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are these human actors or are is the whole demo AI generated?

the trend is AI also does the code review. Too many anecdotes and studies showing AI is a better code review that a human and the models are just going to get better. Whether we ge…

Can't the same be said for the AI?

err, this is an odd response given that this assessment has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked every time it is offered up.

When an SVP asks you to do something in a mass email, it's very much optional. Dave Treadwell is an SVP, his org is likely in the 10's of thousands, there is no way to even have a …

I live in an old house. The front bump out leaks when we get driving rain. I installed some flashing but that wasn't enough, it's still leaking. So I'm working on that so I can clo…

Curious if your mental model is similar or how you see them being different.

Are you familiar with the cathedral vs the bazaar?

You have a misunderstanding of what LLMs are good at.

It's a call to have his ICE goons (armed to the teeth and trained to escalate to violence of course) operate voting stations because of all of the "illegal" voters and for DHS to a…

you don't think that's where we are headed?

I work at a large software company, senior engineers here are essentially technical leads for a team or a subsystem. They are my equals when it comes to level, often getting paid a…

I am an EM that manages several senior engineers currently. I find it super common for senior engineers to get promoted mostly on technical merit, we end up thinking the rest "can …

for the record, cpuguy83 was in the trenches at docker circa 2013, it was like him a handful of other people working on docker when it went viral, he has an extremely insiders pers…

Uh...What?

This topic is interesting. I am on the condo board in a 20 unit association, mostly attached townhomes. The biggest issue is the person in the "owners" unit, the one with the most …

Interesting. Are you using it prophylactically? Is this common in The Netherlands?

Tell that to the lawyers who are paid lots of money to be risk adverse. As others point out, the law operates on precedent, no lawyer wants their decision to be the one that makes …

I'm going to blow your mind... The "mastering" process of audio mixing historically starts with the input of "slave" tapes...

I just assume someone with a water sports fetish is about to get a dick pic.

Is anyone aware of a chaos tool that isn't a SaaS (free or not) and doesn't require using Spinnaker like the current Netflix chaos tool does?

> Also it's frankly weird how the last capitalist era there is basically enshrined in their culture No, I think your first list perfectly enshrines the effects of modern day capita…

I have some data that is currently in an xlsx. I'd like to put this data on the web, as is, so that it is queryable by anyone via a UI. ie someone visits mydatabase.com and they ca…

> and we both release the funds before parting way. Doesn't that require you to trust that they release the funds? Do smart contracts have a way to dispute an outcome?

I'm a paying customer but can anyone tell me why shuffle play is the default? If i'm listening to an album I typically want to listen to it from start to finish and the extra click…