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> That's the logic of the whole market today. AI – the world's money-losingest technology – attracts investment at the expense of everything else. I expect Cory to have skepticism …

Software people are such a "DIY" crowd, that I think selling courses to us (or selling courses to our employers) is a crappy prospect. The hacker ethos is to build it yourself, so …

This article makes sense when you figure out that the author's assumption is that vibe-coded == bad. It sounds like this startup headed for closure anyway, with it's failing revenu…

how does the "smacking" work? Is there a VR integration? Is it just button-smashing? It's unclear just from looking at the website w/o signing up

Nice! When I was leaving a company after 4 years there, I went through jira + my git commits to write a log of everything I'd done. Really great look back.

This is a cool idea! So I think, unfortunately, you are competing with automated tools like https://poly.cam/ My cousin-in-law produces music videos, and he'll take a polycam of sp…

Yeah, and I have a similar experience watching junior devs try to get things working-- their errors can be excessively dumb :D

I mean, they were right to be fans of Sulfur dioxide injection into the atmosphere. And so far ahead of their time!

The personality metrics they're using are the Big-5. The Big 5 has good test-retest scores (if you take the test a month apart, you're likely to get the same scores). Big 5 is used…

Location: Corvallis, Oregon Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Typescript, React, Webpack, git, Bootstrap Resume: http://www.peterconerly.com/ email:…

have you tried these EEG-based tools? They're difficult to pick up.

holy shit I love oligarchy now

And the average home in America is owned for what, like 5-7 years? If someone is moving out of the community, are they really going to ignore a windfall payment from a developer? A…

This is absolutely a failure of management. Both the general management and _especially_ the engineering management. Eng management needs to convey that this is an Achilles' heel t…

100% agree. One of my friends, in her first software engineering role, was handed a binder from 1987 and told to update some things. Other coworkers had interacted with the system …

Also x2, horses originated in North America! They came to eurasia over the bering land bridge! So the horses that were released (and have thrived!) in north america are originally …

I mean, isn't the 40 columns the problem? You might benchmark it against a couple other database flavors, I suspect most dbs would have issues, although maybe not the same issues a…

I love the idea of cognitive AI. I've dabbled with OpenCog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCog , and in my youth I read "Artificial General Intelligence (2005)" by Ben Goertzel a…

It's not loading for me :-/ the game sounds interesting from the rules listed. details.php?keyword=Lielow:1333 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set properties of null (setting 'onclick')…

Yes! I'm looking forward to a return of the age of trade secrets, No patent system, just corporations doing their best to keep their arcane knowledge from prying hands. Very cyberp…

it's entered the tech vernacular :) do you grok it now?

Have you not worked the last five years? Tech companies are chock full of "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" talks

If anyone is curious about the controversy, here's the NYTimes piece on Scott Alexander: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod... It's a decent article, and …