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This is the best essay on agentic coding I've read. Clear thinking and writing, pragmatic about the future of agent-led coding. If you usually skip straight to the comments, you mi…

I had pretty much written off ever my credit card to Google, but a better billing experience and hard billing caps might change that.

I'm not crazy about SOLID principles either. They don't feel like useful, practical ideas to me. They were born to be memorized for a classroom test or a job interview. SOLID does …

If you can't imagine how politicians could endlessly fight over a UBI you haven't tried hard enough.

The implication is that Amazon was fully aware that this was happening and didn't care. That's what most people would think "let" meant here. Yes, equivocating over the meaning of …

I get where you're coming from. The free content is possible because of the advertisements, and you are sort of consenting to the ads when you choose to visit the site. It's not an…

Our family started taking Vitamin D at the start of the pandemic. We've all gotten sick a lot less than we used to, despite one of us working at a drugstore constantly exposed to s…

It's pretty dated at this point (and I don't know of anything recent like it), but playing M.U.L.E. is a little education in microeconomics all by itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

This game is on my radar, but as I understand it it really wants a lot of players at the table and my group is typically capped at 4. Glad to hear it referenced though.

A degree can be a valuable signal to employers and also be a terrible waste of time and resources. It can be both at once. It would be better if we found ways to let young people g…

Oh, I dream of a day where there are multiple useful search engines, specialized for different purposes. You're doing God's work here. Thanks and good luck.

I think this is a sincere question. It's quite possible this ends in a global depression that's worse than what we had in 2008, maybe even worse than what we had in the 1930s. Ther…

Freedom of speech has always meant the idea that different points of view should be aired, not suppressed, and that people should decide for themselves what is right or what is cor…

A little older than you, but same basic experience. I also don't understand how the tide turned so swiftly against freedom of speech, and in favor of authorities deciding what peop…

Same with us.

Also interested in the answer to this question.

There's a lot of differences in risk appetite (and actual risk) from state to state. Maybe the feds could allow states to get a waiver from FDA regulations if they want to try thin…

This seems like a fairly common view to people who have come late to the topic. If you have been paying attention for a while, the way the USA has handled this is horrifying. Compa…

Probably they would. WHO could also provide the USA with tests. We could do more testing domestically. Not only could we open up more testing now, but we could have opened it up we…

I second this. If I have rapport with a supervisor, I'm pleased if they take a sincere interest in my well being, but this needs to be done one on one. If there is no rapport, I do…

I've always assumed it was mostly spam, and the bulk of new users preferring other discussion formats. I appreciate the correction.

I'm hoping one of the ActivityPub Reddit-like projects takes off. (yeah, I know, someone else make what I want . . . ) (or, we should have just fixed spam on Usenet . . . )

Yup. Unschooling has some tendency to become an ideology instead of a practical point of view, and people get stuck in it. When all your homeschooling friends are stuck in it too, …

It's worth contemplating. We homeschooled our kids and it was a good choice for our family. I'm sympathetic to unschooling, but I've also seen it go wrong. If you decide to unschoo…