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My argument is that all the vocabulary for computer science are things. Even if they are virtual, they are tangible. You can draw a picture and label a box "bytes". Nothing in the …

start-ups spend over 100% of revenue on risky ventures.

I'm stodgy, but I can't get past how they chose VERB-OBJECT instead of OBJECT-VERB. get- is useless. MSFT knew tab-completion would be a thing, yet they made it useless.

Fallout 1 & 2! Formative titles for young me.

For recorded music, you could always buffer however many milliseconds of audio to account for the processing.

Michael Bay just read "computronium" and spawned an 8 movie franchise in his head.

Well yeah. Cars kill 40x the people.

Seeing this while the 75 year old who killed a whole family of 4 with her car gets away without jail time... Some pretty wild misplaced priorities.

I did the math. Twitter was down $1.3 billion over 10 years. Anthropic lost $5.2 billion last year. So they are 40x better at spending investor money than Twitter. Hard to call Twi…

You just engaged in deflection and whataboutism on his behalf, but you aren't defending him? It really seems like you're defending him.

Putting on my pedantic hat, does this qualify as a picture of the mountains? As in, is there any light hitting the mountains, then hitting the film/sensor? Or is this just an elabo…

After 4 years of Russia/Ukraine, does anyone think that a terror group would take down an airliner with anything other than a drone? Why take any operational risk of actually going…

Off the top of my head, C# is both the language & the runtime. React only throws things over the fence to browsers. Probably helps a lot to keep abstractions from leaking.

> why bother learning two paradigms Objection. Your React is ultimately turning into HTML so you DO have to learn HTML + CSS. You just have an abstraction over it.

The Pacific ocean is big.

> Also, they run 24/7 at 100% capacity, so after only 1.5 years How does OpenAI keep this load? I would expect the load at 2pm Eastern to be WAY bigger than the load after Californ…

NextJS is web-scale.

Washington bridge rebuild maybe? The demolition of the piles is all that's left.

I heard a little DVa from Overwatch.

Work bought me a VisionTek hub. I wanted the 1 cable life - unfortunately, it only does monitors via DisplayLink, aka compressed & streamed to & from my desk. It's noticeably fuzzy…

IMO that phrase came about when old tech companies (the IBMs of the world) had * waterfall * design up-front * source control systems that * defaulted all files to read-only * requ…

> And it has a brand Didn't they change names months ago? I know them as Codeium.

Banning raw milk is for health. Banning research chemicals is mostly an extension of the war on drugs. They aren't the same.

Do you mean "walking away with the documents"? Walking away from the documents is what your employer would like you to do.

This is screaming for a Raymond Chen post explaining the strange-but-true history behind it.