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If they use blatant, binary positions and you try to be subtle and nuanced you've already lost.

Kids can't gamble so yes we should enforce laws and ignore that one too. We can then debate if sports gambling itself should be legal or advertised at all.

How would an absolute newbie know what a harness is? What an IDE is? That code is represented in a set of files? That some of those files are actually metadata? What metadata is? W…

This comment - and many others - misses the OP's original point: what are tools? Do you mean my laptop, and a pen and paper? What's an agent? I.D.E.? none of this is part of the vo…

How many times can you drop your company's name is a supposed comment? Maybe reach out directly and spare us the fake commentary?

This is what I do with my 18 minivan that has a 6 disc player. That's a lot of mp3s and it's fun to guess what's next (my rando mp3 discs tend to always be in alphabetical order

The outrage is over the apparent collusion between a platform that argues it only facilitates a fan-to-fan marketplace, and a hedge fund run by the platform's CEO that sells a mass…

Come on, across the world we prepay for the use of things regardless if we do or not. As described in the article it's an option, not a political system.

This closed loop system needs to be filled and flushed, which is the operation discussed in the article. The bacterium was described as a possible airborne hazard if used for irrig…

It's great to be an amateur learner, but if you want to get better (or just make learning more effective) I really liked the (very easy read) Little Book of Talent. It focuses on h…

The fact that you need to fight an incredibly strong biological motivator to do this suggests you're wrong. If you have a builder mentality and want to leave the world better than …

YouTube has been a godsend for these types of problems. It's like LLM output, you need to validate and cross reference but combined with other sources of information, easy purchase…

Learning can be the goal if you're lucky. Maybe sharing your learning is the next step and that's enough too. You don't need to apply it to something someone defines as "worthy" fo…

Not finishing - or even being able to define the finish line - is a great sign you're doing this right. You're not a tortoise seeking mastery; it's ok to be a distracted hare!

LLMs can definitely be helpful, but you need your radar set to 11 because they will convincingly feed you smart sounding nonsense when you are most at risk.

I've been learning Spanish and I find a big positive motivator is finding and practicing slang words and vulgar phrases. They usually have cultural roots and are highly contextual,…

You generally want to ventilate almost continuously, so if a circulation fan kicks on at 700 instead of 1000 that's really not a big deal.

You seem to think humans keep cats as pets, which indicates you've never lived with a cat before.

The youngest of my three is now 14. When it's come to managing developers raising kids is a superpower

I have 3 kids. When they started on solids: #1 got fancy home made baby food, like cheesy chicken broccoli frozen into ice cube chunks. #2 got steamed yams and crackers. #3 got wha…

This completely ignores the very real, very serious damage he's doing right now, and the doors he's opening for future leaders. Discounting the dumb things he says is very dangerou…

They trade on the brand name and Martin Fowler's reputation, but even in their heyday were considered pedantic architecture astronauts by many of us trying to get shit done.

It seems weird to ask users about feature completeness, especial regarding a new system. By definition, if you are hitting a valuable use case you WON'T be feature complete, and th…

I want to work with people I like and who's company I enjoy; it's not all about executing the task with maximum efficiency. I can replace you with a solid robot worker before I can…

This isn't realistic for something likeriding your bike where you get lots of sun on your face and limbs.