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Wait, are you talking about llms or people?

I use vi because I'm not a savage

As an old hand that's managed many people, I can tell you this is true.

As a tech manager with twenty years experience, I can assure you, in fact, engineers are people. And they interact with those MBAs, project managers, etc. The really good product/p…

Dude, that is sick.

As a father to both biological and adopted children, I couldn't agree more. I'm Dad to all of them.

The strength of unciv is how close it comes to civ 5, and for that I loved it.

I had a zip disk for all my work in college. It's completely impractical for anything these days, but it was so much fun. Having 100mb in your bag in the era of floppies made you f…

What makes you think the residuals would fare better than the options? The risk is about the same, yes?

There's a lot to belts https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-176

Not quite. It's simply an argument that the money will end up back in healthcare, just maybe further down the line, and maybe that's okay. Just remember that as everything else get…

Would it, or would it simply delay the bill? Every one of us must pay the final price at some point.

A data point - the capital one AWS breach ended up costing $270M[1]. While they weren't destroyed, it wasn't cheap either. 1. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/capita…

Smells like breakfast

That's a nice tractor you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it. Can I interest you in some protection... Err, 3 year service plan?

I once wrote a math library with using the letters delta and epsilon. It was cute, but I had to copy/paste every time. Never, ever again.

What do you recommend instead?

You need to start merchandising. Complexity very, very, bad.

GRUG? Is that you?

Dude, no. The sheet number of times I've seen candidates point blank lie to my face in a zoom is to high. Spend some time at the manager's side of the table in the interview proces…

Careful, you might turn into a Boggle-head if you follow that logic too far...

Productivity 3 modules anyone?

Anecdote not data Some of the grocery shops near me are known union shops. The prices are in fact higher than the non union shops.

Right, but experience has taught me that construction equipment has nothing on my toddler...

If you seriously need legal advice talk to an attorney, not HN.