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mwgalloway

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    Comment #43351723

    Because if you’re working on anything of note, you will need to sustain, scale, and operate that software while hopefully designing for it at a high level. LLMs are not suited for …

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    Comment #43351661

    I’m looking forward to when the job market recovers, but I’m not looking forward to the prospect of a significant amount of future demand being in the realm of having to scale and …

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    Comment #42852455

    Ok, but why should I even care about what was on this hypothetical blackboard? Do you have any real world examples with business or technical significance where this "cope with it,…

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    Comment #42851717

    The "world" can just as easily be conceived of as being composed of discrete immutable facts rather than global mutable state. Either way, I kind of don't think that unfalsifiable …

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    Comment #38776993

    Ruby 3.3 has made major improvements to the debugging experience: https://railsatscale.com/2023-12-19-irb-for-ruby-3-3/

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    Comment #38752935

    Ruby has RBS and sorbet to support using type annotations. They are each relatively new and aren’t as clean and well integrated as Python’s implementation, but it’s not as if type …

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    Comment #21833267

    You're treating feminism as a simplistic monolith rather than a multifaceted movement across different cultural groups and sects. There are plenty of differing opinions and trends …

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    Comment #17300405

    The 'Start your free quiz' button currently is not working. Seems like there may have been an event handler at one point that is no longer functioning.

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    Comment #16072830

    Can you reference that? The CoinBase support page currently says crypto is insured against security breaches on their end.

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    Comment #16066573

    The majority of coins on Coinbase are in cold-storage and crypto on Coinbase is insured against this type of breach. I personally wouldn't panic to get my coins out.

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    Comment #15342378

    I totally do this. I also occasionally will have something breaking and soon realize I typed 'git' randomly in the middle of a file instead of in my terminal...

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    Comment #15141810

    Using used parts might be twice as much labor for one thing, you have to remove the part carefully from one phone and then install it into another one. Another is that you can't al…

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    Comment #14522031

    I definitely felt like this was addressed during my time at DBC, there was a significant emphasis on figuring out how to approach problems you haven't encountered before methodical…

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    Comment #14522000

    I graduated from DBC Chicago about 7 months ago, found a job as a Rails developer at a start-up here about 3 months later (I graduated right before the holidays though). Of my coho…