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Domain expertise is neccessary but not sufficient. It takes a LOT of time to validate every path, possibly an infinite amount of time, depending on the complexity of the domain.

Github? Windows? Ibm? Intel? Boeing?

Lidar is much less accurate in the rain.

Change the legal definition of corporations? Corporations exist to provide liablity protections to sharholders, which means they are mainly incentivized to externalize costs and av…

Prompt engineering is the new Search Engine Optimization. Not sure if we called it engineering ten years ago.

The distributed system can only handle one point of failure, and two have failed. The leader is net split and doesn't care about most of the cluster and the "zookeeper" is happy wi…

This is the same problem as outsourcing to third party programmers in another country, but worse.

I am sure the governments can work it out the same way billionaires with bankers do. Take possession of parts of their stock in a blind trust and just get dividends or take out loa…

The plan is everybody but Trump loses.

In capitalism, society gets what it rewards. If it wants more children it must pay the market price, just like everything else. If it wants educated, productive children, it must a…

I disagree with Dan due to my experience as an low level employee under Ballmer. He encouraged political infighting and backstabbing and dog eat dog internal competition, while pra…

There used to be a seperate job for this and they dumped it on startup engineers (otherwise failing businesses) and now they dump it on all engineers.

Yes it was QuakeWorld Team Fortess. Funny story of my own. I had just started at Microsoft and met Robin Walker at a lan party with a bunch of other QuakeWorld TeamFortress fans. A…

300M in annual revenue is a key number for me. Right now you're making 1 million dollars a year per employee or a 10x or 20x revenue to average employee cost. The reason your softw…

They do this on my work laptop. Zscaler

Regular power issues are also state government incompetence.

In the competitive ladders some of the best used rotation to "steer" in curved paths when trichording. It made people really difficult to hit when you were behind them. I played ag…

Mine was shareware.

What is your Kali handle?

As someone alive 30 years ago, it isn't as clear cut as the biased graph. Gasoline was roughly 1/3rd the price, but 4 years of state college was 20k, not 100k. A house I grew up in…

It is a Ford. Either an f150 lightning or a mustang mach e.

"Stock options are a joke. Developers should just get a flat fee." There are people worth their commission and there are people who are not worth it. The bigger reason house prices…

His real estate companies are not in good health.

There is only one more thing I am afraid of more than duplicate code. Shared code that someone changes to make their code work better that breaks yours.

They are all about cutting those wages to 0. Less employment.