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Unrelated means two things are not related in any sense. Orthogonal means two things are unrelated with respect to a specific property. Unrelated is more general, and less precise.…

You hit the nail on the head, mostly. > then you read the room and go with the layer of abstraction needed. Finding the right layer of abstraction is orthogonal to the write-speak …

The sole purpose of guns is to harm/kill. Not comparable to ML.

AFAICS the edit history goes back to May 2022, however the site has existed long before that. Not convinced

She's doing everything in her power to become famous/viral. Look at the amount of work she puts into SEO and her own Wikipedia page. She's a Wikipedia editor that edits her own pag…

Could you tell me more about your experiences with effective waiting culture? I'm having a hard time believing that a e.g. a high-level manager/exec with 20 meetings per day, and a…

A developer who doesn't have a holistic view on their systems is a liability.

Ok, next time an engineer on my team can't stop himself from talking about his SIMD lock-free distributed queue, I'll just keep listening. Maybe I get to sleep in the office too.

Without interruptions, I would not be able to finish meetings on time. EVER. Information exchange is always the bottleneck in larger organizations, so efficiency of meetings is rea…

Neither do magnets.

You can have open ledgers without compromising anonymity, via ZK cryptography.

I wish, brother. I wish it was more like that...

It's popular because these war stories you find in blog posts are pure survivorship bias. If I'd let every fucking team member go on an exploratory bug hunt whenever they feel like…

> We need more people and companies like this, who are willing to go beyond "oh it fails randomly sometimes" and track down the underlying issues. I absolutely disagree. Most capab…

Because our main work environment is the shell..? Writing code in a terminal is seamless and fast, and it fits very well in a tmux workflow.

> > From Communist Russia's collapse due to Marxism... The delivery of this nonchalant line in particular made me cringe hard.

Try starting a technology company called Apple, and tell me how that works out for you. aCtUaLLy, aPpLes hAvE eXisTeD bEfoRe 1976

One minor correction: mobile numbers are used for spam and bot prevention. You can't have a discord or signal account without a valid phone number. Think about that for a second. B…

> The problem: the web has a terrible UI toolkit for desktop apps. It has clickable links and basic forms, that's all I think you're not giving credit to the best part about the we…

Line spacing is atrocious

Gotta drink a verification can to enable it

That's one of the thing that riles me up. The vast majority of programmers, especially in the open source community, don't take licensing seriously.

> keeping it playable is easily the most effective way of crafting a game because it enables you to routinely playtest and understand your progress. Obviously. > A key element of t…

> Polish as you go Best way to end up bikeshedding.