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But it does leave me wondering how would we know if it hasn't already happened in some company?

An AI may be making an ultimately random choice (prove the CEO isn't) but it's actual options are weighted on statistical grounds from much wider sources of data than a human can k…

No because it would be too well informed to make biased (company focused/favouring) decisions. (Joking)

It strikes me that software has become a bit like law and accounting used to be. "We had to suffer and so must you". Making it pointlessly hard to keep people out. Rather than deal…

I've never looked at any Rust. But this mini thread leaves me expecting the Rust world to be like Perl. The experienced Rust/Perl user uses every feature and short cut for magnific…

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Indeed. My daughter did a couple of games in Scratch when she was 8 (possibly younger). But from other comments Scratch seems to have picked up a lot of extraneous crap like social…

My variation of what you say is read lots, look at what people are doing, then make sure you have a big space that lets you stop thinking. Once I'm in that "hey I'm not distracted …

I wouldn't call it diagnosing. Just suggesting they consider it. Personally it all sounds very familiar. So familiar I'd admit I'm mildly depressed. But I do still have a pad of go…

Most of my former colleagues just ignore it. Big USA company and turns out they only started mandating it because the USA offices were going in so little. Others go in, have lunch …

I'm not sure your point "3." is wholly correct. They do also go much wider than just combinatorial math.

Probably because two years would let you produce a skinny inconsequential dip into a topic that would quickly be surpassed or barely distinguished from introductory texts on progra…

Is Charles Dickens worth it? It's a matter of time, taste and purpose (in reading). I've enjoyed dipping in. Sometimes found it directly useful to work. But the best of his works I…

Is Charles Dickens worth a read. Depends on your time, purpose and taste.

I've my doubts about Arm's future with the reports of intending to up the price of licensing. That strategy seems insane with the Risc-v progress and increased uptake by big tech c…

£320 on Amazon does not seem to fall into affordable to me compared to a RPi 4

Benefit of the doubt. I try and start from the assumption it might be me that is missing something. Or just let it go. The latter being more difficult to do these days as I boggle …

They are only used in places where confusion benefits the user. It has to be deliberate so people accidentally opt in. I've assumed it's a dark pattern.

If you have an engineer the whole point of them being able to claim the title is they are educated and expert in their field. Without knowledge and expertise in a field you aren't …

"removing impediments" - just sounds like good managers in any process. Bad managers often are an impediment.

Small groups of 1+ with a vision isn't really software engineering though. You aren't building to solve someone else's problem and it's that which is engineering. Turning up to the…

To be clearer than my first post. The whole set of processes that are software engineering are fun, including dealing with people for requirements, design, analysis. But programmin…

I find the opposite. Analysis, requirements capture and design get you to the point where programming is required. But it's the least interesting part of the process. I don't consi…

You're kidding if you think the premium brands you list don't have massive dependence on software systems. The basic physics is, as you say, better because they've kept mass distri…

That's not strictly fair. The problem is that the critical systems were moved to share transport on the main hub with infotainment (safe, I did modelling of the messages for Volvo …