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It runs into the Mississippi river, which runs into the sea.

Given that each planet seems to have one species, except that humans live everywhere, I always kind of assumed that the Galactic Empire was one with humans at the core.

I first learned about New Sweden several years ago from reading The Barbarous Years[0]. Now I always think about it whenever I drive south toward Maryland and DC when I cross the D…

A graffito, or a pack of graffiti ;-)

In the US, much of the woods are owned by corporations too. Those that aren't are, in theory, owned by the public, but the oligarchs work hard to hollow that out so that practicall…

> Imagine telling workers at a construction company that the hard problem was never building stuff but figuring out what needs to be built. Isn't this kind of true, though? Housing…

That may be the future, but we're not there yet. If you're having the LLM write to a high level language, eg java, javascript, python, etc, at some point there will be a bug or oth…

Somewhat against the common sentiment, I find it's very helpful on a large legacy project. At work, our main product is a very old, very large code base. This means it's difficult …

What the teacher did.

If the goal is to reduce the need for SWE, you don’t need AI for that. I suspect I’m not alone in observing how companies are often very inefficient, so that devs end up spending a…

These posts are in a thread about someone pumping out a large amount of software in a short amount of time using AI. I'm guessing that you and I would agree that programs flung out…

> There's this notion of software maintenance - that software which serves a purpose must be perennially updated and changed - which is a huge, rancid fallacy. If the software tool…

Well, there's the variation I heard recently: There are only two problems in computer science. We only have one joke, and it's not very funny.

> In order to sell anything, people need to know about it. Google and Meta provide a way to make this possible. If they didn't exist, you wouldn't somehow have a more affordable wa…

Who are these mythical people who can pay $500/month to park below 60th street but will be bankrupted by the congestion toll?

> I still remember in the early 2000s Barnes and Noble would still have massive shelf space devoted to every technical topic you could imagine. B&N, and Borders, are how I learned …

Over my career, I've been in a big company twice. This article definitely tracks with my experience. At one company, I think management actively didn't care, and in fact my direct …

The way you're defining "eventually consistent" seems to imply it means "the current state of the system is eventually consistent," which is not what I think that means. Rather, it…