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Go to Louisville -- it's all BOURBON.

The red zone has always been for loading and unloading. There's never stopping in a WHITE zone.

Perhaps Qwen 2.5 should be known as Dali 2.‽

I'm using the MS suite for the first time in over a decade...and the collaborative aspects are still nowhere near Google's. I routinely get problems when multiple people are editin…

>>It's the best authoring tool we've ever devised. 100% agreed. Creating a spreadsheet is declarative programming, and Excel (and now Google Sheets) has made more developers than a…

> If you remove the people born into privilege, from attending your college, all you succeed is in making your college irrelevant, I don't think that the Cal Grants program was eve…

No! After about 10 years of writing software professionally, I moved over to product management, and my time spent coding decreased drastically (in the last 15 years, only some Pyt…

I just love his writing so much -- he captures what I felt when I discovered Lisp. As a kid learning programming in the 80s, I had already done some BASIC, Fortran, Pascal and COBO…

A wonderful, wonderful read. An audacious title, but the book absolutely makes good on it.

I love this so much. From 1992-1996 I was in a band in the SF Bay Area. I played the congas, but really I think they just let me do that because I also took on the band's webpage. …

For demos, I long ago learned to "start with the good part." If you have some fantastic monitoring software, don't start with an intro for how you installed it, how you set up the …

Whoa! Thanks for the clarification. As a word aficionado, I did not realize the correct form of this one.

I came here to say this -- couldn't agree more. Very positive feelings and this nails it (and adds some stuff, too).

I knew a woman whose last name was Jolie... Her parents named her Très ("très jolie" means very pretty).

This gibes with my experience in college -- I did more calculus in my physics courses than in my calculus courses.

I worked at Google from 2013 to 2020. There were definitely employees (maybe a majority) who assumed that Google would always be the dominant force in technology. Those of us who w…

Yeah, kind of a terrible day to publish something like that (through no fault of their own, of course!).

I can't stand it being called "hallucinating" because it anthropomorphizes the technology. This isn't a conciousness that is "seeing" things that don't exist: it's a word generator…

I had to start using the space bar instead of the arrows -- it reinforced in my mind that it was a single-button controller.

I've been fiddling for a few minutes and have successfully moved a bunch of pieces...but also can't figure out for the life of me why some moves aren't allowed.

Kind of fun reading that and not only hearing about Diffie and Hellman, but also learning where the initials RSA came from!

OMG I had forgotten all about the "Turbo" button. Great story, and thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Exactly this. Data has gravity, and this increases the gravity around data stored at Amazon...making it more likely for you to buy more compute/services at Amazon.

I agree with much of this post, but I have to take issue with "it's starting to feel silly." The "you need to upgrade your phone every year" concept has been silly from the outset.…

A good friend once described the lottery as "a tax on people with bad math skills" and I don't think I've played since.