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When a whisper-based agent thinks you’ve stopped talking, it will begin its own reply. If you’re younger, you’re more likely to get interrupted by a bot that’s prematurely decided …

That is the usual work of high end programmers, right? Growing codebases as consistent, dependable ontologies? I feel like most mainstream programming languages do this sort of wor…

I imagine they're going for avuncular but a lot of us as adult engineers receive it as patronizing.

Cucumber-style BDD has been trying to do this for a long time now, though I never found it to be super comfortable.

This sounds a whole lot like Pascal's wager (or Roko's basilisk, if you prefer) for trillionaires.

Sound words out at the smallest level. Practice. Example: “skin” has multiple sounds to help decipher the word as spelled: “sss”, “sk”, “ih”, “nnn”, “iinn”. Identifying some of tho…

It’s a bit of a class thing, isn’t it? Independently wealthy folks can stay in the game longer without needing to extract a lot of cash compensation in the company’s early years.

An uncomfortable thing about skill, taste, and experience is that it’s often easier to demonstrate the superiority of one path over another than it is to explain the differences in…

If ADHD-oriented media and discussions provide neurodivergent adults a means to work through decades of internalized shame and anxiety, why get in the way of that?

There may never be a perfect taxonomy of programmer archetypes. I imagine most of us here can agree that some elevate the craft and ritual to great effect while others avoid such h…

Could be an exit strategy… maybe he’s tired of running a social network and wants to help run governments and fly to space like the other guys.

Maybe for some the appeal of JS is in (hopefully) never having to learn Unix? I’ve heard several folks say that about Kubernetes, but in my experience the *nix core always resurfac…

Reminds me of using Ruby ten years ago and having to contend with folks who wanted to default to using the string literal style over another because it was known to be more perform…

I’d been a huge fan of his for a solid decade, but that post was probably the last one of his I’ll ever read.

The deadpan was so good there I had to stop and double check the origins of Markdown just to make sure my mind wasn’t playing tricks on me. Hard to believe it’s been twenty years!

I’d guess Click: https://screencrush.com/rob-schneiders-racist-stereotyped-ch...

The more skilled I become over the decades the more I prefer either Hickey’s hammock-driven development or a simple kanban setup.

Good ear. She is cofounder of a company that built their own “distributed column store”: https://youtu.be/tr2KcekX2kk?si=ID0qB-O2ucXF4GXC

Likely so the phone can charge off of a nearby MacBook which has usb C ports.

Can you describe your process? Do you just hand type import-free HTML and rsync it up to a web server? I’d make so many syntax errors without at least some sort of lint/build step.…

That’a a lot to ask of folks who are spending a third of their waking lives on a shared endeavor. May as well ask family to stop having opinions on my cooking.

Depending on your chess engine (e.g. a physical board) a player could reasonably move many times without stopping to update the diagram. Maybe I forgot. Maybe I was in a hurry due …