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A delayed response doesn’t mean it’s not automated, just that it wasn’t built to not feel automated. I worked on an automated reply system like this previously and we had intention…

Fixnum#times isn’t a great example, I only used it since the parent used it to illustrate their confusion and quite frankly a concrete useful example is to complex for this format.…

It’s not just about practicality. Ruby is using message passing, not method calling. This is fundamentally different and a bit foreign to the larger community. Then ruby layers syn…

I think you’re right, but I also suspect that doesn’t clear up anything for most people as in my experience they generally don’t grok the difference unless they’ve already spent a …

No, they would know exactly what they know now. Employers already report your earnings to both the federal and state IRS agencies and pay your withholdings automatically adjusted f…

Liquid Glass is complete and utter trash. I pray Apple gets a clue and gives us a new better UI even if it’s just the old one.

I loved TiVo 20 years ago when it was relevant, but honestly I had no idea they were still around

Well that explains why the stock spiked over 25% recently

Sam Altman made a post on Reddit in 2023 implying OpenAI had achieved AGI internally. Later he “clarified” it was a joke, however there was some speculation that he didn’t understa…

In both cases it depends on the area of the state and how populous. Far southern Iowa near Whatcheer for example is mostly gravel with paved roads only in the cities and major high…

I live just off J in the Hatfield area. Been to Chippewa Falls countless times.

We have 100s of queues processing millions of jobs in sidekiq queues at any given time. These are data and compute heavy workloads that take anywhere from minutes to hours for a re…

Yes, yes, yes, everyone knows about Shopify and no that’s not the multi billion dollar monolith shop I’m referring to, but we definitely have taken some inspiration from their exce…

Hard disagree. I work on one of the largest Rails codebases out there. Millions of lines of code running in a monolith. I have learned more in this shop about scaling, observabilit…

I agree robots breakdown a lot, however if you think robots are more expensive to maintain you may want to take a look at the cost of American medical costs.

Insider trading from congress, the senate, and the offices of the president is nothing new. There is a reason people have been tracking and mimicking Pelosi's trades for years.

Do you not understand that money coming from the government has been acquired from taxes, ergo the money comes from the people.

Equity for pre-IPO companies is often tied to an expiration. If there is no qualifying liquidity event before the expiration then your equity disappears unless the company takes ac…

Most likely he is doing it for economic reasons. My preferred checker is an elderly woman that is slow, but very affable and likes to chat when there is no line. Despite her positi…

Software "design space is high dimensional" is true in that storage, latencies, processors, memory we just keep growing and growing. Given that, software should be faster and bette…

Not op, but I'm clearly reading their message differently than you. Any type of physical engineering is based on hard facts, data, and well established historical research, mathema…

TikTok has already received multiple "interest to acquire" letters, including the one from Perplexity that would keep all existing investors fully intact. Having that along with a …

Lazarus is an open source implementation of object Pascal. Basically an attempt to recreate Delphi as open source. Not bad honestly.

My experience is those are generally technically immature organizations. Everyone knows that "John" is consulted across departments and pulled in by senior leaders, that he's guidi…

Did you get something done in an hour that would have taken multiple hours or not? If you did then it transformed your productivity.