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Honestly, this is a reasonable itemization of experience with individual tools, but this reads like a recipe for Company Cake instead of a case-by-case statement of need, selection…

The full aphorism is: Jack of all trades, master of none, is oftentimes better than master of one.

If a vegan LLM evangelist crossfitter comes up to you at party, which one do they talk about first?

What a remarkable stalking horse to try and kneecap right-to-repair by arguing "Please, think of the chil^H^H^H^Hhackers!" You wouldn't download a CAR, would you? You wouldn't hack…

I think their point was that there is no empirical definition of information as it relates to the observer. The expurimint you cite worked upon a physical system that already had a…

The whitespace thing is actually one of python's major flaws. That feature attaches syntactic meaning to non-printing characters. From a human standpoint, there're many examples of…

Where does one begin with this kind of fallacy-ridden mud slinging? Appeals to both authority and majority, and guilt by location just to name the first three. So what if "everyone…

Where do any of us stand but on the shoulders of giants?

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there…

Reading this as a pilot, this thing reads like a primer for How Not To Think. The author might think they're being a meta-pirate by saying "oh these are all possible actions proscr…

> They did really well in some things like ... devops Did they, though? I ask because the vast majority of people touting LLM as a huge win usually seem to speak from a.. DK-heavy …

While we're exposing implied things, let us also expose the assumption that this was posted by a real person (:

The driver of this output is a uniform lack of comprehension all the way down.

> we shouldn't focus on how a word is defined in dictionary [sic], but rather ... the ... meaning behind it. This is a spectacularly, objectively invalid take.

Did you not notice how this started over someone saying "That's not the definition of memory safety" and then prevaricating about the bush when asked to provide their definition? Y…

As a touch typist that learned decades before learning vi, with Emacs in the middle, I can definitively say your blanket statement is false. And as a recovering Emacs user, I can a…

I think you've made a fundamental mistake. Whether or not someone understands software is not based on their job title or their desires. Nor does typing to an anthropomorphized lan…

I'm confused; which one is it? The property owner pays 20k, or the ratepayers are subsidizing it? Also, my pge statements now have a line item for transmission that's usually large…

The fact that this must occur to address even a portion of humanitarian necessity is an indelible indication that our current government systems are incompetent likely through capt…

Keyboards in aircraft instrumentation certainly do NOT predate electronic devices. Given that one-handed operation for instrumentation is almost always the primary mode of interact…

I always thought of it as more of a race condition.

I have realized something quite related in my growing years of experience both interviewing and observing contributors to a technical/engineering organization Q: Given two engineer…

I think the civil burden of proof should apply here. Upon the preponderance of the evidence. Given so many studies that exhaustively show correlative effects of phthalates with met…

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No, it hasn't. You forget, the reason systemd was originally rationalized for its insertion into our trees was "boot times are too slow". Its chameleon-like nature and ability to s…