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Excellent old soviet cartoon based on this story (english subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP3TyuQx0

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While this is clearly an old post, I'm not sure about the actual date. On the bottom it says 1999, but there's also a citation for an article from 2001. > For many more details con…

This reminds me of a somewhat related topic - who won the space race? Growing up in Soviet Union, we were taught that it was the USSR - when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in sp…

It's tough to prioritize migrating to a new platform for the engineering blog, without a very good ROI. Airbnb's eng blog was set up on Medium a while ago, it's doing fine, they ha…

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Yeah, I should've been more clear: it wasn't really investing in a friends company. I agree it can be a source of funding when other sources aren't available, but in this case it w…

Really wish this existed in the 90's when my family moved to the US from eastern europe. A non-exhaustive list of scams my parents fell for: - Investing money in a friend's company…

This is literally me. I'm very happy with my life - my spouse, my kids, my extended family, my small group of friends that's been together for 20+ years, and my career. I have very…

The original team is working on a sequel: https://pistolshrimpgames.com/uqm2/

> Kent Beck, ex-fellow at payroll infrastructure fintech Gusto ... Really weird way to introduce Kent Beck

Hmm, when I try to change model name to "gpt-4" I get the "The model: `gpt-4` does not exist" error message. We are an API developer with a history of successful payments.. is ther…

Man, all these comments from folks who've discovered this site in their youth many many years ago makes me feel old ... because I remember when that site was first started. I was a…

Unfortunately, in practice that works only most of the time . At least in our experience (and the article says something similar) sometimes ChatGPT would return something completel…

Agree, this is a bad question that gives absolutely no indication on whether the candidate will perform well in the role as a software engineer. > The fastest I had a candidate sol…

And a great Phish song by that name too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbMTa1yeSyw

Absolutely. There's a world of difference between a professional voice actor narrating an audiobook, and AI/amateur. Personally I can't listen to anything narrated by anyone other …

There’s https://www.progarchives.com for progressive rock and related genres.

Not one mention of children in the article - the #1 reason people that have them prefer to work from home.

While the game itself is not getting remade, there is an “inspired by” game in the works: https://www.callofsaregnar.com/

Am I the only one who thought of this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY

Great story, but I wonder about the logistics of effectively DM'ing 25 players. I'm assuming not everyone plays in the same session? Otherwise - how do you handle battles with a pa…

What's missing from the open source model is the monetization. The incentives for contributing to open source and using open source products are misaligned - this is why it's been …