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Merry Christmas to all!!

Hear hear!!

In school I would have tried to solve this… now if I want to know I just get out my multimeter and measure. Faster, simpler, and more practical.

I agree that models are bad at counting in general, but in this case it could just as easily be ambiguity in the wording of the prompt. The model was shown a 3 legged chicken and a…

Don't forget US Robotics

The degree of difficulty for building this is the premise of the 2001 movie Antitrust from back in the old days when Microsoft was evil. Notable as one of the first movies to use L…

What's old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal

It’s the hot staging spacing ring. They didn’t call it on the feed but it is an expendable part that ejects after separation.

Not on your life my … friend!

Reminds me a little bit of Catholic mass when the priest "sings" some of the sections. There is no consistency, no cadence, but their voice goes up and down. It's high-effort talki…

On a related note, when I re-watch shows from the 1990's or even early 2000's it's amazing how many problems would be solved with a simple cell phone call or text message. Buffy th…

Yes. Being able to stand at least part of the day is great. Some people mention wobble - I for one don't like typing while standing so I stand for meetings and sit for keyboard tim…

I'm no expert but it didn't look very healthy. Mottled color and lethargic movement. Maybe that's normal but my gut says that squid is not feeling well.

Wish I could upvote more than once. What I call "Resume Driven Development" creates fractured architectures and reduces quality in stable systems for the sake of "the latest standa…

I worked on a MIPS SOC that had a pair of registers that controlled DDR timing. The formula for calculating the correct timing was complicated and I am bad at math. Most of it was …

Thumb drives in a truck offer great bandwidth but terrible latency.

Scrolled to find this comment and was not disappointed.

Meanwhile, the data center is on fire as the machines try in vain to parse it...

I call it Resume Driven Development

So act. But don't act like you're acting.

Very carefully. But seriously, check out the book "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" by Feathers. It has helped me tremendously in multiple refactorings. His thesis is that Leg…

Underrated response. As true today as when it was written!

Mine too at UIUC almost 20 years ago! We had to design a working CPU for the instruction set in verilog or VHDL, then run a program in the simulator. I still vaguely remember that …

With the caveat that I have not read your code, I usually solve this same problem by adding a parameter constructor to FooController and annotating it @Autowired. Spring will then …

Just to offer another perspective, I work for a small consultancy and routinely do our "exec" interview. This is a free-form interview with a member of our leadership team as a fin…