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Seems reasonable to me. The article doesn't say to trust the LLM blindly, as many early commenters seem to think, instead it suggests an evolution to a set of practices that provid…

For guitar I followed Justin up into his intermediate level stuff but then switched to in person lesson and they made a big difference for me. I think I got lucky with my first tea…

One side of my brain agrees that's a dumb way to judge anyone but then when I think about the accepted filtering mechanism they really aren't any better or any worse. You cannot in…

I don't think you're wrong so much as you've tread into some semantic muddy water. What did the OP mean by 'inevitable', 'political' or 'everything'?. A lot hangs on the meaning. I…

I've had them. They're fine. But this is overselling the variety angle. The meat eater equivalence of forage like this would be game animals. In my experience and extrapolating, th…

I think most actually know and don't think it's all that much different from what other have done for decades. I'm not saying they are correct to think it, just that they do think …

I believe it was always more myth than fact. There's always been rough edges in Apple products line. If anything its more an indication of where the real focus is now. And it's not…

The standard screen was 80 by 25. There were two addresses you needed to know 0xb000 for monochrome displays and 0xb800 for color. For monochrome you could just blast characters/at…

I believe the pedantry label was sufficient acknowledgment of fact, while also pointing out that in the context of the larger conversation we are really talking about whether his l…

I hope this was more of a philosophical musing than career advice. I've not worked at every big company, but I have worked at a few. I agree that in the context of a big companies,…

Spotify has not viewed itself as a music company for longer than that. It's a platform for audio. And, while there are still music first people at the company, they are not in the …

In those early days the Spotify user experience needed to try and differentiate and put up barriers to being copied. Later it suffered from being purely metric driven and tracking …

I think this specific quote from the article deals with this situation. > U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel on Tuesday that U.S. copyright…

The different mindsets exist, but I agree these are bad words to differentiate them. Back when I started in software in the 80s a common expression was: there are two types of prog…

Of course no one needs an app to do any of this, but the general idea of getting out and touching a tree, climbing a snowbank, going out without a coat or hat for a few minutes whe…

Turbo Pascal wasn't just a good tool, it was a pioneer in how it was marketed and priced. It was relatively affordable, only $49, at a time when tools generally cost in the hundred…

Magical realism. The edges of any "genre" is going to be very fuzzy.

It's all solid advice but that exchange in #5 that the author found delightful, drives me bonkers. If you talk to the people on your team like that, you're not being helpful, you'r…

I do not dispute that Spotify creates "perfect fit content" tracks. What I will dispute is that, artists with generic bios and AI sounding tracks, are always Spotify tools.

There has only been one company I've worked for where 'learnings' was used extensively. It was Swedish. Not sure if that is relevant.

Planetfall.

I believe the article misses the point of the saying. It's not really about failing but rather about committing yourself to the objective. If you know in your heart you gave someth…

If someone asked for a dinosaur fossil and you showed them a small winged thing embedded in a rock they likely would be confused too. Wind the clock back 65 million years to before…

Not the clade of 'terrible lizards'. Paleontology accepts the cladistic view and so should a popular science article.

Back in the 1800s when the name Dinosaur was coined no one suspected their connection to birds. The point has never been that the word, in most peoples minds, doesn't conjures up p…