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The main advantage of skills is defining a process that is at least vaguely consistent across different executions for a given task, and plugging in some of the common pitfalls an …

The one thing I appreciated about my Computer Engineering undergrad - and it took me a few years to fully appreciate it - is that yes, we did cover those levels. The first two year…

I’m genuinely curious what people at Microsoft, and on the Windows team specifically, run on their daily machines. They cannot possibly be putting up with Windows 11 as experienced…

Genuinely curious - in your case, where do the requirements for what needs to be built come from? In every project I've touched, business requirements are always the bottleneck - s…

>Does the game actually communicate this naturally during play? Not really. The player is simply thrown into a brutally hostile world and left to suffer. In reality, players hunt t…

Wow, this gives me such bittersweet feelings! This is almost 1:1 with a project we worked on several years ago. Unfortunately it never launched - founder ran out of money. It was o…

This feels particularly egregious because of our unspoken assumption that Adobe, of all companies, should have "excellence in design" somewhere on its list of core guiding principl…

‘Rogue’ hammer loses control and smashes carpenter’s thumb.

Yeah, that is a tough market… By definition those people likely have very little cash, and higher than average belief in their own abilities :)

Subscription fatigue is real, especially since most SAAS providers got a lot more aggressive with raising prices in the past few years. Add enshittification, products randomly gett…

>How, the novice may ask, does one discover which version is the correct one for oneself? >There is nothing else to it – you must eat a few hundred bowls of phở and find out. If th…

Did you read part 3? Doesn’t sound like “avoiding hard things” is really a problem for the author :) https://blog.kevinzwu.com/symbolhead-syndrome/

I have a lot of respect for Steve Blank, but my heuristic by now is to ignore any breathless posts that state “teams are doing X with AI, if you are not doing the same you’re behin…

>For me, I've always called it the "school at night" phenomenon. It's funny, I've always loved that kind of environment. Quiet high school hallways after everyone's left, empty uni…

I use a 40” 4K screen. If I ever accidentally full screen a window, and it’s not in night mode, I am instantly blinded by a wall of mostly white empty background!

I thought I was laying on the sarcasm pretty thick. But I guess it’s harder and harder to tell these days!

The past failure is in the abstract, and in the past. And anyway, they were unfairly maligned. There is an inside version of the story that they will be happy to tell you, which wa…

? Claude Code has a Teams plan which includes Max tiers. Why would it be forbidden?

I joke that I'm on the "Claude Code workout plan" now. Standing desk, while it's working I do a couple squats or pushups or just wander around the house to stretch my legs. Much mo…

Ironically, this brings us one step closer to believing the simulation hypothesis might be true... In which case, maybe there is no real world anyway ;)

>OpenAI has 800,000,000 weekly users but only 20,000,000 are paying while 780,000,000 are free riding. By itself, this doesn't tell us much. The more interesting metric would be to…

Normally that would be a fair point (and maybe it was valid in 2022). But given the US approach to foreign policy in 2025, one could argue that the list of countries that “have a c…

Do you guys not have phones?

Disappointed this link has nothing to do with Dwarf Fortress.

Except you do still have to think about time, no matter what… Libraries will help with the really messy details, but even the high level requirements have a lot of pitfalls. “Simpl…