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I don't understand the reasoning behind this, however. Why depreciate anything over multiple years vs just deducting it in the current year? Does it not all come out to the same am…

If it was 1 or 2, there would be a long Rachel-style post ranting about it and explaining exactly why. It has to be 3. And she knows her stuff, so I'm listening. Luckily we don't u…

XML's biggest problem is perfectly demonstrated in Apple's plist files. There's no real way to do lists so 15 ways have been invented ad-hoc.

Probably because add, sub, and mul are int -> int and div is int -> real. The fundamental operation maps from ℵ0 to ℵ1, which the other operations don't do. Intuitively, the comple…

Of course, as soon as an AZ goes down that had all of your Kafka nodes in it, you get eviscerated on HN for running such a setup.

It works well while there's good growth and cheap debt. But when the revenue to support this type of headcount inflation isn't there, suddenly the entire promotion treadmill seizes…

On the contrary, fastmail is usually the fastest for me in terms of delivering mail and has never failed. I get all PINs and verify emails.

LLMs can't replace most developers, not yet. If they get much better, maybe. But they have limited context. They make up APIs that don't exist. For me, it's a great starting point …

There are divisions that are tested--monthly polygraphs and urine/blood. You've never heard of them. When people think about bodybuilding, they imagine freaks, which is not a natur…

I'm trying to get my IFBB pro card. Natural drug-free bodybuilding as a hobby is healthy. What I'm doing is not. I have no delusions about this.

Since steroids are demonized, I had to make a throwaway account. Testosterone does not increase aggression, even when given in doses far above natural limits. [1] [2] When I'm not …