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OP might also like Essentialism. Very in line with YAGNI - it guides things outside of API design too!

Do you have a writeup somewhere about how this system works?

Cambridge. The job market is absolute trash right now and you managed to get your foot in the door at Amazon anyway. If you can do it now, you can certainly do it with your masters…

It's important to understand that what we have, we have because of a comparatively small group of people. That's important and interesting because it means you can influence the ou…

If I’m going to be responsible for the code that Claude writes on my behalf, I’m also going to take full responsibility for the moment that it is added to the project history, so I…

> ~50% of Americans voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to them Less than half of the US population voted in the last election. ~50% of Americans _who voted_ voted fo…

Ha, excellent. I think you'll appreciate this then: https://imgflip.com/i/aswdth I had a 50/50 chance of guessing which side of the bell curve you were on and I was wrong. :)

I have a theory. How close does the following describe you? * You're an engineer with 3-6 years of experience in a primarily IC role * Maybe you've done some tech lead stuff, but y…

You understand how this sounds, right? It’s very “I totally have a girlfriend but she lives in Canada and is a model” vibes. Do you have literally any proof? Otherwise, this is all…

To be clear, your claim is that 'much of the drug trade is r[u]n less than consensually' via some kind of undocumented, unknown-to-most brain implant that can be used to remotely t…

> There is a long history [...] that you will not find documented. Then how do you know about it? This sounds extremely made up.

> Whenever you have control over somebody else's organism, suicide isn't something which makes sense definitionally, even if his own body was used to kill him. > your vendors are l…

> If they're self-made, they earned the praise. They aren’t and they didn’t. > Being a self-made billionaire means they created a billion dollars of value. They didn't take it from…

If you've grown a ton of tomatoes, you're probably doing it for the express purpose of profiting from it. To dial back the scope to something more comparable, if I have 4-5 tomato …

> I just tap on that to open the relevant app, if I care to see more. The key difference between what you're doing and what Homebridge enables is to make the relevant app the "Home…

> A patient doesn't lean over the operating table and tell the surgeon where to cut. Web design _does_ sound much easier when clients can be anesthetized. :)

Peak east coast US! You can travel three states of distance and back in a day or less on the east coast. Three states over and back would be a day or two minimum, but potentially n…

I, too, find myself wondering why this seems to be such an intractable problem. Maybe it's just misaligned incentives? That is, the phone companies really only care as much as they…

Can you please make an image that is like 10x bigger? Like 30px font and include all the alphanumeric characters? This font looks so familiar.

shrug maybe so. But then again, I can't say I'm too torn up about losing support for an EOL OS version.

In other ecosystems, I could see how this could be a problem, but I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with a Go upgrade. What’re the actual, practical results of a package pushin…

Sure, but that doesn't address GP's argument, which I _think_ is "there's a time and a place for those criticisms, and _literally every time emacs is brought up in a public forum_ …

Thanks for that. I'm definitely familiar with that kind of situation, but what I'm not seeing is how that leads to history "collapsing under its own weight" in larger teams. That s…

> it makes history a lie that eventually collapses under its own weight in large teams Can you please elaborate on this? I've seen this argument from others as well, but nobody has…

“I want this feature” and “I want this feature to not exist” are fundamentally incompatible viewpoints when applied to any given feature. It seems like adding that feature and maki…