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I'm not sad. As an engineer with decades of experience under my belt, I'm really excited about how AI can democratize software and help me finally complete long-simmering side proj…

This misses the point.

This is exactly me. I'm grateful that real medical solutions exist.

I did a lot of things, but all of them required a massive amount of sustained effort. I like that I can order the food I want to eat at a restaurant without looking up all the calo…

I understand calorie balance. I've been on a diet since I was 12 years old, and am now approaching 50. I've lost and regained the same 60lbs about 4 times now. I have logged every …

It's also a real world event that can be influenced by the existence of the bet.

It's the easiest possible way for large entities to jump on the AI bandwagon. They're definitely asking for it.

Same (but for a longer period of time). I'm kind of surprised people don't know this.

This is exactly how I learned to program. My brothers only liked playing the games, but I preferred making my own (generally based on source code listings in the back of BYTE magaz…

My brother underwent this surgery, and not only did the weight come back, he developed a serious drinking problem (he's in recovery now). Apparently, this a known side effect. All …

Forio has a digital version https://forio.com/app/showcase/near-beer-game/ I was on a team that wrote a beer game app for HBS, and the rules are really simple. It's not really wort…

GoFundMe tells a lot of people who they can or cannot send money to via their platform. First, there are laws around sending money to designated terrorist organizations, then there…

This is whataboutism; you have no proof that people who care about one thing don't also care about other things. Also, calling people you disagree with "woke" and claiming they "vi…

I would personally recommend Highcharts for that. https://www.highcharts.com/gantt/demo

What? You can't say "call me they/them," rather you can only say "don't call me him/her/or any other pronoun besides they"? That's very silly. Clarification of rules, even to the p…

You can crunch fake, sort-of-made-up numbers all day. The average man doesn't exist. My point is that it's certainly possible to be living paycheck-to-paycheck in a city with what …

That's a good point I missed.

Add a car and student loans, a reasonable food and fitness budget, and that's all of it gone.

The US is a big place, and schools vary wildly.

Even that is only important a little bit. Excelling at a mid-tier university is completely FINE. It's so much harder to get into an Ivy League school now than when I was applying i…

My son is a junior now in a very competitive high school, and they had to do away with valedictorian/salutatorian because the difference between that and, say, just top 5% would be…

That's sort of the opposite of my experience, where everyone couldn't wait to get out of the stultifying small town, where there was no work and no future.