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"rm -rf ./" can't be that expensive, right?

My guess are people who want to PC game but don't want to deal with building a PC themselves - there's a decent market of pre-built gaming PCs that this would be competitive with. …

Such good news - for those looking for a relaxing hobby fly fishing is an excellent sport to get into. You spend all day standing in a river trying to out smart some fish and trout…

Mythos has broken containment

> Champion was acquired from HanesBrands in October 2024 for $1.2 billion... I was wondering why these shirts went to hell. This was probably my favorite brand in the 2010s. Super …

Hypothesis: customer says something is bugged Antithesis: the tests pass with 100% coverage Synthesis: the bug is a feature

This is, by far, one of the weirdest places I've ever visited. Tonal whiplash is an understatement.

"We have a beautiful moon rise, we're heading right at it" got me a little choked up. Here's to the ever unfolding adventure of mankind.

My biggest road blocks as an engineer has almost never been the authorship of code but everything else around it. * Getting code reviewed * Making sure its actually solving the pro…

Its tooling like this that really makes golang an excellent language to work with. I had missed that rangeint addition to the language but with go fix I'll just get that improvemen…

Slight counter point - claude code is basically the only developer tool that ever been happy to pay money for. Getting the entire software industry to give you $200/mo/person is qu…

Do you think Margaret Thatcher had Girl Power? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6RF5ChKYQ

MechaHitler now has space launch capabilities

I've read Dune - I know exactly where this is going. Please do not apply sand trout directly to you skin unless you are ready to control the spice.

Out of date and worth an update https://kiernan.io/

LLMs are really great at copy/pasting answers from stack overflow and fitting them to work in a given system. If your work is outside what is answerable on stack overflow you're go…

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What is something you learned (or had to re-learn) in 2025? New skills, insights, life lessons that could be worth sharing with the rest of the forum. For me: I've been forced to r…

It’s also a direct usage tax to support road maintenance. Heavier users of the road ways end up contributing more to the maintenance of the public good. We had a proxy for that via…

Because 18F was from the Obama administration

Gravity's Rainbow - still chewing on it all

Its a funny take because this reddit thread seems to suggest the opposite. Pro se litigants (people representing themselves) are using LLMs to create more lawsuits resulting in mor…

I’m working on a burrito artillery system. It’s the ideal form factor for high velocity chorizo but the delivery tends to make a mess.

You may not care about politics, but politics cares about you.