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You should be using the email address "username@no.reply.github.com" or similar There's never been an obligation to use a real email address for git

Amazon did this to me. Their recruiters started hounding me at an email address that I only ever used to sign git commits on some repos used on GitHub. When I asked them how they g…

True story; I wanted to make a tiny update to our CI / CD to upload copies of some artifacts to S3. It took 1min for the LLM to remind me of the correct syntax in aws cli to do the…

It's ironic to me because I'm the Luddite who refuses to adopt agentic AI and still using only the Chat interface with Codex and Claude inside the VS Code extensions to help me wit…

> I am extremely out of touch with anti-LLM arguments Wow I know that feel. I'm here using LLM for daily work and even hobbies in very conservative manners and didn't think much of…

> When you say “LLMs did not fully solve this problem” some people tend to respond with “you’re holding it wrong!” > > I think they’re sometimes right! Interacting with LLMs is a n…

I appreciate the author's work in doing this and writing it all up so nicely. However every time I see someone doing this, I cannot help but wonder why they are not just using SLUR…

Keep doing tech work but work for more meaningful organizations. Look into STEM and science and health fields that need help with their technology. Shifting your career away from t…

This authors problem isn't GitHub it's the fact that they used Rust when they should have used Go. Never would have had this issue

Adderall XR + to-do lists For work purposes I keep hand written To Do lists that I re-write every week or so This is in addition to the teams Jira tickets and Scrum etc There is no…

It's always extremely weird to me when people have to make this distinction because I was under the impression that ALL Adderall prescriptions are for the XR extended release which…

Using LLM for programming work is a skill that takes practice and sometimes a little luck, just like Google searching for help with programming work. It takes practice to figure ou…

Gotta use Scroll Reverser unfortunately. Sometimes even that breaks though. Sad

This is a fake issue. You should just be using window snapping which finally is included directly in the os

> I'm sure AI can easily get to the 99%, but does it help with the rest? Yes the AI can help with 100% is it. But the operator of the AI needs to be able to articulate this to the …

> Go should have similar difficulties with cross compilation It doesn't. Go code can be cross compiled for any OS and any CPU arch from any supported system. And it comes out of th…

This is such a big deal and I wish more people talked about it in these types of blog posts. I used to be a Python programmer and there were two things that destroyed every project…

I'm an og Pebble fan, I owned every one of the originals, but I'm PISSED because last year they ran a Kickstarter for the recently released Pebble Time 2 and Pebble 2 Duo; I spent …

before long we will all just be sitting in cafés alone staring at each other alone and together we will all just take in the experience of being alone with each other in a café

yea let me just give access to my company AWS account credentials to this program made by some random dude on the internet

> However the answerers on So are not paid. Why should tyhy waste their time on a user who has not shown they have put any effort in and asks a question that they have already answ…

its not just you, I saw this happen to others' posts many times and it happened to me several times I gave up on Stack Overflow when my jobs started requiring me to use Terraform a…

yes I noticed this as well, over the past few years, its happened again and again that the "Top Answer" ends up being useless and I found myself constantly sorting the answers by "…

Just get a Mac and stop worrying about this stuff