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Exactly. It might be fine. It might even be great! But no matter how much code, including tests that AI can generate there was only one human thinking about those prompts, for a fe…

I don't post much on HN, but this topic is near and dear to my heart, so here we go. Context: been helpdesk, sysadmin & network admin, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer, in that pr…

A few of these examples are great reasons to Google - but also to remember that for many new-to-you activities, you'll be very bad at it at first. And the feeling of being bad at i…

Googling is great, but I'd like to highlight that two distinct examples weren't necessarily Google at all. Sure - The Wirecutter appears in the first page of Google search for "bes…

Q: 1a. How come today, for home use, WiFi seems to exceed the price/performance of hard-wired? Is the Ethernet standard lagging, or lack of interest/demand, or some more physical b…

And what happens when the 2 computers disagree? I thought 3 was standard practice for this sort of thing.

The internet may get better, but it is not not guaranteed. And I predict that if it does it will be despite Facebook, not because of, or with it. Social networking was NOT an enorm…

I really thought this would be about something else, given the title, but oh well. As others have pointed out, this has been going on since.. the beginning of IT. I got my start in…

The article says that Americans never really regained trust in American manufactured sedans since the 60s/70s. But then doesn't explain.. who exactly was buying all those sedans.. …

The companies appear to be complaining that they can't hire skilled people. Paying more is one solution - hire the skilled people away from their current job. But so is training. T…

Thank you for this public service!

I could use an overview that includes an update to the Computer Architecture class I took in the early 90's. This is good - for "general purpose" microprocessors. At that time, not…

Don't ask us.. ask.. Hacker News? LMHNTFY? https://pwnaccelerator.github.io/2018/webusb-yubico-disclosu... https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/10/08/securitykeytest.ht... The secon…

The article doesn't make it clear - but "elsewhere" seems like it would clearly be better than urban busses. They assert that even in areas where grid electricity to charge the bus…

Hugo is nifty. It is in Golang. It is wicked fast. But. Like most of the static site generators out there, it is so hyper-focussed on some aspects that it stumbles or completely mi…

Another happy fastmail.com customer here. I'd like to point out to those fluffing about the price for fastmail - Google Apps For Business (aka: pay-for-gmail) runs $5/person/month,…

I meant to add - Chrome has maybe crashed on me a couple of times in that same year (versus one or more crashes per day from FF!), despite arguably much much heavier use, including…

Firefox is indeed, much faster and less memory intensive than it used to be. I started using it heavily (again) roughly when Quantum came out after giving up on it for years as unu…

"on the market" isn't.. really. If you're guaranteed a wait. So, to rephrase your reply: "It is so cool it is worth waiting for, versus the other ones which look so much like garba…

Too engaging is part of the problem, of course. A public park or beach might arguably less engaging than the commercially driven next season of that show on Netflix. Doesn't mean t…

First, do no harm. But, sure, this seems like a good idea. But first, stop all the horrible stuff, currently hurting prisoners.

Okay, don't ask customers, but do think about it a bit. They don't want yet another smartphone, physically embedded in their car running crappy, insecure, counterintuitive, out of …

Maybe. Without a broad consensus from all the involved individuals at Chevy, we'll never know. Were they looking more at the (first edition at the time?) Leaf or the hypothetical a…

Fair enough - I did fail to give Toyota credit, where credit is definitely due. But I would say it is more a case of "necessary, but not sufficient." Toyota unarguably pushed elect…

The great thing about corporate missions & goals is that they are written so broadly: "Our goal when we created Tesla a decade ago was the same as it is today: to accelerate the ad…