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I do this as well and, anecdotally, I do get better results this way and better than my coworkers who are more terse and explicit. The conversations can become a bit sprawling thou…

Suno can already do that

This statement is definitely just marketing hype, but if we're being pedantic there are tons of questions that are hard to answer but have easy to verify solutions, e.g. all NP-com…

No. I also wouldn’t use a hammer to cut a board in half - I’d grab a saw. Knowing how to pick the right tool is a fundamental part of being a good engineer. Sometimes 70% is unacce…

It might not fit your work, but there are tons of areas where “good enough” can still provide a lot of value. I’m sure you’d be thrilled with a tool that could correctly tell you i…

While Australia does take things too far, I’m actually on their side here. Driving has been too normalized. You’re operating a 2 ton chunk of metal at 60+ mph inches away from othe…

I wonder if there’s a combined metric that could be calculated. Depth of the line certainly would be impactful. A line that only works if you do 5 only moves is harder to find than…

I’ve never seen this called “alternative meat”, only “lab-grown meat.”

Maybe instead of using our OR tools for Factorio, we should run our supply chain simulations in Factorio... (Hi probable coworker)

Whatever you know best and can set up quickly and easily. It's very easy as an engineer to focus too much on the tech and not enough on the product. Don't agonize over postgres or …

There's a version of the problem that tries to highlight this: A runaway trolley is heading down the tracks toward five workers who will all be killed if the trolley proceeds on it…

Accessing public pages is exactly what weev was tried for. He found you could iterate the id argument on a public url to expose email addresses. He was sentenced to 41 months in fe…

I've been taking some classes online through quarantine, and have really enjoyed taking notes with Obsidian. As I review old notes, I often put parts of class notes into dedicated …

90% of the time, Sheets's recommended graph is exactly what I wanted, and is in general a much cleaner and enjoyable experience than Excel. Pivot tables too are much more obvious a…

This assumes you can make a reasonable estimation of the commercial value of the patent at filing time, which is unlikely.