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Too many abstractions are bad. Too many code duplication is bad. Part of being a good engineer is finding the right balance. I know engineers who would gladly duplicate code all ov…

I think there are a few things that make it "worthy" of literary consideration: 1. Read a straight horror story, it's quite a surprising twist at the end 2. A critique on the sense…

> with a pre-built you're at the very least paying for someone to assemble it for you, so it's always going to be more expensive as a baseline Except isn't it possible that pre-bui…

Ruby has "undoubtedly" been dead for at least a decade now, or so I've heard. Glad to hear Python is undoubtedly joining the party.

Surely nothing has ever done wrong with this limitless source of clean energy to give people pause? There's no uninhabitable areas of the Earth due to this?

Looking through this list makes me feel as if I am not a terribly good programmer, as these all feel well beyond my capabilities.

Or maybe their actual problems are caused by automation, tax cuts on the rich, and a lack of social safety net that lets people live in dignity, but the media they consume mostly b…

Yes. But also, all technologies will eventually be used as weapons. And so its important for us to understand how they can be weaponized and to consider the social cost of that wea…

> If you don't own your infra, you are dependent. You're dependent regardless. You are dependent on your service provider, your hardware, your UPS battery backup, your RAID drives …

Do you think there's a way to train focus?

I think I'm at a stage in my life where I can accept that I am not, nor will I ever be, one of the best programmers

> I think we exist to bring new things into existence. If you ask me, to the extent there is a meaning of life, that’s it. We exist to create. It lights us up in a way nothing else…

"Wherever you go, there you are" No amount of fame or success will alter who you truly are inside. If anything, laying your happiness at the foot of external validation from others…

Nihilism can take many forms and is not necessarily indicative of a optimistic or pessimistic worldview

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Yeah I never really learn something until I actually hack away at it, and even then I need to really understand things on a granular level.

They're paying for Pro

Being compensated fairly is important. But so is empathy from management. So is being flexible when I have stuff going in my life or need a mental health day. It all adds up.

Meat and dairy specifically accounts for around 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). If people collectively jus…

It seems the author has given their own meaning to Senior Engineer as a sort of weird gatekeeping, "you aren't a REAL senior engineer unless you're done X, Y, and Z" My counterargu…

From the NYT: > For now, the announcement is largely symbolic. Israel is not a member of the court and does not recognize its jurisdiction in Israel or Gaza, meaning that Israeli l…

No, you "shouldn't" feel vindictive. Vengeance doesn't really help anybody. We are all wronged, and we all wrong others. None of us is perfect. Some are worse than others, and we h…

Netflix tried to do this, but then studios wanted a piece of the pie, so they all spun up their own streaming services and then stopped licensing to their competitors. Also, artist…

Almost 3 in 4 Palestinians believe the October 7th attack was "correct" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/poll-shows-palesti...

Israel is a close military ally and Palestine is... not. There are no true neutral countries in the world. Everyone has allies who they treat differently than enemies. There are no…