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I’m likewise baffled. Healthcare spending is a major cost for all employers. Decoupling healthcare from employment would theoretically remove this cost immediately. Shouldn’t pro-b…

I strongly agree with this take — and that’s partly why the article posted here leaves me scratching my head. PRs are already the gate, right? I don’t care what an agent does or do…

Permanent DST is just a synonym for "let's all agree to wake up an hour earlier." The same change could be affected by e.g. schools and businesses agreeing to open at 8am instead o…

It seems to me the parent commenter is saying the opposite: looking exactly like each other _is_ the point. It's a form of social signaling, to indicate that a project "belongs" to…

I’d much, much prefer people were honest about AI answers and text and had the decency to cite it explicitly when they use it. What I hate far worse than what this article complain…

It’s aggressively AI written. I’d rather just read the prompt. It’s unfortunate because many of us are going “full AI” when it comes to coding. And there are some true gives and ta…

Yes, and it immediately called to mind for me the phrase “the map is not the territory.” Put another way: no matter how detailed or “perfect” you make a map, it will never be the t…

It’s AI.

The metaphor that’s popped into my head recently is baking bread. You can learn to bake good bread. It’s not _that_ hard. And it’ll probably taste better than store bought bread. B…

I was more bothered by the extraneous word spacing on the second line, between “and” and “the.” Is it just me?

Which model did you get, and how much did it end up costing per square foot (if you don't mind me asking)? Just curious how much the real costs end up comparing with the sticker pr…

Start with SICP!

That all sounds very interesting. As someone who has synesthesia, I’d be interested if you still maintain those tests you refer to?

I simply don’t agree with the conclusion though I appreciate the approach to thinking about products. I recently chose to take the train vs driving and the factors behind that deci…

I’ve often thought this would be useful for version control and change review, since it allows diffs to be a lot less noisy. I’m imagining how much easier it would be to review a P…

My father had his eyes fixed like this about a decade ago and purports to be happy with it. IIRC they did actually require that he wear contact lenses that replicated the effect fo…

Agreed. Many animals without language show evidence of thinking (e.g. complex problem solving skills and tool use). Language is clearly an enabler of complex thought in humans but …

Much of this post was spot on — but the blind spots are highly problematic. In this agentic AI utopia of six months from now: * Why would developers — especially junior developers …

Does it operate by translating your higher level AI methods into lower level Playwright methods, and if so is it possible to debug the actual methods those methods were translated …

Yeah I was thinking similar. And/or a separate shortcut key that opens a new block at the very top of the page (regardless of where the current cursor is positioned).

This is just outstanding. It's so exactly what I wish for out of a scratch pad. My feature request to add to your pile (possibly a lonely one, since maybe it's just unique to how m…

This is where feature flags come in. When you use feature flags to support development you ship code straight to production — but your work is hidden behind that glad while develop…

My advice to you (at least what's worked for me on several reasonably well-functioning teams using stories and Jira in a similar manner as you have described: Decouple users storie…

For people who live in Seattle, the perception that homicides are increasing is actually the reality: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattl...

Do you have an induction stovetop now or a regular convection? Because in my experience induction is vastly superior to both convection and gas stoves. It provides far more and fas…