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I think knowing about the branches of your government is a prerequisite to having an opinion or good argument about it. It’s not sufficient to just know that but it’s a good filter…

Code still is the hard part. Or at least one of them. Code, is written in a language. Language is opinionated. Things written in that language are also opinionated. LLMs often have…

Is the good reason that parsers are doing this in the first place? To me, it sounds like a practice/implementation that necessitates a second layer of parsing. If so, then maybe JS…

The hardest thing about writing a parser is cognitively accepting what is going to be considered valid input. You can make the best parser that is fast and well specified but invar…

Do you plan on supporting different target versions and implementing similar restrictions to those targets? eg: older macOS had a writable /usr/ while newer does not without manual…

> That saves me $ and helps the environment a little bit :) Seems like a tradeoff with power though. Even emulating hardware from that era is more power efficient than actually run…

> If you are using flash-based media (e.g. a USB drive), please use the .img files rather than the .iso images. I have done that in the past but there are already .img files specif…

> CD-ROM media Wow, I just learned that I can still buy a pack of new CD-RW discs. This is an almost 30 year old format that is still published for! Long live ATAPI! Seriously thou…

Mechanical ones so we aren’t left with a waste disaster in 10-20 years?

Yup, totally doable. Of course, it’s a point to point link so if you want to build a whole cluster that way then you’ll need a lot of usb-c ports or you’ll need to make more of a m…

... the official return of pair programming! The best part: LLM's save you from having to argue with a human. Added bonus: now you get to master two tools instead of one.

It’s interesting that cyclomatic complexity or cognitive complexity scales with token usage. A codebase that enforces upper bounds on one of these two also (potentially) helps AI a…

It rains ash. While it’s a metaphorical use of “rain” it’s physically accurate.

From the wikipedia link: > The dark flight trajectory of a meteoroid is significantly affected by the atmospheric winds, especially by the jet stream. As a result, the meteorite fa…

Agreed. There are always large amounts of money being poured into aviation and most of what comes out is knowledge. It's always exciting to see futuristic designs and bleeding edge…

Even small changes to time tested designs provide significant risk. A completely new body style will inevitably provide completely new failure modes. Pressurizing a tube vs pressur…

I saw a post that some teachers are now asking students to ask ChatGPT to do their assignments… and then critique it where it is wrong. I feel like this might be an interesting met…

Not everybody who can run, runs. Not everybody who runs, runs close to their full potential. Even elite athletes have a life that can “get in the way.” Many who run close to their …

So, you answer your phone to the scam and… now they have your voice too. Talking on the phone is now an unmitigated liability.

I have a projector that I just leave off the network. Do TVs require a network connection now? What happens when they don't have one?

That only makes my question even more applicable... just with a wider scope. As for your question: I personally don't want data, I want a service backed by sound data and expert va…

I'm glad someone managed to save the data that we all payed for. My question is, how will this site stay relevant? The collection/analysis/monitoring of the current situation is as…

> To that end, I hope the Trump administration's actions cause independent data collection and analysis by activists and independent scientists Activists and independent scientists…

> stations in remote places all over the country s/country/world/ There are many large projects to collect this information ranging from extremely specialized satellites to network…

AFAICR, Linux was far easier to run stuff on by that point. Playing with different variants of Unix was certainly fun though! I remember being blown away by an Irix+OpenGL demo on …