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So we are reduced to code monkeys mindlessly re-typing what an LLM wrote to increase potential understanding... Whatever this approaches, it is not a state of software engineering …

I think that's a stretch. People can care, but be unwilling to spend the time researching it or accept the trade offs that come with small browsers (which are often unsupported for…

It's a nag-box that appears every time someone visits a new website. Of course people are going to click it away as fast as possible. In the few cases you repeatedly visit a websit…

You can always set the editor in your --global or --local config though: git config core.editor "vim" I do agree that using the default editor is a mostly a bad choice due to it be…

I think the only missing thing for me would be to group commits, essentially squashing them for a clean history while allowing to unsquash them in case you need it.

I don't understand your question. The person you replied to never said anything about a boycott. They said that diversification is kind of necessary, so to use both Russian and Ame…

Given the recent chat control disaster I'd say our say is rather slim when it matters. Just put a decision into urgency mode (even though technically that's only allowed for the fi…

I'd like to add an anecdote about machining. Some designers impose incredibly tight tolerances on part shapes that hardly change the overall behavior of the final machine, but are …

You have to deal with this no matter what unless you can live with wasting storage space. You have to arrange extra sales or try and donate stuff (basically, go through all possibl…

funny enough, 2>&1 >/dev/null cat file appears to yield the same output. So i wonder where the not "order-independent" chimes in.

Don't phones have identifiers outside of phone number anyway? I feel like you have to trust the hardware/os vendor anyway. So if you don't trust apple to not misbehave, maybe not g…

I feel like your example is flawed, I just can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's because I don't see how sleep regularity is a factor you can change as willingly as visits to the f…

Sigh, I don't know why a blog-post against micro benchmarks should alter my opinion on this topic. There are more metrics than just "speed" regarding an interface. You also want it…

Most knowledge about human computer interfaces was obtained through metrics. Groupings, menu bars, corner buttons, context menu orderings, and other things didn't just spawn into e…

The existence and growth of the codeberg project does, however.

You're right it doesn't. At least not completely. I was thinking about precision (i.e.: if the test is positive, what are the odds that its prediction is true). It turns out, that …

There are implications by linguistics. If you learn a language you also passively obtain insight into cultural norms and expectations. Moreover, Learning a language is much easier …

The mentioned accuracy in the comment you are replying to already encapsulates the relation of true positives to false positives.

There is no progress without possible failure in medicine. Each treatment starts with assumptions and you can only go so far until you start testing on actual people. Until we unde…

What exactly do you mean by "solved NP-hardness"?

I wonder if it will feel significant. I can't remember being limited by the controller battery. The runtime on a single charge is probably still going to be measured in weeks, and …

Douglas afaik. Boeing moved HQ and quite a few engineering practices were abandoned.

I wonder by which metric you measure these scripts. Clearly it can't be on pronounciation or information density. If "amount of letters" is your pick, then Latin might be "objectiv…