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User experience is not always correlated with metrics targeted by engineers. I visit a building sometimes with destination dispatch elevators, and with low exposure across multiple…

I wish I knew that one month ago. Hired a small local company to fix something in my house, great reviews in yelp/facebook/google, license+insurance. The guy came for the estimate …

And yet listings in nice neighborhoods are gone in under a week in Seattle suburbs now. I started a rental 2 years ago and now again - similar houses are at least 25% more expensiv…

Looked for this comment! All those C*Os and founders are good and successful politicians, not nerds. There was a colossal PR campaign to picture them as nerds for multiple reasons,…

Was invented long, long time ago. I first learned formal definition as "part count reduction" fromm Design for Manufacturing (DFM).

Renting won't match home ownership for few reasons. First one already mentioned in the comments is you can be kicked out at any time within your rental agreement. I was "lucky" eno…

Interesting times we observe. I don't recall such a massive rupture in opinions about modern technology. Even fight over blockchain and NFTs looks minuscule compared to AI. Enginee…

History teaches us that rich and powerful think about consequences of their actions and optimize for balanced, non-violent outcomes In this context, I argue that if a significant s…

Totally, that's what history teaches us /s Not from so distant past - Soviet Union collapse caused mass unemployment and similar socioeconomic scenarios - https://en.wikipedia.org/…

Is there a plan to extend search to book content?

Hunger games in the age of AI - eliminate/automate your colleague's job, until a single software engineer is left (or two if aristocrats will see it as a good PR).

If AI writes your articles, why use brain?

There are traces of that internet and my own collection of links is still enough to satisfy my reading and communication needs. I tried to explore Kagi's small web and there's a ve…

Great read. Got absorbed into few scenes. The scene with applauds played in my head as a silent movie with Charlie Chaplin presenting his perfect plans and crowd applauding unreali…

It shares some ideas with Peter Naur "Programming as Theory Building". Quote from the post article: "To quote Michael Polanyi: we know more than we can tell. Some load-bearing cont…

If that happens globally where AGI and engineer replacement is "shipped" as a social construct, I'm afraid real software engineers (who can write and understand production ready sy…

Software Engineering seems to be quite unique to enable this due to few factors: * Many software engineers didn't do real engineering work during their entire careers. In large com…

That's what happens when "family farms" rely on a large industrial complex and grow a mono-culture that doesn't have uses other than canning. It was an easy, steady cash-positive b…

If you read documentation around Rust Async and Tokio, you'll find proper explanation why CPU intensive parts should not be part of async stack, how to use primitives efficiently (…

There's a subset of software engineers who understand most of the points from the article, but it looks more and more like this train can accelerate towards the cliff due to steam …

"Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection, except of course for the problem of too many layers of indirection." Bjarne Stroustrup That's why …

More prevalent in luxury cars, although Japanese had their share of bad experiments as well. My 10yo Honda has all climate control buttons, but no volume knob, which is mitigated a…

Can't login to dash.cloudflare.com as well.