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It has other uses. But the point is that saying "we" when one is not, in fact, a sovereign, is extremely pretentious.

> I literally can't imagine generating a script with an LLM without testing it at all. Then you're extremely unimaginative as well as unusually fastidious. Certainly someone - seve…

Talking about the "royal we" is a correct, established (if somewhat sarcastic) way to complain about this kind of usage. It highlights the presumptiveness of the author in their us…

No, that is exactly GP's complaint. Their whole point is that OP has written things like "we throw everything at a model and hope it gives us what we imagined, without ever having …

> IT projects that cost billions are incomprehensible to me, outside of frontier work Getting a large bureaucracy to agree on a question where any answer will disadvantage some mem…

> Credit card entry, I think you should know a few basics like don't put it in MongoDB?? Or nah? It's just like any other user data? > How about a background check - can anyone tak…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorylessness

> It’s a contract Many kinds of contracts are illegal, including those that are anticompetitive in certain ways. > Should I be allowed to pay a landscaper less if I agree to not do…

Trade ins are fine. A contractual commitment to not buy hardware sounds like illegal restraint of trade.

What are these orgs that have unused meeting rooms? Everywhere I've ever worked has had a chronic meeting room shortage.

Most hardware has an exponential (memoryless) failure distribution in practice. The bathtub curve is a myth.

That's been a common claim, but I don't think I've seen anyone provide actual evidence.

Shinjuku isn't the worst - it's big, but every part of it has its own distinct feel, you never get confused about where you are. I actually think Ikebukuro is the worst - there are…

> why the hell does a TUI need to run in terminal React by way of JavaScript Because React is the only UI framework that takes the problem seriously. Everything else is stuck in th…

> I think it's profoundly uncool to love your country in many parts of Europe—think the UK and especially Germany. I think that's because you're focusing on outward displays in exa…

Shimano is famously a company that people in about four seemingly random/unrelated fields/hobbies think of as a specialist brand in that hobby (e.g. fishing). (They are or at least…

I don't know what specifically is wrong with the US-centric numbers you are citing, but I know they don't match the lived reality of the UK, which compares favourably with not only…

Presumably because he thinks (rightly or wrongly) that the one is damaging his reputation while the other is not.

If there was enough soap residue to matter you'd notice the taste.

Imagine using an ftp program to transfer files.

> there's a long line of well-known names from Alan Kay to Steele, Matz and Goetz, etc. who publicly said great things about the grand idea of Lisp. About the ideas, yes, helped by…

> why all of a sudden does management need to micromanage my tools? Because doing so increases the value of their stock options. They might privately think it's as dumb as you do, …

> unchangeable law WTF do you mean by this? Even constitutions can be amended, and if an odious law cannot be changed through politics then that only means it will be changed by ot…

> Compare it to natural languages. Assuming any such comparison is valid is purely speculative. There are significant differences. > anyone who reaches fluency in a foreign languag…

> The cost of restructuring has also gone down. > The cost of shoring up behavior with tests ahead of a restructure has gone down because of AI. Disagree. The growth in brittle AI-…