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Yeah really, cooking steak well is hard as hell. I sure haven't mastered it yet.

Well, 36 million images doesn't necessary imply 36 million people (in fact, it could possibly just imply 36...)

> don't need to be tipped I was at a sports stadium last month and I went to get a bottle of water - the whole thing was completely automated. I picked up a bottle of water off the…

Yeah, the change was to force the apps to include a tip option before the food arrived, which users interpret as the "don't spit in my food" option. Of _course_ tips went up when t…

I remember spending hours typing in hex dumps from the back of Compute!s Gazette back then. To this day, I still remember that LDA at A9 and STA was 8D.

I started on a TI-99/4A. I've met TI greybeards who've never heard of it and didn't know TI even made a personal computer...

I hit the limits of C64 basic pretty quick and I read somewhere that there was a different language called "assembler" that was faster, so I convinced my mom to buy me a book about…

It still remains to be seen, but the C64 may have ruined my son's life as well. I have a similar story to yours and OP's: born in the mid 70's, got a C64 in the mid 80's, convinced…

When I first started working as a programmer in the early 90's, I was surrounded by older guys whose advice was always along the lines of "hoard information and knowledge, make you…

I hear from my son that, yes.

I've worked with some professional coders who were philosophy majors - there's some overlap between formal computer science and philosophy for sure. I was sort of surprised when on…

There are M/MIX assemblers and interpreters you can download and run - in some ways they're better than "real" programming languages because they're explicitly for instruction so u…

I never took the SAT, but I did take the GRE. The year I took it, it was 3 sections: Quantitative, Verbal and Writing. The year I took it, the writing section replaced an older Log…

Actually, if you interpret his requirement literally, it would suggest that he only accepts trans employees: no him/her, just they/them.

Nobody likes to hear it, but this is the only explanation that makes sense. We had an unprecedented economic shock, and we're dealing with an unprecedented economic fallout. The on…

I've been doing these exercises regularly for years and haven't made much progress ;). I still perform music regularly and get positive feedback. I do hope that some day I'll get t…

> the right wing has also enforced censorship Not familiar with Korean politics, but both left and right are immensely pro-censorship here in America. For the most part, the only t…

Spending time doing deep work on hard problems also doesn't go so well with the "track your hours against approved JIRA tickets and compare your logged hours against your estimates…

Yeah, this type of advice rubs me the wrong way: I feel like the author is thinking of "hard" as though it were back-breaking day labor that any fool could do, but nobody wants to …

I mean, so has Microsoft, so...

They were trained to mimic our behavior. So they do.

They just inserted an exclamation mark after the first word.

Isn't this globalization working as designed? People in "rich" countries will get less and less while people in "poor" countries will get more and more until there are no more rich…

I doubt it. We've seen time and time again that what the USCIS considers "extraordinary" are actually very, very ordinary circumstances. Anybody with proof of employment will quali…

Grandstanding and misinformation on whose part? I want this to not be true (i.e. I want data centers to not be poisoning groundwater and killing us all) and I don't think that elec…