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> Conceptually continuous integration is generally integrating 2+ different lineages of code together > In practice, CI [often means] "automated test server" Could you say more? I …

My objection to 'clanker' is simpler: LLMs don't clank.

I wonder how they came up with that. Was it a human idea, or did the AI stumble upon it? Given that it was inside a 9-step text preprocessing pipeline, it would be surprising if th…

I've heard it described as the "exculpative voice".

I suspect that each player has a bowl of stones, and they have 1 lid that covers those bowls. After taking a turn, the player puts the lid over their own bowl so that the other pla…

You can have a monorepo with any tech stack you'd like. You can write your front-end and back-end in the same language. No shade to you for finding a productive setup, but Next.js …

I think you're conflating the coders with the code. I read the upthread comments as advocating against dedicated FE/BE coders, not against dedicated FE/BE code bases. Of course you…

This is an hour long survey of the accumulated wisdom of a software developer who clearly cares a lot about the craft. I listened to it this morning while doing my stoutness exerci…

This is a really great write up. Kudos for the obvious effort, both on the technical side and sharing the process with the rest of us.

A former boss told me that this is how you make sure only to hire lucky people.

I also bought a house with an ice maker in the refrigerator. I can confirm that it gave us constant trouble until it gave up the ghost. I use ice cube trays in the freezer.

I switched (back) to Firefox a few years ago, and love it. My only complaint is that it forces me to restart the program occasionally, for updates. Does anyone know why this is don…

It seems true, according to [0] ".test" is recommended for use in testing of current or new DNS related code. ".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples. ".i…

I have been using nushell for work for about 4 months, ever since I inherited a windows-only project and was looking for a decent shell experience. I'm not doing any extensive scri…

Many years ago, I worked next door to a porn shop. A very similar law was passed in our town that would have required the shop to move out to the middle of nowhere. The owner bough…

The abstract doesn't mention anything about grafting this to human skin. I believe the researchers are proposing a fungal substrate for PCBs.

I do, and I really value the time I spend at a cafe near my house. I go to the same cafe (and typically sit in the same spot) every workday for between 1 and 4 hours. It lets me ha…

The most secure option is to bury everyone's computer in concrete.

I don't know anyone who watches 5.5 hours of football 7 days a week for 2 years.

Nail polish is very handy for this sort of thing.

I think that the author is speaking about their world, in which they regularly encounter a specific use of trigonometric functions which would be simplified (conceptually and compu…

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I think the difference is that if Figma's website goes offline, you lose all of your figma stuff. If penpot gets acqui-killed, then you can just clone a version that you were comfo…

That's right, but "business process" is a much larger solution space than "texture shaders for video games."

It's a pun. The chicken gets hit by a car and dies. It reaches The Other Side.