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I think this is true when you realize "customer" means "coworker" or "person on the next team over" or "management" or "your intuition about the problem". Which all sort of have th…

There are in fact rough breathing marks there on the articles, stacked under the inverted breve accents. Which is an alternate form of tilde.

Sort of. Romans didn't handwrite like that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive . Note that the "u" character in both ancient and late ancient Roman cursive is more lik…

Absolutely that is not the point of programming. The point of programming is finding good abstractions, writing clear and concise code, creating beautiful algorithms. If I wanted t…

Jack regularly mixes up words to humorous effect, so knowing that may help with the joke. But yeah, I agree the joke doesn't really work here.

Outlets benefit from standards, however. Every device (well kind of) uses the same few plug types, and a different plug would be a disadvantage. On the other hand, having a bunch o…

Do you think writing books (and Wikipedia articles, and stack overflow articles, and github repos, and, and, and, and ...) is not a value add ?? What terrible claim.

Well, that's literally what "vibe coding means", no?

What exactly are you “getting done”? I’m really curious what you’re doing with so many tokens.

One thing that has happened is that "AI" has been an academic discipline since literally the 1950s. The term was originally used in the hope that we would soon be able to emulate h…

I read commit messages all the time to figure out what a change was about. For small personal projects I often write one phrase messages with `-m`, but if you're working with other…

> People who care about code quality are not artists who want to paint on the company's dime. They are people who care about shipping a product deeply enough to make sure that doin…

I was wondering what these images were! I wasn't sure if they were real photographs or not. They're great!

This reads nothing like any AI text I've read before.

None of my side projects are things where I want the output. They're all things where I want to write the code myself so I understand it better. AI is antithetical to this.

This comment is fascinating to me, as it indicates an entirely different mindset than mine. I'm much more interested in code readability and maintainabilty (and simplicty and elega…

Or you could believe what she said instead of implying that she's lying??

Why would you expect a reporter to magically know what a "unit test" is? Sounds like a simple miscommunication with one of his sources. Not perfect but not "brain rot".

IDs cost money. How do people with no income get one if they don't have one? How do they get access to the necessary documents? In any case, it's not on me to show that they should…

So how would you have gotten it if you were homeless with no income?

Voting is a civil right. We need to have a system that allows everyone who is allowed to vote, to vote. Many people don't have IDs and it is an onerous process to get one. Any syst…

Same--I was worried my lightbulbs might be deprecated!

No, an en-dash is used for a range, like "5–10", or in talking about two things and their relationship, like Franco–Prussian War.

Ultima Underworld is a fantastic game.