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I view LLMs as a trade of competence plus quality against time. Sure, I’d love to err on the side of pure craft and keep honing my skill every chance I get. But can I afford to do …

We frame hybrid as RTO because hybrid is usually mandatory rather than flexible, and implies having to live in some wretched metro area close to an office. I want to live someplace…

Parentification is never a solution. It’s merely a cruel way to spread misery to another person who doesn’t deserve it.

Are you writing a “Black Mirror” episode?

“They” (whoever they are) can torture more than one person at a time.

You're right: there are at least some good reasons for packaging to exist. So, I'm going to rephrase my original question: Why does every little thing come in packaging that is not…

Recycling is the wrong, least efficient, laziest solution to the problem of packaging. Why does every little thing need to come packaged in its own cocoon of plastic or paper? Beat…

> You should at least test drive it under controlled conditions [...] Who cares what the car does under controlled conditions? I'm sure the manufacturer did exactly that in their t…

Doxxing and stalkers and other abuse. Postings dredged up from years (and, eventually, decades) ago which can destroy careers. Phishing attacks that rely on knowing things about a …

Your “outcast” assertion is unsupported by facts. It turns out that not everything happens on social media. Within a group of friends even a single person who isn’t on Twitter/Snap…

This article does a great job of articulating the principles of identity which I’ve been teaching to my daughter ever since she’s been old enough to understand what a Twitter accou…

I’m not buying your reasoning. Try putting a WKWebView into a SwiftUI view. This kind of thing is all sorts of messed up when multiple rendering systems - two of them declarative (…

I should’ve known that it’s turtles all the way down. Considering how many years I’ve sunk into programming for other platforms, this shouldn’t have come as a surprise, but I got s…

Wasn’t meant as a joke.

That’s how Twitter started for me too, but after a while degenerated to become the toxic mess which finally drove me away. My experience goes to show that people change over time: …

For optimal effect, add the following to your /etc/hosts or its equivalent on your system: 127.0.0.1 twitter.com

There’s “pair tennis” (I know nothing about tennis, so apologies if that’s not what it’s called) which seems to flow alright, but tennis is a much more tightly constrained activity…

> Half of engineers prefer to work at a company that does pair programming Well, I’m glad that it’s only half. Isn’t that neat? I wish this meme of “company that does pair programm…

If you knew that no surveillance was being conducted, would you be acting any differently?

Don’t just leave us hanging! Would you mind listing some possible reasons to reject cancer treatment in favor of pseudoscience?

Or, you know, fathers. Half of success in fatherhood comes from simply showing up. Absentee fathers contribute to the generational erosion of the family fabric that is almost impos…

There’s power in negative space. People will maintain meatspace connections that won’t be mirrored online, which will create a sense of mystique and intrigue. People who aren’t imm…

But here’s the headline I’d actually like to see: > New York City unveils a next-generation human who never litters

In aviation “nm” stands for nautical miles.