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I agree that the word “just” carries that connotation but I disagree that it’s a bad thing. When I ask if we can just do something my intent is exactly to communicate that I think …

I've never seen so many epicycles in my life...

Back when I was building an IDE with a custom text editor, I initially used embedded Neovim thinking I would get the entire vim feature set out of the box for free. Unfortunately t…

I've always heard "auth" to mean authentication and "perms" to mean authorization.

I dunno. On the one hand I hate “web dev” more than anyone. I think it has led to such an astronomical decline in software quality that if you described it to someone from the days…

Why are financial crimes morally exempt in a way that, say, violent crime is not, even if the aggregate damage from the financial crime is greater? Unless you’re arguing that this …

What’s wrong with that argument? Doesn’t getting more money from the user mean that the user is choosing to pay more, which reveals their preference?

Do the cops “breaking procedure” know for certain if the accused are guilty? How can they?

Politicians know the electoral vote is what matters, so they adjust their campaign strategy to optimize for it. Theoretically, after everything washes, the electoral vote is what t…

Having an existing example showing that something difficult is possible causes everyone else to replicate it much faster, like how a bunch of people started running sub-4-minute mi…

Thought experiment: what if you copied and restored the backup into two bodies, and both bodies were a state continuation of the original? Would the two existences be simultaneousl…

Someday we may be able revive the brain itself by connecting it to a body, in which case you would experience falling asleep and waking back up.

The biggest difference I’ve seen in how people learn is whether they learn things top down or bottom up. I generally prefer to just have the main idea or concept explained directly…

> Splitting a system into subsystems allows each team to focus on their piece of the puzzle while minimizing the amount of peer-to-peer coordination. This does not happen at all. W…