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AI is here to stay. Like it or not. We will still see several reports of over adoption, mistakes, regression… all will only serve to learn, refine, and hopefully regulate. I think …

Trump will go down in history as the clearest marker of the United States’ decline.

In Claude Code, it always shows the diff between current and proposed changes and I have to explicitly allow it to actually modify the code. Doesn’t that “fix” the copy-&-paste iss…

Real reason is humans are way too optimistic in planning and, for some reason, tend to overlook even more rare, but catastrophic risks. I’m almost sure that the system had some sor…

> If, as a manager, you want a more structured means of conveying institutional knowledge generated within such channels then it's on you to put that together Isn’t the GP describi…

Such as?

Would it switch the lights if you’re only listening with headphones while your camera is open? Most of my awkward moments happened with family members casually cruising on my backg…

You are right. My comment wasn’t meant to completely invalidate the point of the article or to provide an alternative exhaustive list of causes, but more to bring this other aspect…

A good part of that is a disguised sense of superiority. Life becomes way lighter when you realize other people are also smart and what you’re “fixing” can very likely be: - someth…

Well, from outside it seems that the list of friendly nations keep getting smaller and smaller… and good luck replacing the vast majority of your supply chain with local workers. J…

Iceberg has the hdfs catalog, which also relies only on dirs and files. That said, a catalog (which Delta also can have) helps a lot to keep things tidy. For example, I can write a…

I share the sentiment, and I also get downvoted every time I post something on those lines here. Only thing that can make you even less popular is saying that using cloud services …

Truth lies somewhere in between. It's also a generalization to think everything related to the “evil-nation” postulation is nothing beyond a conspiracy theory. Absence of evidence …

Title could be “Nobody cares about the same things that I do”. Or simply “Nobody agrees with me”, which also would be exaggerated, but slightly less myopic.

Cost isn’t always the most important metric. If that was the case, people would always buy the cheapest option of everything.

Hah, plus one on this one. Once I went as far as buying a French car famous for the suspension problems due to the terrible quality of pavement in my country, mainly to prove every…

I love Home Assistant but I now have a pretty strict minimum effort rule after years of configuring integrations and building dashboards that I would forget about after 2 months: I…

You can buy only a replacement mug (without coaster/charger). Also, get in contact with customer support mentioning the battery, they usually offer a discount code.

There’s this theory that systems often thrive at the expense of its individual parts… I guess this is one of such examples.

Ways I found that helped me the most dealing with this kind of situation: - Refine your definition of what’s “meaningful”: anything that helps you, your colleagues, helps you to le…

This is pretty useful IMO, discourages me from spending now money that I'll only have in two weeks.

I’ve been using ad blockers for years now, mainly on DNS level. Last week I decided to test Apple’s private relay and for 5 minutes I had to deal with internet with ads. Disgusting…

Not much, at least according to this book[1]. 1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58642436-the-status-game

Not true in analytics.