

I don't know enough to speak about that particular domain, but if the junior is writing something the senior can't understand, that's always going to be a problem. That code become…

If the code is so smart that it's not easily understandable, it's not easily fixable. My transition from junior to senior was accompanied by the realization that simpler is nearly …

I'm a simple man. Promises of utopia are well and good, but it would appear the way we get there is by corporations hoovering up all the new means of production, at which point the…

In your future, when does it stop costing $500 to buy 32GB of DDR5? Or are the companies still leasing us the compute?

I think we've all seen by now that the majority doesn't much matter if you have a rabidly zealous minority.

Few Albertans. The Forever Canada petition got over 10% of the entire population to sign it. Considering that it was a grassroots effort and that you had to sign in person, meaning…

Speaking as an Albertan, it's only a very loud and vocal minority. The UCP government has seen that the premier only stays in power if they cowtow to the fringe crazies in the part…

It also doesn't qualify how or how often the users use the app. Online games like to do this too - "40M registered users!" when the number of players with an active subscription ar…