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So, once you've used your knowledge to make several important pre-task decisions, the task is easy? Pre task decisions that a layperson would accidentally make implicitly because t…

This is how you get the french revolution.

Let me illustrate why you are wrong: 800-400k years ago: humans intentionally create and control fire 300k years ago: humans become anatomically modern ~ now: all of astronomy, bio…

I wouldn't want to work for or with someone who can't even stand a thank you note.

Something I have always (even pre-LLMs) found funny to think about is - all code possible to run on a computer already exists. It's some permutation of all the bits of available me…

We're talking for servers, which almost always means modded (even if only server side mods like the bukkit family). Pretty common for servers with more than a dozen people to be ru…

What doomerism. I really don't see it. Slop has always been cheap. Now it's even cheaper. But software that actually fucking works AND does what you want is still expensive as hell…

I trust the pressing on a CD or vinyl to remain readable SIGNIFICANTLY more than I trust any corporation to do literally anything, including "continue to exist".

Remember: code is free as in "free puppy". FOSS communities were never valuable because of the code. It was the shared written and oral traditions that make the software useful, us…

I also write a lot of python code. Ported 2 companies from python 2 to 3 too (idk why that keeps happening to me). Lots of modern (...3+) python code uses type hints and a type che…

Nah man that's how you end up in the permanent underclass. If you want to make it you have to throw everyone and everything else under the bus, be a bizarrely mustache-twirling evi…

I wonder if it's a joke about oversubscribed environments (cloud VPS) or a real remark about fractional CPU budgets in container environments

Sure, naturally. And yet parent commenter is remarking that simultaneously no AI-true-believer startups have supplanted the old money, and simultaneously despite much talk the bigc…

I've said this before: if anthropic (et al) thought they genuinely had a shot at replacing even 30% of white collar work, they would ABSOLUTELY NOT warn ANYONE. They would do what …

It's not one or the other, it's both. Sqlalchemy ORM is my favorite, followed sqlc (golang), because they are both there for you for your highs (select * from table order by create…

Yes and no. There's a distinct auction that runs and it is a distinct event and has its own rules. Eg 5 mins (idr exactly, it's been 6 years for me) before the opening cross you ca…

No, you're right. It basically just passes the buck. But the general idea is that if your transaction succeeds, you KNOW that there is a durable record that some external thing nee…

I am quite curious too. I had heard that, despite arm vascular being very consistent among individuals, it does still vary. And I think for most vaccines I guess it doesn't matter …

We managed to generate probably-correct code, which can then be probably-corrected recursively to get to something that runs (usually). This made everyone scream and lose their min…

Ok cool. Computers think. They're (trying to) use that to literally replace regular people. And not in a Star Trek way. "Permanent underclass" way. That's bad. I would rather we no…

The site is clearly libertarian, so they have a vested interest in trying to dunk on both the "left" and "right". When in actuality they're just lumpenproletariat who are going to …

No kids eh? My oldest starting preschool was one of the worst times in my life. We were sick from august to december, then january to may. Dreadful. It got better. My youngest is 3…

I sure wish I could relate to this but I haven't been at a company that hired juniors since i was the junior being hired 15 years ago.

Idk, I can imagine a specific weird usecase. I use IntelliJ. My coworkers don't. They don't want my .idea folder in git. (You're probably thinking "ok, yep, gitignore!" And you're …

People always point this out like it's some kind of gotcha. "But things were wrong before, too!" But it wasn't ON PURPOSE. The INTENT, by the people serving the search, was for the…