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Thank your for posting this. I disagreed with OP but couldn't _quite_ find the words to describe why. But your post covers what i was trying to say. I was quite literally asked to …

Yeah, I interpret "premature optimization" as taking a request that takes 500ms and focusing on saving a couple ms by refactoring logic to avoid a SQL JOIN or something. Your users…

My friend once told me an analogy about modern software engineering that went something along the lines of the following. There are piles of money just sitting around waiting for s…

Generally, when someone says something like "left wing groups" they mean something with a formal organization. "Antifa" is less of an organization than even some loose collective l…

> all i know about these LLMs is that even if they understand language or can create it, they know nothing of the subjects they speak of. As a recent example of this, I was recentl…

While it's true that total net energy is what ultimately matters, the article points out that 99% of the energy that goes towards the lasers is wasted. So it seems like a logical n…

I don't necessarily disagree. However, I do think that people spend a lot of time on things that don't actually matter that much in the grand scheme. I'm not saying that people sho…

My takeaway from the article was that "too busy" really means "spending too much time on things that don't actually matter." Or perhaps more concretely, being too inefficient with …

Not OP, but I give myself a little reward. Specifically, I "X" out the task on my daily task list. I take this so far as to add items I just completed to my list just so that I can…

The vast majority of people take the standard deduction, so offering a "here's what we think you owe, but if you disagree feel free to do the full return" form would be a huge effi…

The only time "tests in a separate repo" makes sense to me is if they are truly cross-functional end to end tests that exercise several systems. Those tests should be as small as p…

I'm not saying that there aren't potential problems, but warmer water coming off of power plants in Florida has acted as a bit of a manatee sanctuary. So it's not a guaranteed bad …

I would say that any sense of sane immigration reform is completely unrealistic right now. By "sane" I specifically mean "acknowledges the shortcomings of the current system, at th…

This article has been widely discredited. The author of the paper says they are misrepresenting the research. I'm on mobile or I'd track down more links, but it was pretty easy for…

> More protection in schools could be a starting point to address these awful events. The evidence in this area shows that increased police presence in schools does not reduce the …

> Now I tend to view fashionable office supplies as productivity fetish items. It's easy to geek out on that stuff, but does a better notebook make me more productive? Seems to mak…

I've been using YNAB since March 2014. I started doing manual entry with YNAB4 and was an early adopter of YNAB5. I manage my own personal budget as well a joint budget for myself …

I think you drastically over-estimate what percentage of income the rich spend on luxury goods. People don't stay rich by buying things. I consider myself pretty high income. If I …

True, but this source is carbon neutral. Granted, we need to be carbon negative but it could still be used for some of portion of existing supply that is carbon positive.

The carbon byproduct is essentially coke, and coke already has a lot of industrial uses.

> It is easier to right than to read. I just wanted to point out that I found that particular error really funny given the context.

> It’s a huge pity that the state of the art in modern troll combat is behind NDAs. I mean... do _you_ have any ideas about how to fix this sort of thing that would survive being p…

Seiko's "spring drive" is a pretty cool innovation, though it's not purely mechanical. I think at the very core of the issue is that mechanical watches are really art pieces at thi…

Your examples seem like cases that can easily be handled by a checking account. > Fundamentally, I should not have to explain why I would desire immediate access to my own cash res…

If you're buying a classic car with funds directly from your emergency fund, then more power to you I guess but maybe you should be less impulsive with money set aside for emergenc…