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I'll add my two cents here. A lot of the work that goes into a codebase doesn't necessarily appear in the final product. Sometimes code is hastily written to get the system working…

Django has the function render (it used to be render_to_response ) that takes a template and converts it to HTML. So it isn't just the JS people who are using the idea of rendering…

You're right about D, but Rust is drawing some people away from C and C++. Something may emerge that will do the same on the JS front-end. In fact, I'd say that the TypeScript/Reac…

This is pretty poor writing by PG here. What is "neutral opinion"... fact? Or the people who answer "I don't know" in political polls? And saying "Actual frauds are usually pretty …

Here's mine: https://www.amecy.com/404

My Chrome installation updated itself recently, and when I restarted it today, it asked me whether I wanted to enable new AI features. I told it no. In retrospect, if it were reall…

Don't worry. There will be a few witless attempts too.

"So what makes you think you're a good fit for this job?" "I already have it."

bee_rider already touched on this in another comment, but the theorem makes sense if you consider a matrix with large diagonal values and small off-diagonal values (in magnitude). …

Ahem, you mean alluding, not eluding.

DOTA 2 gets rebalanced constantly; certain characters are made stronger or weaker. Overwatch also received some major changes relating to team composition.

Maybe they just wanted 3,158 Hacktoberfest T-shirts.

Yeah, I think they're trying to say "Stop writing in C and C++, blockheads!" but in a more diplomatic tone. Most of the common languages today are memory-safe. Really, which ones a…

I still see a lot of outdoor signs that alternate between showing the time and the temperature. They're usually outside banks, and near apartment buildings sometimes. Libraries pro…

One of my startup jobs paid us through ADP. While our ADP account was being set up, my boss told us to be on the lookout for an email from them. So one day, I'm in the middle of pr…

Once the Supreme Court ruled that money is speech, this was the next logical step.

I was doing something like this recently, where I implemented movements for the kings and rooks. I didn't even implement check or checkmate; basically, you win by capturing the kin…

> For example, a prompt seeking images of America's founding fathers turned up women and people of colour. I smell a sequel to Hamilton .

Next thing you know, they're going to tell us that he didn't really hunt vampires. You can't trust anybody anymore.

> My bet is that the next "hip" thing will be either off-line or off-tech. IME, the Internet was much cooler when it took real-life things and improved upon them. If you're a write…

> Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover Those CDs have a way of disappearing. My local library used to have a lot of tech books that were missing the accompanying CDs.

> They have providence , maintaining custody from manufacturer to store shelf. That's called provenance, not providence.

Linear algebra was the first math class I took in undergrad. I thought the next one was going to be non-linear algebra! But it wasn't.

There's only one way to know for sure.

Years ago, I worked for a startup that was trying to build a recruitment platform. We fed résumés into a few different SaaS résumé parsers, but the results that we got were general…