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Deleting career fields in and of itself is not a problem with technology, but when it's like the eye of sauron scouring workplaces and snapping jobs away (pardon the mixed universe…

The worst thing is that I know there's something interesting in there but I'm too arsed to take the time and decode what data the author must have used to generate that text.

> People don't usually remember the average amount of time they wait. They fixate on those times when the elevator took FOREVER, the p90 case. I would always get a chuckle out of s…

I spent about an hour in a VR entertainment space, where you donned a headset and played a game designed for a large play-space. It was incredibly fun, but afterwards driving my ca…

xda is older than github and has a lot of institutional inertia. Also I get the impression that many of the people involved in the xda ecosystem are hobbyists that just kind of lea…

I've been using cmux for a long time too but am pretty happy with it. It's not perfect but much better than plain tmux/ghostty. I'll give herdr a shot too.

You can find drawstring threaders (bodkins?) on amazon pretty cheaply - if you have clothes with drawstrings it's handy to have one of these around the house.

Not just accidental, there are many tools/processes/weapons that are powered by software written by engineers who knowingly write their code to do harm. But people gotta eat and al…

I am a casual American football viewer but my understanding is that the kneel ends the current play but keeps the clock running. Each team has something like 40s to setup their for…

The conspiracy theorist in me says that LLM providers do this regularly (or at least, don't bother optimizing for it) beyond some arbitrary "$/task" metric. I am not sure of there …

My dad had a fairly sizable collection of C64/Apple games and I never really learned where he got them from. "Cracked by The Vulture" was something that I was very used to seeing u…

I've played a little bit of Dead Cell's but it hasn't stuck with me yet. I have to admit the game is a little overwhelming but maybe I need to stick with it a bit more. Part of PoP…

I will always have a soft spot for the original Prince of Persia. It was one of those games I played constantly as a child, although only when my dad would let me use his Apple ][c…

> Watching it do log file analysis in seconds that would have taken me hours (edit: days really), and which I would therefore never have done in the first place. Just today I had m…

Anecdotally Windows ARM works fine for me, although to be honest most of my work is command line + browser anyway. WSL works like a treat. Steam installs and most lower end games a…

I'm trying not to spoil anything but this article reminds of this excellent short story: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children

> Also I just find it a little insulting if someone sends me an AI response I run into this with AI-generated PR comments. I think where I work we are still grappling with the "rig…

I've come to the opinion that conflicts should be committed and merge fixes should be in another commit afterwards. Arguably even if the merge fix is trivial.

I'm certain there are a non-zero number of TVs that either attempt to auto-join popular wifi hotspots (xfinity/tmobile/starbucks/etc.) and/or have cellular connections for telemetr…

Anecdotally from people I know from MS is that adhoc slack usage was popular up until lockdown, at which point more resources was poured into Teams due to everything going remote a…

20 days is rookie numbers. I can get a million engineers to each review a single line and finish code reviewing the entire code base in a minute.

The premise of this article is incorrect - MS isn't cancelling Claude code internal usage because of AI costs too much, they're cancelling it because GitHub copilot is the compete …

> The first half is a constant flood of footage from the iPhone, the DJI Pocket, the drone, the Nikon Z8, and lately the Ray-Ban Metas too. There's always something being recorded.…

I maintain a part of my team's CD process and I've observed a 30% increase in PR velocity since we started adopting agentic tools but it was a "one-off" increase (as-in, it hasn't …