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If someone had said, "I am generally not opposed to regulation, but this is a place where I don't support it.", you could have replied to it in a similar fashion, but reversed.

What's the conservative best practice for a solo founder (a one person company; assume the person spends ~20 hours per week on software development/maintenance and the rest of the …

The main issue here is not UX, but rather that you did something which degraded quality without transparency. You should have documented this and also highlighted the change in an …

Note that inventory already in Amazon fulfillment centers as of March 31, 2026 is still commingled "Also what happens after March 31st with the leftover commingled inventory that’s…

See also PerlNomic: http://odbook.stanford.edu/static/filedocument/2009/11/15/Ch...

I also found https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/libreplanet2022/tree/master/item/... to understand the context

One of the authors talks about using C with SDL or libdraw here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31715080 Since they were on a boat with a Raspberry Pi and not much battery po…

Yes, I think it's very possible that human brains unconsciously generate-and-test surprisingly large numbers of small candidate programs when solving a problem. This approach is ht…

The first thing to do is to put LLMs to work to generate large knowledge bases of commonsense knowledge in symbolic machine-readable formats that Cyc-like projects can consume.

I don't understand why an Income Sharing Agreement would be classified as loans. They seem more like equity than debt; the amount that students would pay depends on their future in…

Even if other users (or possibly, sock puppets of the attacker) had not been complaining, the original maintainer probably would have began to trust the attacker after enough real …

This thesis provides empirical support that a specific measure of software architectural complexity is costly. Specifically, they look thru source code in an automated manner, cons…